Joel Bergen

Now there’s a ground stoppage in Phoenix? I live at LAX now like Tom Hanks in The Terminal.

But at least it will have all been worth it when this shutdown results in saving ACA subsidies!

Actually, not sure how closed off they are… just seem to be limiting flights from West Coast? Been tough getting good info here at airport. What a mess.

Flight just got canceled. Apparently all DC area airports (DCA, BWI, IAD) are not accepting incoming flights today.

Hope Trump’s having fun golfing, though.

They also make it easy-ish to vote in person, but anecdotally, seemed like very few voters brought the barcode they were mailed, which really speeds up check in (at my vote center, that’s where the logjam was as there were many open machines). To be fair, CA sends way too many election mailers.

The only time I’m happy to stand in a long line is on Election Day. #YesOn50

Purely anecdotal — and there seem to be fewer vote centers near me than usual — but turnout at my polling place looks robust.

I apologize for all the times I ever said baseball’s boring.

I also apologize to all the dogs in my neighborhood.

Did they run out of non-Fox ads to run?

Happiest of birthdays to you!!!

President Obama with his feet resting on the Resolute Desk

I’m old enough to remember this five-alarm scandal:

Volvo backhoe destroying the East Wing of the White House

He couldn’t even be bothered to use American demolition equipment.

iMessage helpfully suggesting that I change "Or am I wrong?" to either "Is I wrong?" or "Are I wrong?"

So happy that A.I. is here to save me from making an embarrassing grammatical error.

On top of the Stein votes, Bernie Sanders got more write-in votes in each of those three states in ‘16 than Hillary got in ‘08.

Source for ‘08 write-in numbers from the FEC:

www.fec.gov/resources/cm...

What’s your source for this? Best count of Hillary write-ins I could find only has numbers for three states (NH, PA & RI) & in each of them, Hillary got *far* fewer votes in ‘08 than Jill Stein got in ‘16. In fact, total number of ALL write-ins in ‘08 was 112,597. Stein got almost 1.5 million in ‘16

From corrected obit: Ms. Holliday told The Post that she went uncredited for her work with Hoffman, who received an Oscar nomination for best actor for “Tootsie.”

CORRECTION
A previous version of this article incorrectly said that Dustin Hoffman won an Oscar for best actor for his performance in "Tootsie." He was nominated for the award but did not win. It also incorrectly described Polly Holliday's role in the 1994 revival of "Picnic." She played Flo Owens, an overprotective mother.

Credit where due, the Post corrected it (the thing about Dustin Hoffman winning the Oscar, not the bogus use of Donald Trump’s full signature in a comparison to his first-name only signature).

Oh, right:

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From Washington Post obituary of Polly Holliday: Ms. Holliday told The Post that she went uncredited for her work with Hoffman, who took home the Oscar for best actor for “Tootsie.”

Ben Kingsley holding the Oscar he won for Gandhi while not being Dustin Hoffman.

Guess @washingtonpost.com has just given up on fact-checking. If something as easy to disprove as Dustin Hoffman winning an Oscar for Tootsie can find its way into a pre-written obituary, what other wholly made-up “facts” are they printing these days?

Kiss’ Gene Simmons Sued for Sexual Battery He’s accused of inappropriately touching an employee at one of his restaurants

Or Gene Simmons…

pitchfork.com/news/kiss-ge...

I can’t imagine what Donald Trump sees in Sylvester Stallone…

It’s an incredibly difficult time in the industry, but if A-List Hollywood liberals had courage, they’d band together right now and declare that none of them would make any new deals with Paramount or Skydance or CBS, at least until the end of the Trump administration.

I watch a lot of MSNBC and nobody ever seems to bring up the “Katie Johnson” lawsuit from 2016. Has the network issued orders to avoid discussing those particular (seemingly very pertinent) allegations or the circumstances of their withdrawal?

I try not to engage in ad hominem attacks, but Tom Homan both looks and sounds like a thumb.

This was likely inspired by the Clinton White House. His first chief of staff was his childhood friend, Mack McLarty (the most Sorkinesque name ever). I was young-ish then, but I recall hearing that the first year was chaotic until Clinton brought in outsiders, so your point stands.

Can’t wait for the Real World/Road Rules Challenger disaster.

Bluesky may be an echo chamber but at least it’s not a gas chamber.

Gonna start carrying an air horn when I go for a walk so I can honk at all the cars that almost kill me.

If you know a safer way to build up immunity to diseases, I’d love to hear it.

Huh, owning people and putting them on a farm. Has anyone ever thought of that before?

I sure hope the SAVE Act doesn’t make it harder for James Donald Bowman to vote.

It’s the stupidity, stupid.