Q: Mr. Johnson, you understand that you’re actually the Speaker of the House, correct? A: I don’t know much about that. I just heard something about it this morning but don’t know the specifics.

"you were mad when trump used this language to lie about democrats. how do you justify using the same language now to tell the truth about republicans?"

nobody wants this confused tu bishvat and tisha bav. pretty bad mistake imo

It flies under the radar because it is overwhelmed by the sheer repulsiveness of the physical destruction of the east wing, but there is no way that a president should be allowed to use private money to change public property. It circumvents the power of the purse.

The 2016 campaign promise that Trump was going to run the country like his businesses (bankruptcy, legally dubious construction, constant lawsuits) really came true!

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

trump is never planning to leave the presidency. he is knocking down the building to build a behemoth that would take years even under normal conditions.

i don't wanna see a candidate shirtless more than zero times. this whole thing is a mess

how can this be called "a room"

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

platners excuse on pod save was still that it isn't even a nazi tattoo. he painted it as a youthful drunken random skull, and implied that had it been a nazi tattoo, he'd have wisely kept his shirt on the last 18 years. he won't admit it.

i feel like he shouldn't have used the qualifier "secret." like ok... are you a nazi of a different kind

I guess this is when we get to introduce the nation to the tale of the Bonwit Teller building: news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

women should not only be able to choose a woman driver on uber, but a woman shopper on instacart

the gerrymandering wars stuff is probably the first time I've really felt legitimately like it all might fall apart. like this is an actual point of no return they're pushing us towards. it's the ruling party declaring they won't allow themselves to lose elections, voters be fucked.

NOT COOL TO HAVE AN EARTHQUAKE MID EICHA

And I think that’s an important point about what’s happened with Trump in the last decade - if you plainly state what he’s doing or has done, people don’t believe you because it sounds cartoonishly evil enough that he would be acting differently if it was true. Now he’s acting differently.

something happened that i really need to tell my friend but he died four months ago

does anyone remember that time the first trump administration kidnapped a bunch of children, sent them around the country to christian adoption agencies, and lost track of their names, locations, and parents' identities

there's no two ways about it: the current GOP is the party of rapists and pedophiles.

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Washington state from enforcing a law that would have required priests to report evidence of child abuse learned during confession. The Trump administration had intervened on the side of the Catholic clergy. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I do seem to remember that, yeah.

this diddy verdict is a travesty. there was plenty of evidence to convict on the more serious charges.

Just heard Bill Kristol, former chief of staff for Dan Quayle, say he thinks ICE should be defunded and that the entire DHS should probably be disbanded, which puts him to the left of maybe the majority of elected Democrats. Truly wild times we’re living in.

"but Michael, you just said the laws are irrelevant" They're irrelevant *because Republicans have power* and because *Republicans have broken every institution that checks that power*. We must *regain* power, *fix* these institutions, nothing else matters.

and burnett until this day sits on endless footage that likely could have prevented this from happening

one way to make sense of the position of the republicans on the supreme court is that they do not believe there is such a thing as a legitimate objection to the actions of a republican president, no matter how deranged, depraved, or anti-constitutional www.stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-co...

Let me put it this way: No German organization will ever adopt the slogan "Unser Kampf", though "Our Struggle" would be a perfectly anodyne English mantra. Because some words have echoes based on their historical usage by others whether the speaker wants them to or not.

A new Yiddish curse was born

you should all root for whoever you hate most to become mayor of NYC

One of my teenagers just said Pharrell was a one hit wonder

The same people demanding you present a photo ID to vote are perfectly fine with letting you be arrested, handcuffed & thrown into a van by armed men wearing plain clothes, face masks & presenting no identification of any sort.

If you’ve ever enjoyed our national parks or the outdoors, you need to look at the map showing lands they are auctioning off for drilling/mining etc and you need to realize they are taking it away from the American public. This is a land grab serving the rich and will irrevocably harm our country.

my kid said "i didn't realize the company was called oceangate, i thought it was just an ocean-related scandal"

how about aggressively covering what's happening in real time now instead of continuing to flog a book about biden

when i was 12 i saw barry white walking with an entourage through the little palm springs airport. when people noticed him, he gamely said "ooooh baby." sonny bono was on my flight that day.

we have no reason to believe he actually quit drinking

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

It is not the job of the federal government to "liberate" a city and state from their elected leaders. Where are all the states'-rights conservatives? And there is no need to liberate anything. The city & state aren't under siege. This is dangerous & authoritarian red-baiting & disgraceful.

anyone who got on social media after 2014 or so is under the mistaken impression that the primary goal of social media is for it to Accomplish Something while those of us who have been on since the start know the true purpose of social media is to give us a place to Post so we don't go (more) insane

If this is real, and it seems like it is, they're hiring people to fill seats at the Trump Vanity Parade washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/tlg/d/wa...

The thing about these "I didn't knows" (and there have been many — thinking also, e.g., of Kennett, MO) is that, while Trump certainly claimed undocumented immigrants were violent criminals, he explicitly said he wanted to deport all undocumented immigrants. All of them. He was very clear!

I don’t know who woke up at CNN and said “you know what? We’re just going to tell the truth today” but WELL DONE

i can think of other political projects that valued order over supposed chaos

im sorry but "and no fats!!!!" being tacked on to the end of this is so funny to me

this is horrendously dangerous advice. for the love of god do not do this

Every day, Trump’s focused on addressing problems that didn’t exist until he created them.

menswear guy hive rise up

Gavin Newsom went on TV, called Tom Homan a bitch, and said he if he wanted arrest him he knew where to find him. Maxine Waters told an ICE agent to his if they planned to shoot her they should at least shoot straight. I really don't know what you want from them right now.