More talk of imminent deals, along with more belligerence.
Even I occasionally buy into the idea that "this time" it is real.
I suspect there is no way to make a deal without various hawks and Israel calling him a big loser.
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Friday, June 12, 2026
Ah, Well, Nevertheless
It was worth it anyway
The newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool seems unable to escape an old haunt: algae blooming in the shallow water.Thin layers of algae floated on the World War II Memorial side of the pool Friday morning, even after workers were seen cleaning out algae from the bottom of the pool Wednesday.
I Can't Believe Trump Went After Someone Who Actually Mattered
If he would do that to me, he would do that to anybody,” Mr. Cornyn said. “There’s never going to be good enough for him, other than 100 percent, you know, slavish adherence to whatever he wants. But obviously that’s not what the senator’s role is supposed to be, especially in terms of checks and balances.”
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Long Sleepy Joe
We all know who is to blame - the guy who hasn't been president for 18 months.
The producer price index, a measure of final demand costs, increased a seasonally adjusted 1.1% on the month, putting the 12-month wholesale inflation rate at 6.5%. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for a monthly move of 0.7%.
The annual headline inflation rate was the highest since November 2022. The monthly gain matched the April increase.
As soon as the war is over, everything is going to be great. Let me check on that.. .
Where's My ZIRP
The other part is that Trump I was the great era of relative prosperity AND near zero interest rates and people loved that.
You might have noticed that interest rates did not magically come down due to Mr. Trump's genius policies.
You might have noticed that interest rates did not magically come down due to Mr. Trump's genius policies.
Prats
David Wallace-Wells in the NYT:
They ran many more articles. Not all coverage was fluffy, but the point is they COVERED him.
For the last few weeks, since the campaign’s one debate with all three candidates, it was easy for a casual observer to think that Pratt was in the lead, given how his candidacy came across on X, podcasts or even cable news, each of which treated the former reality-show villain as a political phenomenon rewiring the partisan landscape of L.A., saying the unsayable about local governance and social disorder and forging a new coalition of voters too fed up with the status quo to stay in their ideological lanes.X, podcasts, or even cable news, or, THE NEW YORK FUCKING TIMES:
They ran just one centered on Nithya Raman, who took the spot he was "supposed" to take.
I Didn't Know There Were 22 Medical Specialties
I suppose that's not really true, but I would have a hard time coming up with 20!
President Donald Trump appears to have set a new bar: 22 medical specialists assessed him as part of his latest checkup, according to a medical report recently released by the White House.
That figure is nearly double the number of specialists who assessed Trump for his past medical checkups as president, according to a review of publicly available statements by Trump’s doctors.
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Wednesday Evening
I have been/am very busy with life stuff (no that is not a euphemism for vacation) recently so bear with me!
It Didn't Have To Be This Way
I know it is a bit ridiculous to ponder "what if Trump, but good" and I don't mean that precisely, but the basic truth is that every Republican president has the weight of the news media behind them and all they have to do is not fuck *everything* up. Simple path to being very popular.
They can do horrible Republican things - even horrible Trump things - as long as they show enough restraint to not break absolutely everything.
None of them managed.
Yes Saint Reagan won re-election in a landslide, but he wasn't a very popular president (nor very unpopular, mostly) except for the real Americans in the Beltway who worshipped him. Over the years we've had a lot of dishonest coverage referring to the fact that he left office as a very popular president, but that is based on his lame duck polling which tapped into some sympathetic nostalgia for the senile old bastard.
Clinton versus the Gipper.
At Least The War Is Over
TRUMP: We're gonna be attacking Iran, and attacking them very hard. REPORTER: Resuming bombing? TRUMP: Yeah. We are.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 10 June 2026 at 11:52
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Damn You Sleepy Joe
Why does he keep doing this.
Annual inflation rose to a three-year-high of 4.2% in May, underscoring how elevated energy prices are rippling through the US economy, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
How is this holding up:
“I firmly believe that nothing is more transient than a supply shock, and we can, we can look through that, because before the Iranian conflict began, core inflation was coming down,” Bessent told CNBC’s Joe Kernen from the sidelines of President Donald Trump’s summit with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. “So I think core inflation will continue coming down.”
That hasn’t been the recent trend, however.
Separate readings this week showed that consumer prices jumped 0.6% in April — and still rose 0.4% even when focusing on core costs that exclude food and energy. Twelve-month inflation stood at 3.8% for inflation and 2.8% for core.
Similarly, wholesale prices, a better indication of pipeline pressures, soared 1.4%, putting the 12-month level at 6%, the highest since late 2022. The inflation shock showed up in import and export prices as well, which also posted their highest levels in about four years.
That was from March.
At Least The War Is Over
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has claimed attacks on United States military bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan in retaliation for US strikes on Iranian ports and islands in the Strait of Hormuz.
In a statement carried by state media on Wednesday, the IRGC said it launched drone attacks on the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and the Ali Al Salem airbase in Kuwait, as well as a long-range missile strike on an airbase in Azraq, Jordan.
But, Atrios, you can't take what the IRGC says at face value! Yes, true, but I have some bad news about Pete Hegseth's Pentagon.
Tuesday, June 09, 2026
Screwed
Heckuva job, Elon.
New York — The screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite and longtime foe of American ranchers, is back in US cattle after decades.
The US Department of Agriculture confirmed at least three infected cattle Texas this week. The beef industry has already been grappling with the smallest cattle herd in 75 years due to prolonged droughts.
The early months of Trump II were especially enraging, in part because of Dem (not all) politicians talking about DOGE as if it could be a force for good.
The American Dream
I have been curious about what they expected to find here.
But since arriving in the US, Afrikaners – largely the Afrikaans-speaking descendants of Dutch settlers and French Huguenots – have faced major challenges, in large part due to policies aimed at immigrants and enacted by the White House and Ohio’s Republican-run legislature.
Last June, Ohio introduced new driving license rules for lawful residents who are not citizens or green card holders.
