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The rank stupidity of snark

What Nikki Haley left out of her answer about the cause of the Civil War

In between

Well knock me over with a feather: The Times Trump-whisperer troika pretends they have a scoop!

From our house to your house, good cheer!

An icy night of snow and blues

The 12 immunities of Christmas

The thunderous, wondrous, revenge-packed 14th Amendment to the Constitution

The Supreme Court's long downhill slide

Fight back, Mr. President. Fight back for us.

Let me tell you about the poisoning of America

It's Personal now

The Supreme Court goes fishing

Thumb-twiddler caucus toys with funding while Ukraine fights for its very existence

It's called the Nixon rule, and the Supreme Court should uphold it without delay

Trump chickens out

Don't move to Texas

Great democracies don't fail when they are tested. We haven't before, and we won't this time either.

Lickspittle suck-a-zoid Kash Patel says the loud part even louder

How countries fall down the fascist rabbit hole

Who'd-a-thunk? Florida's Humpty-Dumpty power couple had a great fall

Ghosts of Christmas past: Aspen, 1967

What a day for the rule of law!

Let’s take a quick look at what’s under the Trump Christmas tree, shall we?

Lying, whining, thieving, lying, fraudulent, horrid, lying congressman expelled

The wages of hip

Standing guard

You can't win a war by dribs and drabs

Trump: My free speech rights don't end where your body begins

The ethic of cozy

The Sanitation Czar of Mosul

Donald Trump and the end of American exceptionalism

Objective, subjective -- let's just call the whole thing off

High, wide and handsome: The John Lombardi years

War as punishment

The terrible option

It's getting nasty out there in Republican nyah-nyah land

Mr. President, our Constitution is calling

Suffering written in disappearing ink

Heads up

This is how it begins

Abortion laws: There is no male equivalent

NY Times has analyzed Tuesday's election results: Heads Trump wins, tails Biden loses

Polls, schmolls: Democrats and abortion rights won across the board yesterday

WTF New York Times? Are you really going to do to Biden what you did to Hillary Clinton in 2016?

We are facing an emergency: Donald Trump showed us today in a Manhattan courtroom how he will act if he is elected president in 2024

Be afraid, be very very afraid: The phrase "regional war" is here

The rise and very fast fall of Sam Bankman-Fried-Madoff

What is a war crime?

How do you cover a war that is 5,800 miles away?

Netanyahu's excuses for bungling the intelligence on Hamas don't add up

And now for something a bit lighter: The great Garfinkel's caper

The world is coming apart at the seams

There has been another one: 18 dead, 13 wounded this time in Maine

It's a trap

Help! Somebody keeps dropping so many gift-wrapped columns on my doorstep that I can't even open the door!

Before the next teardrop falls

Israel and Gaza: The cold calculus of a ground invasion

One day only deal on "Dress Gray"

Joe Biden's age, and mine

Fani Willis is on a roll

The Kraken is still quakin'

The Kraken has cracked

The latest on the al-Ahli hospital explosion in Gaza

Gaza hospital blast: Whatever happened, the fog of war tells us that it's not what we think right now

What's up with Israel's Gaza pause?

Iran has warned Israel through the U.N. not to go into Gaza

Let's talk about terrorism

We did a better job electing our class president in junior high school than House Republicans have done electing a Speaker

You knew he couldn't keep his big trap shut, didn't you?

Gaza: An argument against going in

What is Israel's Iron Dome?

Donald Trump's 2017 Oval Office meeting with top Russian officials Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Kislyak is looking very different today

Threats of a wider war emerge from Hamas attack on Israel

At least 700 Israelis killed in Hamas attack; more than 370 Palestinians dead

Hamas launches massive suicide attack on Israel

New charges on the horizon for Trump?

Donald Trump's word is good when it comes to threats of violence and plans for fascism

Rudy Giuliani's drinking isn't funny

What did I tell you yesterday? It was a good day for Leon Trotsky and Steve Bannon

House Republicans just put their lunacy, mania, radicalism and love of chaos on full display for all to see. Then they went home. Who are the Democratic equivalents?

Kevin McCarthy is just a bump in the MAGA road

Clarence Thomas hasn’t suddenly decided to follow the rules. His recusal from a January 6 case is just smoke and mirrors.

We have lost Ed Fancher: A memory of a great man, and of another time

There are more of us than there are of them

How's that whole law and order thing working out for you, Republicans?

