Political motivation aside, the hit-or-miss redaction of the only partially-released Epstein files reveals the sloppy incompetence of AG Pam Bondi and Deputy AG Todd Blanche. It's gross malpractice that in a rational world would get them canned with prejudice.

What are the odds that the Epstein files have taken so long to release because a certain name has appeared in them so many more times than they expected that they're still busy, uh, "redacting" it?

Representative Kevin Kiley making a jackass of himself now on MS Now, illustrating the moral rot that infests GOP lawmakers when it comes to whitewashing blatant ICE abuses.

Cashier Patel and replace him with an FBI Director who's competent and actually wants to work.

His dementia is palpable. His threat to national security is glaringly apparent. His unfitness for office is patently evident. And the so-called leaders of his party respond to this clear and present crisis by sitting back and watching from the sidelines. Damn them all.

Rest assured that Greenland is not his final territorial demand.

A madman sits at the Resolute Desk, and Senator John Thune sits on his ass. And that's what history will remember each for.

The most serious threat to US national security is Donald Trump, his cadre of lunatic advisers...and the willful complicity of congressional Republicans who know better but remain silent to protect their political fannies. "Collaborators" is what they would have been called in the early 1940s.

A madman is running this country at the behest of another madman named Miller while know-better GOP House and Senate members sit on their little hands.

If Trump greenlights a Greenland invasion, how many senior US military brass will resign?

He's insane. The people, including those in Congress, who enable him and continue to cater to his whims know he's insane. Which makes every goddam one of them...that's right...insane. And criminally irresponsible.

Donald Trump's Nobel is a radically-depreciated used-car-lot acquisition. The most polite thing it can be called is "previously owned".

Defund Kristi Noem.

Harmeet Dhillon can't handle the truth.

Marco Rubio is a tool wearing a red tie.

Pete Hegseth should be stripped of his tattoos.

Jesus Christ someone stop this shit. They're really transparent alright.

RFK Jr is a walking death panel.

Tell it as it is: By refusing to extend ACA subsidies, congressional Republicans have condemned people to die. And are comfortable doing so.

The waxing Moon straight-up high over Corvallis at around 5:20 p.m. PST on December 26. The Canon's ISO set at 100 to minimize image-distorting surface reflections.

Does Todd Blanche really think that anyone believes what he says anymore?

JD Vance's declaration that "you don't have to apologize for being white anymore" signals two things: (1) Just how defensive he is about his racism; and (2) How he's likely to frame his 2028 presidential campaign.

Lincoln had his team of rivals; Trump his mob of putzes.

Memo to Orson Welles: "We've completed the casting for 'The Maleficent Blundersons."

Is Stephen Miller the real President these days?

When's the last time that fomenting regime change worked for the US?

Who's really taking us to war with Venezuela? And why? Does SecState Rubio agree with this policy? And comprehend the impact on US relations with the rest of Latin America? Or does he even care?

So will Donald Trump's Christmas present to America be a war with Venezuela?

With everything else going on, it still matters. For those who've been distracted in the hope that they would forget, it's spelled E-P-S-T-E-I-N.

Pam Bondi really should enroll at the Actors Studio.

Marco Rubio making a suck-up ass of himself in the Cabinet meeting.

Memo to @ms.now: John Kasich loving to hear himself bloviate is a waste of viewers' time.

Why aren't John Thune, John Barrasso, Mike Johnson, Steve Scalise, et al publicly outraged over the cushy Club Fed treatment accorded convicted sex trafficker Ghislane Maxwell? Is their silence a signal that they approve?

Never forget her.

Framing capitulation as a strategic win was a bad idea. Read the room and let it go.

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

There once was a Murrow. There once was a Cronkite. There once was a Rather. There once was a CBS News. Once.

As Trump begins to expand his enemies list, those in his inner circle should start to worry.

Conduct wholesale purges of generals and admirals. Conduct show trials of prominent government and political figures. Conduct dead-of-night kick-down-doors warrantless searches. Where? And when? USSR. 1930s. Yeah, good old Stalinist tyranny. The return engagement is your tax dollars at work.

10,000 US forces now supporting counter-narcotics operations in Caribbean

Speaker Mike Johnson is delaying the swearing in of a duĺy elected and certified congresswoman so he can protect a pedophile. His fellow Republicans' silence over this outrage signifies their support of his inaction--and the pedophile.

This is good and we should say so because every outlet that does the right thing and sees praise and support for doing so makes it easier for the next outlet to do the same.

#peterthiel #portland #chicago #ICEProtests

"Just stopped by for a bite to eat." A through-the-window snap taken from about ten feet away at 10:36 a.m. PDT on October 10.

The Kimmel thing didn't fly. The Comey sham probably won't, either. In the meantime, Jeffrey Epstein still lurks out there, his onetime best friend hoping against hope that you won't notice.

Pete Hegseth is Gomer Pyle cosplaying Genghis khan.

Now you know just how Mickeymouse Disney really is.

Just think of what Paddy Chayefsky would have made of Brendan Carr.