You can take the boy out of Southside Chicago, but you can't take ...

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

Some moments call for statesmanship. And sometimes you just need a guy from Chicago, Illinois.

Cuomo Says He Will Devote Rest of Life to Sexually Harassing People in the Private Sector

Seymour Hersh

JESUS.

The great thing about the Trump endorsement is that even before his terms as president and all the misery attached for blue-state America, there was no more disliked celebrity in New York. Donald Trump was known to New Yorkers as a constant chisler and self-aggrandizing vulgarian. Mazel tov, Andy.

Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States has no penis. But at all times and in all matters, you must understand, he is still very special, very powerful and very important. And if he one day does acquire a penis, it will be the best and biggest one.

@harryshearer.bsky.social, this rings bells. And worries. Thought of you right away: apps.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/metr...

Carlin’s last commandment (4th?); Thou Shalt Keep Thy Religion To Thyself.”

Whereby the actual dickheads make themselves plain.

“Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?” TRUMP: “Suspending who?” 🤷🏼 Aaand scene.

So Trump negotiates the mass release of 5,000 Taliban fighters and agrees to end U.S. presence in Afghanistan in 14 months. Taliban then takes over Afganistan and the Bagram air base. Trump asks for the air base back. Taliban says nah. A petulant Trump threatens Afganistan. The Art of the Deal.

President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”

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Flailing is not a productive methodology. Back to it (not by design).

@edgeofsports.bsky.social Dave, I just read, with delightdread, your piece at The Nation (The Dangers and Absurdities of Trump’s DC Occupation). Saw some pots and pans here in Coastal MA today, and that was good too. Thank You. Thank You.

How it 'feels' in DC, according to me. fallows.substack.com/p/what-it-ac...

Here’s a conclusion I am eyeing: who is driving the Drumpf bus? The man is a tool. And getting a bit rusty, but is being wheeled out to talk shit. Who is in the writers room?

From the Financial Times: “US consumers are eating at home to save money as they worry about a slowing economy and stubbornly high prices, leading restaurant chains to warn of declining sales.” Trumponomics is a win! www.ft.com/content/94ae...

Fat cats don’t run very fast.

Among, or at the top of my favorite movies.

This here sofa is in use.

By any metric of fascism, when they come for the comedians, it's here.

“Profiles In Garbage” It is not this way because they are Republicans. It is this way because they are a putrid, sycophantic, counterproductive lot. Shock level: Bupkis.

I come to digress. Try me.

DC! I'd like a word. Come see me live July 20. Apparently there's been some news.

@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social If I may be so bold… the repeated reference last week to the beegees leads me to offer this (I promise you’ll love it): youtu.be/fZqICqC5xqA?...

SNAP Recipients Now Required To Prove Need By Eating All Their Groceries On Spot theonion.com/snap-re...

Six months ago, the US economy was stable. NATO was united. Our personal data was secure. And our military bases weren’t under attack. Maybe Jake Tapper could write a book about that.

Cuomo Makes 11th-Hour Pass At Female New Yorkers theonion.com/cuomo-m...

@thebugle.bsky.social Just a note of clear confirmation: While you have Cricket, we here in the US have Cornhole. The relative complexity strikes me as appropriate.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Enjoy your Schadenboner but when you are ready to talk about policy, consider this the BBB.

I’m not going to bore everyone here with Harvard stories (I’m at my 25yr reunion). But: * “They” say it’s the most well attended reunion. * The level of “fuck Trump” here is off the charts. * Even the Republicans I knew in college are like “fuck Trump.”

Pure ecstasy: Schrödinger’s schadenfreude re: the two jagoffs’ breakup.

You need this in your timeline! Stop to listen. Amazing.

This entire administration is grounded on fear. Not law. Not the Constitution. Not justice. Fear.

No surrender indeed: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/o...

The Wall Street Journal had a piece last night that the Judicial Conference of the United States — the policy making body for the federal judiciary — is discussing whether the Judiciary should have its own armed security force rather than rely on the U.S. Marshals for federal judges’ protection.

@edgeofsports.bsky.social Watching with out sound. Liking it.

Shall we use round numbers and say we’re adding another one hundred years of blowback?

@alicefraser.bsky.social Alice, just a brief gushing note. The thought provocation I enjoy during Tea With Alice is so, so appreciated. Thank you!

Bacon and onion pizza. No YOU shut up.

Just wedge me between a dumpster and the side of the building. Maybe come back in the morning, in case I need to be freed up.

By individual demand, a SNEAK PREVIEW from this week’s #leshow: “My New Qatari Jet" soundcloud.com/lelink/my-ne...

It is sunny and 78°F. I am ready for snow. Yeech.

@edgeofsports.bsky.social I feel odd about this, but why does the play by play guy sound like he’s got a bad case of Larchmont Lockjaw?

Americans Wish Trump Happy Motherfucker's Day