Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

The revolution will be supervised.

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Parker Curry’s mom took her to the National Portrait Gallery to see the new portraits of President and Mrs. Obama. Parker was very, very impressed with Michelle Obama’s portrait.

The AM TO DM guys, as well as most of the Internet, made sure Michelle Obama got the message. As was easily predicted, the former First Lady responded as everyone would expect:

Don’t look directly at Parker without protective glasses! The cuteness, it burns!!!!!

Open thread!

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  2. 2.

    jeffreyw

    Gwen C. Katz
    @gwenckatz
    They discovered a new species of cat that’s like an ocelot but smaller and they DID NOT name it the ocelittle. What are you doing, biologists??

    9:10 AM – Mar 6, 2018

  7. 7.

    MomSense

    @ruemara:

    Oh I would give anything for that to happen. I got all teary just seeing Michelle dance with little Parker.

  8. 8.

    Adam L Silverman

    @WaterGirl: Here you go:

  13. 13.

    Adam L Silverman

    @WaterGirl: You’re welcome. Just don’t ask me to explain election rules to you tonight. I had a very long, though from what I can tell good, day.

  14. 14.

    Amir Khalid

    @jeffreyw:
    Quite understandable. When the zoologist said, “I know! We’ll call it the ocelittle!”, everyone in the room turned around and gave him this really withering look.

  15. 15.

    TenguPhule

    @ruemara:

    I demand Michelle & Barack be returned to the WH.

    At this point its better to burn it down with the current occupants trapped inside and just build a nice new building for the Obamas to rule from.

  18. 18.

    lowtechcyclist

    Parker is unbelievably cute.

    So is the ocelittle. Especially the kitten.

    And if Michelle Obama showed up at my house to dance with my son, I’d be more speechless and awkward and tongue-tied around a woman than I’ve been in 40 years. I’d just be overwhelmed.

  19. 19.

    Chip Daniels

    I’ll never understand how we could go from the very best president of my lifetime to the very worst.

    With every passing day, I miss those two more and more.

  20. 20.

    Adam L Silverman

    So this happened:

  22. 22.

    TenguPhule

    So Conway is in violation of the Hatch act. Cohn is gone. Tariffs are coming down from Trump to fuck up our economy. Nunburg went bonkers on national TV. Putin is pulling wetwork in Britain.

    And its only Tuesday.

  28. 28.

    Jeffro

    Just run a Michelle/Oprah or Michelle/anyone ticket already and let’s blow the Rs’ doors off. The president’s just a figurehead for a coalition of interests: why not go with a smart, funny, warm-hearted, inclusive leader with name recognition out the yin-yang and be done with it? Why stress over the next 2+ years of maneuvering and primaries and what not?

    Actually, fuck the Constitution: let’s run them next week and not wait around for 2020.

  29. 29.

    Brachiator

    According to the SF Chronicle, Attorney General Sessions is in California to stir up some immigration shit.

    Attorney General Jeff Sessions is in Sacramento on Wednesday to make what his office describes as a “major sanctuary jurisdiction announcement,” just blocks from the state Capitol where where a new law making California a sanctuary state was passed and signed.

    Sessions did not provide advance details of his announcement, but his Justice Department has been in an escalating legal battle with California, dozens of cities and counties in the state, including San Francisco, and hundreds nationwide whose laws and policies restrict local police and jailers from taking part in federal immigration enforcement.

    Hang on to your hats.

    Earlier a poster noted that some purveyor of smoking substances was having a joke at Session’s expense. This story provides a picture of the box of rolling papers.

    An advocacy group has released a line of rolling papers branded with a picture of the attorney general smoking a joint, reports Newsweek.

    The papers are sold online as a novelty brand called General Jeff’s Old Rebel Session Papers and features a cartoon depiction of a fully-lit Sessions. A portion of each of the $5 packs will be donated to the Drug Policy Alliance.

  32. 32.

