Jeff Ash

screenshot of a tweet from the texas rangers baseball team depicting a statute of jay banks, a notorious texas ranger law man

the texas rangers just put up a statue of a man (jay banks) well-known for trying to keep schools in texas segregated, despite the passing of brown v. board of education. the statue was originally at dallas’ love field airport before being removed in 2020 (remember those times? lol)

But no self respecting journalist should.

The American Stones. "Blow Your Face Out" is a great live LP. The J. Geils Band of the '80s leaves a lot to be desired, though.

Captain Crazypants goes to war Operation Epstein Distraction is already a five-alarm shit-show.

here's today's post: "Captain Crazypants clownfucks his way to war" — Operation Epstein Distraction is already a five-alarm shit-show.
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the state of public history, 2026:

with one eye on the Trump administration, NPS staff worries that describing the murder of an abolitionist "might denigrate the murderers"

The irrational strongman we’ve been warned about is here His name is Donald J. Trump.

"We have at last found a global villain who matches the bugbear — an ill-informed violent despot who seems to enjoy carnage for its own sake, & who has the power & will to project terror & violence anywhere on earth for any reason or none.

That global villain is, of course, President Donald Trump."

Rick McNeal, signing off Rick McNeal must have liked this vaguely raffish portrait of himself because he used it as his social media avatar. That’s good enough for me. We never met, even though both of us worked in t…

Bumping a new blog post for the evening crowd. Farewell to a friend I never met. wp.me/p3pns-40b

Any journalist showing up to this should find a different profession.

Feds asked New Mexico to halt Jeffrey Epstein Zorro Ranch sex trafficking probe, records show Former AG says feds halted New Mexico’s Epstein inquiry without sharing promised evidence as state reopens Zorro Ranch i

New reporting finds that Trump's DOJ took over and quashed a state investigation into Epstein's New Mexico ranch in 2019.

As the walls close in on Trump, he'll do anything — including launch full-scale wars — to distract the public.

Trump seems too comfortable with US deaths in his futile Iran war | Opinion Announcing the deaths of three U.S. soldiers following his attack on Iran, President Donald Trump said 'that’s the way it is.' Good lord.

"What they saw was a convicted felon, a man who has been found liable for sexual abuse, a man who is a billionaire living the highest of high lives—deciding on his own that American troops would enter another Middle East war." Devastating from @rexhuppke.bsky.social
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OK, now do a Borchert Field marker on the Burleigh Street overpass on I-43.

Today's mail brings this chewed-up 1967 Ernie Banks card. Fun to have. Fun to wonder how it got that way.

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

How come “How are you going to pay for it?” is never asked about endless war?

Rick McNeal, signing off Rick McNeal must have liked this vaguely raffish portrait of himself because he used it as his social media avatar. That’s good enough for me. We never met, even though both of us worked in t…

New blog post: Farewell, Rick McNeal. We were friends, but we never met. wp.me/p3pns-40b

Not ICE. Not Border Patrol. Just the same rotten local cops we've always had

It's just possible that the Trump regime doesn't know what the fu@k it is doing.

"That's the way it is," says the five-time draft dodger to our military families who fear their loved one in uniform could be next.

What a disgrace.

Tell Me How This Ends More Iran thoughts

“I view this war with deep skepticism, but I always want what’s best for my country. Truly: no political setback for Donald Trump and MAGA justifies even one sailor’s or airman’s life. Yet I cannot see how this ends well.”

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Apart from the truly revolting nature of his comment, I am fascinated that this is an official photo put out by the White House the other night. It is, presumably, the most flattering one they could find.

Touché

This is appalling and must be stopped.

Just resharing this.

Raise your hand if you think we deserve a president that has a better response to American troops dying than “that’s the way it is.”

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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

Anyone not running on accountability and delivering results will be failing Americans. Will be a huge factor for the upcoming elections, assuming we have them.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

We are really going to regret the technology we have built.

Every pic of him in the last 48 hours has looked increasingly more Weekend at Bernies

Hoo, boy, we're a long way from hitting fungoes.

Trump looked voters in the eye and promised he would keep us out of endless wars. He lied. Americans died because of it - he knows, and he's sending us to fight and die anyway.

In November, Trump and Republicans will find out what happens when you lie to the American people.