@jfallows.bsky.social … Did you see the latest very odd NYT story about Linda McMahon’s letters to the alma mater?

Uh, Blue Sky management… I am not giving out my SS number to “verify” I’m old enough to get a message from someone I don’t know.

I guess meeting with Prince Bone Saw has inspired Felon In Chief to threaten six members of Congress?

www.cincinnati.com/story/news/p... This IDIOT couldn’t name a president who has a street named after him— a street Vance lives on or next to.

Fox Propaganda has gone Full George Orwell to cope with last night's ferocious rebuke to Republicans and, especially, Trump.

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

Listening to the great Philip Bump at the Columbus Metropolitan Club.

U.S. Border Patrol agents tried and failed to detain a man in downtown Chicago (via Christopher Sweat)

War-ravaged Portland

For those who despair…. youtu.be/V5XIMWlfFjs

Climate change??? These people are imbeciles. That’s been an overwhelmingly good issue for progressive (or any) candidates for decades. Look at Jon Krosnick’s work FOR A GENERATION about this issue. Morons. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

Man, a lot of crazy shit has happened since Epstein’s birthday letter was released a week ago Monday.

It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

If you’re scared of what comedians have to say about you… You’re weak.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

We’re watching the Zero Mostel starring The Producers. My wife just said that the Gavin Newsom press office Twitter feed seems… rather similar. Parody is a potent weapon.

www.nybooks.com/online/2012/... Still pertinent, especially as faux Catholics whine that thoughts and prayers shouldn’t be ridiculed.

So… as a voter and citizen I am actually Donald Trump’s boss. Therefore, as your boss, Donald, I am firing you. That would seem to have more legal standing than Donald’s attempt to fire a Federal Reserve governor. I invite others to join me in firing a felon, sexual offender and possible pedophile.

I just went on Fox News to tell the truth about the redistricting power grab in Texas. I asked a simple question: “If Republican policies are so popular, why do they need to redraw these maps; why not run on their policies?” He refused to answer — and cut the interview early.

@davidpepperoh.bsky.social I see that Sherrod is expected to run for Senate, again.

So… Ghislaine Maxwell’s custody level allows her to leave the minimum security campus for work assignments; much like Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to leave prison as part of the sweetheart deal he got from Alex Acosta that was penned by Alan Dershowitz. h/t #MuellerSheWrote … (Incredible work.)

Trump wants us to forget his Epstein files cover-up so badly that he’s invading Washington D.C.

Firing the BLS head, moving nuclear submarines closer to Russia (maybe) and moving Ghislaine Maxwell to a prison in Texas. The Epstein files must be REALLY bad.

Chronic Penis Insufficiency?! What? Ohhhh.... Chronic VENOUS Insufficiency. Sorry, I misheard that.....

So technically, legally, maybe there is no “client list.” But we already know who flew on his jet, and who was in his address/phone book. John Glenn flew on his jet! So what! What I want to know is what happened to the video records that the FBI supposedly seized from the Manhattan mansion.

Check it out. Really terrific.

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

A really wonderful piece. I never had the opportunity to meet and talk with him, but I revere him.

Trump ran on the cost of living. Mamdani ran on it too, and he put smiles on people's faces. Beware when your opponent takes an arrow from your quiver.

This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.

The important question: Is he a Cubs fan or a White Sox fan?

Just watching an old documentary from the great Ken Burns…. “This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.”- FDR

“If when the chips are down, the world’s most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.” — Nixon trying to justify his Cambodian invasion

They were dumbfounded when Harvard told them to shove it. Now they’re scrambling to make up some bs excuse…. Next: The dog ate their homework.

Oh, so Felon In Chief thinks that he could get around that pesky 22nd Amendment by being VP with Vance as Prez? Uhhh....I invite everyone to read the final sentence in the 12th Amendment. Yes, I know he ignores laws, but.....

The staggering Atlantic report about the administration’s sloppy preparation for military action is hands-down the most obvious demonstration that the right’s rhetoric about Clinton’s server was bullshit. Gift link: wapo.st/4c2yQCj

Oh, @robynelyse.bsky.social , I fear that the artistic demise of the Kennedy Center means the end of the dream cast of yours truly as Sky Masterson and you as Sergeant Sarah Brown. “When the smell of the rain washed pavement…..”

This Popeye is jaw-dropping, even by Fleischer standards. Popeye and Olive go mountain climbing, with some amazing perspective shots. Bluto stalks them of course. I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski from 1936. You can see from this short why Walt Disney hated the Fleischers.

So the ceasefire in the war with Russia turns out to be the US standing down from monitoring and countering Russian cyberattacks. Do I have that right?

Nice piece, Sherrod... Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again newrepublic.com/article/1920... via @newrepublic.com

He’s a fake hillbilly but a real traitor. Slava Ukraine.

Was it the FBI who raided Epstein’s NY mansion and confiscated all sorts of evidence? Doesn’t the FBI still have the evidence? Hmmmm….

There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.

We’re all talking about Greenland, Panama and Canada, and the “Gulf of America.” And we aren’t talking about Jack Smith’s report, which Orange Menace is desperate to shut up. Actually I’m willing to go with Gulf of America as long as he’s willing to name his joint Merde-a-Lardo.