David Rotenstein

Highly recommended if you want to get some insight into decoding the bullshit flowing out of DC.

If the autopen "scandal" worked, imagine saying Stephen Miller, this high pitched fascist who got wedgies in school, but not enough of them, is actually running things might gain traction.

When the orange loon posts a percentage claiming support, simply take the lower % on the other side and you’ll have the actual support out in the real world beyond the sludge behind his spray forehead.

There were a lot of clowns posing as historic preservation professionals when I worked in historic preservation. It's kind of funny that it looks like I'll be collaborating with an authentic clown to write something about historic preservation.

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

I know how they feel. I wrote a Charlie Kirk article and by the time it came out, the words "Charlie Kirk" were nowhere to be found. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

The riverboats are arriving for next week's River Roots festival in Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky.

Met a source for lunch yesterday. He connected me with a relative who could talk about gambling history here. Less than 5 minutes into a phone conversation with the relative I learned that he grew up in the house where we now live. That turned into one hell of an interview.

We have painters working in the house today. Where’s Crews, The World’s Bravest Cat™️? Hiding in a dog crate.

CityBeat intern arrested at Roebling protest found guilty of misdemeanor A jury found Lucas Griffith, a former intern with Cincinnati CityBeat, guilty of one misdemeanor but not guilty of three others this week.

Griffith was found guilty of failure to disperse but not guilty of disorderly conduct, obstructing an emergency responder and obstructing a highway.
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Three words: preemptive presidential pardon. Not a single one of these fascists is gonna pay a legal price for their actions.

One sick immature fuck. How many people voted for him (three times)?

Another reason to help support SPLC.

America’s top censor—so far Woodrow Wilson’s postmaster put papers out of business and jailed journalists. The tools he used still exist.

I regret to inform you that in addition to the collapse of Reconstruction and the Red Scare we all need to bone up on how Woodrow Wilson cracked down on journalists and dissenters. We've got you covered, with this piece by Adam Hochschild www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Or, perhaps the Treasury Department knows something the rest of us don't.

The Jaws take on what will hopefully be our Nuremburg trials: We're gonna need a bigger courtroom.

They're all drawing from the same well. A Northern Kentucky politician posted this on Facebook shortly after Charlie Kirk's murder.

If it looks like a Nazi, talks like a Nazi, and acts like a Nazi ....

Not looking forward to the day when those of us who are not deported or imprisoned are forced to sign loyalty pledges and wear red hats.

"Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities." 31 USC 5114(b)

An interesting thing here is that the administration appears to have forced upon these folks an action that violates federal law (I think it's called the Hatch Act). Way to go: leadership comprised of criminals needs to make all subordinates criminals w/out having to follow orders.

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I am once again waiting for the Walt Disney Corporation to make a statement on the Punisher logo, a trademark they own, serving as a logo for extremist organizations and the basis of a bootleg merchandising empire.

Dumb people always use big words to try and make themselves look smart. It rarely works.

chili-flavored ice cream in a Kroger freezer case.

Speaking of food nopes, this one rates pretty high on my list. I really like Graeter's ice cream, but this is a solid Nope, no way.

Nope.

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

YouTube video by Katie Phang Trump White House VIOLATES LAW with LATEST Shutdown MOVE

Republicans are lying about who’s to blame for this shutdown so they’ve resorted to blatant partisan hackery on official agency websites.

These violations of the Hatch Act are Exhibit A of the Republicans' desperation to divert from the truth: the GOP owns this shutdown.

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Nice!

Didn’t I read something about a judge named Clarence Thomas whose wife ….