David Corbett

Trump Misstates Washington Crime Data to Justify Takeover

The claims made by Trump to justify sending troops onto the streets of Washington are all lies, start to finish.

JD Vance's all-time best tweet.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘He’s lying’: Texas AG wants to ARREST Beto O’Rourke as tensions explode

Beto O’Rourke speaks out after Texas attorney general Ken Paxton asks a judge to jail O’Rourke amid the redistricting fight: “They're clearly trying to silence me to stop any one of us who wants to fight back against this power grab in Texas.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

FINAL DAY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS KILLER PRICE REDUCTION!

IRS, White House clashed over immigrants’ data before tax chief was ousted The Trump administration’s move to push out IRS Commissioner Billy Long came after the agency said it couldn’t release some information on taxpayers suspected of being here illegally.

They complain that immigrants "don't pay taxes" but are sure they'll find those supposed freeloaders by looking up their tax records? Happily violating all of our privacy in the process?😣

Gift article: wapo.st/41C6QkP

There's nothing per se unconstitutional about tariffs. What's unconstitutional is denying Congress the right given it under the Constitution to fix and remove tariffs.

Beauty “Such a strange and frightening time. Beauty won’t save us, but it can remind us of what deserves to be saved.” I wrote that in response to a recent post by music critic Ted Gioia for his sub…

It's that time again--my monthly post for Writer Unboxed is up. This time I comment on that elusive gift: beauty. And how it might remind us what is worth saving in the current cultural cataclysm.

Fascinating reading. Thorny issues broken down. TY @rgoodlaw.bsky.social

TRICKY DICK LIVES!

Pass it on. With the gummies. And the Doritos.

Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ triggers boom for defence tech start-ups Peter Thiel-backed groups such as Anduril and Palantir are set for paydays worth billions of dollars

Trump begins systematically sweeping funds from the nation's national security budget into the business enterprises operated by the broligarchs who backed him in 2024, fulfilling his pledge to them. Musk and Thiel emerge as the instant major beneficiaries. www.ft.com/content/1180...

And how will "competent lawyers" explain telling Congress the Steele dossier wasn't in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment? How will they turn that into not-perjury?

Matt Taibbi told Congress under oath that my team at Stanford had ‘censored 22 million tweets’ and targeted Republicans and a bunch of crazy lies. That testimony still hasn’t become “not-perjury.”

Stacey Plaskett asking him to revise his ‘censorship industrial complex’ hoax testimony. He never did.

It is in the sliver of space between “pretty much” and “the same” that the discussion begins. Are the ignorant the worst, the intelligent the best? Is certainly the same as passionate intensity, doubt the same as lacking all conviction? I think not. Therein lies the widening gyre.

$200 million is enough to provide a year of Housing Choice Vouchers to about 13,000 low-income American families, enabling them to pay their rent & preventing homelessness.

President Trump's 2026 budget proposes slashing housing assistance programs by 44%.

Opinion | How Netanyahu Played Trump for a Fool in Gaza

“So how was it that Israel had the capacity to destroy pinpoint targets in Iran, some 1,200 miles from Tel Aviv, and could not safely deliver boxes of food to starving Gazans 40 miles from Tel Aviv?”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...

The maddening part: this is half a story. The other half: does it bear out in fact. On that: crickets.

Welcome home JD can you feel our support?

This is the core proposition & selling point for reactionary thought: not that they are better, but simply that *everyone* is corrupt, everyone is a crook, everyone's just out for themselves, so you might as well get yours. That is the molten core of right-wing thought everywhere.

A perfectly sane and normal thing to say

I agree.

Who makes the more valid point?

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
--Bertrand Russell

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
--William Butler Yeats

"What is asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
--Christopher Hitchens

ROSENBERG: “.. The one development nobody is talking about is what will happen on Thursday, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the federal circuit begins to hear oral arguments in the case of whether the President’s tariff actions are legal.” ..

Get a room, you two.

Or … something… A yurt?

Oh poor Uncle Cranky. Nap time?

Welker to Lindsey Graham as he pushes baseless conspiracy theories in an effort to gin up a scandal about Obama: "Are you trying to rewrite history to distract from the Epstein matter, senator?"

The same percentage of Americans believe Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.

Listener questions: you asked, we answered Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week, we explore a wide range of topics as we delve into our mailbag

“I worry that we have become numb to this.”

Our Lexington columnist assesses Donald Trump’s treason charge against Barack Obama. Listen to our “Checks and Balance” podcast

But Uncle Cranky doesn’t want to read it. If he did he’d realize he sounds like an imbecile.

Either he’s a fool or thinks enough Americans are that he can get away with this. So—fool or malevolent cynic? What say ye, Blueskyers?

#NIH
#Vought
#Project2025
#crueltyisthepoint