Michael Hiltzik

The quality of the wax exhibits at Madame Tussaud’s is greatly diminished

A screenshot of a social media post from a parody account styled as a governor’s press office. The post uses all caps and mocks a political figure by describing a fake award in exaggerated, insulting language. Below it is another post sharing a short video clip from a televised event at the Kennedy Center. In the video still a man in a suit is being given a large decorative medal by another man while cameras and a news chyron run along the bottom. The scene takes place on a stage with a blurred backdrop.

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Nothing says racism, cruelty, hatred and weakness combined in one quite like the orange felon removing all free access to National Parks on federal holidays that honor black people whilst giving free access on his own birthday. He should’ve been sent to jail forever.

Reading posts like this, you find a sense of where her skin got its healthy, bile-yellow tone.

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I can't wait until the United States cleanses itself of all the ugly traces of Donald Trump. Take his name off buildings. Remove all the tacky gold bric-a-brac from the White House walls. Bulldoze his vulgar ballroom. Restore MLK, Jr Day and Juneteenth at parks. #Fumigate

If you care, Kennedy, you publicly call on the House to bring up articles of impeachment against RFK today.

No "thought and prayers," no hand-wringing.

Either call for his impeachment, or just be quiet. You have strong influence to stop this. Anything else is just performative nonsense.

CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine The CDC's ACIP panel voted to recommend delaying the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ending a policy that has reined in the virus.

This regressive move will literally kill people. It's making kids' liver cancer great again. And it's a sign of more harm to come.

CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com

CDC vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth A federal vaccine advisory committee voted Friday to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.

The AP has quoted my statement from yesterday that ACIP is an epidemiological crime scene, because it is.

Commentary: Everyone complains about 'AI slop,' but no one can define it The hand-wringing over 'AI slop' has reached a fever pitch, but no one can define it

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Tracy Hoeg is a fraud. She advertises "orthobiologic" therapies on her website, ALL unapproved by FDA. Now she's in charge of CDER. She is a joke. Unqualified. Full-stop.

Hegseth Defense Collapses as Dems Reveal Horrific Video Strike Details The ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services committee tells TNR after watching the video: “This is a big, big problem.”

NEWS --> Tons of fresh detail on what video of the strike shows: Rep Adam Smith says two men are sitting on capsized boat, drugs aren't visible. Rationale officials gave for killing is they *may* have been able to keep trafficking.

"It's bad," Smith says.

Read here:
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Let’s be clear: Every year the retirement age is raised is a 7% benefit cut.

We can afford to INCREASE Social Security benefits if billionaires pay their fair share!

Commentary: These federal judges are building a legal wall against Trump's assault on transgender rights Federal judges have been blocking Trump's anti-trans subpoenas while questioning the behavior of government officials.

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1) If Hegseth ordered troops to "kill everybody" in that barbaric second strike, he should be arrested.

2) If Admiral Bradley followed what he damn well knew was an illegal order from Hegseth, he should be removed from duty, and court-martialed.

3) If Trump does nothing, he is a war criminal.

University general counsel and boards are crowding ERs with hamstring and Achilles injuries incurred while absolutely sprinting to the White House to surrender everything they’re supposed to stand for.

I'm not so sure that ayone outside the NYC-DC insular journo circle gives a shit; all the follow-on stories about its deep significance and importance smell like complete bullshit to me, no substance, just the odor

republicans are going to have three more years to re-learn that trump's political capital can only be spent at the trump company store and that having him back you while he's in office can be worse than having him yell at you

Commentary: Crypto promoters saw Trump as their savior. Then reality set in Trump has called for relaxing regulations on crypto. So why are crypto prices plummeting?

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Column: ProPublica and Vanity Fair are pushing the COVID lab-leak theory, but their exposé is a train wreck A blockbuster investigation by ProPublica and Vanity Fair claims COVID originated in a lab. Here's where they went wrong.

A reminder that Vanity Fair gave up on serious reporting long ago: www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Who are these nimrods dissing turkey? I love turkey, don’t only eat it on Thanksgiving, and prefer the white meat. You got a problem with that?

I think people's interest in this DC-journo train wreck is understandable (and so is the desire to unsee it); I hope folks understand that it's not a soap opera and, in fact, the reason it's so grotesque is that the people involved are treating it like one.

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worth noting that there have been no reported violent assaults w/a gun near 17th & I since 2018, and no homicides from 2008 on (the publicly available data only go back to 1/1/2008). This is not a dangerous area–there was no reason for them to be there. (data from crimecards.dc.gov/homicides:cr...)

Who sacrificed their Guardsmen for this? Was it worth their lives so the Emperor could have manicured grass and dine at fancy restaurants?

Commentary: Reaching a new low, CDC discards science in claims about vaccines and autism Changing its web page, the CDC now promotes the myth that vaccines are linked to autism despite years of research refuting the claim.

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R.I.P. TrumpCare (2:12 pm, November 24, 2025 - 2:14 pm, November 24, 2025)

You will not be mourned.

And for too long they were treated as “reasonable doctors” who just had a different viewpoint and were often unfairly maligned.

That was always obviously absurd. And hope we can put that myth to rest and not make excuses for bad faith actors moving forward.