It’s not enough that Trump and Hegseth are helping Putin and Netanyahu commit war crimes. Now they have to commit their own on top of it. The Hague is waiting.

New York Times Gift Article: The Unraveling of the Justice Department. Sixty attorneys describe a year of chaos and suspicion. "I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September? Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

There is literally no reason for the military to be in D.C.

Three things about the Witkoff tapes: 1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia. 2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea. 3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.

NEW from @katierogersnyt.bsky.social and me on Trump's aging (gift link):

NYTimes Gift Article: How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

For a decade, Russia has been seeking to divide Europe and America, to undermine NATO and weaken the transatlantic alliance. This peace plan, if accepted, will achieve that goal. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff — a real estate mogul with no diplomatic background before his appointment — has emerged as one of the central architects of a new Washington peace proposal that Ukrainian officials say revives the Kremlin's most sweeping demands.

Washington Post Gift Link: How baby boomers got so rich and why their kids are unlikely to catch up. New research explores the extraordinary rise in their good fortunes — one that experts say successive generations will be hard-pressed to replicate. wapo.st/3KjBRoe

"Little pig, little pig, let me come in!" "Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin!"

New York Times Gift Article: Who’s Running to Replace Jerry Nadler? 10 People and Counting. Mr. Nadler’s coveted House seat in Manhattan will be up for grabs next year in a district that is the wealthiest in New York. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

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Washington Post Gift Link: The Trump prosecutor probing former top Obama administration officials. Jason Reding Quiñones, U.S. attorney in Miami and a favorite prosecutor for the Trump administration, is pursuing a broad investigation into former Obama officials. wapo.st/480vRIK

Interesting backstory on new Netflix show - including corruption-free presidency of President Arthur. Then Again: Vermont’s Chester Arthur is an unlikely star in a new Netflix series vtdigger.org/2025/11/16/t...

Washington Post Gift Link: The cheap health insurance promoted by Trump officials has this catch. Some states have banned “short-term” insurance plans with limited coverage, and consumer advocates have warned of the drawbacks. wapo.st/4oRpNtt

NY Times Gift Article: For all his bluster, the F.B.I.’s deputy director Dan Bongino played a central role in stoking expectations that the bureau would quickly find the suspects who planted pipe bombs. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

I think we need to start visualizing the Trump Presidency ending, and socialize it. For it is the right thing to do for the country and the American people.

BREAKING: (Gift) New Epstein emails reveal that Epstein claimed he had kompromat on President Trump. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Read about WHY Ketanji Brown Jackson stayed the SNAP order. Her move is probably the best solution for getting SNAP benefits approved quickly. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

Washington Post Gift Link: ACA health care premiums are rising. These 8 Americans showed us how much. Premiums for health insurance sold through the Affordable Care Act are soaring because of the expiration of enhanced subsidies at the heart of the government shutdown. wapo.st/43Q4Iag

So far this week: Monday: Dick Cheney kicks it Tuesday: 34-yo Muslim becomes mayor of NYC Wednesday: Gorsuch raises grave concerns abt Congress abdicating the power to declare war Thursday: Pelosi announces retirement

No, Prop 50 was not about Gov Newsom. It was about 47 who asked Abbott to find him more seats to shore up slim Congressional GOP delegation. Did it before. In 2020 he asked GA to "find 11,780 votes" to overturn the U.S. election results from the 2020 presidential election. See the pattern here???

This is the kind of thing which makes me think better things are possible.

Unsurprising that, after his party got its ass whipped, Trump would lean into vote fraud horseshit. A little surprising, though, that no one has yet told him that anonymous grocery shopping remains not just possible but the norm.

I started a trend!

Washington Post Gift Link: Inside the billionaire network shaping MAGA’s post-Trump future wapo.st/3Jsvgrl

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

New York Times Magazine Gift Article: MaryBeth Lewis’s desire to be a new mom again, at 65 years old, led to a custody battle like no other. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/m...

The people at @nytimes.com helped me make this video about sexism www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

Foster parents often rely on food stamps to care for the babies that you demanded be born.😢

Mike Johnson describes Trump’s mental decline and unhinged behavior.

I was recently laid off by ARTnews, a few days before the theft at the Louvre. The terms of my TN work visa means I can't freelance unless I donate the funds to charity. I'm open to new FT roles in business reporting and communications, and am willing to relocate to other cities, including Toronto.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Trump screws his voters again: He just denied disaster aid to Maryland (while giving it to red states). But I took a look and it turns out the suffering Maryland counties are in Appalachia and backed him by 40 and 54 points. On the pod, @stevebenen.com and I discuss: newrepublic.com/article/2022...

Cartoon by @jesseduquette.bsky.social. MAGA math.

“Bottom line, the well has run dry," the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a post on its website. It hasn’t run dry. GOP is holding it hostage so they can also take your healthcare. Other “water” is being given to Argentina, invading US cities, or Trump is demanding it for himself

The Thread Tying Together Everything Trump Does For Mr. Trump, the common thread weaving together so much of what he does — at home and abroad — is power. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

Washington Post Gift Article from Dana Milbank. wapo.st/4nlKw7c

Last week, we co-hosted debate night bingo with Seniors for Zohran, some of our most enthusiastic and active canvassers, at a community center in Chelsea. They were joined there by a…familiar face. Tune into the final debate tonight at 7pm on NY1, WNYC or YouTube!

"If you're going through hell, keep going." ~ Churchill

To be crystal clear: trump is talking about taxpayers paying him millions of dollars as some sort of restitution because he was investigated for sending a mob to the US capitol on Jan 6th to overthrow the 2020 election. That might just be he most f*cked up thing he’s done since Jan 6th…

also how does the president have the right to demand that the DOJ (i.e. US taxpayers) give him money?

He did everything he possibly could to overturn the election & stay in power - threatening his VP, Govs & Secs of States, organizing a mob to storm the Capitol. He knew if he ordered a military coup they would’ve refused & he would’ve been tried for treason. That’s why he left.

Heck, if you really need to link this back to kitchen-table-kitchen-table-kitchen-table, it's easy to do: While Trump is driving costs through the roof with his unhinged tariff spree and other reckless, failed policies, he's looting $230 million from the US Treasury and sticking it in his pocket.