Freight trains. Box cars. Stuff them full. And then a quick selection when they arrive at the detention facility to identify those capable of good, hard work. For additional profit, also check for gold in their teeth and smuggled currency.

The First Amendment is more of a guideline now than actual law.

Whatever trio of spooks visited Stephen Miller last night better have brought something stronger than visions and moral suasion. Better if they all just gang up, swing their chains furiously and beat him like a rented mule.

Caught a Damien Dempsey show in Dublin two nights ago after being urged to do so by other Irish musicians I admire. Had no idea this sainted isle had created its own working-class Springsteen, complete with a devotional shout-along choir. Rock 'n' roll church that was. Grand.

I'm Jewish, proudly so. The hunger by some to hold exclusive title to persecution -- rather than accept that organized othering is ongoing -- is disappointing. A terror attack DOES NOT equate to a nationally sanctioned initiative such as the Shoah or American slavery. That's the historical analogy.

If you mooks who spent time railing on how irritating Ziggy Sobotka was, you might now take the time to find the pivotal scene when Zig and his father take a walk along the piers by the dead grain pier and get close enough to share a cigarette. Or go fuck yourself for missing all that matters.

Hear me out, as if any network would have the balls to broadcast such.

On Christmas Eve, these shitbag thugs are out hunting today's Jews and fugitive slaves for fun and overtime. May every last one of them die painfully of boils and fulminant syphilis as every member in their families is too ashamed to be glimpsed near their lonely deathbed.

It is impolite on this morning to trend a fascistic sadist such as Stephen Miller and not deliver anything less than a Christmas miracle.

I shall never denounce or deny any assignation with the mothers of those who arrive on my threads to troll, provoke or rage. These women are as generous and spirited as they are relentless. They are a balm in these hard, ugly times.

Credit where it's due: For most of us, it would be hard to see any light from beneath the bus under which we're thrown by Donald Trump, who decided that the reward for being his shit-schlepping sycophant is to have him praise Mayor Mamdani to the heavens and take away your singular campaign issue.

"All in favor of renaming the Kennedy Center for Donald Trump, our greatest president, and some other dude that got himself shot to death, say 'What the fuck?'..... "What. The. Fuck." "Motion passes unanimously."

This amp goes to 11.

"Congratulations to President Kennedy...." God. The soulless, ignorant, self-absorbed shitpieces who have been gathered together to govern a once-serious nation.

Wouldn't it be grand if the captains of American commerce and industry just paid their fucking taxes like the rest of us, rather than hyping all the glorious reasons why they shouldn't? Then elected officials could be happy rubes without bankrupting their cities. www.thebanner.com/economy/grow...

Excellent remembrance of just how ugly our American history can be. And an essential read in these times when shitheels are hard at work trying to scrub the national ledger clean of its hard truths. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/m...

As for historical precedent, American higher education -- at least medical schools -- embraced body-snatching as a necessity. With vivisection outlawed in most places, faculty invoked such as a matter of routine. At UM in Baltimore, they might have even borrowed E. A. Poe from Westminster Church.

The ravenous, all-consuming narcissism that has rotted the mind of this man requires that every event, every tragedy, every circumstance be ultimately about him. Others in the world do not exist as fully human; they operate only to validate Donald Trump. This is a gross display of mental illness.

Indeed. It must be terrifying to be abducted and not know what your future holds. Enveloped in your raid gear and masked for anonymity, you fascist shitheels can't even see yourselves as the hollow, soulless thugs you are. But we can.

"It's the expressway to exit 14 and then straight north for three miles. And I don't give a shit about whatever 13th Century short cut got your mouldering ass to church on time. I'm driving tonight, Tom, so just sit back and shut the fuck up."

Consider this payment with interest on a debt the Mets owe to Baltimore for getting two years of Eddie Murray as an RBI machine. Murray, of course, should never have been allowed to retire as anything other than an Oriole, as with Alonso and Queens. Baseball and capitalism are a loveless marriage.

To complete a perfect circle of hypcrisy, today would be an excellent day for other U.S. warships to fire a salvo of missiles into Yemen to punish the Houthis for targeting ships in international waters. American exceptionalism demands it, in fact.

To be fair my years exclude pre-Civil RIghts America, the age of the robber barons and the grasping amorality of the Mexican-American War, but overall I've lived 65 years and on an everyday basis, i have never been more ashamed of my country than in the past eleven months. My god.

