“Dear Acting Director, I work in criminal investigations at DOJ and I have never heard of a honey trap.”
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“Dear Acting Director, I work in criminal investigations at DOJ and I have never heard of a honey trap.”
Did not realize that “spilled some tea” means “used me to launder a story he wants Trump to hear”
Sell the paper, Jeff
The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesn’t. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.
Soo close to getting it…
I love the theory but I can’t imagine Rudy has driven himself anywhere in years.
Not to mention “rubbing hard against the soft, beautiful stone”
Step 1: define “foreign policy” to be so nebulous as to encompass anything involving a country other than the US Step 2: declare without any basis that the Constitution gives the President broad power to conduct foreign policy Step 3: Step 4: profit!
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
Wag the Dave
Mine (Van Hollen) has not historically been a guy who generates a ton of excitement but he is one of the few Dems who has met the moment.
Ugh post a trigger warning man
In fairness, there IS a Sbarro there.
I’m not up on my criminal law but I don’t get how grand jury nullification is a thing. Nullification by a petit jury, sure.
boring legal note: if they charged a misdemeanor, they wouldn't have needed a grand jury. since they do need a grand jury, any halfway decent instruction on the law and presentation of the facts ("he hit me in my armor with a wrapped sandwich") doesn't need nullification to say it isn't a felony.
fwiw people are calling this nullification and I don’t think that’s quite fair. they were charging a felony and he didn’t commit a felony. the grand jury did their job faithfully and well.
If then. “Trump Boldly Asserts Authority Over 25th Amendment Process”
That’s like the Sparks Notes summary of “Sinners”
Maybe Ember’s just pissed that everyone keeps calling her a buffalo.
He thinks “capital punishment” is when you get punished in the capital, doesn’t he?
Would buy a sweatshirt
No class! Free pizza for all, seniors!
Jim Jordan, noted expert on not noticing anything inappropriate.
Each of the cuts is him going hands on knees for 10 minutes to catch his breath
Sell the paper, Jeff
It’s all for show. I suspect during one of their chats, Putin said, “OK, lemme tell you about this guy Potemkin”
To the extent this “blacklist” is in good faith at all, it completely ignores the fact that going back to Luntz and probably beyond, right-wing culture warriors just arbitrarily pick words to attack. I’m old enough to remember the demonization of “politically correct.”
given the utter incompetence of kash patel i would not be surprised if they raided michael boltons house
And, ironically, Reagan was responsible for putting large numbers of mentally ill people on the streets in DC.
He cares about interior design in the way that Jeffrey Dahmer cared about eating local.
I’m old enough to remember when Pam Bondi claimed that DC residents were walking up to those guys in the street and whispering, “thank you, thank you, thank you.” Wait, that was yesterday.
Imagine walking around with Stephen Miller and YOU’RE the one getting heckled. What an accomplishment.
“I made so much progress in my new cult that every single one of my family members got on a plane 48 hours later and dragged me into a deprogramming session.”
It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.
Judge Katsas, useful idiot, this morning on left. AG Bondi this afternoon on right.
This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
Still woulda been cooler if it was a Jumbo Slice
Galway, Paris, London, New York, Buenos Aires
“Elections have consequences, you should’ve confirmed Robert Bork, the president is entitled to make these calls.” But also: “The Senate’s role is to advise and consent so it’s totally fine for Mitch McConnell to refuse to hold a vote for 9 months.” These people are not intellectually honest.
Printing this is embarrassing.
Counting on Their Fingers Crows
Plus it shoulda been a Jumbo Slice
But he’s got his Ph.D. and “real” right in his handle, must be a smart guy.
Can it be called “No Pierogies”?
My support for this is conditioned on the new 410 state making its official nickname “The Old Hon State”
So you walk into the locker room to get dressed for your beer league game, and you recognize the guy sitting by the door. "Oh, that's Evgeny Kuznetsov." Wait a second... "Oh no, that's Evgeny. Kuznetsov. And he's playing with us." www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
“Moped” in DC almost certainly means delivery driver which suggests most of these guys went running because they thought they might get to deport someone.
This is always true, but it’s especially applicable now: Topical humor ALWAYS has a perspective. If a late night host does bland Leno-style jokes about Trump being orange and Bernie Sanders being cranky, he’d be making a STRONG political statement: Everything is fine, Trump’s just another politician
Imagine knowing anything about Moses Ezekiel or the Latin inscription at the base and trying to describe this as a “Reconciliation Monument”
Love too have delicate and cherished experiences in the aisle of the grocery store with the sanitary napkins and the shaving cream.
