Tom Gibson

Let’s see—Trump polls in the dumpster, awful bad week, MAGAs getting mad. What to do? Attack Harvard Again! Bread and Circus for the MAGA masses!

Too soon

Or else, what exactly?

Don’t forget Gaza.

In my world, there's a certain reluctance to being merely, or in a knee-jerk way, a resist lib. That's understandable, even commendable. On the other hand, let's be clear: It's a hell of lot better, morally and intellectually and politically, to be a resist lib than a Vichy conservative.

There is no statute of limitations on homicide in Minnesota.

I wish the new management team the best, I hope they quickly earn the trust of the Lerner family ownership group. But I do not see commitment from ownership to spend, and I predict wheel-spinning until the team is finally sold. And a sale is unlikely until the coming labor dispute plays out. Ugh.

Shhhh!

This is just pathetic. Grade school excuses. I hope my MAGA military friends are waking up to the fact that Trump, Hegseth and their ilk do not share our values.

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.

Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

I proudly worked for one of them, John H. Chafee of RI.

It would be unwise to place too much confidence in a 21st Century Maginot Line.

It is a cult. If he said the Sun would rise in the West tomorrow, MAGA would get up tomorrow morning and look towards the Pacific.

Since 1958, West Point has honored one U.S. citizen annually with the Sylvanus Thayer Award for embodying the values of "Duty, Honor, Country."

Tom Hanks was set to receive the award later this month. His ceremony was just abruptly canceled by the Academy.

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They want the fight, not a deal. MAGA base loves fighting with Harvard. Goes well with the narrative, and the general assault on science and knowledge.

Kind of like when Hirohito welcomed MacArthur.

Exactly.

He committed the sin of truth about Joe Biden.

I support Ukraine wholeheartedly, but it would be better that debates about US weapons, capabilities and possible targets not happen in public. It happened too much in Biden and now way too much in Trump.

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Recommended uniform of the day for European visitors to the White House.

I once knew a principled and politically courageous grown-up named Mike DeWine. This must be some other guy.

Probably eats it on Wonder Bread.

She will sign any statement that will get her out of prison. Then she better find a nice one story ranch house somewhere.

Half the words out of his mouth are outright lies. The other half are felonies.

Marine General to Lead Naval Academy, a First

During her brief tenure, Admiral Davids oversaw the death of academic freedom at the 180-year-old school on the banks of the Severn River in Annapolis, Md., which has produced some of the nation’s greatest naval heroes and scholars www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

So who gets to break this to the corn lobby?

With respect, when exactly was the second term ever in control?

And on CNN, while the House gets ready to pass the most shameful since the (fill in the blank Jim Crow era?), and the world is burning down, we have breathless coverage of Diddy.

Went to my Fox-addled 96 year old MIL’s house today. Bread and Circus over there: Ryan Kohlberger and Diddy. Red America does not care about losing Medicaid as long as TACO is sticking it to Harvard.