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Is this the end of special counsels forever? Jack Smith is in survival mode

Preparing for the holidays!

Read the sexual assault police report about Pete Hegseth right here!

Gaetz out as Attorney General nominee

On the awfulness of war

A small, weak man is appointing small, weak men to his Cabinet

I have a question for you

Trump isn't picking a cabinet, he's appointing capos to help run Trump Inc.

Irresistible force, meet immovable object

Statement of purpose

Donald Trump vs. the "woke" military

Taking a breather

This is our Rosa Parks moment. This is our Stonewall.

Buck up

It was a turnout election, and we didn't show up

Sign up today. The resistance begins now.

Fluoride? Boy, I didn't see this coming.

Your vote today is magical

Let's remember what we're fighting for: A country of mistakes and corrections like no other in the world

It's one day until the election. Let's take a ride.

It's one day until the election. Let's take a ride.

Candidate Bone Spurs threatens Liz Cheney with a firing squad

Halloween is supposed to be scary. Elections aren't.

Good evening. I have an important announcement from one of Donald Trump's "enemies within." Me.

It's not a joke

There is a great big hole in the surface of the Earth where a certain man’s heart should be

Ready for Halloween!

A nice surprise on a Sunday morning, and a source of pride on a Saturday night

Good morning. This is what fascism looks like.

The Washington Post and LA Times have already told us what they think about Donald Trump.

Anxiety attack!

Trump's threat of mass deportation is a fearmongering hollow lie, and here is why

Would the Constitution even apply to Donald Trump if he is elected president?

Trump turns the hate knob to 11

Early voting has begun in Pennsylvania

Trump sways his way into final two weeks of campaign as Kamala surges toward the finish line

In praise of the what if, whatever, and why not of doubt

Disintegrating but still crafty: He knows that we know

Trump's lie-industrial complex

Stonewall history video on YouTube!

On the impossibility of summing this stuff up

A conversation about the history of Stonewall

Why does the New York Times keep normalizing Trump's racism and cruelty?

Kremlin confirms that Trump sent COVID testing equipment to Putin

What have Trump and Putin been talking about on the phone?

The problem with covering a monster masquerading as a buffoon

Elon Musk is turning himself into the most dangerous man in the world

The folly of invasion

White House snipe hunter Devin Nunes is back in the news!

In the Supreme Court, is Donald Trump a defendant or a client?

Why the VP debate last night matters

"Vance is such a sleazy, oily, adept liar."

Reagan's nine most terrifying words in the English language: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

And the buzzword of the day is...wider war!

We don't have to live this way

Hassan Nasrallah is dead: Assassination or act of war or both?

Coming up on October 10 in Milford, PA

Trump has an issue: McDonald's-gate

3,000 years of madness and death

Aging golfer's campaign slows down going into final month before election

Watch my zoom call tomorrow with Robert Hubbell and Jessica Craven

Tazzy in the box, Tracy on the wall

Warfare: Conventional, asymmetric, dare we whisper nuclear -- let's call the whole thing off.

All too human

A happy reprise: A tribute to Bob Neuwirth, the patron saint of "Hey, man"

The extraordinary military power of keeping secrets

Unbalanced is the new black

Sunday reprise: Living with paintings

There is something happening in the Republican Party

What is that clatter coming out of Russia? Why, it's Vladimir Putin searching through a Kremlin cupboard trying to find sabers to rattle.

Unleashing Ukraine

How to shrink a monster

ABC needed a shock-collar on Trump tonight, or perhaps they should have used something along these lines...

Abortion, abortion, abortion: Harris has a surefire path to knock Trump off his game

Boys and parents and guns

Sunday reprise: Inside the Hotel California

A storm blew through today, and this is the scene it left

As a nation, we must face the reality that we have a monster among us

Useful idiots and Russian propaganda

14 years old

On service

Labor Day reprise: Three years ago on the night the big storm hit East Hampton

Happy Labor Day weekend!

Trump doubles down on dishonor

Kursk invasion: The most important territory Ukraine occupies is inside the head of Vladimir Putin

There wasn't a question in the CNN interview Kamala Harris didn't hit out of the park

Trump manages to disrespect both veterans and women as Arlington visit blows up his campaign

Grotesque

Special Counsel Jack Smith refocuses Trump indictment

What about the other 2,446 who died?

Sunday reprise: Moving days

Raise your right hand: We are all jurors now

Tonight the thrill ride ends, and the hard work begins

Trump tells North Carolina crowd that Obama was mean to him last night. Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth...

DNC first night: What more can you add?

Where we stand on the first night of the DNC

She asked the question that changed my life: Betty Prashker, dead at 99

The element of surprise in politics and war

The Energizer Bunny of lies

Women are seizing the national political narrative

Why does this election feel so different?