    TenguPhule

    @Brachiator:

    Sessions did not provide advance details of his announcement, but his Justice Department has been in an escalating legal battle with California, dozens of cities and counties in the state, including San Francisco, and hundreds nationwide whose laws and policies restrict local police and jailers from taking part in federal immigration enforcement.

    Speaking of which, the FYNYT is now running a story about how vulnerable immigrants are backing out of public nutrition services due to fears of being detained and deported if they use them. This is beyond obscene.

  35. 35.

    Brachiator

    @Quinerly:

    OT….Stormy Daniels suing Trump.

    Surely, Trump must have seen that … coming.

    Or this:

    After Trump’s victory, Cohen complained to friends that he had yet to be reimbursed for the payment to Clifford, the people said.

  39. 39.

    MomSense

    @Adam L Silverman:

    My oldest son’s take after watching the Nunberg spectacle last night is that he is really stressed out, pissed off that trump and co. treat everyone like garbage, self medicating, and not listening to his lawyer.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @TenguPhule: He can take the 5th all he wants. What he can’t do is shield production of emails or other records under the 5th Amendment. That stuff has to be turned over.

  42. 42.

    TenguPhule

    @Brachiator:

    After Trump’s victory, Cohen complained to friends that he had yet to be reimbursed for the payment to Clifford, the people said.

    How has this man not been disbarred before now?

  45. 45.

    TenguPhule

    @Adam L Silverman:

    What he can’t do is shield production of emails or other records under the 5th Amendment. That stuff has to be turned over.

    I’m going to take a stab that he’s stupid enough to think he can get around this by having preemptively tried to destroy the evidence first.

  48. 48.

    TenguPhule

    @Jeffro:

    it’s like “Groundhog Day” x Nixon x “Red Dawn” since Nov 2016 in this cruddy timeline…

    With Idioracy thrown in for good measure.

  49. 49.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Quinerly:

    nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/stormy-daniels-sues-trump-says-hush-agreement-invalid-because-he-n…

    Stormy Daniels sues Trump, says ‘hush agreement’ invalid because he never signed
    by SARAH FITZPATRICK

    Adult film star Stormy Daniels sued Donald Trump Tuesday, alleging that he never signed the nondisclosure agreement that his lawyer had arranged with her.

    The civil suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by NBC News, alleges that her agreement not to disclose her “intimate” relationship with Trump is not valid because while both Daniels and Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen signed it, Trump never did.

    Stephanie Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels, signed both the agreement and a side letter agreement using her professional name on October 28, 2016, just days before the 2016 presidential election. Cohen signed the document the same day. Both agreements are appended to the lawsuit as Exhibit 1 and Exhibit 2.

    The “hush agreement,” as it’s called in the suit, refers to Trump throughout as David Dennison, and Clifford as Peggy Peterson. The side letter agreement reveals the true identities of the parties as Clifford and Trump.

    Each document includes a blank where “DD” is supposed to sign, but neither blank is signed.

    According to the lawsuit, which attorney Michael Avenatti announced in a tweet, Clifford and Trump had an intimate relationship that lasted from summer 2006 “well into the year 2007.” The relationship allegedly included meetings in Lake Tahoe and at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

  56. 56.

    TenguPhule

    @Amir Khalid:

    He was actually expecting Trump to pay for something?

    To be fair, its normally a very bad idea to stiff your own lawyer.

  59. 59.

    japa21

    @WaterGirl: He’ll probably lie or something. The reality is, if he told us anything he’d have to kill us to keep it secret. (That is what my LTC Army son always tells us when we ask what he is working on.)

  60. 60.

    Adam L Silverman

    @TenguPhule: Because he doesn’t actually practice law. He has his own real estate empire, which overlaps with the President’s. He owns a significant number of the hack licenses in NY City in partnership with some really shady Eastern European organized crime folks. He’s also tried his hand at casino boat cruises and the energy industry in his father in law’s native Ukraine.

  61. 61.

    Adam L Silverman

    This will work out well.

  64. 64.

    WaterGirl

    @Adam L Silverman: I’m thinking Trump is screwed either way on this. No pun intended.

