Part of the problem we're facing right now is that media's ranks have been do decimated that there simply aren't enough reporters to doggedly stay on a story until they get an answer.

It's not the whole problem, but it's part of it.

I don't understand why Usha Vance puts up with J D Vance. He insults her and their kids every damn day.

I loved this whole piece, including the shot at Carville.

Vance's Chances The callow Vice President has only one option. [Hello! This is Part II of a piece about what's next after the Good Thing Happens. You can find Part I here.] What is a Vice President to do when it’s ...

"A goober who rode a wave of money, luck, and abandoned principles to the top and has not bothered to develop any further skills that might help him meet the moment."

the-camelopard.ghost.io/vances-chanc...

what Democrats need to understand is that these are not judicial confirmations in the traditional sense—the only people Trump is sending to the bench are people who will further his corruption and backstop his anticonstitutionalism; voting to advance any Trump appointee is fucking madness

I know I sound like a broken record..... but this was the plan all along.... I know this because #they put the plan on the internet for everyone to see. #They talked about it during their rallies. The opposing party talked about it & when they did, the media shut them down. Millions brushed it off.

YouTube video by Letterman Dave Meets the Professor of Rock | David Letterman

Okay, now shamelessly promoting AND doing a public service.... If you haven't checked out Professor of Rock on YouTube, you should, if for no other reason than #AT40 was his education. He was interviewed by my old boss for his YouTube channel, and I tagged along. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igm0...

Shank You for Your Service Handicapping the looming succession fight Donald Trump is not doing well. That statement applies in several areas, but in this case, we’re talking about his obvious physical and mental decline. Recen...

Just in case you wanted a little mean reading: Here's my analysis of what happens to Vance when The Big Good Thing finally happens.

the-camelopard.ghost.io/shanm/

Those $376 Million Obama renovations people like Jesse Watters are using to defend Trump?

One problem — They were approved by Congress after a BUSH administration report said they were necessary: www.snopes.com/news/2025/10...

Unpopular opinion, but I don't care that much what they do with the Whitehouse, I'm much more concerned about what they're doing to the people and civil institutions while distracting us with the Whitehouse.

Right now publicists are drafting public apologies for the costumes their celebrity clients will be wearing in a week:

“I’ve always been a ____ supporter of _____ and did not intend to _____. In the spirit of Halloween, I ____ a ____ which I realize was ______ and ___ __ _____."

Every day, the ghosts of Nixon, Buchanan, and Hoover get little glasses of sherry and high-five each other.

The idea that leagues could commercially embrace gambling but be insulated from negative consequences was always unrealistic. There is no walled garden.

I've been trying and trying to get people to understand that this is the result of a decades long effort to destroy literacy for most people in America, by destroying education. The right wing played a long game, and that's what got us in this mess. www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/22/a...

I really wish someone had been clearer with Trump about why LBJ kept talking about needing ball room.

i'll be on siriusXM channel 127 in a min talking about suing DC MPD for body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace

We have a House speaker refusing to seat a duly elected representative.
We have a president using the military against Americans and literally demolishing the East Wing of the White House.
If this isn’t fascism and authoritarianism, it sure looks like it.
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Not sure why this hasn't sunk in yet... those folks might complain a little, but #they will still support everything #they do & still show up at the polls for them.

Okay friends, it's time to talk about Manahel al-Otaibi - everyone gather 'round.

al-Otaibi was a 29-year old feminist activist in Saudi Arabia when she was jailed for 11 years for charges related to her choice of clothing and her online posts.

Y'all hate Lucy because of the football thing but don't realize she was trying to teach that bald idiot the world was hard and to be vigilant #TheGreatPumpkin

Done.

If this was a Manningcast game, they would have lost their minds on that play.

You won’t hear any politicians say this, but over our history, we’ve done pretty well by open borders.

We're well past the point of convincing others. It's time to be gathering in good people and excluding bad people from our lives.

That's the whole ball of wax, right there.

I went to the Broadview ICE detention center this afternoon/evening. The first 2 hours were pretty quiet. Several dozen protesters & occasionally some Fascism Enjoyers who shouted things but mostly lowkey. But then a violent Christofascist biker rolled up & that was not good. Everyone is OK. Thread:

Dodge commercial: “And never, ever, EVER stop being American!”

ICE knocking at the door: “Sorry, you are no longer considered American. Please turn around so we can zip tie you and your children.”

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League, FBI director says The FBI said on Wednesday it had cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League, a prominent Jewish group that tracks antisemitism, after Republicans criticized the group for including slain activist Charlie Kirk's organization in a glossary on extremism.

and after all the handos Jonathan Greenblatt gave MAGA's most antisemitic twonks

www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

If you want to hear me do bits with three of my favorite funny people while talking about a movie that no one should have to endure, this is your chance.

I stand by my assertion that Julus Caesar was a type-A bisexual fuck machine.