Robert McCartney

Trump takes credit for any ceasefire or conflict that is resolved between two countries anywhere in the world despite the fact that he had zero involvement, never spoke to the leaders involved, never heard of the countries, and can’t find them on a map.

Fun facts and definitions:

- a BOG is a wetland that is acidic
- a FEN is a wetland that is alkaline
- a SWAMP is a wetland that can support trees
- a MARSH is a wetland that cannot support trees

Now you know!

National Guard collects unfavorable public input on D.C. deployment Internal documents reviewed by The Post reveal, with rare candor, how domestic missions rooted in politics risk damaging Americans’ trust in the military.

WaPo exclusive: The National Guard, in measuring public sentiment about Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., has internally assessed that its mission is perceived as “leveraging fear,” driving a “wedge between citizens and the military.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Musk’s 3rd party? “Never mind.”

The amusing thing about this clip is the infrastructure bill was literally the first and only thing Nancy Mace brought up in terms of her accomplishments in Congress. Her biggest win for her district was legislation she voted against.

As we see here, Fox sometimes gets it right. But it’ll switch and start defending Trump’s performance any minute now.

YouTube video by I Hate Politics Podcast MCPS Payroll Fix, Flood Maps, RKV Rent Cap, M-83 Highway

Here’s link to podcast in which I’m interviewed about The Wash Post (starting around 19:10). www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIYa...

Here’s the thing, I absolutely believe there is a significant percentage of MAGA who now believe that Trump is guilty of the Epstein stuff but they don’t care.

Trump’s imaginary numbers, from $1.99 gas to 1,500 percent price cuts

It’s telling that a majority of Republicans on House Oversight Committee chose to defy Trump and vote to subpoena Epstein files.

Screenshot of WaPo story. Hegseth Signal messages came from email classified ‘SECRET,’ watchdog told. The revelation contradicts the Trump administration’s long-standing claims that no classified information was shared by the defense secretary’s account during the “Signalgate” scandal. Below is a picture of Hegseth on Capitol Hill in June.

NEW: Pete Hegseth lied to Congress and perjured himself when he said his Signal messages contained no classified information.

Washington Post story just out.

Messages from Hegseth’s Signal account - which previewed a US bombing in Yemen - were derived from a classified email labeled “SECRET”.

DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website WASHINGTON—In the latest of a series of escalations in President Donald Trump’s highly publicized war on “woke,” the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly removed all mentions of justice from its website Friday. The purge follows a directive from the DOJ last week to roll back pro-justice programs and delete thousands of webpages that contained banned […]

DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website
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The central dividing line in Democratic politics is not between the left and the moderate wing, it’s between serious people who understand we’re in an existential fight against an incipient fascist regime and irredeemable narcissists who just want to keep fighting the 2016 primary forever.

He got out ahead of the story.

The same people who obsessed over a tan suit, a private email server, and an autopen are strangely indifferent to the possibility that their president raped children.

Ace commentator Philip Bump joins list of talented group taking buyouts from WashPost. Other departures: Dan Balz, David Von Drehle, Joel Achenbach, Hank Stuever.

Important trend here: Trump is gutting the agencies that gather economic and other statistics. At some point, media may have to start using privately collected numbers, which risk being manipulated and of course will be rejected by Trump if they’re unfavorable.

I always take issue with calling the radical extremist justices "conservatives." But at this point we must also stop calling the 3 dissenters "liberals." THEY are the conservatives! They are trying to conserve the Constitution and our Democracy.

ADL chief says he regrets not calling out Musk’s sieg heil “more clearly” when it happened.
Except ADL didn’t “call it out” at all. Instead, the org outright defended Musk, and said his action *wasn’t* antisemitic. That seems pretty clear to me.

NPR does better than other media in reminding us that climate change causes unusually heavy storms similar to deadly ones in Texas.

In the past 24 hours, Trump’s threatened Elon Musk, Thomas Massie, Japan, a judge in Israel, the CEO of AT&T, Jerome Powell, Canada, Thom Tillis, a Forbes reporter, Harvard, & migrants with being eaten by Burmese pythons in the Everglades, while releasing a new line of colognes.

My Grandmother Stood Up to Nixon—Jeff Bezos Should Take Note Fifty-four years ago, Katharine Graham defended The Washington Post against presidential threats. Her granddaughter now fears its soul is being sold.

Katharine Graham’s granddaughter, writing in The Nation, blisters Bezos for betraying WashPost’s legacy by kowtowing to Trump. www.thenation.com/article/soci...?

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Opinion | RIP, MAHA Robert F. Kennedy promised to improve nutrition and reduce environmental toxins. How’s that going?

“Make America Healthy Again” has a simple premise: Americans don’t need more access to medical care. They just need better nutrition and exposure to fewer environmental toxins.
Unfortunately, Trump is A) taking away nutritional assistance and B) expanding use of environmental toxins.

Bill to me just before this interview: "If Kamala Harris had talked about affordability with the same passion and consistently that Mamdani has, she would have won the 2024 election."

The Washington Post Will Ask Some Sources to Annotate Its Stories

Unusual innovation at WashPost: People quoted in stories can insert notes to clarify or add context (starting with climate stories). www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/b...

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

running list of things trump promised during the 2024 campaign:

- grocery prices would decrease
- working families will get a tax cut
- entitlements would be protected
- balance the budget and pay down debt
- he would end foreign wars

I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.