Enough is Enough…
When I was a boy and strayed way, way past the rules of behavior set by my great-grandmother, she would say, “ enough is enough,...
Trump's DOJ Spied on House Intelligence Committee Democrats [Update w/ Schiff Call to Investigate]
Just broke by the New York Times and picked up by Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow: Hunting Leaks, Trump Officials Focused on Democrats in Congress...
Previous Guy shines a pile with a revisionist history of his Helsinki beta moment
Previous guy whines with some strange riffs from Mueller Report, likely because of the latest Rudy tape as well as the McGahn testimony. Apparently he...
Previous guy's an alien, “…because when you're a star they let you do it”
Former President Trump ordered the Pentagon to release all of its information on "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAP) within 18 days in his last coronavirus relief bill...
This is What Trump Expected the First Time…
Meandering nonsense highlighted by searches for bamboo fibers, and official lies issued from Mar-a Lago, are exactly what Donald Trump expected to be doing in...
Will Taliban retake full control of Afghanistan and return to totalitarian rule
If there are epitaphs for the US involvement in Afghanistan, it will resemble the problem of a modern military against a historically unconquerable country built...
GOP and RW media whine about DoJ becoming “politicized again”
Susan Hennessey will be senior counsel at the National Security Division of the Justice Department. Looks like the Feds are closing in something, something, because...
Minerva @ Midnight: Big Liar's Deep State. Trump's DOJ procured Washington Post phone records
Trump's DOJ secretly obtained Washington Post reporters’ phone records "The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists' phone records and tried to obtain their...
Previous guy's “ignoration day” came after Chris Steele produced a “second” dossier for the FBI
Expect some GOP to be triggered by this new information about intelligence produced during Trump’s term as “...it was used by the US Justice Department to...
Minerva @ Midnight: people like Giuliani's records, they're not thinking about the first impeachment
Remember when Trump said: "I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery". Maybe we can finally get to that...
The FBI seizes records from Rudy Giuliani's Manhattan apartment and office.
Feebs are closing in. Rudy’s electronic devices have now been seized in a NYC raid on his Manhattan apartment (and a Park Avenue office location). Darn that...
Took a village to watch&listen to the rank stupidity & incompetence that took so many lives.
It is hard to believe that our American village could elect a man that does not even know how uneducated and uninformed he is. Yes,...
Newsom and Novelty: Caitlyn Jenner joins in the recall effort
GOP consultant Tim Miller weighs in on the Newsom recall effort in California. Someday the political status quo will be disrupted in the Golden State—politics...
Minerva @ Midnight: Summer augurs a continuation of bad faith and disinformation
Minnesota law enforcement, at its based level exhibits some intersectional issues often represented in fictional culture products like Fargo. Their police forces haven’t learned very much...
Was the previous guy's presidency the most successful Russian intelligence operation in history
So much still unresolved from the Trump era installed in 2016, and continued through 2020, a Russian intelligence operation. Hard to tell whether it ranks...
Minerva @ Midnight: prosecuting the previous guy, former FedEx employee kills 8, plus Freedom Flies
Do we really have the will to prosecute Trump for anything? Or will he escape yet again because he’ll try to bargain his way out...
Minerva @ Midnight: has Biden already been moved leftward
Anand Giridharadas wrote a piece for The Atlantic asserting that Biden has been moving leftward. This may only be a short term impression only because...
Biden announces sanctions imposed on Russia because of hacks and 2020 election interference
The Biden administration has disclosed for the first time that a Russian agent who received internal polling data from the Trump campaign in 2016 passed...
“…it's time to end America's longest war*”
All US troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by 9/11/2021, ignoring the 1 May deadline set by previous guy. 2,500 troops remain. *“Wars with Native...
self-ownage: Jordan Peterson probably thinks a Red Skull comic is about him
You’d think that a scholar in psychology, however flawed, would understand projection, and that fascism is more than making trains run on time, even when...
Minerva @ Midnight: For every AOC there is her antithesis: MTG
Because Taylor Greene is all about the family values, the usual trolls made noise about FLOTUS sporting patterned stockings when you can google "Melania Trump nudes"....
GITMO's camp 7 fails… prisoners moved, because it's still a thing
The jewel of the US prison-industrial-complex, GITMO still has 40 prisoners. Austerity comes to pseudo ‘black-site’. "Washington: A once-secret unit within the Guantanamo Bay detention centre...
Intel Community: “Previous Guy was a tool in a long-running Russian campaign to weaken the USA.”
Truly a tool, as the Inspector General reports are coming and Previous Guy’s going to be in the barrel. Donald Trump was a tool in a...
Minerva at Midnight: should Blade Runner kill 9% of the Philippine economy
We have all experienced remotely-located call centers, whether from US prisons or foreign countries. “Minerva at Midnight” (I’m usually posting a story at midnight so I...
Devin Nunes gets time in a CA-22 barrel or may get put out to pasture before 2022
CA-22 remember that treasonous cowpoke Devin Nunes voted against the $1,400 hitting your bank account. xRep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) calls out Devin Nunes, Ron Johnson,...
“Treasonous Traitor Clown” Giuliani was an even better “useful idiot” for Russia in 2020
Russia targeted people close to Trump in bid to influence 2020 election, U.S. intelligence says, in an apparent reference to Rudy Giuliani. The Office of...