They include the requirement for all applicants to complete eight hours of lessons through a designated driving school, 24 hours of classroom work and 50 hours of driving with a licensed adult before being able to take a driving exam. The cost of fulfilling these requirements is estimated at about $500 and could take up to nine months, when in the past it took a matter of weeks.
I am a "ban cars" guy and this is insane.
Headlines Every Time
The problem with all (good) fact checking type reporting is that the other reporters wake up every day with their minds wiped, putting the new claim/lie in the headlines and first paragraphs.
Including the period before the ceasefire, he’s done it at least 37 times. That’s the number of times he’s said directly — in social media posts, public appearances and phone calls with the media — that a deal was nigh or claimed Iran was desperate to cut one.
At Least The War Is Over
Or maybe it's infrastructure week.
United States President Donald Trump has said that a deal between Israel and Iran is imminent, and that the two will leave each other alone for at least a week.
He told reporters late on Monday that the US was “in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal”.
Monday, June 08, 2026
Badass
Elissa Slotkin is working on the important issues.
But those rules don’t go far enough for Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) or Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), who are introducing the Protecting America from Chinese Cars Act. Should it pass, the bill would ban connected cars built or designed in China (and other adversarial nations like Russia) from entering the country, including any connected cars built elsewhere by a Chinese company or by any firm in which Chinese companies own more than 15 percent.
I do find it funny that the usual centrist dipshits were setting her up to be The Next Big Thing before realizing she is dumber than dogshit.
Trivially easy for Canada or even just Ontario to retaliate.
I have some bad news for people who are pretending to be frightened of Chinese computer chips.
At Least The War Is Over
Few pleasures in politics these days, but it is funny when Trump makes horrible people eat shit, even if only temporarily.
Screwed
Funny how they all know they have to suggest Sleepy Joe is to blame.
Well before the first U.S. detection of New World Screwworm, since February of 2025, USDA has worked around the clock with our state, local, industry, and ranchers on the ground. The secretary herself made four trips to South Texas, more than anywhere else in the country," a USDA spokesperson told Reuters. "The idea that this department has not been transparent is absurd and does not match what ranchers are telling the department and our partners directly."
Sleepy Joe gave the cows citizenship!
Rollins blamed the spread of screwworm toward the U.S.-Mexico border on “the open-border policies of the last administration and the resulting illicit cattle movement” in a separate social media post an hour before Wednesday’s press conference.
The Decider
Bibi didn't really agree.
"He won’t have any choice," Trump told the Financial Times , over the phone. "I call the shots. I call all the shots. He [Netanyahu] doesn’t call the shots."Trump told Axios earlier that he was going to ask Netanyahu not to retaliate against Iran for the latest attack to make sure the three sides could salvage a deal.Trump told the Financial Times that the latest strikes have not had "any impact on the deal".
Mr. Trump, sir, he is making you look weak and foolish.
“Israel and Iran must immediately stop ‘shooting.’ President DONALD J. TRUMP,” Trump wrote on Truth Social early Monday.
In a phone call Sunday, Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold off launching a retaliatory attack on Iran, according to a US official.
Sunday, June 07, 2026
Bari's Kids
Free Press "reporter" explains why none of these dipshits ever travel.
If people want to travel because they think it would be cool to see this or that thing, that’s fine, but the idea that people are learning anything novel or valuable from these experiences is absurd. In order to learn anything that isn’t already on Wikipedia or repeated on a…
— River Page (@river_is_nice) June 4, 2026
We All Went To School Near Boston
If this really is an important subject for ongoing public discussion by people and for the benefit of people with no stake in the answer, then Harvard and our broader HE system should be nationalized.
Banana-fana-fo-Fari
Back when she was at the NYT, gross old white recently retired and near to retirement at Times journalists would assemble like Sexpest Voltron to defend Bari whenever she was criticized.
So, the story goes through screenings. It’s very well received. There are notes as always and we do rewrites as always. But this is on a very tight deadline. It’s Sunday; we’re going on the air that night. And in the case of stories that are, as we say, crashing, our deadline on Sunday is noon. So, we work on all of these things. We get the piece approved by everyone. And about four hours after our deadline, Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent? Now, I’m paraphrasing. I don’t have the quote, but that’s what was communicated to me. And the other thing, Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer.
This is not what you see on the video. On the video, you see the officer standing slightly off the front of the car. And you clearly see Ms. Good’s wheels turned completely as far as they will go, away from the officer. But he shoots her in the head, kills her, and says something about her that I can’t repeat in polite company.
A certain type of man is very susceptible to a certain type of (then) young brownnoser. They are all probably in love with their chatbots now.
Saturday, June 06, 2026
Is It Irresponsible To Speculate? It Would Be Irresponsible Not To
I am sure the journalist excuse for not covering Trump's health is that they are working extremely hard to source the story but everyone is tightlipped.
I don't think you need sources to plainly describe what you see. And we all know that there is only selective aversion to speculating.
At Least The War Is Over
For better or for worse (likely much worse, to be honest), George Bush didn't get bored of his war for years.
Tehran, Iran — A potential peace deal between the United States and Iran hinges on the Trump administration agreeing to release $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets, a top Iranian official told CNN on Friday, warning that the US would “enter into a dark corridor” should it resume fighting.
Friday, June 05, 2026
She Looks Fantastic In Her Crop Top But Suffers From Crippling Self-doubt
We can debate what precisely Bari's job was supposed to be, but making everybody look ridiculous was probably not part of the plan.
Paywalled, but the gist:
More likely she was supposed to MAGAfy it, but there are plenty of hardcore uncut MAGA outlets. To do propaganda for the existing CBS news audience you have to do it quietly and subtly, with a bit of skill. Not what you get from a dimbulb narcissist.
Some think her job was just to destroy it, but that doesn't make much sense. That's easy to do! Click cancel!Uh oh. The head of CBS Entertainment is privately warning that the Bari Weiss train wreck is inflicting significant damage on the broader CBS brand. And shes not alone. Inside Paramount, "some believe she should be relieved of her duties." The scoop in @status.news www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
— Jon Passantino (@passantino.bsky.social) June 5, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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More likely she was supposed to MAGAfy it, but there are plenty of hardcore uncut MAGA outlets. To do propaganda for the existing CBS news audience you have to do it quietly and subtly, with a bit of skill. Not what you get from a dimbulb narcissist.
