Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Be a wild strawberry.

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

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Books are my comfort food!

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

This fight is for everything.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

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

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

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If at first you don’t succeed. Some weeks ago I pointed out that Deborah Jeane Palfrey, whose high-priced DC escort service was raided in late 2006, needed funds to mount a proper defense after the feds froze her $500,000 savings. Ms. Palfrey first tried offering her client list to the highest bidder. When the court blocked that move Ms. Palfrey threatened to simply release the list to an unspecified news agency. That way Ms. Palfrey wouldn’t profit from the list directly, but no doubt she would consider changing her mind if a well-heeled client offered to subsidize the defense.

Ms. Palfrey’s plan B must not have paid off, because now we get what can fairly be described as an exquisitely sadistic Plan C. The AP reports that Ms. Palfrey has released exactly…one name. Who he is doesn’t really matter (you can click the link if you really care…perv), but judging by his rank and influence it seems safe to say that this was a warning. To show that she’s serious.

As I see it Ms. Palfrey is going for more or less the same psychological effect as the crime movie staple of shooting one hostage every hour. It seems hard to believe that today’s release will be the only one. Who knows when one’s name will come out? Maybe tomorrow, maybe three months from now. Ms. Palfrey dismissed her court-appointed attorney so she won’t see counsel unless someone either dials up her defense line or (hint for any sweat-stained armpits at the DOJ) unfreezes her bank account. The clients know who they are. She knows who the clients are. Tick. Tick.

Mind you, none of this should be taken to mean that I approve of prostitution, extortion, blackmail or even that this remotely resembles what is actually going through Ms. Palfrey’s mind. Maybe I’m way off and even if I’m right the whole scheme is very, very wrong. But somehow a very damned part of my soul finds this funny as hell.

*** Critical Update! ***

I was unaware that ABC News already has the list. If you really need to find out who’s on the list (perv), tune in to an upcoming episode of 20/20.

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