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For 25 hours and five minutes, Senator Cory Booker did not sit or exit the Senate chambers to eat or use a bathroom as he assailed President Trump in the longest Senate speech on record. Many Democrats, including in his home state of New Jersey, reveled in his stamina.

submitted 22 days ago • 65 comments

I am tracking 3 separate cases where the government is violating court orders. The question now is whether judges find willfulness and hold officials in contempt. Democracy Docket members will receive my latest on this and more in their inboxes tomorrow. Join now. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

submitted 39 days ago • 878 comments

First there was the president's clinical psychologist niece and now comes the vice-president's Ukrainian military cousin (never mind the entire Kennedy family appalled by their new brain-wormed relative and his Kennedy-jealous boss...) www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Amusing wordplay from The Atlantic, where editors must know better? "allows him to hone in on the worst" Yes, the google brims with justifications for "hone in on" but they are wrong and I'll tell you why--it's because "hone" stands alone, like the Cheese. One hones, not hones in on.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

We need a Navalny, not a Newsom. No offense intended against mainstream politicians like Newsom. It’s just that at this point we are way beyond the realm of normal bullshit politics.

submitted 46 days ago • 2161 comments

And Elie Honig on CNN quite predictably for him, criticized the judge instead of the president for going too far. "A President who touts an image of himself as a 'king' or a 'dictator,' perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, fundamentally misapprehends the role..."

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“Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.”

submitted 51 days ago • 750 comments

Seems to me Fat Tuesday would be more fun without the fat-man's "great television" tonight, and with the reflection and repentance Lent supposedly sanctifies starting tomorrow. But I suspended my belief a long, long time ago.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Tim Synder saw Friday's "great television" as five fronts of failure: "hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence." Working to get better at those things was what I knew growing up in the South. I don't know this America. I don't want to.

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Columnist/commentators are calling now a time for choosing. No matter where you go, there you are. So many choices, so many chances throughout my whole lifetime, and as individuals and a people, we've made them. And they have made us. And here we are.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Amusing teevee lawyer wordplay last night from NYC criminal defense attorney Arthur Aidala, high-profile go-to guy for celebrity creeps: "I know from first-hand, because they told me!" Now y'all know I'm not a lawyer, so forgive me if this seems a foolish question, but first-hand hearsay?

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Every American activist and politician determined to aggressively end waste, fraud and abuse needs to hear this every damn day. Talk about messaging. youtu.be/utl2uLh1wVI?...

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

"I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."--what public service looks

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Lavar Burton: "The arts are at risk, and that's what I do. I'm a storyteller." Me too, Geordi, me too. But as storytellers, we ought to know better than to say it's not political! "We don't know who we are absent stories..."

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

About DOGE as news-journalism wordplay: "department" and "agency" have legal bureaucratic meaning. Musk and his hackers do not. "Team" feels sporty-positive, while bureaucracy's negative. So "team" creeps in on little cat feet--propaganda paws--to reinforce preference for Musk over government.

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

Stop trying to reason with R-obots. Noem: We can't trust the government! CNN: You ARE the government. Noem: Yes, that's what I'm saying! CNN: Elon Musk has access to [our personal data]. Noem: Elon Musk is part of the administration that is helping us...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

This.

submitted 77 days ago • 138 comments

Wordplay of the Week for Understatement first-place goes to an Aaron Blake WaPo column: "When it comes to cutting government...having an unsympathetic character like Musk leading such an effort would seem suboptimal."

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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

submitted 85 days ago • 1263 comments

Fluffy white dog is taking a tiny girl out for a walk (run?) out my window. Dog legs and little girl legs are the same length, but I guess because the dog has twice as many, the human leash-holder is running while the dog glides along. Grinning like a fool at the pair of them.

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Y'all need motivation to stay in the Resistance after eight very discouraging years?--Madison's made just one grand slam final anywhere before, and that was back in the first year of the FIRST Trump administration, US Open. She was sitting far behind the champion, at #19. www.msn.com/en-us/sports...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Fitting Oscar nominations for the new oligarchy! Both cutthroat "Succession" bros who played rightwing crime family princes, will compete against each other again, this time to win Best Supporting Actor in two different movies aptly titled for Trumpian times: The Apprentice and A Royal Pain.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Which was worse, serious fashion power of story people: the Bezos babe's bustier or the senator's shorts? Bare boobs or bare legs, bursting out of too-tight or flopping out of too-loose?-- or should we simply we grateful we didn't have to suffer MTG's Cruella De Vil fur coat again?

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Amusing teevee wordplay last night from cable newshost Stephanie Ruhle: "But what if the authenticity isn't real?"

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Think Dylan Thomas (with one edit) starting today: Do not go gentle into this dark night-- Rage, rage against the dying of the light!

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Amusing and appropriate teevee wordplay from Abby Philip last night, about whether and how often it's politically strategic to "pitch a fight." Maybe pitching a fit is a southern thing, because we grew up hearing it and most of those situations could have fit fight.

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So well done! youtu.be/X6Wy9Euporw

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California Republicans Flee to Mar-a-Lago as LA Burns Instead of providing leadership, they decided to kiss Trump’s ring

submitted 102 days ago • 397 comments

I guess it's only fair, since the economy has been bad news for the young, for their demographic to now become bad news for it. "...it isn't just a problem for higher education. It's a looming crisis for the economy." www.npr.org/2025/01/08/n...

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

submitted 110 days ago • 1073 comments

"Stupidity should be embarrassing. Nobody's job is to make fools feel comfortable." www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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Day after day for the past nine years, we crafted every urgent plea possible to persuade them: appealing to their intellects and their hearts and their humanity and their patriotism. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-sky-is...

submitted 125 days ago • 75 comments