Nobody Could Have Predicted
I suppose I did, basically.
The return of screwworm comes after the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, launched by the Trump administration, last year cut funding for a project dedicated to monitoring and containing New World screwworm in Central America."Why are we wasting money on worms in Central America. Is it because of woke?"
The funding was axed days before the U.S. ended a temporary suspension of cattle imports from Mexico, meaning livestock was allowed to cross the border without any of the monitoring previously funded by the U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID).
He Never Had Any Idea What That Would Mean
He probably could've obtained a new "deal" that Fox News could've sold as being 7 billion percent better than Obama's deal if he didn't start a war first, but either way he never had any idea what that would look like.
Inside the White House, Trump oscillated between impatience and theatrical self-confidence. He told advisers repeatedly that he wanted a deal bigger than President Obama’s 2015 nuclear agreement and broader than the initial round of Abraham Accords. He also made clear that he did not want to own the failure of negotiations. The longer the process dragged on, the more the competing impulses pulled him in different directions.
He wanted the conflict over. But he had become irritated by comparisons between the emerging framework and the Obama-era agreement, which set restrictions and time limits on Iran’s nuclear-development program. Administration officials said Trump repeatedly complained that critics were calling his team’s draft agreement a weaker version of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which he had spent years attacking and tore up in his first term.
Trump wanted a way to argue that Iran had accepted terms from him that Obama never managed to extract, aides told us. One potential answer was removing Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium. Trump rejected military options to seize or destroy the material as unnecessarily risky, according to officials familiar with the discussions. Instead, negotiators explored arrangements under which Iran would transfer the uranium to either the U.S. or an acceptable third country, the aides told us. But that idea stalled, too.
Focus Groups
While doing a bit of reading for the previous post, I came aross a page where the New York Times provides all of its "Times Opinion Focus Groups" pieces. It is pretty funny:
'Disappointed,' 'Surprised,' 'Betrayed': 11 Trump Voters on What Has Gone WrongThose are all of the ones since the 2024 election. Even "normie Democrats" mostly exist as a character in their heads, people to be talked about, not heard from, let alone The Left.
Trump voters discuss their disappointment with the presidents second term.
11 Pro-Trump Republican Voters on What They Like So Far and What They Don't
The group discusses the economy, immigration, President Trump's recent actions in Venezuela and more
14 Wellness Voters Talk Parenting, MAHA and Social Media
The group discusses how to parent in line with health and wellness in the age of social media
'They're Just Waiting to Just Get Back on Their Phone': 12 Teachers on What's Changed in Schools
The group discusses artificial intelligence, phones and how students have changed over me
The Economy Still Isn't What These 11 Latino Trump Voters Had in Mind
The group discusses the president's second term so far, focusing on issues such as the economy and immigration.
What Worries 11 Democratic Voters Most About Trump Democrats and What They Want From
The participants discuss what Democrats should do in the face of a second Trump presidency.
How 13 Independent Voters Who Backed Trump Think He Is Doing So Far
The participants discuss how they think Trump's second term is going
How 12 Americans See Life After Watching a Lot of Tik Tok
People who usa TikTok daily talk about why thay love the app, how consuming and addicting social media can be and why they wouldn't want their kids to use
"Where's Our Place in Society?': 12 Men Who Backed Trump Grapple With America
The group discusses the news and podcasts that shape their opinions about America and the wond, what being a man's man means and what they do and don't want Trump to do in office
These 14 Voters Think Trump Has One Mandate Above All, and It's Not About the Economy
The group discusses abortion, Immigration and what Trump should focus on in his second term
Thwarted
Elon's plan to make every unwitting retirement fund holder eat his fraud losses has been temporarily thwarted.
S&P Global said on Thursday it was not changing the requirements for entry into its major indices, dealing a setback to Elon Musk’s SpaceX by effectively ruling out a swift entry for the world’s biggest-ever IPO into the benchmark S&P 500 index
Some explanation.
Within weeks of SpaceX going public, millions of Americans are going to own its stock without having chosen to, without having been asked, and at whatever price Elon Musk and his early backers decide is fair.The shares will simply appear inside the index funds in their 401(k)s, the target-date retirement accounts of teachers and nurses and bus drivers, and the boring tracking products financial advisors push on every middle-class household. The buying will be automatic. Musk sets the price himself, the index funds buy at whatever level he chooses, and when the inevitable correction lands, it lands on people who never knew they owned this company- a danger the American Federation of Teachers is demanding the SEC address.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
The Greatest Show On Earth
I think we already knew this, but the Strait is never going to revert to its previous status.
In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has waved off the stalled Iran negotiations and the looming midterm elections with a shrug: “I don’t care,” he said during a Cabinet meeting last week. But there is one topic that has his full attention: America’s 250th birthday.It is funny that the Iran hawks put their faith in Donald fucking Trump for this. No worries, tho, they will be on your TV selling new and even better wars soon.
People close to the president say he’s fixated on the flurry of events descending on Washington for the semiquincentennial celebration. He’s throwing himself into construction and renovation projects around the capital, staging a UFC fight at the White House — his idea — and attempting to salvage a botched “Freedom 250” concert series by reimagining it as a political rally.
Speaking Of Purity
Objecting to bigotry is the kind of purity that has no place in the centrist dream team party.
Rep. Tom Suozzi, who is running against Gov. Kathy Hochul in the Democratic primary for governor, called a controversial new Florida law aimed at discouraging discussions about sexuality and gender in classrooms “reasonable.” Dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law by its opponents, Democrats and LGBTQ activists have rallied against the bill as a discriminatory attempt to prevent any LGBTQ topics from getting discussed.
How Did This Happen
Even RFK JR realized he needed to back off the raw milk craze - it somehow switched to "whole milk" suddenly - because it was going to lead to endless stories like this.
