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He was always a used car salesman at heart.

submitted 7 days ago • 1086 comments

The famous communist rag, the Wall Street Journal.

submitted 14 days ago • 396 comments

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

submitted 14 days ago • 667 comments

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

submitted 18 days ago • 863 comments

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

submitted 18 days ago • 337 comments

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

One pernicious step after another, Bezos encroached on the Post editorial policy. Today he seized it fully. The old Washington Post is gone. I'll never write for it again as long as he's the owner.

submitted 20 days ago • 95 comments

It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there

submitted 23 days ago • 1673 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 25 days ago • 691 comments

This is Zero. She's the world's first herding dog with a work-from-home gig. 14/10

submitted 27 days ago • 152 comments

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 27 days ago • 1144 comments

Because of course they did.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I delivered the Star Ledger as a teenager. So sorry to see it go out of print.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 44 days ago • 786 comments

For no particular reason, I'm thinking of those heist movies where the bank lets the "security" team in and they start hacking the security cams and rolling the white vans up to the loading dock.

submitted 45 days ago • 14 comments

See it's funny, because there probably was a time in U.S. history when an unelected plutocrat gaining illicit access to government systems would have resulted in him being dragged out of whatever government building he was in at the moment by his balls by armed government agents within +/- 3 minutes

submitted 45 days ago • 447 comments