A big deal

New York finally caught up with Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice

The mainstream media completely missed the story when reporting on Trump's visit to the South Carolina gun store

Donald Trump is going to get someone killed

Guess who gets paid during the coming government shutdown? Congress.

Gen. Mark Milley has his Medal of Honor

Clarence Thomas is the worst thing to happen to this country in my lifetime

Double reversed, upside down, and backwards: Inside the new Republican politics of national defense

Extra! Extra! Extra! Lin Wood bonus lip-smacking treat!

It's almost autumn, and Trump attorney law licenses are falling like leaves

Secession without declaration

Kristen Welker's interview with Trump got more out of that lying, thieving, psychotic monster than she's being given credit for

Mark Meadows and Kevin McCarthy: Where do Republicans get these worms?

Special Counsel Smith to Trump: Shut your Big Mac hole

Optics, schmoptics, says Judge Cannon

Election, impeachment -- election, impeachment: rinse, spin, repeat

What will World War III look like?

9/11 and the dawn of off the shelf warfare

A rainy slow news night in Milford

Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo

CONVICTED

Bad news for Ukraine: Army finally admits Abrams tank is a dud

Painful, slow, and deadly

Enrique Tarrio sentenced to stand back and stand by for 22 years

Hey Proud Boys, was it worth it?

It's come to this: The anti-vax movement is now after your dog

Seventy-five cents okay with you?

Firearms stores near me

Why is the Republican Party committing suicide?

An embarrassment of riches

Mark Meadows: International man of modesty

Just a perfect day: Part deux

Just a perfect day

We've been here before

Mar a Lago beach today

Being and nothingness

Dead man flying

A flipper in Florida

Meet General Elon Musk

The reality of it all

The downhill slope

Still recovering

The mongo supremo indictment and a half

“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I'M COMING AFTER YOU!”

Indictments handed down in Georgia

Summer COVID

Summer cold

Trump gets schooled on the rules faced by criminal defendants

Clarence Thomas allowed a private organization to hold a fund-raiser at the Supreme Court and charge $1,500 per person to attend

Ukraine is fighting a war against Russian aggression with one hand tied behind its back

Some good news before you lay your head down to sleep

DeSantis new campaign strategy: Reshuffle, reboot, reload, and shift into reverse

Big storm hitting us; internet going out

You can't make this shit up: A novelist looks at Trump as a fictional character

Free media got Trump elected in 2016. Now the cable shows are doing it all over again.

Sale! Today only!

Defendant Trump’s Lawyer John Lauro admits his client’s guilt on Fox News hours after the arraignment in federal court

Defendant Trump has never said the words, "I didn't do it." He's been too busy pointing fingers and deflecting and lying.

The monciferous, humongous, monumental, immeasurable hole in the "free speech" defense.

They've got him: One Defendant, six Co-conspirators

Blown to bits: Warfare from gunpowder to AI

The desperation of Defendant Trump: What will he do?

What Defendant Trump does not understand

Superseding column: I read the new indictment so you don't have to

Indictment imminent

Indictment watch: Episode three

One armed bandit

How we should talk about slavery

The distinction between a proffer and flipping just went...poof!

Kitten Khaos

This is just so wrong

Why?

Post-Civil War anti-Ku Klux Klan law cited in Defendant Trump target letter

He's keeping us very, very busy

New developments for Defendant Trump, none of them nice

It's official: Defendant Trump is a target of the Jan. 6 investigation

This week or next

Inside the Prigozhin-Putin relationship: I'm rubber and you're glue

President Biden has a lot to be proud of as he returns from the NATO summit in Vilnius

Three state power outage

House Republicans vote to damage the U.S. military

Tommy (Racism? What racism?) Tuberville (wink-wink) changes his mind (wink-wink) on white nationalism (wink-wink)

Tommy Tuberville's wink-and-a-nod racism

Special Counsel investigations of Defendant Trump: let's count 'em.

I'm on threads

Trump's big mouth is going to get him in the end

Trump promises new travel ban on Muslims

Biden just agreed to send cluster munitions to Ukraine. Was he right?

Whither Russia's two P's?

We need to rethink who our founders are

While others have fireworks for the Fourth, we had a flood

Taking the day off with kittens

Yet more evidence that this Supreme Court is the most corrupt in history

It's happening

Chief Justice Roberts is a liar and a racist

What is a proffer, and why Defendant Trump should be very worried about two of them this week

What's more deadly than nuclear fallout? Political fallout, especially in Russia.