    If Trump says Cohen did this without his knowledge, I would think the agreement would be invalid because it has Trump’s name on it, so she could sing her little heart out. Or he has to admit that the agreement existed, and he is caught in his millionth lie.

  65. 65.

    Cacti

    I just read that Wilmer’s stepdaughter lost the election for Mayor of Burlington, VT.

    :-) :-) :-)

    No coronation for an aspiring political dynasty.

  70. 70.

    Mary G

    @Mnemosyne: In “Hamilton” news, the Olivier award nominations came out today and AH got the most ever, 13, except as NY Magazine asks: Is Eliza the Most Thankless Part in Hamilton?

    Which, we would be lying if we said didn’t feel a little like winning the Revolutionary War all over again. Like, Hey, we created this musical about how we kicked your asses, and the only British character — a king — is a foppish joke, then when we brought it to your country, you thanked us for it. USA USA USA.

  72. 72.

    Adam L Silverman

    As I’ve been saying:

  73. 73.

    Quinerly

    @TenguPhule: Back from 6 weeks in New Mexico. No cable news, sporadic internet.All day on a construction project at my home today. Caught 5 mins of Hardball….Tweety digs a sex scandal. Said….”breaking news.”

  76. 76.

    Adam L Silverman

    @TenguPhule: Cohen isn’t the President’s lawyer. He has not actually ever done legal work for the President’s businesses. He’s just a senior associate, who sometimes calls himself the special counsel, at the Trump Organization. He does threaten to sue people on behalf of the President, but there’s no indication he’s ever done that.

  78. 78.

    TenguPhule

    @Quinerly:

    So Conway is in violation of the Hatch act. Cohn is gone. Tariffs are coming down from Trump to fuck up our economy. Nunburg went bonkers on national TV. Putin is pulling wetwork in Britain.

    And its only Tuesday.

    This happened in two days. Most of it today.

  81. 81.

    TenguPhule

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Cohen isn’t the President’s lawyer.

    But the media keeps insisting he is because Trump and company keep saying it.

    The gaslighting is enough to drive lesser mortals to madness.

  84. 84.

    Amir Khalid

    @Adam L Silverman:
    A lot of American consumers rely on affordable goods from China. A lot of American manufacturers rely on parts/sub-assemblies from China. When I see Trump’s “administration” making economic policy this destructive, I wonder whose side he’s on. It sure as fuck isn’t America’s.

  85. 85.

    Adam L Silverman

    @japa21: No, I finished an analytical piece I’ve been futzing around with. It is for work, and it does include some ideas that I’ve written about here as I was thinking my way through the problem set.

  88. 88.

    Corner Stone

    @Roger Moore:

    I’m glad to hear Nunberg is getting treatment. It sounds as if he needs it.

    Some here might suggest it was just more of his distraction theater. I would not because I think he cracked under the pressure.

  89. 89.

    efgoldman

    @Adam L Silverman:

    he told me he’s fully cooperating now w Mueller’s team and he’s intending to go get treatment following his grand jury appearance on Friday

    Does the grand jury offer detox?

  90. 90.

    Mnemosyne

    @Mary G:

    The writer’s not wrong because, as with The Shape of Water, it does feel like people are sometimes missing the point of the ending. ? There’s a reason it’s called Hamilton and not Alexander Hamilton.

  93. 93.

    Adam L Silverman

    As usual, the Florida legislature screws around for 5 weeks, 4 days, and 10 hours, and then this happens. Every freaking year!

  95. 95.

    Elizabelle

    @Mnemosyne: And no spoilers beyond that. Have not seen either work. Oscars night was first I heard of the fish aspect. Grinding Nemo, as those here inform.

  96. 96.

    Roger Moore

    @Brachiator:

    According to the SF Chronicle, Attorney General Sessions is in California to stir up some immigration shit.

    I wonder if he’s violated any California laws we could lock him up for.

  97. 97.

    TenguPhule

    @Amir Khalid:

    I wonder whose side he’s on. It sure as fuck isn’t America’s.

