Lindsey Graham began explaining his federal abortion ban legislation by saying: "I picked 15 weeks…"
Watching a man say "I picked" as it relates to legislation controlling women's reproductive rights was about the most on-brand Republican move I've seen
Vote, folks.
I’ll say this again, the most damning indictment against Judge Amy Coney Barrett right now is that she’s willing to be put on the Supreme Court under these circumstances. It raises enormous questions about her character, ethics and judgment.
Dropped my son at college today and it was easy except for the part where my heart exploded into its component molecules and I cried so hard it filled a river big enough for my soul to sail away on.
Pretty strange that "FORMER PRESIDENT'S PEOPLE PUT A DETAILED COUP PLAN IN A DAMN POWERPOINT!!" isn't a banner headline on every news website in America, cause it seems like kind of a big deal.
Pause a moment and consider the way Jeff Bezos was being threatened. Now envision what Trump’s pal at the National Enquirer has on Ted Cruz, and ask yourself why Cruz went from hating Trump to loving him. Now do the same thing for Lindsey Graham. And all those Evangelicals. 😈
ESPN is now reporting that Aaron Rodgers is in the Jets’ “medical yurt” and the team shaman is “rubbing ivermectin on the spot where his chakra decoupled.”
Josh Hawley: "Director Wray, let's say, hypothetically, a lawmaker did something to encourage these insurrectionists. And perhaps that lawmaker, we'll call him Tosh Mawley, made calls to people involved. The FBI couldn't get....phone records showing that, right? Hypothetically?"
If DeSantis can fly immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard and Abbott can bus immigrants to Chicago, New York and DC, can we fly or bus Trump supporters in our states to Texas and Florida?
1/ I'm a columnist now. But as someone who rose up through the reporting ranks, I can say with 1,000% certainty that this is objectively a far bigger deal than the DOJ report on Biden. That's not a defense of Biden, it's a basic news judgement decision. The fact that this will...
Trump: One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, Well, sir, if we don't pay and were attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said.. No I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.
Please do not tweet the
#TreasonSummit
hashtag as it might become a top trending topic and embarrass our president while he is engaging in treason at the summit, which is a
#TreasonSummit
.
#TreasonSummit
How do you sit on a story about the Joint Chiefs of Staff preparing for a coup by an outgoing president? Maybe I'm being an old-fashioned reporter, but that seems like news Americans should know about the moment it's confirmed.
Polls show that, somehow, most voters don’t know or have forgotten most of this, so here it is all in one place, as presented by
@sethmeyers
in tonight’s Closer Look: An overview of Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for president.
(And this is only a small fraction.)
And just like that, she’s gone. Farewell to the best writing partner I’ve ever had. Ineffective chaser of rabbits. Protector of the home. Lover of ear scritches. Expert side-eye deliverer. Noblest of friends. Zoe.
“Fare you well, I love you more than words can tell.”
Really looking forward to Marco Rubio’s Bible quote tomorrow, along with Mitch McConnell saying he hasn’t seen the president’s tweets about shooting Americans.
If I'm following this right, it seems Fox News is 100% convinced that woke Ukraine's refusal to bow down to the kind, great and powerful Vladimir Putin is going to tank Hillary Clinton's presidency and we should all drive trucks to block school board meetings and invade Canada.
Call me a worrier, but I've never quite understood how having no vaccine, no treatment, no universal commitment to mask wearing and social distancing, and no national leadership on coronavirus could lead to any kind of successful "re-opening," phased or otherwise.
1/ What makes me so mad about the Aaron Rodgers stuff - and there are buckets and buckets of things to be mad about - are the things he didn't say. I heard zero mention of the 750,000 American souls who have died from this virus, a number bolstered by people like himself who...
Dear World:
We would like to apologize for our extremely dumb American president. Yes, he did say “space force.” No, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Please know that we are working to address this problem.
Your patience is appreciated.
- Most of America
Young man shot in KC for knocking on the wrong door. Young woman shot and killed in New York for pulling into the wrong driveway. And now a young all-star cheerleader has been shot for trying to open the wrong car in a parking lot. This country is sick.
1/ Hello everyone, and welcome to this meeting of the Florida GOP Committee on Health Policy. We're meeting today in this parking lot behind a Hooter's because Dale, our treasurer, died of COVID-19 last night and he had sole access to the accounts, so we couldn't rent out...
1/ OK, so this Sam Nunberg stuff today is high comedy, and it shows, again, how deep into the Cavern of Idiocy our current president had to dig to find like-minded trolls who would work with him. Honestly, these are the most astonishingly dumb people I've ever witnessed.
Home Depot's co-founder endorsed Trump on the same day Trump posted this, in case anyone needs another reason to never set foot in a Home Depot ever, ever again. Also, please pay attention to how much deeper Trump is sinking into Hitlerian language and tone. The GOP owns this.
I'll say this about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. If I - or you, or pretty much anyone in the real world - had voiced support for executing a subset of my co-workers, I would be fired. Instantly. And I would never work again.
