Crockett: "What assurances do we have if we entered into an agreement with these Republicans that they wouldn't go back on their word and just say, 'Oh yeah, we'll sign off on a rescissions package'"

Do more privately paid civilian contractors work at Fairchild AFB in Spokane, WA than enlisted personnel? You'll never be able to find out. If you do get an answer, there's no reason to believe it's true.

I don't get the NYT subhead "...the first shutdown since 2019." That was 6 yrs ago. It's not as if this is "Worst naval loss since Defeat of the Spanish Armada." Get a grip.

Junkie Jesus Freeloading Heroin is the weirdest Christian propaganda ever.

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

Not been on here since last night. I’ve been changing a duvet cover.

How does Lindsey Halligan find the time to pretend to be a lawyer *and* appear on “The Young and the Restless”?

I found a weird, self-ebonised acorn...so...obviously...I had to make a copy in 5,000 yr old Bog Oak, and English Oak...2"

this sounds like cocaine, tbh

Hegseth has had a lot of bad ideas, but this one is disruptive and even somewhat dangerous. All of these men and women have real jobs they should be doing. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I will be lucky if I get to see a true pluralistic democracy again in this country during my lifetime. That’s just a fact. People need to be honest with themselves about the seriousness of the rot.

jesus christ

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.

“Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants… www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Just saw an advertisement online that I mistook for the headline of a NYT opinion piece: "Don't let a blown head gasket sideline your life."

Even in his most fevered, drunken dreams, Richard Milhous Nixon couldn't possibly have even imagined doing a tenth of this shit.

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals—- Very strange. Never has previously happened in history. The global community will be alarmed. Need security and communications personnel. They are on duty 24/7. The Armed Forces are an apolitical organization.

Trump just signed a an EO that allows the full power or the federal government to go after extremist groups. Stephen Miller predictably went on a rant about Antifa, but not a *single* reporter asked if they’d be going after right wing extremists too. Shameful.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Must be quite a day for the UN ambassadors' translators at the General Assembly. Maybe they keep a copy of Jabberwocky handy for occasions like this.

After Donald Trump's repeated demands - and in spite of insisting that it is unheard of - the Royal Family relents and provides him with a King's regalia for all photographs that he poses for with King George. #DonaldTrump #RoyalFamily #KingVitamin

BREAKING: The U.S. attorney who is under pressure to charge Letitia James in a mortgage fraud investigation is resigning, AP sources say.

They’re going to fire a US attorney because they couldn’t find evidence for a crime that was manufactured by the administration? Banana republic shit

I don’t understand why the historical society is not doing anything about all this. THIS IS NOT FUCK WAD DONS PERSON PROPERTY. This is the peoples house. This is the history of all our presidents he’s destroying for himself. He thinks it Mar a Lago.

This looks faker than the war on Christmas

“If you can’t honor a man by quoting him directly because his own words seem disparaging to his legacy, then perhaps you shouldn’t try to honor him at all.” Watch my latest here: www.youtube.com/live/2Mv50KZ...

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Hall of mirrors

i cannot believe they are expecting us to play along with this "might not be his signature" farce and that a lot of people actually are, i feel like ive lost my goddam mind

Looking forward to an unsigned 6-3 decision to crash the economy with a “powerful dissent” and a concurrence that’s like “the thing about the president is that one of his specifically enumerated constitutional powers is economy crashing”

She arrived in the States a decade older than most models arriving in NY bsck then, no paid fashion modeling jobs on her record - if they existed, we’d have seen them - and cheap nasty bolt-on boobs - which we have seen. She’s a hoor. Unlike most of his victims, she was old enough to consent.

Better toss my cellphone since I don’t charge it while out of the house!

Kudos to FX for renewing acerbic comedy English Teacher. Season 2 starts Sept 25. It's 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. I was pissed when I heard it had been cancelled so this is great news in an otherwise bleak time. Terrific cast, btw.

Jeffrey Epstein had doctors prescribe birth control and sedatives to his victims. They also screened his victims for STDs. He had dentists work on their teeth. I’d like to know who these people are and why they have been protected.

Decades of personalist rule turned Argentina into a global economic laughingstock, Scott Lincicome argues. Donald Trump seems to have misunderstood the lesson.

(Mike Myers in Coffee Talk voice) The Rose Garden has neither a rose nor a garden. Discuss.

Love the new Rose Garden patio look, it's just missing a couple empty Maxwell House cans for cigarette butts

In the U.S., this is called going limp or passive resistance. One benefit is police can't claim you assaulted them. A comrade who is an able practitioner of going limp was prosecuted for Resisting Arrest. He fought it in court. Now, in NY state, you can't be prosecuted for going limp. Thanks, JF!

Is it possible for ABC News to do evening broadcasts w/out shark bite and airplane emergency stories? We now call the newscast the David Muir 30-minute drinking game: shark bite (tequila!) plane crash (vodka!)

To the people saying “good, let the stupid people die” that’s not how it fucking works. Unvaccinated people get other people sick. Babies too young to be vaccinated, immune compromised people, people who can’t get vaccinated for a medical reason, etc. without herd immunity, people will fucking die.

this post will never not make me snort

This economic stagnation should worry everyone. 1 and 4 companies has a hiring freeze right now. Hiring managers are anticipating a recession. And instead of doing anything to fix it, Trump fired the person who counts the jobs.

Dr. Paul Offit, a frequent critic of US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been blocked from participating in a panel of independent experts who advise the US Food and Drug Administration on vaccines. https://cnn.it/42dwE78

The abandoned Logan Theatre in Philadelphia almost wound up restored and renamed Claretildaville. The story is more tragic than you might think. www.abandonedamerica.us/the-logan-th...

Oof. The Dems need to stop pretending, based on some imaginary focus group, that there’s some common ground with Trump. The key is to fight everywhere. You should go study Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at “common ground.” It didn’t end well for his historical reputation. Or the world.

Trump is over 20 minutes late to his Oval Office address. Are they unable to reanimate him? lol

At his Tues presser Trump will fire Jerome Powell which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. Also, he'll nationalize every prime defense contractor. That part will be weird.