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Please, please, please let Fox or CNN cover this comment so that DJT has an aneurism
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Please, please, please let Fox or CNN cover this comment so that DJT has an aneurism
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Fine with me! Dems should be so lucky
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
And Mamdani himself is so good at this
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Sorry to bum your rush, but it's a common old-age thing that any IV or blood draw leaves a big bruise. Still, he needs to blend that makeup
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm an American. Daughter of an Air Force pilot, granddaughter of Swedish immigrants, grandmother of a toddler I'm helping raise. Former newspaper editor, occasional protester.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
If true, that explains a LOT
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
We have a winner! See today's MoDo column
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
The neediest leader in the world.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Agreed. Stewart is funny and smart about many topics -- but he's not original, insightful or well-informed about politics.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Even hacks like Hegseth and Bondi are embarrassed by this display
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
He's really adopted Trump's style of b.s.: "everybody knows" something means it's not true and no one knows it; "no one knows this" means everyone knows it.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Since the American people own the White House and Trump is a tenant, his gross damages to the rental unit mean he should lose his deposit when he moves out. Oh, he didn't pay a deposit? And he doesn't intend to leave? Well, that is a pickle ...
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
No mention of this at NYTimes or Wapo, as far as I know. I suspect they don't want to "platform" racism, but this is how Trump gets away with it. In two or three days some op-ed writers might address it after most of us have moved on. I hope I'm wrong.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Agree, but this should be addressed to Brooks! Amazed that very few people have picked up on how clueless and wrong Brooks was about Epstein's significance. Comparing Epstein to the McMartin Preschool hysteria? Wow.
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In which Brooks makes light of the Epstein story and compares it to the hysteria over the McMartin Preschool case. Capehart gently corrects him to note that Epstein had real victims.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Brooks: "And every August, we — Washington goes crazy with some stupid story. And then in September, we think, what was that all about? And so this year, we're a little early. We're doing it in July." Then he compares the Epstein case to the McMartin Preschool story. Wow, just wow.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
There aren't many Americans who can afford those larger homes. Or even the smaller homes.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Dear Bagel Fragel T-shirt, I have no idea what happened to you because I bought you when I was a Michigan State student decades ago. And if I could find you, you would not fit older me. I hope you are keeping some little kid warm in the third world.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
I've been a renter for several decades, and the inexpensive but sturdy GE ovens in these places have always been slow. Get yourself a recommended oven thermometer (see ATK or Wirecutter) and find out how slow your oven is. Then adjust accordingly.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
You and Jamelle Bouie at the NYT are my go-to sources for political news and analysis. I'm so sad you're leaving, but I'll follow your next move.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Serves white wine with red sauce.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Disgusted by some of these comments. NHJ has just published an important NYT magazine piece on how the Trump administration is reversing civil rights. Instead of offering help you're piling on the NYT. Maybe you can overlook her employer's deficiencies to support an ally.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Elie Mystal makes a similar point. Increasing the size of the court lessens the problem of a small but cohesive majority (6 justices!) skewing the court in anti-majoritarian, dangerous ways. A larger court is harder to control by one political faction.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
I object to Christian prayer at school events. Somehow this Scotus has no problem with THAT (Kennedy vs. Bremerton School District). I guess it all depends ...
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
She found the Sen. Merkley section of her "whaddabout this!" oppo binder to get to "drug kingpin arrested in Oregon."
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Bus riders in Portland, OR, do too
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
There goes your chance to be an ABC news correspondent
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
I saw that headline and thought "JFC, NYT blaming progressives again"
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
My 3-year-old granddaughter is already a back-seat driver. "Why do you go so slow?" To her dad: "Why do you go so fast?" Gotta say she's right both times.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
I haven't heard anyone ask police how they KNOW it wasn't police -- press just assumes police are telling the truth apparently.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
How nice to exempt Trump opponents, thus assuring a crowd of low-information 20-year-olds
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
She's a cultist from way back. Clearly has gaps in critical thinking skills.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
What a stunning revelation, thanks
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Agree with the first part, not the "every awful, horrifying aspect there turned up to 11." For the most part, it's a normal place full of normal people. Bad things happen, good things happen. But its dominance in creativity and innovation spawns haters, including our hater-in-chief.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
I just watched the Billy Crudup version. What a touching, brilliant movie. It holds up well
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Reporters: Make them explain how they justify this move. Don't accept "it doesn't align with our priorities." Why doesn't it? Get it on the record: Drill down until you get Pete Hegseth or his mouthpiece to admit that they're homophobes or reveal that they're afraid to say so.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
I miss reading print editions
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
St. Paul's School, Concord. Lovely!
