I’ve been fortunate enough to visit the White House several times, and what strikes you first, after you’ve seen pictures of it growing up, is how small it actually is. Not small in importance, of course, but small in square footage and size.And I’ve been to the Oval Office three times, each time an…
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“People are disappearing into this no man’s land. They have no connection to their new country, and they also apparently have no legal rights.” —Immigration rights attorney Alma David, quoted in The New York Times“Terrible things are happening outside… poor helpless people are being dragged out of…
To co-opt a famed riddle about drug addicts and alcoholics: How do you know a member of the Trump Administration is lying?Answer: Their lips are moving.As we’ve come to learn, there are only three qualifications for someone getting hired by Trump:They must have a criminal disposition.They must be ca…
Horrifically underqualified and monstrous Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth should never have been confirmed by the Senate. Even Mitch McConnell, along with Lisa Murkowski and a “concerned” Susan Collins, voted no. Mitch almost always votes party first, but not this time. Now, every other Republica…
Trump just took steps to make it very difficult to prosecute money laundering, a crime he and his real estate buddies may well have been committing much of their felonious lives.This month, we learned that Capital One Bank closed more than 300 Trump Organization accounts back in 2021 because, they s…
Back in the days when conservatives were so hungry for media platforms that they’d come on progressive shows, I used to regularly debate Wayne Allen Root (here and here, for example). Instead of trying to convince me, though, Root has recently taken to giving Trump ideas about things to do, like ste…
While slouched at his desk in the Oval Office this month, Islamophobe — among many other phobes — Donald Trump told reporters that a friend had suggested he start calling his political opponents “jihadists.”He made clear he had one candidate in mind — Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan physician who w…
Sometimes, I sit back in breathtaking wonder struggling to consider what more could possibly be written about Donald John Trump that hasn’t already been said a million times and in a million different ways.And then, he does something else that leaves me – and any thinking human being – gasping for a…
I know y’all would probably rather not talk about the Republican candidates for governor of Florida.However, distasteful as it is, we must: The primary is Aug. 18.Now, this family-friendly publication frowns on scatological language, so let’s just call the campaign unseemly.Undignified. Unedifying. …
Among the multiple bombshells that dropped in DC this month, there’s one extra big one that we can’t allow to get lost in the raging garbage fire news cycle Trump somehow created so that no one would trust anything they heard from the media. Sen. Ron “Chutzpah” Wyden (D-OR, and my Senator, hence my…