“Their stupid is always bigger than their evil” in an ex-POTUS's hope for military coup
Banana Republic is not yet a bankrupt concept in America, although it is being sorely tested. Trump’s 1/6 coup counted on the numbers of RWNJs...
23.5% of Adult Americans Have Been Vaccinated
The Center for Disease Control reports that more than 60 million Americans have received at least one shot of Covid vaccine which equals 18.1% of...
ex-POTUS* vaccination silence aiding false narratives about Pfizer and Moderna vaccines
Always ready with useful idiocy, Trump’s inaction on COVID while POTUS* was beyond negligence and continues by keeping his own vaccination secret from his supporters....
Ted Cruz tells us the air speed of an unladen Swallow… FREEDOM
Ted Cruz is becoming even further unhinged, as if there will be an insanity defense for sedition. Because he actually thinks he’s funny, like a...
March 4 will not be a day of “camo, bear-spray, and noose enthusiasts”
Likely there will some stunt somewhere today, perhaps not in DC. Hopefully there will be no casualties, but nothing will match the easing of mask...
FBI Director Wray to be questioned by Senate Judiciary Committee – look for GQP disinformation
Today will feature questioning of Christopher Wray about the intelligence on the Insurrection of 1/6. It's true that not ACAB, but an armed bunch of them...
The insurrectionists' syncretic fascism threw a Russian horseshoe: The Ron Johnson Brigade
Ron Johnson and a core number of GOP senators does the bidding of Russia for what seems to be the reasons that Kevin McCarthy attributed...
Fmr. FBI Asst. Director: Religion or skin color needed to change to increase FBI security posture
Former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi revealed an inconvenient truth, only religion or skin color would have changed FBI security posture on January 6th. FBI...
nothing to see here: Trump lawyers claim that his big lie gives him 'special' First Amendment rights
Insurrection, per dictionary: "an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government." Trump's lawyer says he's...
Trump “showed no remorse and took no accountability” after the 6th January attack
On Friday, three hours of Castor and Schoen defending Trump, demonstrating that there will be very fine people on both sides in an insurrection somehow not...
“Kevin McCarthy claims he's received private assurances Greene no longer wishes Pelosi death”
'GQP' - Republicans announce themselves as a Trumpist party We cannot ignore the growing threat of right-wing extremism and its enablers any longer. x“McCarthy claims...
Putin's Palace (the dubbed version) soon may look for its next Trump (it's not Junior)
Lots of events happening even if they’re all quite chaotic in the Russian Federation. Numerous anti-Putin demonstrations in the middle of winter. and some mysterious...
Donald J. Trump: Russian intelligence's 'confidential contact' for 40 years
It seems clear that Trump will continue to be a Russian asset, with the bonus of classified information transferred even beyond his presidency. A new...
“Russia, if you are listening . . . ” (A common sense explanation for Trump's cell phone usage)
Another thought before Trump’s presidency (hopefully) slips into distant memory. One of the many truly odd things about Trump’s presidency was that he insisted on, and got...
“A single determined shooter could have turned the attack on the Capitol into a massacre”
The Rand corporation think-tank reports that there are bipartisan efforts to set up a 1/6 commission, but the reality is that there’s still so much fact-finding...
maskless Rand Paul sworn as juror, claims 45 GOP senators believe the trial is unconstitutional
Mitch McConnell’s mini-me does his usual reactionary foolishness as the Senators are sworn in for the second Trump trial. “In a 55 to 45 vote...
Domestic counterterrorism head fired by Trump during his intelligence purge hired by Biden.
The Daily Beast has done it again; a compelling read, this time on Russ Travers, who was fired by Trump and hired by Biden as his deputy...
Donald Trump faces possible expulsion from SAG-AFTRA as 1/3 of Americans believe in election fraud
Trump losing his SAG card probably will make little difference to him, although that puts him one rung below Reagan. The falsehood of 2020 election...
The weirdest Trump scandal: His Russian counter-intelligence investigation was secretly blocked
As Trump’s one term winds to a thankful close, one of the largest scandals remains seemingly forgotten and bizarrely unexplained. There not only has never...
The Big Lie is another Lost Cause, but Trump will keep telling it
Even as DC is now better prepared for a “million militia march” on 20 January, the likelihood is that only the most foolhardy will lay...
FBI report issued day before riots warned of 'war' at the Capitol
Who could have ever predicted this? I mean, who other than anyone who glimpsed at Parler for five minutes or saw Donald Trump speak before...
Go Bigly and Go Home, Trump: Final Draft of Article of Impeachment #2
History moves forward as the final draft of the Second article of Impeachment has been made available. This article of impeachment against President Trump accuses him...
Post to my conservative friends trying to go to Parler
I belonged to a Veteran group on Facebook. The administrator came on and said because of “Big Tech” conspiring against conservatives, he would move to...
Devin Nunes, disgracing the Medal of Freedom by suing a cow and slavishly protecting Trump
Mooo. The GOP “farmer” in the hell, gets his participation trophy at the Battle of Bowling Green. https://twitter.com/zachsdorfman/status/1346218438214234112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients GW Bush: Nelson Mandela,...