What's really going on with the new Bedminster audio tape everyone is calling a smoking gun

Odds but definitely not ends from the confusing clusterf-ck in Russia

Today's interim temporary what the hell could happen next outcome in Russia

It's never a good sign when a losing foreign war comes home

Putin's panic transforms a brushfire into a turning point

Where will Defendant Trump store his new boxes of anxiety?

Bulletin...bulletin...bulletin

Russia goes to war against itself

In kitten news...

Procedure recovery celebration breakfast

Colonoscopy evacuation dinner

Trump's spiral staircase: down, down, down he goes, where he stops, nobody knows

Let us now celebrate Juneteenth

What's next?

Weary of political crimes and shenanigans, he said...kittens!

One big thing

Are you ready for another outrage?

When T-R-U-M-P was spelled N-I-X-O-N

Try not to take it so personally

Living in a hurricane

Ukraine's counteroffensive begins in earnest

38 counts and 49 pages: I read the Trump indictment so you don't have to

Finally! The Trump indictment dinner!

Now we know Trump's defense: "It was all just a big mistake!"

Trump told he is target of criminal investigation celebration dinner

The end of secrets

It's always the pool boy

Squeeze time for Orange Julius

Dirt track Saturday night

Child abusers are organized and they live near you

Late breaking news on the Trump tape

Trump tape: His obsession with holding grudges and exacting retribution could land him in federal court

Keeping your brain from melting and running out your ears is getting harder and harder

Curiosity Kittens of Milford: Day 26

On this and every Memorial Day, my family and I remember Grandpa

Justice Texas style

Paxton impeachment celebration dinner

As mass murders spread, Texas Republicans are squabbling about a party "leader" they've known is a crook for 15 years

What is the Espionage Act, and why is Trump likely to be indicted for violating it?

Prigozhin praises Ukraine's army and predicts "revolution" if Russia doesn't win the war

The exciting life of a young writer in 70's

Gee, I wonder who dictated this missive?

One year ago tomorrow

E. Jean Carroll second defamation lawsuit celebration dinner!

Hi! My name is Donald Trump and I would like to apply for membership in the Aryan Brotherhood!

News both good and mixed about Ukraine

Kitten watch: Day 16

What is the whole right-wing campaign to control the judiciary really about, anyway?

How Leonard Leo dug the right-wing's political grave 1.6 billion feet deep

The easy part

Kitten watch day 12 and other news

Breaking news: Giuliani sued by former aide for sexual assault and wage theft

Special Counsel John Durham finds bupkis

Intelligence twist in battle for Bakhmut

What's up with the battle for Bakhmut?

Is Clarence Thomas the worst Supreme Court justice ever?

Kitten watch: day eight

A profile in cowardice

Santos charged by feds with same crimes Trump is under investigation for

Man-spreading the AR-15

Kitten watch: Day Four

Semiautomatic terrorism

The reign of Enterprise Rent-a-Justice

The part I took out of yesterday's column, "Notes on the state of whiteness."

Cinco de Kitten-o

Notes on the state of whiteness

American madness

Laid low

The Quilters of Alto Pass

Our lady of the perpetual tummy

I wish they would show the pictures of the dead

A brushfire of leaked U.S. secrets sputters out on the battlefield in Ukraine

With blood in the water and tears on the carpet, Murdoch closes the deal

Trump's entire platform is insurrection

Murdoch licks his chops

How Rupert Murdoch began his career in ruining America

How Murdoch steamrolled Tucker

Out Foxed

A Sunday drive in Northeast Pennsylvania

Today it gives me great pleasure...

Does any of this sound familiar?

There is no such thing as an accidental shooting

This country has fallen into a canyon between politics and reality

An unexpected development at the Harris-Truscott manse

Vindication and Accountability

Kamala Harris comes into her own

If you see one flea, the whole house is infested

Hunting humans

Stolen Pentagon docs: Dangerous radicalization of American white youth now a national security threat

Trump is under investigation for violating the same law secret-stealer Teixeira was charged with today

Secrets, lies, and extremism: An embarrassing moment for the U.S. military

Some parts I left out of the LKTIV origin story

Join me on Notes

76 years ago, the first American baby born in occupied Japan drew a breath and started yelling. He was so loud, the hospital nurses called him "first sergeant."

