Mark Mucci

Trump’s Latest White House Makeover: The Lincoln Bathroom in Marble and Gold

The Trump era in one headline.

"Trump Renovates the Lincoln Bathroom in Marble and Gold"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

Dear New York, at the very least, please give wonderful Democratic Socialist Mamdani a massive landslide victory so that he has a mandate.

How not surprising.

Fixed it.

As a reminder about the fact that the government is run by jerks, "The White House" presents a picture of Trump reviewing Presidential portraits hung along the colonnade at the White House, with Biden represented by a picture of an autopen.

“you can’t refer to your dad’s cousin as your aunt” is their closing scandal? yeah they got nothin’, they’re cooked

Sometimes some of the Worst People get profiles with flattering pictures in the @nytimes.com ...

The New York Post is owned by Lachlan Murdoch, solely because his daddy bought it and passed it on to him.

And it's backing Andrew Cuomo, a meathead whose whole career in politics stems from his daddy being good at it.

But *Mamdani* is the nepo baby, because his mom was a filmmaker? Sure.

John Dickerson announces he’s leaving CBS News The evening news co-anchor is stepping down amid big changes at the top of the network.

Goodbye CBS. The leadership is leaving and the trust is gone.

John Dickerson announces he’s leaving CBS News wapo.st/3L7WV1a

Performative "leaving the democratic party" doesn’t mean anything as it isn't a membership organization in any sense at all

Yes, it doesn't seem like "Advertisers don't like to be seen adjacent to Nazi content" is a big factor in Elon's decision-making.

Related, Elon does not give one single fuck about the profitability of Twitter

Stop trying to sweeten the deal, Andrew. I'm already voting for Zohran!

Let's all review who gets SNAP. Depending on how you count race, white people are 40 - 63%, 37% are kids, 88% are native born.

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Someone want to tell Mikey here that 86% of all SNAP benefits go to households that include a child, an elderly person, or a person with disabilities?

Or that almost 40% of SNAP recipients are children?

And that Whites account for 37% of SNAP recipients?

And current advisor to the White House on judicial nominations

Opinion | Why Trump’s East Wing Demolition Needed to Happen

As always the most boneheaded take comes from Ross Douhat, who never fails to jam whatever issue is happening into the exact same reductive tune, huffing and puffing on the laziest sousaphone around: Why Trump’s East Wing Demolition Needed to Happen www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...

Opinion | Democrats Need to Chill About the Electability of Women

One of the biggest problems facing Mikie Sherrill’s bid for governor may have nothing to do with Mikie Sherrill and everything to do with a certain pundit-class miasma about the supposed unelectability of women.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

We’re trusting the former federal prosecutor on this one!
Elect Mikie Sherrill 4 NJ Governor. #VoteNJ

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We are getting very close to Election Day. Please encourage all of your friends & family to vote. We must not sit this out.
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#ResistanceUnited

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

How Trump Demolished the White House East Wing By putting the demolition of the East Wing before the necessary approvals for his ballroom, President Donald Trump borrowed a tactic known as “stake-driving” to force an outcome.

By proceeding with the demolition of the White House East Wing before seeking approval from federal agencies for a new ballroom, President Donald Trump forced the issue. It's a strategy known as "stake-driving."

I’m suspicious of that, it might be A.I., given the year that would have been. Here’s a real candidate for best selfie ever. www.app.com/story/entert...

They were able to replace the original German captions, I see.

With Trump, it's more like he'd try to emulate the Tower of Babel, but more big and beautiful and not like those losers who didn't know how to do it right.

Trump Says He Will Raise Tariffs on Canada by 10% Over Ontario Ad The measure was in response to what the U.S. president called ‘misrepresentation’ of Ronald Reagan’s comments.

In the world where I spent most of my life, the president of the U.S. would be placing a friendly bet with the PM of Canada on the outcome of the World Series--a gallon of Tabasco against a gallon of maple syrup or some such

Instead, Captain Poopjet is having a hissy

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

There are many good science fiction novels. Not a single one that I have read delivers a happy vision of the future in which aged right-wing billionaires control the media.