Idaho health officials are investigating how nearly 60 people got sick after drinking raw milk in the past two weeks.Was it because of woke?
Not Now, Screwworm
You can't necessarily attribute everything to Trump-era incompetence and their general rejection of the basic functions of government, but I suspect it's a contributing factor here!
Our big beautiful ranchers!
A flesh-eating parasite that had been kept out of U.S. livestock for decades has been detected in Texas, threatening the nation’s cattle industry and food supply at a time when prices are already high.
The case of New World screwworm was confirmed in a 3-week-old calf in La Pryor, near the U.S.-Mexico border, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said late Wednesday.
"For months" hmmm that doesn't sound like he means Sleepy Joe's USDA. It follows months of warnings from U.S. and Texas agriculture officials and cattle industry leaders, as the pest steadily moved north through Mexico toward the American border.When the Republican Texas Ag Commissioner can't even clearly put the blame where it should belong - on Sleepy Joe! - something important has happened!
“For months, the screwworm has advanced rapidly through Mexico in spite of the USDA’s existing gameplan,” Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said Wednesday, adding that “instead of using every available tool, USDA moved too slowly and relied solely on a partial solution that takes years to fully implement.”
Our big beautiful ranchers!
Wednesday, June 03, 2026
Congratulations On Scoring That Big Interview
I appreciate that it isn't precisely the same as just letting your network/show's interview subjects write down the name on a piece of paper, but how, exactly, do we think journalists often score those big interviews?
The broader system of access journalism does not provide incentives for tough scrutiny by the Names, the star journalists.
Maybe 60 Minutes was, for various reasons, more unlike that than other outlets, but it probably didn't seem weird to Bari at all to do that!
I Am Retroactively Modifying This Blog's TOS
Every reader owes me $1000.
Tesla has retroactively modified “Full Self-Driving” purchase agreements to add “supervised” language that did not exist when owners originally bought the product. In some cases, the original documents have been made entirely inaccessible.
Electrek has confirmed the issue with multiple owners. The contracts in question were signed between 2016 and early 2024, when Tesla sold the package as “Full Self-Driving Capability” — with no mention of “supervised” and the implicit promise of unsupervised autonomy.
Fairly Quickly
I have to admit that his optimism isn't entirely insane. Predictions about the effects of the closure were much more catastrophic than we are currently seeing. That could change!
Everyone said it was going to be $300, $400 a barrel, it’s 98 dollars a barrel but that’s not a big price to pay if you look at the possibility of them having a nuclear weapon,” he said.
...
He even said it’s possible the US naval blockade around the waterway will remain in place through Labor Day — Monday, Sept. 7 — meaning a full summer of elevated fuel prices and likely harm to Republicans in the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
“I don’t know. I mean, I think it could be [closed through Labor Day], but I think it’s unlikely. I think that we’ll have it. I think this will resolve itself fairly quickly,” he said.
Solidarity
There are journalists and journalism worth defending, but I learned long ago that there is little point in wasting an effort defending American journalism broadly as other journalists rarely show solidarity for each other.
You see that every time Trump insults a reporter for a question and the next one doesn't respond by repeating the question.
I am sure Pelley has plenty of money and will be fine, but while the gossip will be covered, that CBS is completely corrupt will not be remembered on an ongoing basis.
For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done,” he added. “Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”
Journalists refused to acknowledge what Fox News was for years - oh sure the opinion stuff is over the top but their news people are good, claimed people who never watched the network - and they certainly won't do any different for CBS.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026
It's Iran Deal Week, Again
Will the press ever stop reporting on imminent deals as real things. Will THE MARKETS ever stop soaring?
Trump can't manifest reality without a lot of help, which he gets. The question is whethere there will be a coyote falling event.
Kavanaugh Stops
I can believe Kavanaugh is dumb enough not to have understood this would be the result, but he can find a way to fix it any time if he wishes.
Woman held by ICE for 25 days, despite U.S. citizenship claim, gets a passport
Attorneys for Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales had presented a Maryland birth certificate and other documents as proof of her U.S. citizenship.
"Evil Foreigners"
That is pretty funny.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says 24 commercial vessels have passed through the Strait of Hormuz over the past day.
These ships obtained permission and coordinated with the IRGC navy, Iran’s state-owned broadcaster IRIB reported.
“Intelligent control of the Strait of Hormuz will be carried out with authority, and evil foreigners will have no place in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz,” the IRGC said in a statement.
Cultural Wasteland
This is a complete vibes-based post, but as a longtime observer of The Discourse, it seems that anything other than low culture has largely been driven from it? And I am not opposed to low culture, but maybe it is a problem if it is the only thing.
What I mean is that once upon a time, the chattering classes would exhibit their general familiarity with new novels or plays, maybe the occasional art exhibit. They would at least skim the NYT book section to stay current. That kind of thing.
I am not asserting that there was some past golden age of deep engagement by our supposed public intellectuals, but they at least seemed to fake it more. It was what people of a certain class did for "dinner party chat."
Again, all vibes here, but that seems to be missing?
It is not unrelated to the eager embrace of the MAGA CULTURAL TAKEOVER we were promised.
Mr. Trump, Sir, Bibi Is Making You Look Bad
Trump only ever does the right thing (occasionally) for the wrong reasons. Maybe he won't appreciate being humiliated by his Israeli counterpart!
United States President Donald Trump said on Monday that Hezbollah and Israel have agreed to halt hostilities in a major de-escalation effort after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered attacks on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday.
Netanyahu’s office on Monday said attacks on Beirut would proceed if Hezbollah continued attacks on Israeli cities, while military operations in southern Lebanon would continue as “planned”.
It seems Trump set the line at Beirut, but that doesn’t really solve the little Iran issue.
Trump's people have continued the Biden practice of telling Axios how mad they are at Netanyahu. That, without consequences, gets silly very quickly!
Monday, June 01, 2026
Have Some Passwords
I suspect we are going to have so many "AI"-related security issues. Aside from allowing for password theft, I am quite sure they are eating lots of sensitive private data and just making it accessible to public queries.
