Corrupt organization gives corrupt politician phony prize. FIFA's view on world peace is as useless as my view on fluid mechanics.

When I taught newswriting, I started with these words: "Writing is thinking." The writer of this headline cannot think and the result is "partial collapse." No such animal. Annoys the bejeebus out of me that an outlet such as CNN lets this go. Small thing, but credibility is built on small things.

Disgusted. That's all I can say. I'm disgusted to discover it was all for nothing.

There is no Trump without Dick Cheney. Cheney's vision of a supreme presidency and willingness to lie to achieve his darkest aims made Trump inevitable. That Dr. Frankenstein eventually denounced the monster he created does not rehabilitate his image.

We are led by that loudmouth drunk who sits at the end of every bar.

Idiot.

Most major media outlets are owned by conservatives, happy to bend the knee if it makes more money, regardless of the damage to society. It will only get worse from here. It is time to build a new media ecosystem, free from gov't threat, self-funded, many voices. NYT, MSNBC isn't coming to save us.

Why in the wide, wide world of sports can't the Washington Post tell the plain truth? SSA's letter claiming taxes on Social Security were eliminated in Trump's Big Bad Boondoggle IS A LIE? Don't need experts to read the damn bill and point out that that's simply not true. 1/2

This, by god, is a proper obituary.

Thoughts of a nobody from nowhere on the Iran bombing. First, it is negligent of the press not to point out above the fold and as the lede on any story that this bombing is an unconstitutional act of war unauthorized by Congress as required. 1/until I run out of gas for my gasbag...

We are in a very dangerous place, at an intersection where one path leads to dark places we all thought could never be America.

A short rant about a journalism pet peeve of mine. Today, @washingtonpost.com reported on an e coli outbreak that Trump's FDA didn't publicly disclose. FDA explained, somewhat reasonably, that because none of the affected lettuce remained on the market, there was no need to alert the public. 1/x

I like @washingtonpost.com's new bottom scrolling ticker. Keeps me up to date with all the news of 2022.

Perhaps what Hegseth's and Noem's firing-offense security lapses tell us is that it may not be the best idea to hire runway models to run the country.

Oof. We’ve fallen so far, so fast.

If you're a white guy like me, this hits especially hard. Our Congresswoman, Claudia Tenney, could stand up for her constituent but chooses instead to glorify the reason this woman keeps getting asked for her green card. Indefensible.

If you were deliberately trying to lose the House and Senate by historic margins, you couldn't do a better job than these clowns are doing. (And it's nice of the Republicans in the House and Senate to play along with their own destruction for a generation.)

The worst person in the world.

The Nixon Rule: The cover up is worse than the crime. The Musk/Trump Rule: The cover up is a bigger crime than the crime.

When they had a chance to stand up for democracy, they knelt down and hid under their desks. We see you.

Plant corn; get corn. Plant a sociopathic convicted felon with dreams of being a thieving king for life and a Nazi-adjacent billionaire; get, well, I think we know.

Here's what I want Dem leaders to promise: That when they retake the House in 2 years, nothing moves from Trump without major concessions that restore services and improve protections for average people. And that tax cuts are rolled back on the rich.

A very interesting vision of the Middle East in Trump's new video. This is from the 15 second mark. Good to see the Musk team bringing the same kind of quality control that they've brought to the rest of government.

The sheer incompetence of the Musk "Admin" is baffling. During the 1st term, they had no idea what they were doing and f'd up left & right. This time, legions of smart but damaged think-tankers planned meticulously for years, put the plans in print. This is the result? KKKeystone Kops quality work.

I'm so glad I visit my regional newspaper website. So much news!

All of this: www.unchartedblue.com/trump-commit...

I've always wanted to live a long life so I could see the many amazing wonders that come with each new year. Never thought that one such wonder would be the day when a career criminal became President.

God almighty -- why oh why can't the Washington Post say it plainly: 1,600 people wait to be freed by the man who urged them to commit crimes for him? Passive voice, weird point of view. No wonder so many top talents are jumping ship.

It strikes me that powerless average people who have the least and therefore the most to lose tend to be the braver than billionaires who pee their silk shorts and write big checks to bullies who they could easily tell to f off and make it stick.

Jimmy Carter -- the best President? Probably not. The best man ever to be President? Absolutely. Of the two, take the latter. His rest is well deserved.

Trump's chaos is a plan, so they say: "...defined by antagonism toward U.S. allies and adversaries alike, centered around dreams of territorial expansionism, and channeled through...braggadocio." So world leaders should respond as follows: "Ignore him. He's full of crap." wapo.st/49YL3Xt

Here's how you know Trump is full of crap on Greenland, Panama and "the great state of Canada:" It would result in a group of new states that won't vote Republican for generations.

President Musk says Wikipedia is biased. Irony is not only dead, its corpse has been exhumed, beaten with clubs and set on fire.

This. This thread explains exactly where we are and where we're being forced to go. It's why complaining about lies is useless.

Some lefty folks -- not many, thank goodness -- are upset over Joe's pardon of Hunter. First, read the pardon and tell me you disagree that this was a political prosecution and that Trump will leave Hunter alone without a full pardon. You can't. There's no norm to break here. Just a wrong to right.

I thought that somehow my tastes had changed but now we know the truth.

I'm truly enjoying BlueSky because I can just block trolls from the get-go. Highly recommend blocking at first sight.

Well, here's the early leader for stupidest opinion of the day: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Honest to god, this is infuriating. WaPo tries to detail the deep dysfunction of Trump II but characterizes it as "freewheeling," says Trump likes it that way. And nominees with sex charges are mentioned nowhere near the top of the piece. WaPo normalizes this, makes it look like reality show stuff.

Good for what ails ya. Can't make Trump go away but it makes waiting for the stupidity more tolerable.

Here's @washingtonpost.com again playing hide-and-seek with the most important information. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... The piece takes a feature-style lede and buries several grafs down the news that this is all to avoid security checks and call-monitoring with world leaders.

Once again, the mighty Washington Post does the Republican Party's job for them by presenting Medicaid and SNAP cuts as "overhauling" and "changes" when the story makes clear the idea is to reduce the number of people who use these benefits in order to give Elon Musk more of your money.