I want to do a 🧵 about the Sidney Sweeney thing, because it's *extremely* revealing & educational. First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares. Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.
Did he see his shadow or what?
Saw her with the Dap Kings while she was in remission, amazing, life-affirming show.
Re-upping this from November. Some of us have consistently tried to warn about what was to come. Many of us were treated as hysterical.
At 14th & Swann? Probably a PBR or an iced caramel macchiato.
It takes one guy to do the actual carjacking, and 7 guys to drape themselves over the Tesla so it doesn’t get scratched and malfunction.
Would respectfully submit James Carr’s version of “To Love Somebody” as Exhibit B to your point.
This is real I shit you not
Real “calves the size of cantaloupes” energy to this one.
The Great Famine was bad but negative net migration really launched the Irish economy.
“textbook hostile work environment” lol Sean you better get a better textbook
brain leaking out his ears
I wouldn’t say this often, but Harvard should hire that cop to teach Con Law.
This pretty much guarantees he’s on the IR by Week 4.
I've had enough. In this thread, I will tell you, definitively, whether Sydney Sweeney has great jeans. This way, you will be more informed when shopping for your wardrobe . 🧵
That second pic was posted in cold blood.
In a better political era, Huck would’ve been laughed out of not just politics but public life entirely for the helmet/tactical vest/Dunlop combo. Dukakis weeps.
An excellent thread from @brianthill.bsky.social pushed me to buy a copy of the Oresteia but sadly I doubt Aeschylus will see a dime.
Not unrelatedly, I was delighted to see DE on my son’s AP Language syllabus for the upcoming school year.
My district voted like 40% Republican in the last election and yet my congressman is 100% Democratic this is sooo unfaaaaair
Given the option of saying (about the most notorious pedophile in American history), "I ended our friendship because he was a creep" - and - "I ended our friendship because I don't like it when people try to poach my staff" IT'S PRETTY WEIRD TO GO WITH THE LAST ONE !!!!
The new version (thanks to @gwynnravenfire.bsky.social and @robgrant9.bsky.social )
Same verse from Proverbs but the video is that Lululemon lady yelling at ICE in Encinitas
Mad Max vanity tag on the No Taxation Without Representation plate, full dystopian mode
Here is everything you should know about "Supreme Court Beach," a painting of semi-nude justices cavorting on the beach, one of whom is holding a gigantic bong. A real-life Supreme Court justice loved it so much that he bought the original to hang in his chambers. (Not the one holding the bong.)
Time is never a flatter circle than when on the Metro.
It looks like it’s literally “from the river to the sea.”
At least the “art,” while cursed, is geographically accurate.
Passive voice doing the work in that announcement.
Thanks for this thread & effort—I have really enjoyed following along. Was lucky enough to vacation in Sicily a couple weeks ago and visited the theater in Siracusa where Aeschylus supposedly staged a few plays (and where the Lennon book I mentioned a while back is set). Gotta read the Oresteia now!
An important subset of this is the constant reassurance that there’s nothing wrong with you for using all those words you like to use but can’t around the crazy wokes.
Long live the Bog.
Essentially the only reason I’m holding on to my subscription at this point is sports coverage and, welp…
Bummer Meditations
Nah to get the commutation she’s gonna have to implicate Hillary or Obama or both.
I am laughing and I only got about half the references.
More likely that she’s suddenly going to be willing to testify that the whole operation was masterminded by Hillary.
I had missed this but we should all remember that it was terrible when that one restaurant was mean to his daughter. Civility, people!
My anecdotal experience is exactly the same. The DC explainers have logged on.
Plus they already made. H&PC movie, it was called Inception.
In fact, I’d say one of the major problems facing the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation was that they had no power to levy taxes to support the war effort. That’s why they fixed it in the Constitution!
I really want to know the circumstances under which those two reporters were conflicted out.
How does this even get scored? It’s like a 2-out fielder’s choice.
Responding to you with “whew, lawd, bless your heart” is a choice.
Like songbirds, they pipe to define and defend their territory.
A great review of a book I’m not particularly interested in reading. defector.com/william-f-bu...
“My wish, which is maybe equally childish, is that men like Buckley would be burdened by the fact of themselves. I would love to believe that people like him are conflicted, tortured, haunted in some way when, as they survey their lives, they confront what they have wrought.”
Fair tbh
Ah, well, it was fun while it lasted