I Didn’t Want To Go To My Party Anyway
I admit I am a bit curious about why they couldn't get anyone for Trump's party. Or, maybe, I think others should be a bit curious.
It wasn't that long ago that we were assured that there would be a full MAGA conquest of the culture. Some performers object for personal political reasons, but others have decided that it would be brand poison.
Why would Trump association be brand poison with all those MAGAs lining up to spend money?
About That Deal
I am starting to think we can always take Trump at his word about what is happening
...er I meant can't. I blame airplane wifi.
Is It Too Late To Get In On This
Could've helped the retirement fund.
At least $2 million in settlements has been agreed to after employees and other critics were fired or penalized over their posts about Charlie Kirk following his killing.
It was brief, but that was maybe the most absurd period of all. Kudos to The Kids who took over the internet with Charlie memes and highlighted what a joke the efforts to canonize him were.
Lie Back And Think Of Donams
Stock futures up!
The US carried out what it said was “self-defense” strikes in Iran over the weekend – as President Donald Trump sent back changes to a proposed deal to extend the existing ceasefire in the region and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The weekend strikes in Iran targeted Iranian radar and command and control sites and were a response to “aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a US MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters,” US Central Command said Sunday night.
“US fighter aircraft swiftly responded by eliminating Iranian air defenses, a ground control station, and two one-way attack drones that posed clear threats to ships transiting regional waters,” Central Command said.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed to have struck a US air base used to launch an attack on a telecommunications tower on Iran’s Sirik Island, according to a statement carried by several Iranian state-run news outlets.
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Totally Badass
The reason they made their announcement and explained their reasoning as a group, in an op-ed in The Washington Post, is because they had already formed a bond over their national security background – especially the five women: Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, both ex-CIA officers; Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania who was in the Air Force; Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey and Rep. Elaine Luria of Virginia were Naval officers.
They met on the 2018 campaign trail as first time candidates who kept bumping into each other at events with mutual donors and supporters.
When they got to talking, these five would-be congresswomen realized that they had a lot in common, despite being from different parts of the country: they all had careers in national security they were trying to parlay into elected office.
They became fast friends, and called themselves the “badasses.”
“I think badasses kind of came organically from the group since we all had either served in the military or in the CIA,” Houlahan said.
Prat
I love this city so much that I will leave it if I'm not its ruler and protagonist.
"If Karen Bass gets re-elected or Nithya [Raman] gets elected, I will be done with trying to live in LA."
[Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt doubled down on his threat, and said when he wins the lawsuit, he's packing up to find a new American Dream.
One maddening thing about Andrew Cuomo was that even if you set aside all of the OTHER MADDENING THINGS, the dude fucking hates New York City.
At Least The War Is Over
The US and Iran are far from any agreement at the moment, says Mohammad Eslami, a professor at the University of Tehran.
“Donald Trump is trying to reduce the pressure on the global market and also reduce the pressure on the American equity market. However, the realities on the ground and the realities at the negotiating table are far from any agreement right now,” Eslami told Al Jazeera, speaking from Tehran.
“The Americans are still addicted to their fantasies regarding their requests of irreversible actions from the Iranians while they cannot offer irreversible actions to the Iranians. So I think that the situation is very fragile.”
More Like This
I don't have much hope that there will ultimately be justice in this case as there are too many obvious hurdles, but it is important to put some fear of consequences into ICE agents.
Law enforcement officials on Friday arrested an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant this year and lying about it.
The agent, Christian J. Castro, 52, was caught in Texas after investigators from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension tracked him down, according to the Hennepin County attorney’s office, which had charged him this month with four counts of second-degree assault. He faces an additional charge of filing a false police report.
That they are all operating under the belief that there could be no consequences has been a bit of a problem!
Saturday, May 30, 2026
When The World Briefly Ended
Future historians and people will find it puzzling how Covid is almost entirely missing from popular culture.
Groundhog Day
It is, amusingly, one of my comfort rewatch movies. I liked this quote from Sondheim about his aborted interest in making it into a musical (which Tim Minchin did eventually).
"I'm not the first person who's thought of it. Many have. But, I feel to make a musical of Groundhog Day would be to gild the lily. It cannot be improved; it's perfect the way it is. I don't want to touch it, because it's perfect. Pretentious as that sounds."
The Fittest President Ever
Some bullshit but more honest than they used to be.
Not more honest, I guess, just allowing some imperfection.
At Least The War Is Over
These titles are a joke but how many times has it been?
Hours after President Donald Trump concluded a Situation Room meeting with his national security team on Iran, the White House has not indicated what – if any – decision he came to.
“The Situation Room meeting has concluded and lasted approximately two hours. President Trump will only make a deal that is good for America and satisfies his redlines. Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon,” a White House official said in a statement issued at about 6 p.m.
Friday, May 29, 2026
Gramps Is Gonna Be Mad
Though I doubt his name is going anywhere.
WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - A judge on Friday ordered the removal of President Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ruling that the iconic Washington venue cannot be renamed without an act of Congress.
Oopsie
An AI consultant tells Axios one of their clients recently spent half a billion dollars in a single month after failing to put usage limits on Claude licenses for employees.
That's easily the cost of 2000 employees (very decently paid ones, full compensation costs) for a year.
I Did Not See That Coming
Is this "Peter Thiel goes to where his kind eventually do" or " "Peter Thiel realizes he has planted the seeds of society's destruction and is getting out while he can."
Over the past two months, Mr. Thiel has met with the country’s president, Javier Milei, and his ministers; purchased a mansion in one of Buenos Aires’ most exclusive neighborhoods; and hosted a dinner with local economists where he discussed the Antichrist, one of his favorite conversation topics, according to Argentine officials and people familiar with Mr. Thiel’s activities.
Mr. Thiel, who has a history of collecting backup countries as he hedges his bets against the United States, is considering making Argentina another Plan B, according to two people familiar with his thinking. Born in Germany and raised in the United States, he received citizenship in New Zealand in 2011, and applied for a passport in Malta in 2022.
