We've got to stop referring to the vindictive prosecution of James Comey as "the Comey case". There is no case. There's a grand jury indictment which nearly didn't even happen. In every other respect, this is just flat-out persecution. And we shouldn't dignify persecution by calling it a case.

Fox News is going to be wall-to-wall on this one. It despises both Hate America protestors and political violence. I’m sure they’re gonna break into regular programming anytime now. It’s gonna be massive. Aaaaannnytime….

So far as I can tell, mainstream right-wing political opinion has blasted right past you guys and is now firmly focused on how to expel British-born Brits found in possession of the wrong genes.

I’m waiting for the follow-up post correlating human use of the electromagnetic spectrum with the first ever suspected flu epidemic. In Mesolithic China 🤦‍♂️

A Bulgarian minister has said his govt has evidence. Yvette Cooper, the UK's foreign secretary, said: “It is clear that illegal migration into Europe and beyond is being driven not just by organised crime networks seeking to make a profit, but by hostile state actors seeking to destabilise Europe"

And it has been and continues to be a simple, cynical and devastatingly effective tactic - to which there seems to be no answer.

Just as well they’re not getting paid during the shutdown, heh? What’s that you say? They are? That can’t be right. Nobody would cut the pay of federal workers while making them continue to work and at the same time continue to pay themselves while not working. Nobody could be so hypocritical.

Advisory notice on use of “outrage”: A man responsible for the deaths of in excess of 50,000 innocent civilians will hear the charges against him read out for several hours before anyone gets to the neglect of Beit Aghion.

But, for God’s sake, don’t do this if at any time in the future your use of Grindr may be cited to question your stated sexuality. Because absolutely nobody - not one single person - will ever believe you did it as an experiment in male courtship techniques. You Probably won’t believe it yourself.

I heard an Oxford computer science professor say that “genetic” diversity in computer code, as in nature, is needed to protect against the risk of illness (however originated) wiping out large parts of our digital infrastructure.

Otherwise it’d be a specialversity, see? (And don’t give me no etymology nonsense about retaining the Latin “verse”. It’s my made-up word what I maded up all on myselves)

Ah, but this is under the new secondary definition of antisemitism (“anything expressing or perceived to be expressing less than full support for Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal mania”). It’s an easy mistake to make.

George Springer about to get booed louder than any player in World Series history at Dodger Stadium omg

To be fair to MAGA (not a sentence I type often) we are some way beyond that now.

You know how everyone said hiring an insurance lawyer with zero trial experience to be East Virginia’s DA was a terrible idea? THIS ⬇️

Jeff Bezos could give every American a million dollars and still have enough left over to ruin space for the rest of us.

“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.” Eugene V. Debs

God bless those who dedicate themselves to making and improving modern prosthetics.

The Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake World Series oh my GOD.

I’ve visited the East Wing (ironically for the sort of shindig the President claims cannot be currently accommodated). It’s not particularly historic nor architecturally impressive. Of course, that doesn’t mean some asshat should just demolish it for no good reason.

First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.

Infuriatingly, he still carries on as if China needs the US so much more than vice versa. Even when we are all being shown in real time that this is horseshit. Even when he acknowledges that his cause-free trade war is hurting. Even then, he actually thinks rattling the sabre works. He's a child.

Raskin: I heard speaker Mike Johnson refer to a hate America rally, but that one already happened on January 6th, 2021

She's right. For all my sneering it is actually a visual metaphor.

I extend my sympathies to Mike Graham, who it seems has fallen victim to quite the most sophisticated computer hack in recorded history. Oddly, the hacker chose to leverage his/her own genius merely by posting a single message containing sentiments not a million miles from those of Mr Graham.

Kinda gutted for the Mariners. And not only because they'd be easier to beat.

I'd love to hear from the building/event staff at the White House, i.e those who maintain the site and manage functions, about whether it needs a ballroom that entails partial demolition of the East Wing. My guess is that they have not been asked - and theu think it both unnecessary and wasteful.

One of my neighbours has a contemporaneous album of TV themes as performed by the James Last Orchestra or similar and is blasting it out of an open window late at night. So far we’ve had Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica and what I must assume is the theme to Starsky and Hutch on a really bad day.

Never interrupt your enemy when she is making a mistake.

The “popular front” was the 20th means to coalesce opposition to tyranny. America needs a “constitutional front”. Anyone who believes in the separation of powers, states’ rights, constraints on executive power, judicial oversight etc. is welcome. No-one who backs the constitution is excluded.

What a courageous girl.

“I can do whatever I want” is basically Donald Trump’s ideology.

“Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed” Isaiah‬ ‭10‬:‭1‬

If someone doesn’t do the visual metaphor gag here I shall be jolly disappointed that I chose to make a snarky observation about the visual metaphor gag instead of just making the visual metaphor gag.

I believe this are referred to as eggcorns.

Boomer double entendre iceberg ahoy.

Also: all those people? They were asking in disbelief.

He suggested the Second Amendment people “take care” of his then opponent Hillary Clinton and called for Liz Cheney to go in front of a firing squad. But then I suppose claiming “he’s not calling for the murder of his political opponents this week” lacks the same pizzazz.

And he’s the smart, moderate one.

Let’s send Prince Andrew to the place where Prince Andrew committed the crimes of which Prince Andrew is accused 🤷‍♂️

Shohei Ohtani just played perhaps the greatest game in the history of baseball, Peter Wehner argues. But Ohtani’s “performance shouldn’t be of interest just to sports fans. His triumph offers all of us a ray of hope at a troubled time.”

Moskowitz: We need $30 billion to extend, obviously, these healthcare subsidies, which allow Americans—Americans, not illegal—Americans, citizens, to afford healthcare. And the president’s like, “We don’t have $30 billion, but I am going to send $40 billion to my dear friend in Argentina.”

Civilisation is suspended by a very few gossamer threads, one of which is the rigid, doctrinal difference between a cardigan and what my people call a jumper. We also call it them pullovers? Do you get it, eBay sellers? You are meddling with forces you cannot possible conceive.

The Tateification of the right. Their economic orthodoxy has failed, they wear their faith but spurn its teachings, they reject democracy for will-to-power and believe laws, like taxes, are for the little people. They have nothing else. Nowhere but supremacist patriarchy to retreat into.

Cuomo’s offer is so pathetically threadbare that having been driven from office through incompetence, corruption and depravity, he wants you to make this about experience.

Nobody fashions righteous fury into hollow-point polemic quite like David Simon. It's a privilege to read.

I keep reading how Trump's approval rating is collapsing. It's in the high 30s. And it's been there or thereabouts since June. Nearly 4 in 10 American voters think the Trump administration is doing fine. That ain't no collapse. That's a hard-and-fast division over what's real and what's not.

Food for thought. If you are paying taxes, guess what? You are poor. Rich folks get part of your taxes in bailouts, payouts and tax breaks. They do not pay taxes.

All the while, incidentally, we are discussing deporting British-born Brits (presumably via Phrenology examination) as though it isn’t legally and morally indefensible.