I was reflecting on the likelihood that when Democrats regain power, we'll have a whole chorus of "Look forward not backward" from many of them, with few if any consequences for what Republicans have done. Before this week, I was starting to think maybe not. Now I think it will most likely happen.

Man, I shudder to think of what we've become when we see somebody reading a book and think, "Fuck that performative asshole."

Photo of a bordello in Storyville, New Orleans, ca. 1890's. Note the restrained decor in comparison.

The time to deal with the people who kicked the chair out from under us is coming, next year or whenever they come up for re-election. Now there really won't be any excuse not to release the Epstein files, and when Johnson tries to stonewall it again, that's the thing to direct anger towards.

If you need a pick-me-up today this ought to help.

Oh, and thanks at least to my senators (Ossoff and Warnock) for holding the line.

At some point one of these people will ask you to send money so they can "fight for you." Don't. Tim Kaine, Virginia Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada John Fetterman, Pennsylvania Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire Dick Durbin, Illinois Angus King, Maine Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire Jacky Rosen, Nevada

You know full well he was fuming about the scene not being a "good look."

So the lesson from all of this is that you should chew up a bite of your sandwich and open your mouth to show it to the ICE pricks to make them sick. I doubt that would stop all their whining, though.

Somebody with an audience needs to start a countdown clock until the full SNAP benefits court-ordered to be paid are being received by the people who need them. Thank goodness for the courts.

Had Bill Wither's "Lovely Day" in my head all day yesterday.

Anybody want to start a pool on when the New York Times starts complaining when Mamdani hasn't implemented all of his promises? My money says two weeks from his first day.

He had me from the moment he invoked Eugene Debs in his first sentence. youtu.be/kOQT_4A1eb8?...

Whether the Republicans end the filibuster or not, the first thing the Democrats need to do when they retake power, before they even sit down at their desks, is to end it immediately. I do not want to hear a damned peep about "comity" or "precedent" or "norms." Republicans have forfeited all that.

The only thing on the ballot here today was two openings on the Public Service Commission, but I drove Mom up there and we damned well voted for the Democrats in the race.

I was remembering how George W, Bush and Dick Cheney were both residents of Texas but the VP couldn't be from the same state as the President, so they claimed Cheney was from Wyoming instead. And I realized that was a quaint homage to norms and rules that we would never see today.

Just trying to keep track, when Mike or Markwayne or whichever MAGA bootlicker is being interviewed says "I know nothing" about some Trump atrocity, has a single press interviewer ever followed up with, "Why don't you know about something that important?"

This should be the response to any fucking thing about Biden not knowing about things that were signed with the autopen.

I don't have a say in who New York elects as mayor, and no real dog in the hunt about it, but I do hope they don't elect a corrupt sexual predator.

I realize this is a deeply controversial topic about which many people have strong feelings, but to be clear, what we are on right now is "Standard Time." "Daylight Savings Time" is when we lose an hour this Spring and the freeways become a Mad Max dystopia in the mornings for at least 10 days.

The time change to Standard Time always gets overshadowed by the change at midnight on October 31st when the TV stations abruptly shift from horror movies and ads to jolly Christmas movies and ads.

If the President who has sent troops to occupy Los Angeles has the temerity to congratulate the Dodgers, I would hope the entire city would tell him to piss up a rope.

Got so many compliments on my vampire costume Friday night that I'm thinking about wearing it every time I go out now.

Only silver lining about the Series is that my favorite player, Freddie Freeman, got another championship.

I'm relieved that the courts decided that the law requiring SNAP benefits to be paid actually applies even when a Republican is in office, but I'm still tentative on whether anybody will actually try to make them follow the order.

Not only should the actions of Republicans offend everyone, so should the actions of the press, like this question for example.

World's most futile Google search: Republican organizations providing food during the shutdown.

I used to call an elderly friend of the family "Grandma Nell" even though she had no kin relation to our family. I guess according to CNN and the New York Post that disqualifies me from holding elected office.

People who obsess over IQ should read Stephen J. Gould's "Mismeasure of Man." It's quick, readable, and should have put our current testing fetish to bed 30 years ago.

It's probably a good thing I'm not in Congress, because if anything could provoke me into breaking some jaws it would be for a party of sadistic sociopaths to try to use my empathy for my fellow humans to blackmail me into voting for their cruelty.

According to Trump's stooge in the Department of Agriculture, 40 million people being subjected to hunger and malnutrition is not an "emergency." Somebody with a platform ought to be publicizing this issue. Chuck? Hakeem? Anybody? www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

I'm kind of wondering about the wisdom of putting hearing aid batteries in child-proof packaging that most senior citizens will find extremely difficult if not impossible to open.

I'm kind of glad I don't have a washboard stomach these days, because it would be a real dilemma whether to go out to the beach or pool and meet people or just post a photo of it every day on social media.

Memo to people confused as to why Trump tacos on Ukraine every time he has a phone chat with Putin: that's when Putin reminds him what they have on video of Trump doing.

Yes, WaPo, other Presidents have renovated the White House after the required reviews and Congressional approvals. Your little attempt here to normalize Trump's vandalism seals the deal on your despicable campaign to normalize and excuse Trump's behavior. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

This is very good

4) real people face, and proclaim it loudly (the ACA now is a good start) the Republicans will keep being able to do nothing and reap the rewards in rural areas.

3) for rural America since Eisenhower, it even that recently. I remember standing in line to vote next to an old guy in overalls back during the 80's, and he said, "The last time I voted Republican I nearly starved to death." He was talking about Hoover. If Democrats don't deal with the issues

2) ways to exploit the cultural issues in rural America in such a way that people there will absolutely vote against their own best interests because the interests of people they don't like, which ironically coincide with their own, are also being served. Otherwise, Republicans have not done a thing

1) I'm seeing a lot of analysis about how Democrats "lost" rural America. Not many understand we are victims of our own success. Democrats basically built the system that keeps rural America from degenerating into poverty and misery. But because of that relative prosperity, Republicans found

People commenting on the desecration of the White House saying "If Biden had done it Fox News would have . . . " Face it, folks, every broadcast and cable news network would have also been saying and doing everything you might attribute to Fox. Ditto the NYT and Wapo. The press is neutered.

Informing MAGAs of Trump's outright demand for $250 million of their tax dollars will meet with only one of two replies: 1) "I don't care." Pronounced "Aount keer." 2) "Fake news." Which will hold until the day he steals the money, when they will revert to 1).

Don't you know in your heart that Trump looks at Arlington National Cemetery and only sees perfect real estate for a condo complex?

I was just thinking of how much I wish a Democratic President had taken as many legal actions the Republicans opposed during shutdowns as Republicans are doing with illegal actions during this one.

Tell a MAGA that Trump is destroying part of the White House, and I will iron-clad guarantee they will say something like, "Well, he can do whatever he wants to."

Anybody who would just destroy a part of the White House, a National Historical Site, without permission would certainly dump "brown liquid" on the graves of our troops and heroes. I'm fairly sure he'd put his own image in the National Cathedral.

Still trying to figure out the dream I had last night where I was carrying my dog Sammy (who passed away years ago) and another puppy in a backpack while I was in a job interview because I didn't want to leave them in a hot car.

When thieves steal priceless national treasures, as at the Louvre, there must be a severely limited number of potential buyers or fences available to purchase them. I'm guessing some ultra-rich asshole who wants to put it where nobody but him will ever see it. Who do we know like that?