Boom Boom
Once upon a time I wouldn't laugh at rockets blowing up, but I sometimes do now given the hubris of our billionaire dickhead overlords.
A rocket made by the company Blue Origin exploded on its launch pad in Florida during a test.
Footage shows the rocket bursting into a massive ball of fire, engulfing the area around it.
Don't worry this was still a great success as they collected lots of data (this is what Musk's crew says every time one of his blows up).
At Least The War Is Over
That's "nucular shit," Mr. Vice President.
Almost finished with the divorce details. Just going back and forth the "money stuff."
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Grok, Can You Tell Me How To Make Money With You
I guarantee every AI psychosis-inflicted tech CEO spends all night talking to their favorite chatbot, begging it to tell them how to make money.
More worrying is that I have had friends who I wouldn't think are especially susceptible tell me about the things they question ChatGPT about and... we might just be cooked.
"Accused"
Is nothing ever resolved, Glenn Thrush?
The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the 82-year-old former magazine writer who accused Donald J. Trump of sexual assault, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation.
Ok next paragraph.
Ms. Carroll won a $5 million civil judgment against Mr. Trump that he had sexually abused and defamed her, which the president last November asked the Supreme Court to overturn. She also won a $83.3 million civil judgment against him in another defamation case.
Then back again, later:
Ms. Carroll’s accusations are among the most severe leveled against the president, and he has long sought to demean and discredit her.
Thriving Community
I do not get the craving for bunker life, or the belief that you could survive "armageddon" for very long even with the best preparation.
There are 575 of them, clustered on a former munitions depot near South Dakota’s Black Hills and billed as “The Largest Survival Community on Earth.” The pitch: Ride out nuclear war, the next pandemic or societal collapse in relative comfort.
Yet for many residents, the dream has soured. The threat hasn’t come from Armageddon, but from friction that resembles a suburban homeowners’ association battle.
Lawsuits, countersuits and disputes are piling up over septic systems, property taxes, off-leash dogs and a growing list of community rules. The legal skirmishing has reached the state supreme court—twice. Promised amenities, including a restaurant bunker, a pool bunker and a horse-stable bunker, have yet to materialize. Guns have been drawn, and there have been offers to settle things with fists. The developer denies wrongdoing and says complaints come from a few malcontents.
This is the problem:
“My vision is to see xPoint become a thriving community of people who want safety in this increasingly crazy world we live in,” Dante Vicino said. He noted that about a third of the units were leased and a few dozen occupied full-time. “The lawsuits have been a real pain, but we’re not set back at all,” he said.
You are marketing to people who fundamentally reject community! What do you expect is going to happen?
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Manifesting
He keeps trying.
US President Donald Trump says the Strait of Hormuz will be open to everyone and not controlled by any country under any deal reached with Iran, adding there were no discussions about easing sanctions on Tehran.
Absolutely Fab
An eclectic mix of entertainers is poised to join a massive bash on the National Mall marking America’s 250th birthday, which is being billed as a “once-in-a-generation celebration.”
Country music star Martina McBride, rappers Flo Rida and Vanilla Ice, “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” singers C+C Music Factory and rocker Bret Michaels are among the artists slated to perform at the Great American State Fair, organizers announced Wednesday.
...
Other performers include “Brick House” funk band the Commodores, rapper Young MC, pop duo Milli Vanilli and R&B group Morris Day and the Time, with additional artists to be announced.
Duo?
I do find it quite incredible that even the MAGA faithful can't pretend the 250th is gonna be a major thing. A few years ago I imagined it would be.
When's The Last Time You Had A Three Hour Medical Exam
I'm not saying that means It's about to happen, but most of us never get this!
The 79-year-old president spent more than three hours at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for what the White House described as preventive medical and dental checkups. It was Trump’s fourth publicly disclosed medical exam since he returned to office for a second term, and it comes as he tries to project strength ahead of midterm elections that will test his sway with voters.
In a social media post after the visit, Trump said that he had just finished his “6 month physical” and that “Everything checked out PERFECTLY.”
Certainly not if otherwise healthy! Not including "sitting endless in the waiting room" of course.
Retiring Thom Tillis Has A Point Here
No you still don't have to hand it to him.
Senator Thom Tillis, a retiring Republican from North Carolina, is among those who appear increasingly unshackled. He mocked Mr. Paxton’s troubled past over the weekend on CNN in colorful fashion, invoking a comparison to a cannibalistic serial killer. “To call Paxton ethically challenged is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder,” Mr. Tillis said. “This guy is an empty suit.”
No Fair Remembering Yesterday
You are supposed to wake up each day anew, assuming good faith communications from the Trumpers. Like American journalists do!
Hours earlier, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused Washington of committing a “blatant violation” of the shaky ceasefire reached on April 8 by attacking the southern province of Hormozgan on Monday night. It added that the strikes validated the “deep suspicion” Iran harboured towards the US.
Bye Cornyn
Trump doesn't have many endearing qualities, but one is his relentless joy punishing the people who are 99.99% sycophants instead of 100%.
Trump might be unpopular, but he still rules the kind of people who vote in Republican primaries. And Ken Paxton is the perfect contemporary Republican.
I don't put any confidence in Dems winning statewide anything Texas, and I'll probably annoyed at all the money wasted on a doomed effort, but I suppose I could be wrong!
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
The Two Hitlers
I've long "laughed" at how for conservatives Hitler is history's greatest monster (the liberal Hitler)
"Cabinet Meeting"
That's the bizarre American ritual involving the Cabinet members, in turn, seeing how they can outdo each other in their exaggerated praise of the president, correct? Sort of a reverse roast?
President Donald Trump is expected to gather his Cabinet Wednesday for a meeting at Camp David, according to a White House official, convening top officials at a high-stakes moment for the US war with Iran.
Action, Reaction
I don't think the geniuses in charge have figured that whole dynamic out yet.
