Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

No one could have predicted…

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Most of you should go to bed and try to be better Jackals in the morning.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

You know he’s going to shit a cat.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

White supremacy is terrorism.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

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The Scrambling You Now Here

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Is Democrats updating their Anyuone But Bush talking points, because on Hardball a moment ago, two 9/11 commission members, Ben Veniste and Thompson, both agreed that it was nonsense for Democrats to try to hang 9/11 on Bush, particularly in light of the much bally-hooed August 6th PDB.

Ben Veniste called Condi Rice “prescient,” both agreed that the memo was “junk,” the shoddy circumstances under which it was created was “frightening,” and that the only NEW information in the memo turned out to be wrong.

Meaning, for all you slow-witted readers outthere, that the document was, as repeatedly stated by the President and Rice, historical.

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Screw ‘Em

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A television image aired on an Arabic television station April 10, 2004 shows a U.S. hostage who Qatar-based Al Jazeera television said identified himself as Thomas Hamill in front of an Iraqi flag.

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Friends and neighbors of Thomas Hamill, a Mississippi civilian taken hostage in Iraq gathered Sunday, April 11, 2004, for a vigil outside the Noxubee County Courthouse, many wearing yellow ribbons and scrawling notes of support for his family after a morning deadline imposed by his abductors passed.

Thomas Hamill, a kidnapped American in Iraq, and his friends and family who are praying for his release. Hammill is by all accounts a decent American and an employee of Kellogg, Brown & Root subsidiary of Halliburton Co, and was captured while providing security for a convoy.

Or, in the minds of some, a war profiteer and the patrons of his bloody largesse. Kos, no stranger to obscene remarks, has this to say today about Mr. Hammill and his employer:

This is the same company that gouged the US military in Iraq for fuel supplies. Cheney is directly profiting from a war profiteering company.

Screw ’em, right?

One of these days Democrats are going to have to live with their words.

And, btw- can someone go take the time to explain to Kos why Cheney is still getting deferred payments from Halliburton. I am sure he has been told 500 times before and still wants to make partisan hay about nothing, so please use small words so he understands. I am tired of dealing with Kos and his scummy friends and apologizers. And by scummy friends, I mean you, Jeff Seeman, and you, Richard Morrison, two candidates for the House of Representatives who seem to like Kos’s rhetoric.

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Oliver- Is This Sourced Well Enough For You?

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In front of the country and everyone else, Janet Reno again confirmed that Clarke’s book and testimony is full of it. Remember where he stated that the Millenium Plot was foiled because of his and the Clinton administration’s activity- you know- the activity that was denied by the agents responsible for the capture of Ressam. The alert and call to battle stations that there is no record of? Reno confirmed this again:

ROEMER: My time has just about run out. Just to clarify one point then. You think the decision made by the guard on the border to get Ressam coming into our country to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport then was somehow related to the frenetic…

RENO: No.

ROEMER: … active activity of the principals meeting?

RENO: No. I think she did that — I mean, I think that was just good police work, and it was a lucky break for us.

Is the public record of the 9/11 Commission sourcing enough, Oliver?

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Gorelick

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With all that has been revealed about Gorelick’s involvement in creating the mess (here is a .pdf of the memo), it is certain that the calls for Gorelick to step down will increase.

Kudos to Dwight Meredith, who predicted a mess similar to this months ago.

BTW- Just in case someone wants to know, it is with an immense amount of pleasure that I openly gloat about this partisan hack getting a taste of her own medicine. I have no intention of pretending to be fair after the nonsense the Democrats have pulled in the last few weeks.

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This May Shock Some

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But Jesse makes sense (to a degree- before he starts hurling grenades again) on this one.

I personally do not care what the new Miss USA thinks about Iraq, anymore than I care what Barbra Streisand or Alec Baldwin think about Iraq. In fact, after watching the Q&A portion of the contest, I would make a firm argument that conservatives and pro-war partisans could find a better spokesman for why the War in Iraq is a good thing.

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