Handfuls of pebbles and dust

Saturday reprise: We were young and we were beautiful and we were addicted

Late stage Detrumpmentia

Ancient bacterium exhumed near Florida golf course

"It's been a whirlwind" -- The fastest two weeks in American political history

The political power of the smile

Harris-Walz: That's the ticket!

Another crack widens in the Trump wall of silence and loyalty

Boo-hoo

Saturday reprise: Morning light is the best light

The coming Lawyer Wars over the certification of this election

Putin just voted early

This is what happens when Trump loses control of the campaign narrative.

The convictions of Lt. Calley, dead at 80

Kamala didn't just flip the script. She released a flood of pent up emotion and energy.

Harris ahead!

Lexington Avenue local, 77th Street stop

Oh, boy, oh boy! The New York Times finally got around to mentioning Trump's fascist speech

Link to video: Trump is going to "fix it" so there is no more voting

Trump finally said it out loud: He wants this to be our last election

What could Trump possibly be talking about?

Shake hands with your new friend, the Times/Siena poll

Moon-faced gerbil says what?

"We're not going back!"

My Salon column was obviously the last straw

Secret Service fail: Director Kim Cheatle must go

We did it!

It's up to us now

Saturday Reprise: Words and sentences and me

A few thoughts on you-know-who and his you-know-what

The Democratic Party is tearing itself apart at the worst possible moment

Political dichotomy du jour

The Supreme Court isn't only on the ballot in this election, it has remade the ballot

Bye, bye Aileen

As Republicans gather, Democrats cannot dither

Sunday reprise: I was a Fug for a night. We played the legendary Mudd Club. It was cool.

Guns and politics don't mix. Neither do guns and people.

The bigger picture

Where we stand now

There was an orange elephant in the room tonight

New York Times editorial on Trump is weak, lame, pathetic, and belated

Who's the scandal?

What Trump has been up to while Dems are obsessing over Biden

The Delaware River is not running backwards

Get a grip, Democrats: We need to save the country from Donald Trump, not Joe Biden

Was the ABC interview enough?

4th of July reprise: You can't rewrite history that is staring you in the face

For this Supreme Court, incoherence is the point

This is how Joe Biden can beat Donald Trump like a drum

Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity: It could be worse, but not by much

Grow a spine, Democrats.

Saturday reprise: Ruby, my dear

Oooof...cruunch...thud...aarrgghh...one blow after another

Trudge, trudge, trudge...

Debate rules: Who is going to do the pat-down on Donald Trump?

What makes a MAGA?

Daily Beast podcast interview

Biden's best debate strategy: Don't explain. Don't excuse. Attack, attack, attack.

Sunday reprise: Naked, not yet clothed by experience

Guns and testosterone are not a good mix

Glory be! Justice Thomas takes one for the team!

Louisiana mandates posting The Ten Speedbumps on classroom walls

Who the hell wants to visit North Korea?

How a semi-secret media empire is blanketing America with lies

Tazzy the Box Cat checks on my recovery

Saturday reprise: Flame

Justice Thomas' Supreme Court opinion on bump stocks is a stinking, rotting carcass of a lie

It wasn't exactly a vacation, but at least it was a day off

Trump on the stump: We have to come up with a new word for "unhinged"

The private Alito is even worse than we thought

New York Times, you should be ashamed

Saturday Reprise: When Bob Dylan practiced downstairs from my loft

Deeper into the "why" of Kenneth Chesebro

Arrogance, greed, and stainless-steel toilets

The triple-twist, double-Salchow Trump Derangement Syndrome of Kenneth Chesebro

The word disingenuous is not in the Constitution

Bring it on

Edwin Fancher, 1923-2023

If you thought my take on the likely effects of the Trump verdict was a little too rosy...

Trump guilty verdict changes everything

We've got this

We are down to two branches of government

My Memorial Day interview with Ian Masters on "Background Briefing"

Remembering the dead

We are all guardians of Democracy

La Grande Dame

This is the "law and order" Donald Trump is running on

Jim Crow laws are being replaced by Sam Alito laws

Now it emerges that Alito also flew a Christian Dominionist flag at his beach house

Trumpaganda gone wild!

7 Days in May

Gay pride and patriotism

Two keyboards: Al Kooper and me

The wheels of justice howl with laughter

Night off

This is the country they want us to live in

How bad is it in Ukraine right now? Who is to blame? One guess.

Trump's moral doppelganger is interrogated by the defense

Now we know why Melania hasn't been in court

Sunday Reprise: Fatalism's fatalities

Thank you, Stormy Daniels, thank you.

