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x A big meme today on the pro-Trump internet claims that the Democratic response to Trump was filled with Satanic symbols. pic.twitter.com/uOzD7C31fL — Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 10, 2019 x … Read More

Want to know who's trying to end the shutdown? Look at who's negotiating.

Here’s how it ultimately breaks down, in pure and simple human terms. This Friday morning, over 800,000 federal employees will wake up, hit the “brew” button, and log into their … Read More

Non-furloughed workers can’t take vacation during a shutdown—unless their names are Jared or Ivanka

Putting aside Donald Trump’s ridiculously authoritarian decision to put his freaking kids in top White House positions, the fact remains that they are federal employees. When Ivanka Trump was made “Special Counsel” … Read More

NYT: Trump feels 'totally and completely abandoned,' even by Kushner

Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker have a new piece in The New York Times today that portrays our pr*sident as a puddle of fondue getting ready to evaporate into God’s blessed … Read More

Trump just unfollowed Ann Coulter on Twitter

First, apologies. Earlier today I mentioned Ann Coulter in a diary, even though I’m well aware that the appropriate number of times to mention Ann Coulter is approximately zero times … Read More

Conservative National Review: 'Don't fool yourselves … Trump is in serious trouble'

Long, long ago — in the before-times — a married politician’s payoffs to two women to hide sordid affairs from the voting public would have been a kill-shot.  Today, it’s known as … Read More

Incoming NY AG Letitia James: “We will use every area of the law to investigate President Trump.”

Looks like Barbara Underwood is leaving the office in good hands. Vanity Fair “…the prospect of a House of Representatives that has the will and the power to, say, get its … Read More

Memo to the Trump kids. Don't spend that inheritance just yet.

To say that Donald Trump is a ig is to give offense to fine and upstanding porkers the world over. After all, at least swine don’t try to pretend that … Read More

Jared and Ivanka stand to profit bigly from real estate tax break they lobbied for

Unbelievably, Jared Kushner has not brought peace to the Middle East (I’d desperately hoped Israelis and Palestinians might sign an accord agreeing that Kushner is 97 percent colostomy bag and 3 … Read More

Trump is doing it again, underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Well, well, well. Another lowlife precinct heard from. Alan Dershowitz, the “crazy Uncle Ernie” at the legal Thanksgiving dinner table, popped his head out of his hole a full two … Read More

Trump just told us the value of a human life.

No more skirting the issue. No more beating around the bush. No more even pretending to give a shit. The sitting President of the United States just came out in … Read More

Former West Wing Official: “Trump Is Nuts.” (Tell Us Something We Don't Know.)

Vanity Fair's latest reporting is not surprising but very discomforting, considering this guy has the football. “TRUMP IS NUTS. THIS TIME REALLY FEELS DIFFERENT”: TRUMP REJECTS “WAR COUNCIL” INTERVENTION, GOES IT … Read More

The Podesta/DNC hacked e-mails aren't the ONLY criminal conspiracy game in town.

Look, I get it, it's just human nature. Right now, everybody is fixated on tying Trump and his pathetic campaign to the stolen DNC and Podesta e-mails, mainly because it's … Read More

I think I've twigged to who two of Mueller's “secret” witnesses against Manafort are.

Is this more fun than the original barrel that all of those monkeys came in, or what? Ever since it was unveiled by prosecutors that there are up to five … Read More

Why the Democrats Are Poised to Win BIG in Tennessee This Year

Democrats are kicking royal a$$ in Tennessee. The Senate race isn’t even close right now: Former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) now has a 10-point lead over Rep. Marsha Blackburn. … Read More

Jared Kushner found with gun over dead body. While not saying he did anything wrong it does raise…

…maybe, just maybe questions should be raised.  We can’t prove anything of course and he demands the benefit of the doubt. But perhaps there is some connection. Okay, I am … Read More

Isikoff's scoop provides the key: “Syria” is the cover story for sanctions relief and Russian gifts

When Trump associates get caught talking to the Russians, the excuse du jour is that they were talking about “Syria” and military cooperation in Syria.  Remember the non-denial-denial excuse floated … Read More