Marc Sobel

To wet his beak.

Opinion | Republicans will regret ceding this issue to the left New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani explained due process in a video. Kristi Noem didn’t like that.

When I got to this sentence, "The self-proclaimed socialist is rarely so sensible." I stopped reading. Anyone who puts this unsubstantiated irrelevant smear into a discussion of constitutional rights doesn't deserve an audience.

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NATO Chief Rutte: "We need to be ready. Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured."

I realized that if you were writing this as a Netflix tragicomedy they would have submitted not via email but Signal, so it would erase.

NASA just lost contact with a Mars orbiter, and will soon lose another one If NASA is serious about exploring Mars, it’s past time to send new missions.

The Martian Imperial Defense Force takes down another Terran spy satellite.

NASA just lost contact with a Mars orbiter, and will soon lose another one arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

But he was white, I assume.

My Dual Citizenship Is None of Bernie Moreno’s Business A bill that would ban Americans from having citizen rights abroad is about nationalist sentimentalism, not real-life issues.

My Dual Citizenship Is None of Bernie Moreno’s Business newrepublic.com/article/2039... via @newrepublic.com

Savage attack on Trump's son on Baron and wife Melanoma.

After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. Why? “Much of the AI race comes down to amassing and deploying assets.”…

After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. Why? arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

See also www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kSn...

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I wonder how many camera choppers they had to film the daring capture.

I assume that a matching contribution in non-sequential bills to the Trump Rushmore Tax Foundation will also be required.

Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

Let's run it up the petard and see if anyone salutes.
(I only learned recently that a petard is a small bomb, whose French derived name derived from a word meaning fart.)

e.g. hoist on your own petard.

IANAL but this sounds like not only not being able to walk and chew gum, but also not able to get the wrapper off the gum before chewing

Politico: Republicans don't even have a pla. via Meredith Lee hill in Politico: House GOP erupts over health care as leaders hunt for a plan House Republican leaders presented no firm plan Tuesday for advancing health care legislation as anxiety...

" Others were vague, including one bullet point that simply said, “Innovation.”

Take two innovations and call me in the morning.

Politico: Republicans don't even have a pla. acasignups.net/25/12/10/pol...

Somehow I suspect it's not about the money.

Corrected headline: BP, Chevron are top bidders at first Trump Venezuelan oil and gas auction

H/T Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Feds bring woman to U.S. to face charges, then say she’s here illegally A federal magistrate judge called the situation “Kafkaesque” at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington.

In order to torpedo the case, against "a Belarusian woman accused of smuggling more than $2 million in sensitive U.S. aviation equipment into Russia as it waged war on Ukraine" ICE will deport her and she will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Expanding on what I said to @joshtpm.bsky.social:

It's very difficult to work on the heathcare stuff. It's like that woke mediation stuff:

You know the sound of two hands clapping. What is the sound of no hands clapping.

Also, don't think of the elephant not in the room.

Closing your eyes is not blinding.

It's very difficult to work on the heathcare stuff.

You know the sound of two hands clapping. What is the sound of no hands clapping.

You SOB. This is the first time I ever read a complete Trump truth social posting. And I did it because you said to. How can you do that to people? To your fellow Americans.

Now how do I ever wash my poor brain clean?

(Sorry about the SOB but I wanted to be emphatic.)

Typo in the headline: For Airlines, Trump’s Deregulation Is Grift That Keeps On Giving

a wraithette?

America's for sale. What's wrong with a free market?

Trump’s Attacks on DEI May Hurt Men in College Admission This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on...

Of course, it's not clear that men with their reliance on emotional decision making and tendencies toward violence belong in an intellectual academic environment. Just asking.

Trump’s Attacks on DEI May Hurt Men in College Admission talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...

You can't fire me, I quit?

The is the old you can't fire me, I quit.

Q: “You said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd.”

Trump: “I didn’t say that. You said that. I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news.”

Trump on Dec. 3: “Whatever they have, we’d certainly release. No problem.”

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même crook.