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
He doesn't know who Poilievre is or how to spell his name, so he's just whiffing here.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
I love your voice! It brightens my Sundays when I'm listening to NPR
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
In my area, electricians and car detailers but also a bagel store and coffee shop I'll never buy from again
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
A seemingly hip local coffee shop I've patronized is on the list. Never again. Thanks for this!
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Curry chicken noodle soup at a Burmese restaurant in Oakland in the late 1980s. I've tasted similar noodle dishes many times since then, but nothing as amazing as that restaurant's version.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
The ladies of Strict Scrutiny call him Pee Wee German
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
She got the Utah hair for nothing
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
youtu.be/QNfGl-hpnJg?...
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Umm, I trust Jeffrey Goldberg over Hegseth, 100 percent.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
When my 2-year-old granddaughter sees something she wants when we're shopping, she says "Me have it!" I (usually) tell her no. (Hey, I'm a grandma.) She and Trump aren't so different, but there's apparently no one to tell Trump no.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Big Church Lady energy
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
As far as I can tell, she was the ONLY Republican black woman congresswoman ever elected -- have there been any since?
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Baghdad Barbie
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
It's also an example of "male flight," when a previously male-dominated job or status -- say, veterinary medicine or attending college -- becomes majority female: straight white men begin to see it as beneath them. It's the Little Rascals' He-Man Woman Haters Club.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
With any luck, Trump will screw him over like he did the WH fotog his first term: take his images and publish a book just as Witty prepares his own.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Who are these liberal posters who don't want black kids in "their" universities?
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Great episode, but too funny to sleep through ;) Now I have to buy her books.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
I like the idea of all the bread Kenny can eat. The Kenny I know can eat a lot of bread.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
@wydensenategoi.bsky.social
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
“Military service by [blah, blah, blah] ... is incompatible with military service.” These people don't know how to think or write.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
"Every month for the next year, I will offer Post readers insight into Pennsylvania’s culture and politics." Who asked for this?
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Then Breitbart and One America News would have to listen to Karoline Leavitt's "Dear Leader" shtick. Let them! Then let the mainstream media do their job of actual reporting on a corrupt administration.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Featured on Jeopardy! last night, I think
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Fed workers read this: wapo.st/4aFrVyc
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump has paused PEPFAR, which is Bush's signal -- perhaps only -- achievement. Bush should be condemning Trump from the rooftops.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Bernie, not RFK Jr. 😠
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
So sweet 😍
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
There's something very funny, and endearing, about Bernie Sanders yelling about onesies
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
And they WILL be mad, once Trump's immigration crackdown starts causing even higher food prices, shortages of construction labor, etc.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
I had a job once where I shared tight quarters with a guy who was fine but who had a boss who was an absolute nightmare. I got permission to finish my writing projects at nearby libraries (which were uniformly quiet and lovely), and that was my saving grace.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
It would be a shame if that email address was overwhelmed with fake reports
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump and Melania know they've been revealed as bigots. Tiffany and J.D. are trying to rally their fellow bigots, but everyone else is too shocked at the truth-telling.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
J.D. keeps looking for affirmation from his wife. She doesn't give it.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Yep, love the cognitive dissonance. And now "Gloria"
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Yep, I tried it without the space and got results about "AI and xxxx." One space works
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Google John Sununu and climate change
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
You've described Matt Zaffino at KGW, Portland, OR
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
They all acquiesce eventually. I'll be shocked if DeSantis is the exception.
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Kevin Drum has been on this for more than a decade www.motherjones.com/environment/...
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
Jane Mayer is the best
Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent
If I could control the MSM I would ban "firebrand" from descriptions of right-wing nutballs