Steve Judd

Why Is Dirt From Trump’s White House Reno Going to a Golf Course? Donald Trump is using his demolition of the White House as a chance to improve a golf course.

Why Is Dirt From Trump’s White House Reno Going to a Golf Course? newrepublic.com/post/202174/... via @newrepublic.com

Wait, does @nytpitchbot.bsky.social have a new header? Some advance notice would be helpful for changes like this.

I'm convinced it's time for a family meeting because we have to talk about taking the car keys away from Grandpa before he hurts himself or someone else. Or all of us.

I bet he will rip the whole thing down. Trump hates America.
But for now, I'm going to call it the "Epstein Ballroom".

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

Washington Post: White House begins destroying East wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.

Kenilworth is the single richest and most exclusive suburb on Chicago's North Shore. There's gonna be some really upset oligarchs tonight.

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

The Treasury Department's building is across the street from this disgrace. And today its employees were ordered to not take or distribute photos of the ongoing construction.

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And every time they say "landslide" we must emphasize that Trump didn't even win a majority of the votes actually cast---49% when third-party votes counted.

And he only beat Harris by 2.2 million votes---out of 155,238,302 votes cast nationally. So yes, he won---but barely.

At very least admit you were lied to by the Marines, that you accepted the lies you claimed on 10/15 "refuted" the Meidas' accurate report and that your original post is RETRACTED. Your updates today (10/20) instead seem designed to obfuscate your gullibility. You fell for the lies---own up to it.

This is a terrific piece---informative, balanced and well written. Thanks to Ms. Egan and Bulwark for putting it up. As for me, I live in the great Midwest, keep getting fundraising texts from both candidates, but having zero understanding of Maine politics will only hope for the best.

As to @snopes.com calling your original article "refuted", Snopes is currently "looking into" reports of what obviously happened. But as original author has "written for a variety of entertainment publications...[and is] into music, video games...and birds", I'm not optimistic.

Leak: Feds Think Protests Hide Terrorism “No Kings” protest eyed amid NSPM-7 domestic terror panic

Following the NSPM-7 directive for feds to focus on anti-ICE terrorism, the FBI and Homeland produced an intel bulletin linking anti-ICE protests to terrorism.

Bulletin here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-feds-...

Lots of tea leaves here---thanks for posting. He obviously is looking for a way out of cancelling the subsidies which clearly is blowing up hugely. So he'll cite the standard "we just want to end 'abuses'!" to get a deal. But he would likely have real problems with his super-MAGA types. Interesting.

This is not a fight about tax credits.

This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.

We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.

But I generally agree---we do not want Vance replacing Trump under the 25th Amendment or through ill-health. Too much of a head-start.

I believe our best hope is that defying expectations the Democrats somehow don't screw up the midterms and take the House. Maybe tie or even win the Senate with a few breaks? Then Trump just fumbles around and golfs all the time and the battles for the '28 nomination begin. On both sides.

Me, too….me, too.

After the murder of his meal ticket Charlie Kirk he wakes up every day knowing he will never be President of the United States. Kirk was his guy, made him who he is and now the long list of wannabes--Rubio, Cruz and the rest---no longer need be afraid of him. Smirk aside, he's done. And he knows it.

Why terrified? What do you think got us through the late 1950's?

Anyway, who you recommending these days?

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire
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Private Fences Put Up Around Public Park Irk Near North Neighbors The park must be publicly accessible 6 a.m.-11 p.m. daily as part of an agreement with the city — but some are concerned the large fences a homeowner association put up will keep away other Chicagoans...

Private Fences Put Up Around Public Park Irk Near North Neighbors blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/24/p...

For those wondering how Chicago's former Cabrini-Green projects were re-imagined into the promised vibrant and economically diverse new communities when the projects were emptied and leveled.

They've been doing the hands-down best coverage of this Administration by far. Especially, of course, in their sweet spots like tech and crypto. It's an essential read.

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Jimmy Kimmel & the FCC: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver says Bob Iger should use "the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away. And that is, 'fuck you, make me.'" youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g?...

Get. Off. Twitter.

This was the absolute norm for any US politician until, well, Trump. Even Mike Pence said it when he was booed at a staging of Hamilton just after they won in 2016.

Hello, Pulitzer Committee!

The pride of Lyons Township High School!

The 20th century was built largely out of absurd moments and events. In time we had to invent an adjective, European and literary, that might encapsulate the feeling of impending menace and distorted reality and the sense of a vast alienating force that presses the edges of individual choice. These things are Kafkaesque. In America it is the individual himself, floating on random streams of disaffection, who tends to set the terms of the absurd. A man walks into a diner and shoots 11 strangers. What city was that, and who remembers the shooter’s name? A couple of teenagers wander through their school building shooting teachers and students. How many times did this happen, and where exactly, and who were the kids with the guns? Oswald changed history not only through his involvement in the death of the president, but also in prefiguring such moments of the American absurd. He was not media-poisoned, as many of the others have been, and his crime was not steeped in the supermarket cult of modern folklore and dread. But think of the outrages and atrocities that flowed from the psychic disorientation of the 1960s — the assassinations, the cult murders, the mass suicides. It was surely the assassination of President Kennedy that began to give us a sense of something coming undone. This was vintage American violence, lonely and rootless, but it shaded into something older and previously distant, a condition of estrangement and helplessness, an undependable reality. We felt the shock of unmeaning.

We continue to, as DeLillo described once about Oswald, feel "the shock of unmeaning"