Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

American History and Black History can not be separated.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Republicans don’t trust women.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

The revolution will be supervised.

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

T R E 4 5 O N

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

This blog will pay for itself.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

“woke” is the new caravan.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

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  2. 2.

    Mary G

    Wow, I didn’t know how much I needed that. Those girls are who I’m fighting for, and it just got me all fired up again.

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    Ohio Mom

    Leaving the White House has been great for Michelle Obama. She is so much lighter and freer. She just glows these days.

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    TS (the original)

    Rachel is worth a listen. Turkish President – also has a son in law who meets up with folks. Sometimes she is long winded – but she explains things in a way even trump would have to understand. He is probably listening as I type.

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    seaboogie

    Sorry about your crappy day. I’m actually having a good one, for a change. Got the ups on my usual procrastination situation, and set up pretty well for the next seven solid days of work in the sweetest retail shop in Sonoma. It’s usually very busy and my favorite time of year in the shop. And starting an awesome dogsit on Sunday that also includes 5 chickens (named after C&W singer gals) who have the most deluxe coop situation imaginable. Awesome espresso machine in the house. My next day off (Christmas) will be all lattes and omelets! Yay!

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    Hildebrand

    Saw Michelle in Detroit last week. She is amazing, thoughtful, forthright, and generous. Just an amazing human being.

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    Gravenstone

    @rikyrah: As Adam would likely point out, Mueller inherited an ongoing investigation. Yes his team has been very productive but they weren’t starting from zero.

  24. 24.

    Ken

    @rikyrah:

    Mueller is, by a wide margin, the most productive and efficient special counsel in history.

    It helped that there was so much criminality scope for the investigation.

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    WaterGirl

    @lamh36: I was so excited the other night when “lawn chair guy” was on one of the late night shows. I swore to myself that I would remember his name, but all I’ve got is Jason Somebody. Still, it was fun.

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    Anya

    @TS (the original): isn’t it interesting how Trump never said anything bad about Rachel Maddow. He used to attack Lawrence but he doesn’t do it these days. I think he’s more obsessed with CNN than MSNBC.

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    TS (the original)

    @Anya: I’ve no idea why – perhaps because there is too much truth in what she says. I do think he listens to work out what to tweet next

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    Mnemosyne

    I’ve been tired and grumpy all day and now one of my teeth has suddenly decided to start hurting for no apparent reason, so I gave up and have already put my pajamas on at 6:45 pm.

    But that video did help a bit. ?

    (The tooth thing may be an incipient weather migraine. Ugh)

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    Adam L Silverman

    @Gravenstone: True, but what he’s done, across multiple lanes of investigation (counterintelligence, foreign involvement in the 2016 election to sway the election and since the election to continue to influence American politics from at least a 1/2 dozen foreign state actors – some allies, some hostile, financial criminal enterprise, obstruction of justice) in a comparatively short time is amazing.

  50. 50.

    Mnemosyne

    @lamh36:

    Apparently one of the stories from the set of Aquaman was that he got annoyed that Amber Heard would read during breaks rather than pay attention to him, so he started ripping the last few pages out of her books so she wouldn’t know how they ended. ?

    Romance Author Twitter has started referring to him as “Gaston,” and it’s not a compliment.

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    J R in WV

    No surprise the Mid East is starting to be mentioned in court documents. We knew that was, for Trump, a target rich locale, there’s an ocean of dirty money there. So I expect to see many indictments regarding MiddleEastern dirty money.

    I like much about the eastern Med cultures. I just made a baked Kibbeh with garlic yogurt and rice for din, Ummm. good. But the politics are still from the Ottoman era, and the economics from long before that.

  52. 52.

    Ben Cisco

    A little over a month after moving, I found a new job. Pretty decent too. I find myself relieved and grateful for it. So the work bit is working.

  54. 54.

    Amir Khalid

    @Steeplejack:
    A Fender Champion 100. Probably loud enough to kill me if I really crank it; but I got it for the extra features, I swear. At 18kg it’s actually on the light side: Marshall’s 100W digital combo weighs 5kg more. (I was just on marshall.com; per the spec sheets, a full valve stack weighs some 90kg — 200lb!)

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    Adam L Silverman

    @Mnemosyne: I think it was more that he appears to be an 8 year old in a 6’4 inch, heavily muscled adult body. If he’d have had an inkwell, he’d have just dipped her pig tails in it.

    That said, I’m looking forward to seeing the movie next week.

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    zhena gogolia

    @Steeplejack: @debbie:

    My guess is that it’s because he got into a heated exchange with a woman who was upset by the obscenities because she thought children shouldn’t see them. If I had to speculate, I’d suspect she reported him or something.

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