Not saying he should fire the Secretary of Labor, but I will say that this would be a really good time to do so and have no one notice. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

As someone once responsible for improving the integrated air and missile defenses of our Arab Gulf partners, I want to congratulate the Kuwaitis on their, um, uh, unprecedented success in this regard.

I was in Nashville for a funeral yesterday and caught up with my best friend over drinks before heading to the airport. Saw a guy walk into the bar at 2:15pm, open a bottle of Pedialyte he brought with him, and start chugging it alongside his alcohol. Next level stuff going on in Middle Tennessee.

If you’ve been following this ecological disaster taking place in the Potomac River, and the politics of it, I should probably tell you that my wife is to sewage mishaps what John Madden was to NFL games. podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/1012-a-giant...

Best of luck to any Republicans running for office in Michigan this year. This is one of the most unbelievable stories of corruption I have read since that last story about corruption from last week. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...

I can, sadly, understand a business case for the Washington Post dropping its Metro, World, and Sports coverage and doubling down on political and regulatory journalism. Can’t understand what was more important for Will Lewis to do today than attend that meeting, though. Just POS leadership.

Minneapolis 2026 youtu.be/Sp-AhVql7I0?...

I hope every Democratic foreign policy official who served in the Biden Administration and/or hopes to serve again noticed what Benjamin Netanyahu just said about Joe Biden allegedly starving the IDF of ammunition in Gaza.

say what you like about Saruman but at least he was a YIMBY

It’s says a lot about the state of the Department of Justice that the person they found to argue on behalf of the U.S. government here has been at DOJ for less than two months and is three years out of law school at the University of Florida. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Man, yesterday was a real banner day for people with “Follower of Christ” in their Twitter bios as well as those ladies who yell at Evangelical Pastors when they flirt with progressive political thoughts.

Congratulations to everyone who has taken Bridge Colby seriously and helped along his career for the last two decades.

The Trump Administration continues to seize the means of production. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

I love this! Spent three days hunting in the week after Christmas. Shot two deer, which I then skinned and butchered in my garage. They’re now in the freezer and will last us until mid-summer.

It is, we all have to admit, very funny to respond to Exxon’s statement saying they don’t want to invest in Venezuela by not allowing them to invest in Venezuela. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

If you asked a conservative Texan, or Tennessean, between the years of 1993-2001 or 2009-2017, what they would do if masked federal police came into their town and killed an unarmed person …

Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain

Gianni Infantino is responsible for this. As long as Trump held out hope for the Nobel Prize, he was not going to go to war in Venezuela. But that dang FIFA Peace Price has satiated his appetite for peace, freeing him up for war. I say all of this only 5/6 jokingly.

This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.

Polling suggests Israel is historically unpopular in the demographic corresponding with people likely to have small children, so I need someone smarter than me to explain how picking a fight with Ms. Rachel of all people makes any sense whatsoever. nypost.com/2025/12/26/o...

A wild statistic from @katie0martin.ft.com here. www.ft.com/content/a9f5...

Can’t help but think some people would love for this to all be about journalism standards and best practices and not, say, the rendition of human beings to some medieval dungeon without due process.

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Okay, but which New York Times columnist would it be *funniest* were we to discover they were tied up with Epstein, and why is it Gail Collins?

"You see, your holiness, there are 8 to 12 players. Two wizards. A maverick. The arbiter. Two warriors. A corporal, and a ledgerman. Now the ledgerman just keeps score, and he wears this hat"

One of the best book reviews I have read in a long time. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

My friendly advice for any news outlet struggling to now cover the Pentagon would be to adopt a COCOM-based strategy for coverage. Send reporters down to Tampa and Miami and Colorado Springs and have them develop sources there. The COCOMs were often “leakier” than the Building anyway.

I’m obviously rooting against the Dodgers in the playoffs, but I still woke my sons up early today to watch the Ohtani performance over breakfast before they play baseball later this morning. Greatest individual performance in a game ever, no question.

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

A survey of the Washington legal establishment, evenly divided among Republicans and Democrats, captured almost universal fear and anguish over the transformation of the Justice Department into a tool of the White House. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

There is a bottomless pit of money out there for journalists willing to speak untruths to power. If you’re willing to soothe billionaires by telling them everything they want to hear, and telling them all of the criticism they face is misguided, the world is your oyster.

I don’t think people outside Washington, DC appreciate how bad the brain drain from the Department of Justice is. It’s in no one’s interests — neither the people’s, nor the Trump Administration — yet I do not know of a single lawyer at DOJ who hasn’t either left already or isn’t weighing leaving.

Scariest, most depressing thing I have read today.

Me too. I filed a claim.

Great command of the language on display here

big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters

You don’t need credentials to cover the military. There are four Starbucks within walking distance of the Pentagon.

Congrats to the hosts of the All-In Podcasts, you are the biggest marks on the whole planet.

You almost certainly aren’t going to get out of the war crimes tribunal by producing a letter that you solicited because you were aware that the legality of your orders was questionable.

This is how you drive talented people out of the force.

Great to see the WSJ challenging the NYT on the Fake Trends beat. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

This is yet another reminder that Elbridge Colby believes in nothing so much as he believes in Elbridge Colby’s career, and it’s been okay to not take him seriously since January 6, 2021. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

not being talked about enough: the biggest financial success for the president’s family since the inauguration

There is a bottomless pool of capital available to those willing to entertain and promote the idea that the views of the wealthiest, most privileged people in America are, in fact, unfairly underrepresented in the discourse. Our guy is dropping $200m on an “investment” with no real expected returns.

My controversial position is that since we have made the decision as a nation to arm ourselves to the hilt, almost without restrictions, we need to teach our children basic firearms safety. My three oldest kids all know what to do if they come across a firearm and the fundamentals of gun safety.

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People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.

It’s the first day of school here in DC, and if your children are feeling a little nervous about the day, I find it’s helpful to borrow this motivational speech from Paul O’Connell. youtu.be/Bhgt2pnSywI?...