From the NYT comments: "If a Genie gave the Democrats three wishes, they would negotiate it down to one and wish for something they think the Republicans would like"

GILLIGAN’S SANDWICH Just sit right down and you’ll hear a tale, A tale of a turkey sub. That found its way from U street, To a court in our nation’s hub. The sandwich was a special one, For it smashed on an ICE man’s chest. Like Mexico and China, We didn’t send our best. @gtconway thoughts?

Every video of ICE Meal Team Six patrolling the mean streets of [insert suburb here] should be accompanied by the sound track of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

For those who saw a certain sociopath lurk impassively and insensitively as a guest fainted in the Oval Office, check out this clip from when we had a compassionate human as POTUS.

PREDICTION: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will soon be regarded as one of the historically most influential, intellectual and important justices of the SCOTUS. She has already positioned herself as a peerless and fearless voice of conscience, always ready to call out hypocrisy and sophistry.

Unaccustomed as I am to quoting (any) Cuomo, the late Mario Cuomo said, "You campaign in poetry, but you govern in prose." Mamdani has been nothing less than poetic in his brilliant campaign. Should he win, the slog of governance and the intransigence of entrenched power will be immense.

A simpler time … visiting with Congressman Jared Golden (D - ME2) when we thought there might be some hope of saving #USAID.

LBJ was ... unique. Here's an actual recording of him calling the Haggar Clothing Co. to order some pants made to spec. Classic LBJ - blunt, borderline extortionate, (ahem) colorful, and irresistible, in its way. This convo (and tape) would be impossible today! millercenter.org/the-presiden...

The Great Selection ... www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-r...

"Cofefe ... the Fragrance for the Man in Decline," available wherever compression socks and Velcro shoes are sold.

Now do Canada. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Now do Canada.

A simple basket is no longer sufficient to accommodate all of the deplorables.

Somewhere, somehow, in some recess of the Capitol building, I hope there breathes a Republican with 1/10th the backbone that John McCain had. He screwed up aplenty in his life, he knew it, and he admitted it. But when it counted, at least on this occasion, he put the American people first.

Tax cuts for the wealthiest? Check! Gaudy ballroom paid for by corporations? Check! Demolition of historic property? Check! Healthcare for poor children? Nope!

Exhibit #2723 in the David Brooks "Values, Values something something Civics something but the Democrats Values something" playbook. Brooks, Stephens and Douthat are becoming the Huey, Dewey and Louie of the @nytimes.com. The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

I don't know why this took me by surprise ... I guess I've been in shock at the here and now. But, wow.

But by all means stop funding scientific and medical research, and be sure to limit distribution of COVID mRNA vaccines. theconversation.com/covid-19-mrn...

All the gold and glitter, all the money and adulation that he buys cannot change the fact that he goes to bed and awakens in the morning alone and reviled, even by his own family. He is at best a meal ticket and worth more to them after he dies than in this life. No one will mourn him. No one.

While Trmpf is metaphorically dropping shite on the American people, Putin is literally raining death and destruction on kindergartens in Ukraine. Someday there must be a reckoning for both.

BREAKING: Putin gifts free Soviet-era Zil limousine to Trump, to be delivered at Budapest summit. "True, gas mileage is limited, but body is in excellent condition. Very few upgrades needed," noted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, adding that "power windows are fully operational."

Cleveland rocks!

Tiny microphones .... a plague that cannot be eradicated @carolinelosneck.bsky.social? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/s...

I did not have south pole of the moon on my "Where to Establish Nuclear Fission Research Centers" bingo card.

I just hope this Israel-Hamas peace deal isn’t another “free” 747-in-waiting. With this POTUS, everything is transactional. What’s the next shoe to drop?

“Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented ….” Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Can we stop fetishizing ... 1. The "innovators!" 2. The "risk takers!" 3. The "dealmakers!" and start celebrating ... 1. The workers 2. The planners 3. The doers 4. The conscientious 5. The kind 6. The committed 7. The dedicated 8. The empathetic 9. The decent 10. The thoughtful

Back in Soviet days, the USSR used to produce propaganda films of Americans in breadlines to show the pervasive poverty that "prevailed" in our capitalist system. Look how much progress we've made!

Wondering when @nytimes.com is going to get around to reporting on the soon-to-be-established military Qamp Qatar in Idaho.

Trump's "diplomacy" in achieving a first step in some kind of resolution in Gaza is ... something.I hope it sticks. But the hard work begins now.There are miles and miles to go. The press conference is over. Soon he'll lose interest. And then it's on to the next atrocities, foreign and domestic.

'Murica, 2025. Hauling a woman out of her car at pick-up time. I feel so safe. So proud.

Qatar to Trump: Help! We're stuck in the middle of regional crap between Iran, Yemen, Israel and the Palestinians. Bibi: Mr. President, Hamas hangs out in Qatar. Qatar: Mr. President, how about a fancy jet? Trump: Me like! Qatar: Also, we need a security guaranty. Like NATO. Trump: What's NATO?

Disastrous, if not calamitous jobs report, and as of now ... nothing on the front page of the NYT.

A needy, desperate and insecure man who knows he commands none of the respect he yearns for. A man whose weakness is confirmed by the silent scorn of the audience he craves. A man who knows that holding a title is not the same as earning it. A man who will soon be but a footnote.

Straight outta "Jackass."

Paging Lieutenant Calley, Lieutenant William Calley. You’ve been reinstated. With back pay. And a promotion.

Elite Escalator Response Team trains for reprisal "at a time and place of our choosing."

Sad trombone sound ...

@piperformissouri.bsky.social I had the same thought re inscribing bullets these days.

Of the many, many shootings in this country - esp those that may have had a political motive - how many involved bullets/casings with inscriptions? Did the bullets that killed JFK, RFK, MLK, Harvey Milk and Melissa Hortman and Brian Thompson bear anti-govt messages? If not, why's it happening now?

Trump: Ukraine could get back its original borders. Putin should end the war. I support Ukraine. Putin (to KGB): Release the Epstein files and the Steele Dossier. Trump: I've had a very productive conversation with President Putin. Ukraine needs to make a deal. Zelenskyy has no cards.

This is a pretty scary story. According to the reporting, there were threats made against government officials, including two who work in the WH. The question now is, in the current environment in which we rush to judgment, who will be considered the primary suspect(s)?

I just found this piece that I wrote fifteen years ago, when Donald Trump made a (highly paid) trip to ... wait for it ... New Brunswick, Canada. It seems oddly prescient. www.aims.ca/site/media/a...

File under: “She Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best” Avoiding the domestic hellscape, as well as Don, Jr., the Ambassador-designate is surely thanking her lucky stars. gr.usembassy.gov/press-releas...

This feels like a different vibe ….

FCC: Naughty limericks are off-limits. Knock-knock jokes are still allowed. Dad jokes are prima facie funny.

Thought for the day. Here are names and personages that no longer have relevance or influence and that make me run in the opposite direction: Bill Clinton David Axelrod Rahm Emanuel David Plouffe James Carville Tony Blair

Internecine warfare among MAGA, Groypers and whatnot escalates with accusation by Nick Fuentes that Tyler Robinson was in position of Kristi Noem's purse.