Thanks to Mary Dixon for her singing on another great song, "What's it all about, Algae?" (hint" Don't respond with "I heard this on the @stephaniemiller.bsky.social show" because you only heard 40 seconds of it) :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFkY...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) has issued memo to US Secret Service announcing a probe of "waste, fraud and abuse" in the Trump White House ballroom project Blumenthal asks agency to turn over records on the reported $352 million in Secret Service funds "redirected" to Ballroom

Y’all acting like you’ve never seen an octogenarian drug addict blow 16M on Reflecting Pool reno cause he gave a no bid gov’t contract to a guy who looks like he sold quaaludes to The Riddler & then blame the algae bloom on a 350 ft boxcutter attack by underwater Antifa before?

The Donald Trump and Smithsonian Institution

3...2...1... "The sneaky vandal of my perfect Reflection Pool isn't shown on any of the security cameras because, people are telling me, he wore one of those Harry Potter invisibility cloaks. These people are so devious and sneaky, they will stop at nothing—even magic—to make me look incompetent."

the only reason oligarchs ever pretended to care about doing Good Works was when they thought they might go to literal Hell

Stop. Giving Musk. Attention. Just Stop. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/r...

Never were the emperor's clothes more admired! At last a little boy piped up. "But he has nothing on at all! He's completely nude!" A national guardsman and a sheriff from Oklahoma whisked the child into custody and his parents have not been told where he’s been held.

I’m old enough to remember that Obama didn’t have to give Iran $330bn in unfrozen assets, lifted sanctions, and a wealth fund in order to get them to agree to nuclear inspectors.

Who wants to pitch in for a cash reward for anyone that can produce video of vandals violently slitting the reflecting pool coating?

“With rare notable exceptions, Alan Greenspan was a horrible economist who made the nation and world worse through his obsession with Randian quackery.”

Now THIS is how you write an Alan Greenspan obituary.

Only a lifelong Republican who pretends like Trump is some sort of anomaly would assume anyone would be gullible enough to believe that AIPAC = "millions & millions of American citizens." Just because you're a water-carrying dipshit doesn't mean anyone else is, Joe

Can’t wait for this discovery!

Utterly predictable www.nbcnews.com/business/cor...

They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the dogs. They’re creating the algae.

HOW CAN THEY DO THIS TO US WHILE WE’RE DEALING WITH A WHOLE REFLECTING POOL VANDAL CRISIS?!?!

stfg this pack of alleged tough guys is softer than baby shit

In a normal country the President would be enjoying the World Cup spotlight, not criminalizing tourism.

R.I.P. Alan Greenspan: You were charming, thoughtful, powerful, and wrong. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/rip-alan-greenspan

I grew up with Alan Greenspan being treated as a sage voice of economic reason. Then I discovered he spent his early career as a fully paid-up Ayn Rand cultist (part of the 'collective' who read Atlas Shrugged in manuscript) and I realized that he was just another libertarian loon.

Honestly, I thought Alan Greenspan was already dead. I was always surprised he didn't die from sleeping with Ayn Rand. Anyway, good riddance.

We shouldn't be surprised that Donald Trump had no respect for the history or beauty of the East Wing or the Reflecting Pool. He's always been like that. Back in 1980, he promised to give two beloved Art Deco friezes to the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art. Instead, he jackhammered them into dust.

Today: 1. A judge blocks Trump's Tim Walz and Jacob Frey subpoeanas 2. A judge blocks Trump's federal citizenship voter list 3. A judge blocks DOJ's bid to get Maryland voter rolls Hide the ketchup!

Foreign policy experts say that invading Greenland would be a catastrophic mistake. A guy who falls asleep in public and can't control his bowels says it would once again allow Americans to enjoy Endless Shrimp at Red Lobster. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Susan Collins, who voted for Kavanaugh, blames [checks notes] Schumer for the overturning of Roe v Wade

Odd, how the UK can't seem to keep a Prime Minister—and we can't seem to get rid of a President.

"is that all?" -- Trump is now having guys go around the table to kiss his ass, but even effusive praise isn't enough for him

He’s completely gone and I’m watching every clip like a wolf drooling over a carcass.

O'KEEFE: Netanyahu said his forces are not leaving Lebanon TRUMP: Who did he tell that to? You? O'KEEFE: He said it publicly

Q: National Guard and police have been all over the Mall. How would these vandals have gotten so close to do something like that? TRUMP: ... ... ...

There is, without question, security video available and they would, without question, have put out security video of an Antifa super-soldier dragging a box cutter along the surface of the Reflecting Pool if they had it. This is nonsense and the White House press corps should, again, be ashamed.

I have some incredible good news Izzy Aly, the Egyptian immigrant detained here by ICE for more than six months even as his GEO Group guards ignored his rapidly worsening kidney disease, is free and back home in Orlando Here's what I initially also wrote about Izzy www.inquirer.com/opinion/izzy...

And you ain't no Roosevelt, Donnie.

The same man who will pardon you if you ransack the Capitol and smear your feces on its wall will throw you in jail if you wiggle your fingers in the water of the Reflecting Pool.

NEW: September is heating up. Not only will we get oral arguments to release Vol II of Jack Smith's report, but NOW the full DC Appeals Court will hear args on Boasberg's contempt for DOJ refusing to turn the planes around that went to CECOT in March 2025. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I had criticisms of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, but those criticisms never included “do they even know what they’re signing?” Clinton and Obama were notorious policy wonks who’d get deep into the weeds on legislature. Trump is an incurious slug whose only North Star is personal gratification.

They're just drafting orders for him to sign and he signs them without understanding what he's signing. If this was a normal presidency, this would be a big scandal. That the US president is just appending his signature to whatever Stephen Miller places before him.

Trump on an executive order he's about to sign that he clearly has no clue about: "Quantum ... cryptography. Does anybody know what that is?"

Violent Slit is my new all-girl punk band.

And the next Dem president will clean this up, and republicans will sue block the refunds until a republican takes the white house again and resumes gouging borrowers. Rinse. Repeat.

At a pub in London yesterday, a friend told me, "You'll know it's real if someone else resigns first." And that happened. And now Starmer has followed (well, once Burnham is elected PM in a couple of months). Fascinating to watch as an American, doomed to over two more years of Trump's catastrophe.

I'll say again: The simplest thing Labour could do to regain some momentum is announce a vote on rejoining the EU. It would pass overwhelmingly, and the party could use it to beat up Reform.

NYT: Prime Minister Keir Starmer stepped down as leader of the governing Labour Party. His decision clears the way for Britain’s seventh prime minister in the last decade.

omg, this is so true

Vance appeared now in front of the press stating all 4 goals were achieved - from Hormuz to nuclear program and the rest. None of such achievements is known of. Pakistan reported they agreed to talk for 60 more days. The latest MOU also was meant to talk for 60 more days. But the markets…

IOW, something jerry-rigged together in a panic to make Trump look like a winner that then immediately falls apart after the Monday stock market opening.

What struck me most was that we came away from the same story with very different conclusions... In her view, activists and advocacy groups had created fear where none should have existed. I saw a law that created the conditions for that fear to flourish."

"MAGA cultists desperately want Americans to trade pluralistic democracy for autocratically imposed white Christian supremacy, but they have few takers...MAGA has nothing but Lost Cause political stunts and DEI for incompetent white males — a formula for political extinction."