Iran warns US after strikes: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it has a “legitimate” right to respond to any “violation” of the ceasefire after the US military carried out what it called “self-defense strikes” targeting Iranian missile launch sites and boats around the Strait of Hormuz. It is unclear how the attacks will affect the ceasefire.
A Chamber Filled With Degenerate Gamblers
I know the most horrifying thing about members of congress trading stocks constantly is the insider trading aspect, but I suspect a bunch of them are serious gambling addicts too. And even gamblers with good tips on the horses sometimes lose it all.
After amassing an exemplary attendance record, the congressman has missed 88 House roll call votes since March 5.
During that time, NOTUS discovered that Kean had kept trading stocks; he submitted financial transaction reports to Congress, digitally signed on April 13, that indicated he bought and sold shares of eight stocks from mid- to late March with a combined value of between $50,008 and $190,000.
I don't know if that applies to Kean, but...
I Wonder What Happened Here
I'm sure most of the psychos around Trump are always pushing for more violence.
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said a potential deal to end the US-Israel war on Iran could “take a few days” to be agreed, after US forces claimed to have struck Iranian missile sites and boats laying mines in southern Iran amid talks in Qatar.
This is never going to end.
Monday, May 25, 2026
No Boom
Some good news. They are confident that they have averted the big explosion outcome in Garden Grove.
95%
The full Jennings tweet quoted:Insider reporting from an unnamed White House official says the Iran deal is “95% done.”
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) May 24, 2026
The remaining 5% of negotiations are focused on Iran opening the Strait of Hormuz and turning over all nuclear material. https://t.co/GNlih9fUDj
After receiving a briefing from a Senior TRUMP Administration Official on the status of the Iran negotiations (someone in the know & not just speculating), I can tell you the following:-USA IS NOT GIVING IRANIANS MONEY FOR NOTHING. All speculation and propaganda to the contrary is false. Some hardline elements of Iran’s govt (IRGC) have pushed fake stories & propaganda to try to kill this negotiation.-Iran deal is NOT done (95%, but still haggling over some language). No deal being signed today. May be a few more days before this is done.-Iran will NOT get any money or sanctions relief up front.-Iran must turn over nuclear stockpile to get anything. USA position is that failure to meet deal commitments means Iran gets nothing.-Long term USA objective is preventing Iran from having nuclear weapon.-Initial deal point is to re-establish free flow of commerce by reopening Strait of Hormuz.Deal should have 2 phases:Step 1 - Open Strait of Hormuz. Give world economy breathing room. Iran agrees to give up enriched uranium.Step 2 - Get the nuclear material turned over. Only then can Iran get sanctions relief.Bottom line: goal is to make a deal that lowers costs for Americans, calms world energy markets, and guarantees that Iranians cannot have a nuclear weapon over the long term. We aren’t there yet. Iran takes forever to get you a response on even small things. But we are close although it still could be a few days.“If we get what we are demanding, this is going to be a historic deal,” SAO says.SAO sounds prepared to do no deal at all if all Iran will do is a “bad deal.” SAO admits deal could fall apart yet. But if a deal is reached, SAO expects very senior USA admin officials to take part in a signing ceremony of some sort.Iran has agreed in principle to the framework but there are still a couple points USA isn’t satisfied with. 95% done. But literally changing words sometimes requires days in Iran’s system. Haggling over language. But USA feels like we have a commitment on nuclear stockpile and on opening Strait of Hormuz.If IRAN doesn’t deliver on commitments, they get nothing.“Iran’s ability to project power is a lot more limited than it was two months ago,” SAO says. “Their industrial base for building ballistic missiles has been substantially destroyed.”
I honestly can't tell if Luntz is making a joke here or not.
At Least The War Is Over
As I said before, Trump doesn't just lie, he believes he can manifest reality through his proclamations. I don't think most journalists get this.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says some progress has been made in talks with the United States with Pakistan’s mediation on “a large portion of the discussion topics”, but it does not mean that “the signing of an agreement is imminent”.
Iran's probably gonna hold out for getting Greenland.
(Just kidding, Greenlanders, you are not ours to give)
I Was Proved Fucking Right
I don't know how much this is human nature generally and how much it is specific to the kind of person drawn to careers in public influence (punditry, top government positions, etc.), but it is certainly the case that many people in positions of influence would prefer to burn down Cincinnati (editor: where is that, again? our readers probably don't know) than admit to having ever been wrong about anything.
There was a brief "admitting we were wrong" period about Iraq. Lots of people who were wrong about Iraq were paid money to write pieces about being wrong about Iraq (funny how that works: those people must be listened to, even in error). Most of the pieces were, at heart, pieces about the tragedy of someone with such a big brain being wrong and not the consequences of that.
If they'd burn down Cincinnati, they'd certainly nuke Iran, especially when so many of them want to anyway.
Sunday, May 24, 2026
Our Agent
Anyone who believed attacking Iran was a good idea for any reason was a sociopathic idiot, but as with many things, asking Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth to implement this cunning plan was insanity.
Oh No Our Precious War
Both Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham (plus all the usual suspects) are freaking out at the prospect of Trump's glorious Persian adventure ending as it will inevitably end (humiliating surrender by Uncle Sam, I mean the greatest peace deal ever made).
Mr. TRUMP, sir, you should not tolerate this disrespect and poor advice!
Or Maybe Not
Just like infrastructure week.
But Iranian officials have tempered expectations for a quick breakthrough. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson said differences in the mediated talks between Tehran and Washington remain “deep and significant”, signalling that major obstacles still stand in the way of a formal agreement.
Something to understand about Trump is that he isn’t just a liar, though of course he is that. He truly believes in the power of willing the things he wants into being. Announcing things isn’t just lying. It is manifesting.
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Evacuation
Emergency crews in Orange County are facing a highly complex race against time as they try to secure a bulging, pressurized tank loaded with 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate. Resolving the crisis has proven incredibly difficult due to a phenomenon known as a “thermal runaway” reaction, where the chemical generates its own uncontrollable heat, threatening either a massive toxic leak or a catastrophic explosion.
