Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole

It's great to be in a world where the editorial board, at a loss for significant global or local issues to write about, is able to take time to write an ad for Walmart.

Breaking up is hard to do, but I've now broken up with The Washington Post People have been telling me that we should have broken up long ago, but this was not just any relationship. You see, I am a native Washingtonian, my career was in journalism, and The Washington Post h...

It took me a while to get here, but I explain on @dailykos.com why I'm now pulling the plug on @washingtonpost.com . I'll instead support @51st.news, @washingtoninformer.com, @washingtoncitypaper.com.web.brid.gy, @dclinenews.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

So, if I am at a violent demonstration to obstruct the lawful transfer of power after an election, I have a right to have my weapon. But that right doesn't count if I am interfering with lawless behavior by ICE agents. Is that where we are?

But now Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino says Alex Pretti's Second Amendment rights "don't count" because he was at a demonstration that was obstructing ICE operations.

When pro-Trump protestors wanted to take weapons to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Trump ordered the magnetometers taken down, saying, "I don't fucking care that they have weapons. They're not here to hurt me."

I'm confused. I thought that the Trump administration and Republicans believed that the 2nd Amendment entitled me to carry a weapon anywhere I wanted.

My White husband just asked me why I haven't watched #HeatedRivalty. It's not that I'm unhappy that this story has gained mainstream appeal. It's that I'm exhausted that the only stories about gay male love that seem to win mainstream appeal are ones that center White lives.

To cope with rising food prices, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins offers this tip: “It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla and one other thing”—perhaps a glass of whole milk, what President Trump pointed out Wednesday is “whole with a ‘w’ for those of you that have a problem.”

The Trump administration's Agriculture Department has run "1,000 simulations" to show how you can cope with rising food prices.

Haven’t posted here in a while, but this morning I am mad. Just saw some of the @cbsnews.com Bari Weiss interview with Erika Cook. That wasn’t journalism but propagandistic platforming. I’m done with CBS.

A truly fair news outlet does not myopically focus on antisemitism while ignoring the dismantling of rights protections for Black people, anti-trans and homophobic attacks, anti-Muslim bigotry and other forms of hate. @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy will deservedly fail if it does not learn that lesson.

The toxicity spread by Barstool Sports doesn't justify hate attacks on its owner, but does justify critical questioning. Example: Does being the target of antisemitism cause you to reconsider what you are platforming on your shows? If Tony Dokoupil asked this, I don't see the answer.

Antisemitism is a very serious issue, but why did @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy air a story on the owner of Barstool Sports that highlighted antisemitic attacks on him but did not also address homophobia, sexism and bigotry spread by Barstool Sports?

Not only are these extrajudicial killings blatant war crimes, they are plain stupid. Drug War 101 teaches you don't kill off the small fish but you use the small fish to catch the big fish. Otherwise, you're just blowing up people for show. And show is all Pete Hegseth is capable of.

What am I missing? Washington Post *opinion* columnist Karen Attiah is fired for her *opinion* about the racism of Charlie Kirk, but *editor-in-chief* of CBS News Bari Weiss keeps her job after posting on social media an editorial by her publication The Free Press attacking Zohran Mandami?

THIS IS YOUR PRESIDENT ON DRUGS: Cutting a deal with Pfizer to sell discount pharmaceuticals on “TrumpRX.” Even as he and congressional Republicans are refusing to assure that Affordable Care Act premiums for millions of Americans will remain affordable.

By all means, let’s get worked up over a tenuous link between Tylenol and autism, and shrug off cleaning up toxic forever chemicals leaching into our drinking water.

The planned hiring of right-wing hack Bari Weiss a CBS News senior exec will complete the Trumpification of the news division. Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Mike Wallace—exemplars of speaking unvarnished truth to power—would not be able to contain their fury if they were alive today.

This New York Times headline about the right-wing ideologue hired by the new owners of CBS-Paramount pretty much says it all. This, after Paramount paid Trump $16 million to settle a bogus lawsuit over a Kamala Harris interview, puts a golden Trump-branded muzzle on a once-fierce watchdog.

My message to every Black and LGBTQ person: Don’t spend money in Florida unless you’re spending it to get rid of Ron DeSantis and his Republican regime.

Democratic Party decline and the rise of a new post-Reconstruction The New York Times on Wednesday published a sobering look at the decrease in Democratic Party voter registration and the rise in Republican registration. It paints a strong statistical picture, but wh...

The Democratic Party is losing membership, and the reasons go deeper than politics. It's a symptom of a country losing its moral compass. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

I'm sorry, but "My Source News Opinion World" sounds like a bad translation of a slogan in a foreign language. I can't imagine anyone spent more than a few hundred dollars on this, so Versant (another bad name) should cut its losses and start over.

JD Vance‘s meeting at the vice president’s residence tonight should not be about Jeffrey Epstein. It should be about using the 25th Amendment to get President Trump out of office.

Time to Grow The 51st Help us hire Christina and Martin Full-Time!

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'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' to end next May: 'This is all just going away' — USA TODAY

There is a special place in hell reserved for Shari Redstone and the sellouts running (and ruining) CBS. apple.news/A20dkEZFbRe-...

So the same Elon Musk who wants people to join a new "America" political party that he says he's creating owns an AI chatbot that praises Adolf Hitler because, as Musk says, it's been trained on material that is "politically incorrect." Seriously, you can't make this ish up.

When will the majority of us come to the realization that Donald Trump is mentally unfit and needs to be removed from the presidency? The punitive threats, unreasoned policy declarations via late-night tweets, the rambling speeches—this is not a stable genius but an unstable maniac. Trump must go.

The upshot of Trump's reckless budget bill: We will continue to be blindsided by climate changes and resulting weather events. A few billionaires will be even richer, but all of us are in harm's way—and some will suffer cataclysmic consequences.

Texas Republicans were adequately warned that the Trump administration's cuts to the National Weather Service pushed by DOGE would degrade the quality of weather forecasts, with potentially fatal results. But Trump's Bad Butt-Ugly Budget bill enshrines cuts to forecasting and climate research.

Texas Flood Live Updates: 27 Dead Including Nine Children Flash floods along Texas’ Guadalupe River have killed at least 27 people and also left around 27 people missing.

A Forbes magazine article notes the Austin/San Antonio Weather Forecast Office had six vacancies at the time a major storm was about to bring a record flood to the Guadalupe River. Texas officials now say they weren't adequately warned by the National Weather Service.
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