During his flattering interview with Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Lawrence O’Donnell did not ask them if they felt an obligation to their employer to publish their reporting in the New York Times? Were they negligent in holding their reporting for publication in the book they co-wrote?

“You’d think a guy who just lost a war would have bigger matters on his mind, but to Trump, matters don’t come any bigger than the Reflecting Pool and the Kennedy Center, because they are about the thing that is most important to him: his monstrously large but porcelain-fragile ego.“

Frank Bruni is appropriately brutal in a surprisingly satisfying conversation: “Trump blusters about restored American greatness — about our country being the ‘hottest’ in the world, whatever that means — while making it look smaller, sillier and stupider by the day.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/o...

“In their attempt to stop Iran from developing a weapon of mass destruction that it was unlikely to ever use, Trump and Netanyahu inspired Iran to develop a weapon of mass disruption, a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, which it can use anytime it feels too much pressure from the U.S. or Israel.”

“I shame to hear thee speak. Ah, timorous wretch! Thou hast undone thyself…” “Henry VI, Part 3”

“‘Tis his own blame; hath put himself from rest and must needs taste his folly.” “King Lear”

“But time hath rooted out my parentage, and to the world and awkward casualties bound me in servitude.” “Pericles”

Cornyn saying hello after Trump told him goodbye.

“[Their] silence will sit drooping.” “Hamlet”

The Bard to Tillis: “I wonder that you will still be talking... Nobody marks you.” “Much Ado About Nothing”

“It’s indisputable that [Lawler] has made several attempts to meddle in the Democratic primary, both to create divisiveness and especially more recently to try to tear down Cait Conley,” said Suzanne Berger, chair of the Westchester Democratic Party, who is backing [Cait] Conley in the primary.

Happy Palindrome Day (6-22-26). Remember, Trump’s vile presidency came to an end on another palindrome day (1-20-21). Here’s an especially apt palindrome today for Trump (To idiot): In words, alas, drown I. Let’s hope Trump is in prison by 9-20-29.

“We’re a country in decline [and] other countries are looking toward a post-American world. Why it’s shocking that we put up with [Trump’s] worsening megalomania and nonstop desecration of our republic.”

Trump is joining forces with O.J. Simpson to look for the guy who vandalized the reflecting pool.

The Knicks should add to their championship legacy by skipping the White House and attending the Obama Library.

The dangerous clown Trump sent the National Guard to the reflecting pool he vandalized but sat on his hands for hours during the insurrection he incited.

MAGA cult: “We’re in no danger of ever thinking any more.” “Waiting for Godot”

“With too much blood and too little brain these two may run mad…” “Troilus and Cressida”

White House in a panic as recordings from Situation Room leaked ‼️🔥‼️ White House officials reportedly had a meltdown following the release of the first excerpt of NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's upcoming book. www.the-express.com/news/politic...

The world’s richest arsehole. JonathanPie.com

Brilliant summation of Trump’s impotence and his catastrophic war

Trump: “Grown algae, big strong algae, with tears in their eyes, come up to me and say, ‘Sir, thank you for the reflecting pool.’”

Not to worry. Tom Homan is sending in ICE to deport the algae.

Make Algae Great Again

First, an American pope. Next, a U.S. World Cup champion?

“I am a very foolish fond old man, fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; and, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man; yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant.” “King Lear”

Are the algae and the peeling paint in the reflecting pool a too obvious metaphor for the catastrophic failures of the proudly ignorant, science-denying Trump and his Secretary of Health Robert Kennedy?

“To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honor that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm.” “Frankenstein”

Soaring testaments today by Michelle Obama and Mayor Mamdani. Better times coming, America.

True or false? Trump blamed the algae on Biden.

Trump bragged that a new document claims that he is a more powerful figure than Mao, Stalin, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, and Hitler. The author? A noted historian? No, it was written by a longtime caddy and confidant of golfer Gary Player.

Michelle Obama: You were doing the people's work, rescuing our economy, expanding health care, ending a war, ordering the bin laden raid, saving an auto industry, winning a peace prize.

this is honestly an excellent celebratory and motivational speech from Mamdani at the Knicks parade. i'm ready to run through a wall, and i'm not even a Knicks fan

Eye contact

“It was less than 15 weeks ago when Trump, at the height of his bravado about how the war with Iran would end, declared, ‘There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.’” After a catastrophic failure, Trump surrendered.

“Seizing on a crime committed by an individual member of a minority group and claiming that it shows the innate murderous tendencies of the group as a whole. The real claim here is that these isolated horrific acts ‘reveal’ the whole minority group’s disguised genocidal intent toward white peoples.”

The illiterate, culturally impoverished guy who hosted a white-trash cage match on the White House lawn called the rich Persian culture “primitive.”

Thanks to Trump, the malignancy that has metastasized in the Republican Party and its voters is impervious to education, facts, science, and decency and is thus incurable. It has infected more lives than the deadly pandemic that was exacerbated by Trump’s negligence and incompetence.

“One of those policemen sweating Irish stew into their shirts; you couldn’t squeeze a line of poetry out of him. Don’t know what poetry is even. Must be in a certain mood.” “Ulysses” #Bloomsday

Trump has achieved the worst of all worlds. He tore up Obama’s deal, started a catastrophic war, disrupted the domestic and global economy, weakened the U.S., and didn’t get what he wants. “The reality is Trump wants out. And he’s willing to buy his way out if he couldn’t bomb his way out.”

“And Caligula, of course, sees nothing but his own idea.” “Caligula,” by Camus

“A squad of constables debouched from College street, marching in Indian file. Goose step. Foodheated faces, sweating helmets, patting their truncheons. After their feed with a good load of fat soup under their belts. Policeman’s lot is oft a happy one.” — “Ulysses” #Bloomsday

“They drove his wits astray, he said, by visions of hell.” “Ulysses” #Bloomsday

“The old popes were keen on music, on art and statues and pictures of all kinds... Healthy too chanting, regular hours, then brew liqueurs. Benedictine. Green Chartreuse. Still, having eunuchs in their choir that was coming it a bit thick.” Happy Bloomsday!

Todd Blanche was Trump's criminal defense lawyer. Now he's running the DOJ. He is not America's AG - he's Trump's personal fixer w/ a federal badge. The Senate is constitutionally obligated to answer one question: does the DOJ serve the people, or does it serve Trump? #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Donald Trump is so breathtakingly incompetent he spent BILLIONS to blow bits of Iran up—then agreed to give them $300 BILLION to put it back together—and the only thing he accomplished was getting domestic gas prices to skyrocket.

Gentlemen, you can’t fight here…This is the Department of War. Tim Kaine: “A juvenile move that sadly describes the reality of a president who has abandoned meaningful diplomacy in favor of starting doubtful wars in multiple locations and threatening even more.”

What do the war in Iran, inflation, FISA, and economic growth have in common? On issue after issue, all Trump had to do was nothing — which managed to be too tough for him. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Congress is its own branch of government. It needs to use its coequal powers for subpoenas, impeachments, defunding, and investigations into: •Epstein files •Blanche’s prosecution of Trump’s critics, Trump’s IRS immunity, and Trump’s family crypto scams and dealings abroad •Hegseth’s boat strikes