Evacuations around the failing tank in Garden Grove expanded to include tens of thousands of residents in six Orange County cities: Garden Grove, Cypress, Stanton, Anaheim, Buena Park and Westminster.
Several years ago there was a near catastrophe in Philadelphia which could've killed everyone in the vicinity of Center City, including me.
The Harvard Daily
Harvad's grading policies should not be a regular topic for the New York Times.
Also Jason Furman's career makes absolutely no sense except in the "it is who you know" sense.
Enough is enough, indeed! We know you all went to school near Boston! We don't care!
Also Jason Furman's career makes absolutely no sense except in the "it is who you know" sense.
Friday, May 22, 2026
God Speed
I'm curious if he knows this is never happening and is just in on the grift or...
SpaceX may have failed to get Starship V3 off the ground on Thursday, but the company revealed some interesting information in the lead-up to its launch attempt. With less than 15 minutes left in the countdown, commentators introduced the man who plans to lead SpaceX’s first crewed mission to Mars.
During the live webcast, SpaceX played a video of cryptocurrency billionaire and civilian astronaut Chun Wang speaking from Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Wang, who has gone to space one time before, explained that he will embark on a Starship flyby of the Moon and Mars. SpaceX has not shared a target launch date for the mission, but it could be the world’s first interplanetary human spaceflight.
We Won't Have Tulsi Gabbard To Kick Around Anymore
Says she's resigning because her husband was diagnosed with cancer.
A source familiar with the matter said that Gabbard had been forced out by the White House.
Good Luck With That
Can't begin to comprehend what they are imagining they can accomplish.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul tells reporters that Germany is preparing to participate in securing the Strait of Hormuz under a UK-led mission, though he added that he did not see it as a NATO mission.
I don't claim to be an Advanced Military Understander but I do not think either country has much to offer here.
Sure Why Not
Trump was always like this, but he is... more like this... now.
President Trump announced on Thursday that the United States would deploy 5,000 troops to Poland, despite the Pentagon’s decision a week ago to cancel the deployment of thousands of U.S. troops there.
In a social media post that caught Pentagon officials by surprise, Mr. Trump suggested that he was making the move “based on the successful election” of Karol Nawrocki, Poland’s conservative nationalist president whom Mr. Trump endorsed in his election — nearly a year ago.
Don't know what happened exactly, but "did what the last person he talked to wanted" is a common thing with him (depending on what it is and how much they flatter/bribe him, of course).
Yes, yes, those of us who would much rather be writing literary nonfiction for the New Yorker at 1978 per word rates do love a good kicker paragraph, but I do not think it serves most daily journalism well to put sly commentary like this at the very end!
In the statement on Tuesday, Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, said that the decisions over the past three weeks that have bewildered allies, angered lawmakers and sent U.S. military commanders scrambling to come up with palatable options were “the result of a comprehensive, multilayered process.”
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Daddy's Mad
The Senate doesn't fund the ballroom which was totally going to be paid for without taxpayer money ANYWAY and they're skipping town because of the crime reward fund.
GOP calls off votes after contentious meeting on ‘anti-weaponization’ fund
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche spent more than an hour sparring with Republican senators behind closed doors.
Senate GOP leaders have canceled plans to vote this week on a party-line immigration enforcement bill, a major setback as lawmakers contend with President Donald Trump’s personal political agenda.
Several Republican senators said action on the legislation would wait until after a weeklong Memorial Day recess — guaranteeing that Congress would blow a Trump-set June 1 deadline for the immigration funding.
Not Gonna Fall For That One
Evil Iran does not have much confidence that our big, beautiful, sweaty president is acting in good faith.
The two senior Iranian sources said there was deep suspicion in Iran that the pause in hostilities was a tactical deception by Washington to create a sense of security before it renews airstrikes.
Iran's top peace negotiator, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, said on Wednesday that "obvious and hidden moves by the enemy" showed the Americans were preparing new attacks.
Kennedy Minus Kennedy
Also from that poll, it seems being a Kennedy without the Kennedy name isn't enough. 
Especially when you have all the glorious habits of a failson.
Aides teed up calls with frenzied media outlets, Democratic luminaries and a roster of wealthy donors. The goal was to show that Mr. Schlossberg, a 33-year-old heir known for his good looks and madcap social media musings, was a serious candidate ready for what promised to be a grueling race.But just hours into his Day 1 launch, the candidate abruptly announced a change of plans, according to three people familiar with the events. Forget dialing for dollars — Mr. Schlossberg said he needed a nap. He then effectively disappeared for the day, leaving his team reeling.
I'm also glad that George Conway's "as a former Republican and MSNOW favorite guest, I get to be in charge of the Democrats now" campaign is sinking.
Bradmentum
Good to see.
Former Comptroller Brad Lander has a strong early lead over incumbent Dan Goldman. Lander is polling with 57% of the vote, and Goldman at 23%Goldman is one of the worst people in Congress. I didn't say "one of the worst Democrats."
Badges of Honor
I actually think the explanation for Polis here is simple: he spends all day cooking his brain on X, the everything app. Many such examples.
NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.
— Kyle Clark (@kylec.bsky.social) May 21, 2026 at 3:29 AM
50,000 Nazis bots can't be wrong! Will of the people!ANALYSIS: Goes without saying that Polis will wear this censure from his party as a badge of honor as he seeks to burnish his "not your normal Democrat" credentials. But it appeared there was some pent-up frustration with Polis among Colorado Dems that boiled over tonight.
— Kyle Clark (@kylec.bsky.social) May 21, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Nothing Magic Happens When His Poll Numbers Drop
Quite often people despair that Trump isn't more unpopular. But, really, he is very unpopular! 34% approval is very low!
I think they imagine that if gets unpopular enough then something... happens. But it doesn't! At most a few Republicans pretend to distance themselves from him in time for the election. That's all that will happen!
I think they imagine that if gets unpopular enough then something... happens. But it doesn't! At most a few Republicans pretend to distance themselves from him in time for the election. That's all that will happen!
And as for journalism/commentariat... well... Trump is still loved by the people who love him, and they long ago established that was what mattered.
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