The inclusion of the Old Bay does suggest a level of compassion that commends the giver, certainly.

There is trolling, and there is whatever grandious name we should give to this:

Spot on. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

In Maryland, it's only been in the last decade or so that we've managed to dump our Taney statues. It would be nice to think that if there's a republic that survives, its rescuers won't cast any of Roberts to hang around, shaming us for a century or more.

Asshole (and I use the term clinically and empirically in this instance), in reality every fifth vessel they stop and search is actually found to have no contraband. Eego, the occupants of said vessel remain unmurdered by our nation. Congrats, on being the worst sociopath on the internet today.

I refuse to give that greedheaded libertarian space in my head as a hero. But the sonofabitch has been consistent on extrajudicial killings by presidents since al-Awlaki and if he keeps this up, I going to be really pissed off at whatever measure of grudging respect I'll have to supply.

You utter fraud. You didn't handle a fucking thing responsibly as a journalist. Why would a camera cramp your style?

He did not say anything similar. Declaring that a country must have borders and arguing for a coherent and stable path for immigration -- and opposing Trump's policies in full is in no way similar. If you have any other cite, use it now. Or understand that I block liars and hypemen.

More and more people are growing ever more ashamed and disgusted with the ICE thuggery and overreach, the affronts to civil liberties and destruction of families. But perhaps now is the time politically to credit a racist president with securing the border. Hakeem Jefferies could ruin a wet dream.

Fuck that. Let's give America the choice to forgo seat belts. The good old days were way better than you think you remember.

This gets a repost because these numbers are infuriating: There are over 20,000 homeless families -- families -- and 35,000 children now sheltered in the city of New York, one of the richest in the world. If you too are now angry at this, maybe take a moment and do a small, decent thing with that:

Our Holiday Toy Drive for 2025 is on now! Let’s spread the joy this season with something as simple as a gift for a child in need. Your gift – whether it’s a stuffed animal, a book, or a game – isn’t just a toy. It’s proof that someone cares. www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/event/holida...

Fog o' War being a regional brand of small distillery, mid-shelf bourbon. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth defends second boat strike, citing 'fog of war'

Fair enough. Just because a guy's infallible doesn't mean he's always right.

As a thought exercise, is there a money-trench-dwelling, market-rigging, child-fucking greedwhore somewhere in federal custody that stands no chance whatsoever of being pardoned by this president?

Billionaire death-cage matches. Pay-per-view, but affordable. Or a viable national health care plan and shut the fuck up about tariffs so maybe inflation ceases. Yeah, no. They're pretty fucked.

Astounding how little you have to l know about the daily business and happenings at the White House, on Capitol Hill, or in our government as a whole to be the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Decent suit and a gavel and you're good to go. Nice work if you can get it.

Happy to write those apologies for slain Wire characters to the couple dozen folk who voted in Tennessee last night and asked for them on DMs, whether you voted for one candidate or the other. Not leaving the post up longer because hey, writer's cramp. Thanks again for simply being citizens.

To be fair, he does get a bit slurry by late afternoon.

Masterful. Not a word wasted.

Sad that there won't be a shocking upset in TN-7 tonight, but as a matter of solace, my daughter has insisted we rewatch one of the great cinematic classics. Alas, she has fallen asleep on the sofa and I am left enraptured by the unrelenting wit and brillance that is Paddington 2. No sarcasm.

I'm sorry for trading that Jimmy Rogers album for a microphone. I'm sorry I never asked out Randi G. I'm sorry for betting so much money on whether Michael Caine was in Breaker Morant. I'm sorry for defrosting that year-old chili and feeding it to my kid. I'm sorry for that one Halloween costume.

No, mook. That is a skeet encouraging voter participation, no different than say the League of Women Voters. Am willing to pen the apology without regard to how anyone votes in TN-7. Though yes, one might assume that any committed Trumpist shitheel has neither acquired nor understood The Wire.

Hey, professor: 25 percent of the boats that are boarded and carefully searched by the US Coast Guard and Navy for drugs do not actually have any contraband. How do the moral matriculations you offer here square with firing a missile and killing people without any presented evidence? GTFOH.

Every ICE thug today gearing up to hunt brown people in the city of New Orleans can eat an entire sack of stale, unsalted dicks. They and the administration they serve are displaying our fallen nation as an ungrateful, soulless shitpile of gutless, frightened race-hate. We are forever shamed.