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“Good Government” Democrat. Proud FDR-LBJ liberal. Former Hill staffer, writer, public affairs pro, JD. Francophile. Dog lover. History buff (WW I, medieval, France, US). Deeply, madly in love.

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Epic. Just epic.

02.11.2025 04:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Epic. But damn.

02.11.2025 04:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The test is whether Trump will grant these (African) Christians refugee status.

02.11.2025 02:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sir, that is not what Elvis told me just last week.

01.11.2025 11:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was obvious to me what John Shmoltz was saying.

01.11.2025 11:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Terrible editing: It’s not Obamacare.

Check your goddamn AP Style book.

01.11.2025 11:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He lives in his mother’s basement.

01.11.2025 01:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The outrage from Republican members of Congress over the alleged invasion of their privacy is 1000X the outrage after DOGE gave Musk all of our Social Security numbers and other personal information.

31.10.2025 22:56 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That ICE agent’s favorite part of the job is when he can straddle another human being because that’s the closest he ever gets to sex.

31.10.2025 22:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not even a Toto terlet

31.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nothing like watching a 1 percenter getting health advice from another 1 percenter, advice the latter 1 percenter usually provides other 1 percenters at 1-percenter rates.

31.10.2025 14:10 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Krugman gets it right.

31.10.2025 14:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Where have we seen that picture before?

31.10.2025 13:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Then all of this slow-moving catastrophe would be 100% on Republicans. The Republican conference in any other era would tell the president to pound salt and would have negotiated a deal by now.

31.10.2025 12:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Journalists don’t seek to make themselves the center of the story, as Palmeri is doing here.

31.10.2025 12:21 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“People tell me I should pardon Prince Andrew. I have the power to do that.”

DJT

31.10.2025 12:18 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hereby rename Miller “Karen.”

31.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very good point

31.10.2025 12:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Never in the annals of American nuclear weapons policy has a momentous and complex proposal been first presented in half a dozen 140-character passages.

30.10.2025 20:45 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#arcdetrump

29.10.2025 02:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My wife has called her father’s childhood friend “uncle” forever. No one thought twice about it.

28.10.2025 22:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s a safe bet that Walker Cronkite would never have interviewed inspector Clouseau about a Louvre theft.

28.10.2025 22:17 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I need to tell my wife to stop calling the man she and her brothers have called Uncle Bill for five decades Uncle Bill.

28.10.2025 22:12 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Next Question: What the hell do you do all day?

28.10.2025 17:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Tex-Mex restaurant at the corner has Hepatitas Happy Hours.

28.10.2025 12:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Have none of term heard of the French Revolution?

28.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Death of Empathy

28.10.2025 11:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Deeply Corrupt State

28.10.2025 11:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

While ICE spies on innocent American citizens.

28.10.2025 11:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“I want to challenge” literally means Gaines did not in fact challenge AOC to debate. She just wants to.

28.10.2025 02:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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