Fortuitous Path Has Made Greg Mescall the Voice of Water Polo Greg Mescall has become the Voice of Water Polo and a key cog at USA Water Polo, thanks to a fortuitous path.

Greg Mescall is “undoubtedly the voice of water polo throughout the world,” Krikorian said. “He’s our Jim Nantz, he’s our Al Michales, he’s our Bob Costas.”

The Curse of Trump 2.0 What does it say that the President doesn’t even feel he needs to hide his most profane and radical views anymore?

“What does it say that the President doesn’t even feel he needs to hide his most profane and radical views anymore?”

How many millions? Just how large are these prisons?

Because when you’ve lost Peter Douchey…

There were millions of people in prison in Venezuela? And now those millions of prisoners are in the U.S., with Venezuela’s approval?

Trump ordered Tom Homan to malign the White House elf on the shelf and Kristi Noem to deport him to the El Salvador prison. “He’s fake news,” said Trump, “and a horrible elf who’s treated me very badly.”

As Cabinet secretaries prioritize distractions and trivialities, Rubio focuses on fonts As the nation’s chief diplomat turns his attention to typefaces, it’s hard not to wonder: Doesn’t he have better things to do?

Rubio focuses on fonts, Duffy focuses on airport pull-ups, Hegseth focuses on paintings, Noem focuses on photo-ops, and Trump focuses on ballrooms and bathrooms ...

Shouldn’t they have other things to do? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

As Republicans reject bill to protect ACA subsidies, what happens now? In a normal environment, a president would show some leadership and back a practical solution. In 2025, that's not happening.

Where do things stand on the health care fight in Congress?
- Dems have a good plan that Republicans oppose
- Republicans can’t agree among themselves on a plan of their own
- Trump wants to stay on the sidelines
- consumers are quickly running out of calendar www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The Dishonorable Strikes on Venezuelan Boats New reporting suggests that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated multiple rules of war.

New reporting suggests that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated multiple rules of war.
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Trump is Poe’s M. Valdemar: not yet certified dead but decaying nonetheless.

To paraphrase Jean Giraudoux in “Tiger at the Gates,”
“Everyone, when there's war [crime] in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. Everybody lies.”

I know very little about him but like me he’s been treated very horribly.

“[In] the For the People Act, its very first plank was to get rid of partisan gerrymandering and to create independent redistricting panels in every state in the union. And you know who voted for it? Every Democrat. You know who voted against it? Every Republican. They live on gerrymandering.”

“Decimates with the dribble,” says the inscrutable Bill Raftery. He reduces by one tenth? What does that even mean?

BREAKING: Stephen Colbert and Jesse Welles just showed us how we can defeat Trump, ICE and the MAGA movement with song and comedy In many cases, the sharpest political weapon isn’t a floor speech, an op-ed, or even a viral fact-check.

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Android Trump defaults to:
1. “I barely know the man.”
2. “He (and I) are treated very horribly.”
3. “Narco terrorists…”
4. “Obama and Biden blahblah…”
5. “I’m saving millions of lives and trillions of dollars.”

Sideline “reporters”:
“Talk about…”
“How big/important/satisfying was this?”

John Noble Wilford, Times Reporter Who Covered the Moon Landing, Dies at 92

John Noble Wilford, Times Reporter Who Covered the Moon Landing, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...

Charles Norman Shay, Tribal Elder and World War II Hero, Dies at 101

Charles Norman Shay, Tribal Elder and World War II Hero, Dies at 101 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes

“Military training is about character formation, with virtues taught alongside tactics. But barbaric behavior tarnishes all who wear, or once wore, the uniform, and lust for cruelty turns a noble vocation into mere thuggery.”

"If I cannot swear in heaven I shall not stay there," said Mark Twain. In a related note, Nietzsche said that "In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."

“Cassidy can’t escape responsibility for the damage Kennedy and his cohorts are doing to the nation’s public health, and while he could take meaningful actions in response, the senator is choosing not to, seemingly indifferent to the consequences of his inaction.”

There are a variety of ways to describe the healthy economy Trump inherited from Biden. For those who care about reality, “trainwreck” isn’t one of them: tinyurl.com/2dau4rpu

"First he came for the female reporters, and I said nothing because I wasn't a female reporter."
The silence of media bosses is an embarrassing scandal.

When “the changing landscape (of sports, of business, of media etc.)” isn’t sufficient for language manglers, use “ecosystem” to convey a more pretentious degree of jargon and gibberish.

Trump to announce “a $12 billion bailout for farmers as an act of salvation, but the bailout is necessary only because his own tariff war kneecapped American agriculture. Farmers didn’t need saving until Trump set the barn on fire. Now he’s insisting they thank him for the hose.”

Caliban (“Let me lick thy shoe”) Leavitt “went full cult in giving White House sanction to Trump’s ugly bigotry, offer[ing] one of the ugliest defenses we’ve ever seen. She singled out Trump’s vile racist attack on Somalis, and praised it as an ‘epic moment.’”

Is her boyfriend still in the White House press sycophant corps?

Eric Schmitt (to every question):
“Narco terrorists”

“Narco terrorists” is today’s “Hillary’s emails” and “Hunter’s laptop.”