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"Hot In Herre" samples "Bustin' Loose," which makes this the correct answer.

Really hoping that Larry Summers's wife had craven monetary reasons for recommending Lolita to Epstein, because the alternative is that a Harvard English professor actually believes that Humbert goes on some sort of hero's journey in it.

Sitting outdoors in November enjoying some pregame beer, and learning that two of the tasters I'm drinking are from a brewery that closed this summer (Listermann in Cincinnati). Whatever their issues were, it had nothing to do with quality.

Dweeb Central

Also, it's a "hoax" that nonetheless requires all my political opponents to be investigated. Flailing.

Republican men are absolutely obsessed with masculinity - is eating edamame feminine?? Is it gay to please your wife in bed??? Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress & played a girl bunny????

Then they say things out loud like “I’m a Grok guy”

Laura Loomer You can't be outraged by the Epstein saga and simultaneously not be outraged by the fact that we have Muslims serving in Congress

"Only racists are allowed to be angry about paedophiles" is a surprisingly succinct summary of conservative politics

Uh, the Times definitely did its share of stories on the completely banal DNC emails, another case where the only news value was the fact they were leaked in the home stretch of a presidential campaign.

A former New York Times staffer quietly left the paper after revealing he had solicited charitable donations from Jeffrey Epstein Former New York Times reporter Landon Thomas Jr. told his editors he became friends with Epstein after profiling him in 2008, NPR reported Thursday.

This exact same reporter was ousted from the NY Times for soliciting a $30,000 donation from Epstein— and you're telling me that as an employer, the NY Times never bothered to circle back and review this person's correspondence with a convicted pedophile?

Up to this point, they've only been using the Situation Room to go over new plans for the ballroom and examining prospective menus for Gatsby parties. So you know this has to be serious.

Not that Republicans are famous for taking my advice, but folks, Epstein is the ultimate losing battle and you might as well just face the music.

The trip west is what put them in a hole last season too.

When they got the late power play with a 1-goal lead, I wondered if they finally found a situation they couldn't choke away. I gave them too much credit.

My advice to King is that he never say anything ever again.

Too many of them love the filibuster because it's the perfect excuse for never doing anything.

I've been beating this drum for years: how often do you see someone in a Republican primary going, "Vote for me, I believe in working across party lines?" It never happens. The GOP senators Shaheen thinks are her friends are laughing at her right now.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

"Just keep saying no and wait for the Democrats to cave" is a pretty foolproof GOP strategy, one has to admit.

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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A deep commitment to anti-wokeness

Hand written sign at shop reading “WE HAVE” “CHICKEN” “NOODLE” “SOUP”

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

Nothing is worse for a president than being credibly accused of being out of touch, and claiming prices are down when even MAGA shoppers know that isn't true is the epitome of "out of touch."

Bernie Sanders record of surrounding himself with people who then got gigs of their own by association only to turn out to be absolute disasters at it is only matched in public life by Bill Belichick

Browns fans will need a new scapegoat.

The phrase "Trump babies" is going to soften boners throughout America.

Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin.

How times change.

Ol' Tim hasn't listened to new country music in a long, long time.

A lot of people probably won't get how finely crafted this joke is and how many layers it has, applause to Jane