    Donald Trump has only one side. Its Donald Trump.

    I’m running out of possible disasters he hasn’t yet caused or tried yet to torpedo the economy.

    I suppose doing something incredibly stupid at the nation’s busiest ports that causes them to slow down or grind to a halt might be a step too far for him….

  98. 98.

    TenguPhule

    @Roger Moore:

    I wonder if he’s violated any California laws we could lock him up for.

    Being a Republican must surely violate at least one local ordinance.

  99. 99.

    Mnemosyne

    @Elizabelle:

    No spoilers! It’s a fairly divisive movie and it depends on your tolerance for Del Toro’s combination of whimsy and gore.

    (It’s not as gory as some of his other films, but it has its fair share.)

  102. 102.

    Roger Moore

    @TenguPhule:

    I suppose doing something incredibly stupid at the nation’s busiest ports that causes them to slow down or grind to a halt might be a step too far for him….

    I doubt he knows where the nation’s busiest ports are.

  104. 104.

    TenguPhule

    Kurds pull back from ISIS fight in Syria, saying they feel let down by U.S.

    Wapo breaking story…..

  105. 105.

    ET

    Am watching the documentary on Fred Roger’s “It’s You I Like” and he had the woman who played the Wicked Witch on as a guest and he said something to the effect that as an adult how important it was to know the difference between what was real and make believe and all I could think was that tRump was obviously too old for the show because he clearly doesn’t know the difference between what’s real and what’s not.

  106. 106.

    WaterGirl

    @Mnemosyne:

    There’s a reason it’s called Hamilton and not Alexander Hamilton.

    There is? (Have not seen it yet but would still like to know the answer.)

  107. 107.

    TenguPhule

    @Roger Moore:

    I doubt he knows where the nation’s busiest ports are.

    He couldn’t find Syria on a map either. When in doubt, all of em, Katie!

  114. 114.

    efgoldman

    @Matt McIrvin:

    shooting war coming between ICE and the California National Guard?

    The ICE gestapo is stupid enough to fire the first shot.

  116. 116.

    Ken

    @TenguPhule:

    Isn’t most of Ivanka’s crap contracted out to China?

    When they announced there’d be no steel tariff exemptions based on country of origin, but there would be for some importing companies, my first thought was, “Such as a certain real estate developer with a long history of using the imported stuff.” I’m sure there will be special carve-outs for some importers.

  118. 118.

    Roger Moore

    @Ken:

    I’m sure there will be special carve-outs for some importers.

    I wonder how large a bribe it will take to get one.

  122. 122.

    efgoldman

    @TenguPhule:

    Wapo breaking story…..

    What else is new?
    We’ve broken actual and applied promises to the Kurds for many decades.

  123. 123.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Amir Khalid: I saw someone ask the following question on twitter the other day (I’m paraphrasing from memory):

    What would the President be doing differently if he was, in fact, a Russian asset?

    My answer would be nothing much.

  130. 130.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Ken: I’m waiting for someone to explain to this crowd that under Federal law, for national security reasons, British, Canadian, and Australian steel (not sure about aluminum) are considered to be domestic products. It is illegal under US Federal law to impose tariffs on steel from any and/or all of those three countries.

  134. 134.

    frosty

    @Amir Khalid:

    I want a Les Paul.

    Yes, everyone should have something with humbuckers. I played a borrowed Epi LP last year. Played well and sounded good and cheaper than Gibson, if that’s a factor.

  135. 135.

    randy khan

    I was just reading a NY Times Magazine article from October 2016 (I know, but I was behind and it’s been too painful to read) about Trump and right wing media. Imagine my surprise to find out that the person who connected Trump and Erick Son of Erick (although as of the time of the article, Erickson was still a never-Trumper) was none other than Sam Nunberg.

  136. 136.

    Amir Khalid

    @frosty:
    I yearn for the Epi Les Paul Studio. It does the business, it’s cheaper than the Standard, and it looks more elegant.

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