The hype around The Draft! Sorry. It's a little difficult to tune out sometimes, they're trying really hard to make The Draft into an event for us NPCs - I don't care about your draft picks or your trades. I'm sure the players and their families care, but. . .

Turned on NBC. They talked about “President tipping a DoorDash driver $100”. This woman participated in GOP ads before playing other roles. There is no DoorDash deliveries to the Oval Office. Please exercise proper judgement when consuming news.

Ended - The renewal of license plates honoring Robert E. Lee and the Sons of Confederate Veterans kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/virginia-w...

Two mailers today - How is this Ok?

What are the odds that Mueller left a statement, a letter, a memoir. . . to be released posthumously?

Though it may surprise East Coasters, the story of this winter was not record cold but record heat

Forecast: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Some of the storms could be severe. Partly sunny, with a high near 79 low around 44F Our "normal" temperature for 11 March is 53 32F

Even though it's early March, the weather in Washington DC this morning very much reminds me of a paticular day in September. It's weird when good weather gives you ominous feelings.

How I learned about SCOTUS Tariff decision: From: TT Subject: Vanity BREAKING! The supreme Court struck down Trump's tariffs

someone is getting a refund of the tariffs they paid but it isn't you. all you did was pay a higher price for something.

Zero, but maybe it depends on how that cabbage is served -- I will eat it anyway but boiled.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

It's not always the worst when a song "goes commercial." 5yo wasn't the intended audience of The Dad commercial and Chicago wasn't the product, but Chicago has a new fan! He asked me to play the song several more times and then TT introduced him to several more Chicago tunes.

Can we hear from the victims now? That's a Town Hall Special that I think would smash!

So, a tiny bit of positivity - my public library held an event today for some local mystery authors and it was standing room full - great to see!

Jesus Christ, @kaine.senate.gov, getting a pinky promise to hold one single vote on ACA funding is not "a path toward fixing the health care mess" anymore than a lottery ticket is a "path toward fixing my personal finances"

My husband and I are discussing what we'd do if I primaries Tim Kaine in 2030. We've come up with this slogan. My husband is working on a yard sign now. Thoughts? Wait for it... Tennant for Senate. Fuck Those Guys.

Seth Meyers. His closer look summaries of all the BS are the best! I don't know how, but sometimes I forget that.

Does Johnson know the FBI recruits “informants” by presenting criminals with evidence of their guilt before offering to let them off if they “turn” on bigger criminals in order to bring down their entire organizations Like, I know this because I watch TV

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

This polarization is going to produce some pretty dramatic statistics pretty soon.

So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?

I wish Biden had just fired Trump appointees in independent federal agencies left and right. It would have forced the SCOTUS to address these issues with a Democratic president, and then those would have been precedents that would be more awkward for the Court to backtrack (w/o looking obvious)

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations" cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

It's been years since I've seen a South park episode! It was my option to pick a show last night, so I put this one on after seeing some post about it here. . . I didn't make TT watch, but she did and I believe her sole comment at the conclusion was "That was amazing." LOL

Here's another angle from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin of Sen. Alex Padilla getting roughed up by law enforcement after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser: “I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”

The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship. Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media?

defector.com/steelers-aar... “gonna make everyone miserable . . . with a 41-year-old pegleg.”

This seems like a story to remember today: roadtrippers.com/magazine/pre...

9/ The tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship. Why? So that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry. As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears.

Should I let seeing Pro-Domacary protestors in front of the Warner County Pennsylvania Courthouse yesterday give me hope?

Can we call it, I don't l know, Signal-a-Lago or something? The Watergate scandal happened in the 1900's

I crossed the memes to more accurately reflect the current situation.

Celebrating bombing people with emoji the way an IT team celebrates successfully deploying code to production is genuinely fucked.

That this isn't immediately obvious to absolutely everyone makes me sad

Trump claiming that NSC knew that Trump's entire NatSec team did something wildly incompetent and none of them -- not JD Vance, not Mike Waltz, not Susie Wiles -- gave him a heads up. Highly likely that's a lie, but it's not a lie that makes him look less stupid.

This bears repeating. The whole, ‘good for your immune system’ rhetoric is nonsense generally, but it’s PARTICULARLY dangerous when it comes to measles 👇

If you could commission one fictional character to fix the current US political problems, who would it be?

This post explains why Chuck Schumer is right about the risk that a shutdown would also shut down access to the courts. www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/14/d...

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

@markwarner.bsky.social You're the Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee? Thought you might like to know - They've come for the young talent at the IC now.

Our preschooler had to have a tooth pulled yesterday (a story for another time) and we were talking about the tooth fairy who I referred to as she and 4YO (and a half! he'd say) told me the Tooth Fairy is not a girl or a boy. I found that interesting, in a delightful way.