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What’s the point of stop lights and speed limits?

That sounds like the coolest idea since groceries. Isn’t that a cool word?

I found this story searching for “examples of being out of touch.”

It feels as though those who rise to a higher position of authority or wealth forget simple principles. I suppose when you don’t have either of those two characteristics, you never think about capitulating to a paper bully. I’d end it before I kneeled before Trump and I assume(d) most felt the same.

When there are no more libs that require owning, Ron. That’s when it stops.

What happened in the past is that the President would seek legal advice from WH lawyers. When you have only yes-men, you don’t get that. Who could have known (other than everyone)?

So use the People’s money for loyalty oaths.

“How To Misread a Room,” by Angus King and friends

That dude looks angry

It really stinks to have just too many butt-fumblers in the Democratic Party.

Bipartisanship!!

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*Late 18th

He doesn’t care. He flies for free and never commercially. The rest of you prepare yourselves to eat early 19th Century cake.

Though Trump’s pardons can’t extend to state crimes, I think it’s worth pointing out the message being conveyed:

Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.

Now he’s pardoning them for it.

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Nope. I feel like slicing my hand off.

Oh, right. Sorry.

a cartoon drawing of a lion holding a heart with the number 21 on it Alt: An image of the Grinch’s heart, which is two small sizes too small.

Alas, keeping this gif at the ready is a smart idea, it being applicable to so many things these days in Trump’s America.

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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And a lift on the House’s 435 cap.

I could spend all day posting a list of things needed.

You need proportional representation.

They’re coming people. Two weeks.

In a media world where ordinary phrases have to work so much harder, “seeming to fight sleep” could probably rightly claim to be carrying the heaviest load. Where we’re all from, WaPo, we just call that “sleeping.”

And if he wasn’t, replay would have shown to everyone that he caught the ball. So circling back to my original reply: the benefit here is having replay, not the ref.

Because review never reveals that a referee made the wrong call.

Whatever you do, don’t ask Palantir’s Alex Karp: “How worried are you about the Nick Fuentes wing of MAGA?”

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He did get himself in a good position to see the play despite having to get out of the way. But what if he ruled that the receiver’s left foot had touched the line before his right foot came down inbounds? Would we still praise him? It was a difficult call.

So no insurance companies? Just pay the bills ourselves out of pocket?

Breaking from my normal sarcastic self, I don’t see how his “plan” does anything to lower the cost of healthcare. It just eliminates insurance, which doesn’t seem like any kind of solution. $10K medical bills for everyone!

So should a Mainer go for the guy with Nazi tattoos? Or just vote Republican? What should they be taking away from this information?

He had a 50/50 chance of getting it right on the field. The credit here should be going to review, because it confirmed it was a catch and would have overturned it if he had ruled it incomplete.

It’s the new company store!

Opinion Editorial Board The Texas gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy. August 20, 2025

Opinion Editorial Board Wes Moore embarrasses Maryland with his gerrymandering ploy The Democratic leader of the state Senate deserves praise for resisting pressure from the governor. Today at 6:45 a.m. EST

every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.

Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.