Stormy beats Trump at his own game at his own trial

If it can be screwed up, we'll find a way to do it

Judge "I'm stalling as slow as I can" Cannon delays Trump documents case for the eleventy-seventeenth time

If it looks like bribery, smells like bribery, and involves a luxury resort, it's probably bribery

What happens if it happens

Hope Hicks, escape artist

Mommy Graycie and her pile o' kittens

What happens if Trump gets convicted in New York?

This is one of the major things wrong with our country

Polls schmolls

This Supreme Court has broken my heart

It's going to be bigger than Watergate

As if we needed any more evidence that the Supreme Court is completely politicized...

The terrible equations of war

Donald Trump's stress test, and mine

Marjorie Taylor Mouth makes another empty threat

Ukraine: 1 -- Republican Putin Posse: 0

Widdle baby needs his blankie!

Republican calls for violence are going to get people killed

He's 77, and he's going to get his nap in, damn it!

A world war in waiting

He was the last "reasonable" Republican. Now he's gone.

History and terror in the skies over Israel

No place to hide: The abject panic of pro-lifers

There are 77 reasons I'm taking the day off today

The 1800's are waiting. Will we let the Republican Party take us there?

The big one and the little one

Were you waiting with bated breath for Trump’s big announcement on abortion? Plop: it’s here.

Who are we?

Judge Cannon approximates rationality semi-successfully

Top-secret U.S. “Flying Ginsu” missile likely used in strike on World Central Kitchen vehicle in Gaza

Justice Aileen Cannon? Steel yourself: It could happen

In the absence of American unity, we return to trust

He's just mad he got caught

Exit the execrable Eastman

Trump's latest juvenile, malicious, ignorant, criminal appeal for votes

Being and somethingness

Terrorism used to be simple

Terrorism used to be simple

Cleanup on aisle three

A spy inside the NBC tent

Travel notice

The anti-Trump Republican vote is alive and kicking

Trumpette Aileen Cannon tries out for head cheerleader

Trump is escalating his rhetoric. How far will he and his MAGA mob take it?

Will drones change the balance of power?

The bottomless patience of Jack Smith

The sneaky snakey world of Donald Trump's America

Georgia judge dismisses three Trump charges saying he did it, but that's okay

The pure emptiness of Katie Britt

Revealed: Boxes of documents we didn't know Trump took from Mar a Lago to Bedminster

Ever heard of a chicken tractor?

The Pentagon lied

Just occurred to me: State of the Union thread

Say goodbye to the great big but hugely vulnerable main battle tank

There is something wrong at the New York Times

Trump's Supreme Court states the obvious: They're his

This land was made for you and me

We've got big feet, and we should use them

Beat his ass

Terrifying

First abortion, then IVF...and now birth control?

Trump won South Carolina, but...

What is an old fashioned anti-abortion fundamentalist Christian to do?

Let's watch the making of an extrauterine child!

House Republicans name new impeachment committee spokesperson

What is it about Republicans and Russian spies?

I don't want to sound paranoid, but...

Why the fall of Avdiivka matters

An ode to napping

It's a Black thing

Trump's NATO threat has a nervous Europe talking of defending itself with nukes

Are you reading this on your cellphone? Thank the Deep State and our tax dollars

This is how Biden can drive Trump even further around the bend than he already is

Donald Trump Supreme Court appeal: A legal Twilight Zone of lies

Vote for the stutterer, not the lying felonious rapist. It's important.

The insurrection across the street

Stick a fork in it: The 14th Amendment is done

Chalk one up for democracy and the rule of law

Of falling door plugs and missing bolts and holes in fuselages and 737 Max 9's

Red Dawn in the desert

Moms for partying

A good news day on the Trump front

Taylor Swift freak out!

Target practice

Will Nikki Haley pull the pin on the Trump grenade?

Ka-ching: $18.3 M + $65 M = $83.3 million verdict against Trump

Let us now celebrate E. Jean Carroll

Go, Nikki, go!

The parallel universe primary

We have reached a nadir

Question for a cold Sunday night

If Salvador Dali painted a Supreme Court appeal

A failure of courage in Uvalde

It's a cult

How Joe Biden won the Iowa Republican caucus

I am a man

This is what Trump's favorite dictator did to the "vermin" who were "poisoning the blood" of his country

In the war between bombs and words, bombs are winning

Donald Trump's perfect world of unlimited power

The gas can caucus

Donald Trump and the machinery of fame

Milford winterscape in black and white

Dueling anniversaries: 1/6 vs 9/11

Kareem's heart and mine

The Handmaid's Court

Seven days in January: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals considers Trump's claim of absolute immunity

Here's to a better year than the last one