The NYT thought their ombuds office made them look bad, instead of recognizing that what the ombuds was addressing was what made them look bad. Anyhow, “Israel” doesn’t start with “J.”

If he puts “no politics or social commentary” into his stories, then I have literally no idea what he was trying to say in “The Egg.” Like, none at all.

“Death to Smoochy” is a wildly underrated film.

Woof!

“I have a theory that coastal Democrats will continue to vote Blue even if we offer them no targeted policies to help them progress, but flyover Democrats don’t exist unless we act exclusively in their interests” is certainly A take. Not one I’d go with myself, but a take nonetheless.

During my No Kings speech yesterday in Manchester, three of our local students came up and read excerpts from these letters. We won’t let ICE hide the truth from the public.

Jesu Christo…

10/10, no notes

Yuck, @drannieandrews.com. This is the kind of nauseating crap that will get brought up for the rest of your political career as evidence that you’re willing to play in the gutter, but not savvy enough to avoid putting your own fingerprints all over it. Be better than this.

When I think of the actions and views that have ended careers or canceled major media projects, I’m left wondering if there is anything Rowling could do that would be horrid enough for the HP money machine to come to a halt. Honestly, I doubt there is, and that gives her a frightening license.

He’s easily one of the stupidest men in DC, and he will fail spectacularly and do incalculable damage, but it’s kind of fun to think of Kristi Noem indignantly huffing because, even after all the violence, ass-kissing, and general awfulness, she still got dumped for this witless chucklefuck.

Find someone who loves you as much as Donald Trump loves people who commit and facilitate sexual atrocities on a massive scale.

Last night, my wife and I decided to watch the recently un-lost episode of MST3K’s first season where they watch “Star Force: Fugitive Alien II.” About halfway through, we switched over to watch the Season 3 episode where they watched it again. It was fun to see Joel and the bots develop…

Great single stair article on Fast Company today highlighting Seattle and the broader movement around the country to change building codes www.fastcompany.com/91513043/the...

If he teleports to a Waffle House and it’s closed, then he knows he should call his office.

“We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last 100 years … and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in…” - Colin Powell, 2003 “Lol, nah, gimme gimme.” - Scott Bessent, 2026

It’s a real “place your heroes’ tender necks on the Altar of Tomorrow” kind of day.

I just hate that the best our state government will do on health care affordability is “wait another year and maybe we’ll consider letting a private, for-profit insurance company set up a larger pool that will continue tying coverage to your job.” This is really where we are now?

Two thoughts on this: 1. If this is something an actor explicitly approves of their estate doing to ensure that their heirs receive the most money possible can from their legacy, then I understand. But it seems shitty to take away roles from living performers in favor of a familiar, bygone face.

Sean O’Brien is the John Fetterman of Labor. www.nbcnews.com/video/mullin...

What are the chances Mullin’s nomination gets pulled before a vote? I’d say they’re a lot higher now than two hours ago.

Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with a tall serving of Ireland’s famous dark, smooth, creamy brew (a cuppa Barry’s Gold with milk).

On the one hand, it’s no more an American’s place to opine on Ireland’s self-directed destiny than it is an Englishman’s. But, on the other, better hand, 26+6=1.

This is great - I’m visiting Ireland next month and need to test if my trench coat will hold up.

I just bought 420 bags of tea. That’s not a pot joke or anything: I just bought a buttload of tea bags.

I’m nowhere near #IL09. I’ve never lived in Chicago. The winner will not be my representative. But because the winner will be a high-ranking member of my party, the outcome does matter to me. If I had any say at all, I’d back @katmabu.bsky.social, who constantly puts herself on the line for us all.

“I would love to see an AI do my job. I am professionally stupid in a way that a machine could not even dream of.” - Colin McInerney www.gamesradar.com/games/fallou...

Even the prior holder of the Stupidest President Ever™️ title knew you want to get a coalition of allies lined up *before* starting a moronic war in the Middle East to make yourself feel better about being an incompetent ass clown.

I continue to think that the President being functionally innumerate is a hell of a problem for the country.

When I applied to DOGE, I had a Georgetown JD, an MBA from LSU Shreveport, and actual experience with government budgets as an elected official. Nate here dropped out of Indiana U after a year and spent the next decade bilking venture capitalists and, apparently, not reading books.🫠

I was all set NOT to pay a fortune to see DMB in Hartford this summer and just wait for the next time they play Mohegan Sun, and then I watched this. I hope they still have lawn seats available…

The sad thing is this sort of weak, whiny crap is more likely to get Trump to turn on Hegseth than murdering dozens of schoolgirls. He likes explosions, but hates implosions.

Literally every campaign finance reform supporter said this would happen when Citizens United and Speechnow were decided. We told y’all, and now solving the problem is roughly 63 times harder than it would have been back then. As always, the dirty f***ing hippies were right.

This was inevitable, since—to his immense credit—Scott MacFarlane hasn’t changed a lick since CBS changed management. He’s remained one of the most direct and capable in the business, just what CBS used to be known for. I can’t wait to see where he heads next.

When politics are controlled by people so wealthy that cutting their net worth in half wouldn’t affect their lifestyles, shocks like these don’t force the reckonings they should. The rest of us feel the pinch the billionaire class caused. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/s...

You know, I’m beginning to think this Trump fellow might not be all that trustworthy.

It’s disturbing how often the spin from the White House boils down to “the President actually doesn’t understand what he’s talking about.”

One of the first things that Hegseth did after taking power was firing the Chief of Naval Operations and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

He’s talking about a Forever War. Congress refused to rein him in, and now Trump is promising that his illegal war will continue until he gets the regime change he wants. We have basically nobody with us except Israel, and no plan except “make stuff go boom,” and kids are dying. We’re fucked.

Pete Hegseth’s obsession with “lethality” and his disdain for “rules of engagement” always meant we’d be confronted with scores of murdered children. He never made any secret about his fetish. And yet giant sacks of crap like Jared Golden and John Fetterman are cool with dead kids on their souls.

This makes sense for Fetterman, because if you want to be the dumbest goddamn oaf in the Senate, you gotta clear the competition from the field somehow.

Noem’s impeachment must continue. Even if she weren’t being shifted into another government office—a made-up one, yeah, but a government office nonetheless—she should be prevented from ever holding another federal office in the future. The blood on her hands can’t wash off so easily.

Just don’t forget that Markwayne Mullin would lose a trivia match to a sack of hammers.

She of all people should understand what it means to be sent to a farm upstate. And yet!

Look, there is no way this is true, and there is no way that any official intelligence estimate says this is true, or even possible. Either he’s basing this on stupid shit he’s reading online, or he’s just lying, or both. IT’S LITERALLY A LIFE-AND-DEATH MATTER AND HE’S BULLSHITTING THROUGH IT

Today in Congress (in standees):

He’s lying, but even if he was telling the truth, that still wouldn’t make sending our troops into harm’s way without congressional authorization legal or constitutional. He broke the law, he broke his oath, and he should be impeached and removed for it.

Maybe it’s not a great thing that so much of our economy and culture are controlled by people so obscenely wealthy that their lives would be unchanged if their net worths were either doubled or cut in half.

You know, I don’t want us to be a country that mercilessly launches sneak attacks on other countries. That’s not something to be proud of.