And that would be the correct consequence. Period.
Meghan McCain: "If you're talking about...going and taking people's guns away from them, there's going to be a lot of violence."
Who wants to tell her?
If we wind up with Joe Biden running against Donald Trump, I say we put them both on stage and whichever one can reset the clock on a VCR after a power outage gets to be president.
Donald Trump Jr. is what happens when a CliffsNotes version of a Shakespearean tragedy and a T-shirt from Senor Frog’s in Cancun have tragically bad unprotected sex.
Trump supporters treating the "Let's Go Brandon" bit like they've discovered a pot of comedic gold is the answer to the question: Why are there no conservative late-night shows?
1/ So Trump's post-arrest Bedminster speech is over, and here's the thing: It was low energy. This stuff is obviously wearing him down. But beyond that, it was a litany of lies and nonsense, most of them so deep in the right-wing fever swamp that they'll be meaningless to...
Hate to be a downer, but...
Opening schools won’t work. Professional and college sports won’t work for long. Bars definitely won’t work
Nothing works without a national strategy to contain the virus and a unified effort to take it seriously.
Nothing works until Trump is gone.
To the fragile men of the world:
"If you think being called a bedbug or getting mocked by a fake cow on Twitter is bad, talk to a few women or people of color who have Twitter accounts. Talk to a few female newspaper columnists or sports reporters."
Mike Johnson’s wife Kelly just responded after it was revealed her “Christian Counseling Services” compare gay people to bestiality and say sex out of wedlock “offends God.”
She said she “felt burdened for so many people” & says “God” made Mike Johnson Speaker. “It’s Biblical.”
There is no universe in which Donald Trump’s Hitler-adjacent “vermin” speech shouldn’t be the top domestic story everywhere. Every GOP lawmaker and party official should be asked to condemn Trump over and over again, and a responsible press would stick to that relentlessly.
11/ F*ck you, Aaron Rodgers. On behalf of exhausted Americans, f*ck you. Nobody will force you to get vaccinated. But if your choice is to not, you should've owned up to it from the jump. You should've put other people's lives ahead of your own, both then and now. But you didn't.
So Republicans, who believe tax cuts stimulate economic growth, just voted to block a $50 million tax break for Delta in Georgia because the airline halted its NRA discount. Delta is one of the state's largest employers. These Republicans value guns over their own constituents.
Graham: Are we going to let county prosecutors start prosecuting the President of the United States? The former President of the United States. To my Democratic friends, be careful what you wish for
Ron DeSantis’ favorite Bible verse: “I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you put my ass on a plane to Martha’s Vineyard to score political points with people who take Jesus’ teachings and do the exact opposite.”
We’re also living in a nation where patriot-cosplaying rich doofuses don’t know the difference between the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem because everything they do is just performative nonsense.
No Trump supporter has ever tried to better understand me. Not once. I've never heard a MAGA figure tell Trump supporters they need to listen to liberals or immigrants or people in the LGBTQ community to better understand what motivates them. Have you?
BREAKING: As a precaution, aides have spent the morning briefing President Trump on the existence of Miami, Ohio. Sources say "it is not going well."
#TrumpIsAnIdiot
🚨🚨🚨The asylum-seeking Congolese mother and child I’ve been writing about have been reunited in Chicago. I’m told they fell into each other’s arms crying. It took more than four months, but they’re back together. 🚨🚨🚨
Dude sits there with an ash cross on his forehead saying a military parade might cost as much as $30 million just days after laying out a budget that will send poor people boxes of canned beans. Not a real follower-of-Christ move, if you ask me.
BREAKING: For the fifth time this weekend, turkeys lined up to be pardoned by President Trump have been “fully drained” of blood by his son, Eric. Asked for explanation, Eric would only say: “I thirst.”
First Lady Jill Biden put a massive Valentine's display on the North Lawn.
"I just wanted some joy. With the pandemic, just everybody's feeling a little down. So, it's just a little joy. A little hope. That's all."
BREAKING: Elon Musk announces that users will no longer be able to see any text on X, formerly known as Twitter, as the social media platform pivots to focus on "implied alpha-male vibes" and "a sense of seething hatred"
Honestly, I'm nauseous. That tweet using a school shooting as cover against the Russia investigation. Those are murdered children, goddammit. This is too much. How is anyone still standing with this monster? We're living a nightmare.
I'm out for a bit, folks. Jesus.
BREAKING: I’ve gone home. Great to be rejoining Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation after 28 years. The place I started my media career, with the boss who gave me my first big break. We’re going to have a lot of fun….
2/ ...who have the gall, thanks to never being told they're wrong, to think they know better than an overwhelming majority of scientists and medical professionals. Not a damn word about anyone who lost a child, or a parent, or a brother or sister.
I want the willfully unvaccinated to feel uncomfortable. I want them to feel they are being judged harshly. This isn’t a personal decision. It impacts all of us. And you can’t meet people halfway when the halfway point exists in a land of make believe.