Another American weapon of war was used to kill five people in a Louisville bank

Leaked documents and the wilderness of mirrors

Should the Left start buying guns?

The first shot in a cold civil war

Twitter banned Substack but allowed the posting of stolen top-secret national security documents

Twitter bans Substack

Justice Thomas and his regular guy vacations

Tennessee secedes from sanity

Key Russian war mystery solved: it's their satellites, stupid

Meanwhile, as we slept, a political earthquake hit Wisconsin

Arraignment celebration dinner!

Trump indictment and statement of facts revealed

Preliminary reporting on indictment

As he awaits arraignment, Trump is now officially under arrest in the Criminal Court Building

Melting down

MTG lies; Chinese spy balloon is back; Trump is on his way to indictment in New York

Taking the night off with our newest member

Citizen Trump

"We own our children" but the state owns our bodies

Earth continues to spin

"We own our children"

It turns out Republican Congressman Tim Burchett has an answer for killings of children in schools

Fatalism's fatalities

This is the way Rupert Murdoch's New York Post is playing the Nashville school shooting story

This is who voters in Tennessee sent to Congress to represent them

Sadly, this will be only too familiar

More Tennessee madness

Three children, three adults, dead in shooting at Nashville grade school

Trump draws the line in Waco

Another spectacular Trump legal backfire

Deranged psychopath threatens violence

$1.60 per vote

Neocon Iraq war supporter Bret Stephens has no regrets

Failed banks and greedy Republicans

Shock, awe, disaster and humiliation

This is not the way we do things in this country

This is the way Florida is using its attack on "woke" to whitewash Civil Rights history

A Federalist Society for all things: Dark money enters the culture wars

Arrest warrant issued in the Hague for Vladimir Putin

Trump Media under investigation for laundering Russian money

The death penalty comes to the abortion wars

Russian warplane hits U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea

DeSantis makes a pitch for Putin's endorsement

Will the battle for Bakhmut be a turning point in the war?

Republicans want children working on the killing floors of slaughterhouses

Mark your calendars. Pompeo is running for president.

My time in the Fox hole

Why are Republicans afraid of the free flow of information?

6,000 years of war: A brief history

A nation of enemies cannot stand

Let's give thanks to the Dilbert guy -- in a single rant, he put the lie to reverse racism

Russian terror campaign of kidnapping Ukrainian children continues

Church, state, and guns

Israel is not the only country with a Supreme Court crisis

If the answer is Kevin McCarthy, what is the question?

I cannot bring myself to type the name of the subject of this column

How to lose a war

The tale of the tapes

This week in Ukraine vs. a year ago

Be WOKE. Be proud.

Biden visits Ukraine while Republicans whine

Ruby's eyes

It's the coverup. It's always the coverup.

There were things that happened

Hey, Trump! Be afraid...be very, very afraid.

The tangled web of Trump and Ukraine

UFO's: They're not telling us everything they know

Remember what I just said about UFO's?

In the news on Super Bowl Sunday

Putin apologist Elon Musk cuts Starlink's use by Ukrainian military

The new global electronic battlefield

Dehumanization of the police

SOTU: Biden laid a minefield and Republicans walked right into it.

Taaa-daaa! The counter-box compromise!

When the earth moves

It is Black History month

How the Durham investigation fizzled out

Russian offensive imminent

Does anyone have any advice...

Lives of loud desperation

The escalation lie

Woodward reveals identity of Deep Stink

Following the bus

This is the kind of stuff that isn't worth fighting

With these hands

The cost of Trump's four years of NATO niggling

U.S. to send M1 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine

Ukraine will get Leopard II tanks

Barge cats

This will turn out to be the week that was for Ukraine

Ginni squeaks by

Open thread

David Crosby is dead at 81

Getting down and dirty with the debt ceiling

Ron DeSantis and his lethal lies

We are entering a COVID information black hole

It's a quiet MLK day here in NE Pennsylvania

Comparing the Trump and Biden classified documents cases

Shrapnel

This is what losing looks like

"This is what madness looks like"

Welcome to the DOA Congress

The fuck 'em caucus takes over

Kevin McCarthy didn't win. The mob did.

What it all means

Either he had a plan or it was nerves

The steep cost of having no shame

Back to 9th grade for Kev

McCarthy stymied by Arizona co-loons Gosar and Biggs

A turning point in the Ukraine war