Attorney General Pam Bondi tells a member of a co-equal branch of government during a public hearing: “You don’t tell me anything, you washed-up loser lawyer.” The disdain for our own government is appalling. This administration is destroying our democracy.

Oh is that all.

Ruly Carpenter and Ron Reed celebrate 1980 NL pennant win in Houston, following my favorite game of all-time.

From the court’s opinion today blocking Hegseth’s attempt to discipline Mark Kelly: “As Bob Dylan once famously said, ‘You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.’ Our retired vets deserve more respect from our govt, and our Constitution demands they receive it!”

In addition to ripping Hegseth to shreds and ruling for Sen Kelly, Judge Leon communicates a sort of direct popular outrage with different unusual stylistic passages in his opinion, including the line from Subterranean Homesick Blues "you dont need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."

When @padilla.senate.gov and I visited the California City Detention Center, we met with people who were held without basic medical treatment or, in many cases, no medical attention at all. 🧵 www.latimes.com/california/s...

During a congressional visit, Congressman Joaquin Castro discovered that babies as young as two months old are being held at the Dilley, Texas Family Concentration Camp. (February 10, 2026)

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

WATCH — @warnock.senate.gov: “They are seizing ballots, gunning down ordinary citizens, arresting journalists. All the alarm bells 🚨 are blaring. The question is, are we listening?”

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

@washingtonpost.com will survive in some degraded form. But this is literally the day in which a precious and storied institution, which among its thousands of accomplishments has served an indispensable historic role of holding power to account, was killed.

Some context… Bezos is killing the Post by choice, not by necessity…

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

But Bezos had $75 million to spend on Melania’s vanity project.

James Comer is bringing Hillary Clinton before his committee to testify about Epstein despite having zero contact with him, but not Epstein’s neighbor Howard Lutnick who lied about his connections to Epstein over many years which is proven in the files.

The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks (1964-1971) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #Music #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollector #VinylRecords #NowPlaying #NowSpinning

Liam made people look. Now don’t look away. We still have children in ICE custody eating bad food, drinking questionable water, living in filthy conditions, and carrying a lifetime of trauma they shouldn’t have to survive. #FreeTheChildren

Do you get it now?

There can't be too many pictures of Larry Bowa in this uniform. Must be spring training 1969.

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers https://theonion.com/ice-opens-new-supermax-detention-center-for-most-harden-1827838332/

In all seriousness, how can it be that the official now in charge in Minnesota was caught by the FBI on video taking $50,000 to steer government business, and walking out with the money, which we still haven't seen. How is he still working in Administration, not to mention not behind bars?

Happy Birthday to "The Chief," Art Rooney Sr., born this day in 1901. The one-man play by the same name starring Phil Winters opens at the Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University Feb. 4 and runs through Super Bowl Sunday.

You know who”stayed a little back” in VIetnam? DJT.

RIP John Brodie. Among the most beautiful things I've ever witnessed, even before my 50 years of sports writing, was the 49ers quarterback warming up with majestic long tosses before a 1971 game in Philadelphia. He'd throw for 3 TD's. Niners 31, Eagles 3. Thanks for that indelible memory.

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

Just a reminder, Toni Morrison was 39 when she published her first book. To all you creatives out there: Keep going! You got this! 👏🏼

That college football national championship game ended so late I was concerned some of the athletes might not make it to their Tuesday morning classes . . . I'll let myself out.

Enrique Romo?

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.

Not certain Steelers won't be Baltimore, but very close to certain they won't do it without a defensive touchdown. Less than 12 hours left now to talk this to death.

Misquoting somebody, possibly Dorothy Parker here, but the sentiment is real: "What?! They're having another year?"

A serious violation of what now?

Top story on noon news: It's Windy and cold. Related: It's winter.

This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy. These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6. They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".

Yep. Things can happen in a country with more guns than people.

Thank you Indiana Republicans is not a sentence I ever thought I would write.

There's a #RepublicanHealthCareFailure! It's what happens when stupid people lead the country.

ICYMI — Both Tennessee senators @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn are content to let health care costs skyrocket for millions

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Republicans announce the entire state of Indiana will be defunded if they do not obey Trump by gerrymandering their state. “Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop.”

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

These people really can’t take a hint, can they? There is no there there! Bravo to these ordinary citizens serving as grand jurors with integrity! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...

"No communist healthcare" says the Rep whose Healthcare is paid by everybody else's taxes.

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FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it." Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...