Recent Comments

1. about 1 hour ago on Gary Markstein

   That’s all they have are insults, republicans vote for the republican who insults them the most, (Trump). They have no policies only insults, and think of how they regard you, you are just an expletive to them.

2. about 4 hours ago on Clay Jones

   “A feeble Trump nearly falls down on stage after he leans on his podium too hard and then goes on an angry rant calling his event workers ‘crappy,’” the Biden caption on X reads.

   In the video, Trump dramatically leans over the side of the podium, shuffles out from behind it, and then launches into a tirade about the poor quality of the stage setup.

   “You know this is the worst platform, who put this stage up?” he ad-libbed, cutting into his own remarks. “The fricking place is falling down.”

   “I notice it keeps tilting to the left,” Trump joked, “Like too many other things!”

   Like the electorate.

3. about 5 hours ago on Gary Varvel

   Trump has said he will weaponize the DOJ, the Attorney General and the FBI to go after his political and personal enemies. Theis is very unAmerican.

   The crimes criminal Trump are on trial for were committed like 8 years ago, long before Biden was in office, and they could have been tried sooner but Mr Trump delayed everything and now his illegal chickens are coming home to roost in jail.

   Trump will be convicted, and the MAGAs will go Ballistic

4. about 5 hours ago on Clay Jones

   national and state polls released in recent days (Biden-Trump):

   NPR/Marist 51%-46% (+5) likely voters

   ABC News 49%-45% (+4) likely voters

   NYT/Ipsos 45.5%-42.5% (+3)

   RMG 44%-42% (+2) likely voters

   TIPP 42%-40% (+2)

   Big Village 42%-41% (+1) likely voters

   Data For Progress 47%-46% (+1)

   Economist/YouGov 43%-43% (tied)

   Yahoo/YouGov 45%-45% (tied)

   USA/Suffolk 37%-37% (tied)

   Morning Consult 43%-44% (-1) and 43%-43% (tied)

   Quinnipiac Wisconsin 50%-44% (+6)

   Orbital Digital Arizona 39%-38% (+1)

   CBS News MI 51%-49% PA 49%-50% WI 49%-50%

   12 national polls. Biden leads in 7, 4 are tied, Trump leads in 1. State polls by serious credible pollsters showing Biden in far better shape than the NYT polls. All of these polls, with the exception of Data For Progress are independent polls, not controlled or paid for left of center organizations. I include DfP because historically their polling has not been favorable to Democrats.

5. about 6 hours ago on Clay Jones

   Judge Cannon buried by ex-CIA official for ‘indefensible’ Trump stolen docs case stalling

   An attorney who served in the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of General Counsel took to the pages of the New York Times to accuse U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon of aiding and abetting Donald Trump’s theft of government documents by not letting the DOJ’s case get a fair hearing.

6. about 7 hours ago on Gary Varvel

   He who know the truth and calls it a lie is a criminal.

   Bertolt Brecht

7. about 11 hours ago on Clay Jones

   Stormy Daniels is the only contractor Trump ever paid.

8. about 12 hours ago on Bill Bramhall

   Court analyst shreds Justice Alito’s flag stunt: His ‘brain has been pickled’ by Fox News

   Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s explanation for why a MAGA election denial upside-down flag was displayed at his house was completely unhinged, legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner on Friday evening — and his attempt to pin it all on his wife having a dispute over an anti-Trump sign with their neighbor was completely unconvincing.

   Legal expert draws ‘direct line’ between Justice Alito’s MAGA flag and Trump immunity case

   Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is under fire after the flag outside of his home was flown upside down, a symbol adopted by the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rallygoers.

   Senate Judiciary Committee Chair calls for Samuel Alito’s recusal from January 6 cases

   After the New York Times reported on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flying an upside-down flag following the January 6 insurrection, one top Senate Democrat is calling his ability to fairly adjudicate January 6 cases into question.

   The totally corrupt right wing Supreme Court is tipped in favor of ending USA freedom and creating a right wing fascist police state.

9. about 12 hours ago on Clay Jones

   ‘Most succential’: Trump ridiculed after speech in which he ‘confused his criminal cases’

   Donald Trump on Friday was ridiculed online following a Minnesota speech during which the former president is said to have confused his own criminal cases.

   Trump starts speech by whining about teleprompter: ‘They wonder why I don’t pay the bill’

   Donald Trump has consistently ridiculed President Joe Biden for using teleprompters, but the former president repeatedly complained about the fallen teleprompters at his Minnesota speech.

   ’It’s not normal’: Psychologists say Trump keeps proving his ‘dementia’ is getting worse

   During a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey on May 11, former President Donald Trump praised fictional serial-killing cannibal Hannibal Lecter and confused President Jimmy Carter for tennis great Jimmy Connors.

   Trump’s ‘circus clown’ jury intimidation tactics could ‘backfire’: ex-GOP lawmaker

   Former President Donald Trump’s team of tag-along Republican senators and representatives traveling to New York City to rage against the criminal hush money trial and help him violate the gag order is not going to do him any real favors, argued former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) on MSNBC Friday evening.

10. about 12 hours ago on Wizard of Id Classics

    Another right wing strip from 1974.

    In the mid-1960s Anderson exposed the corruption of Senator Thomas J. Dodd and unearthed a memo by an ITT executive admitting the company made large donations to Richard Nixon’s campaign to so that Nixon would stymie anti-trust prosecution. His reporting on Nixon-ITT corruption earned him a place on the Master list of Nixon’s political opponents.19 Anderson collaborated with Pearson on The Case Against Congress, published in 1968.20

    According to the Family Jewels Central Intelligence Agency documents, in 1971, during the Indo-Pakistani War, the director of the CIA, Richard Helms, had a wiretap put on Anderson’s phones.21

    In 1972 Anderson was the target of an assassination plot conceived by senior White House staff. Two Nixon administration conspirators admitted under oath that they plotted to poison Anderson on orders from senior White House aide Charles Colson.24

    White House “plumbers” G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt met with a CIA operative to discuss the possibilities, including drugging Anderson with LSD, poisoning his aspirin bottle, or staging a fatal mugging.25 The plot was aborted when the plotters were arrested for the Watergate break-in. Nixon had long been angry with Anderson. He blamed the fallout from Anderson’s election-eve story about a secret loan from Howard Hughes to Nixon’s brother16 for Nixon’s loss of the 1960 presidential election.

    Project Mudhen

    Beginning in February 1972, Anderson was the subject of a CIA project called Project Mudhen (also referred to as Operation Mudhen) aiming to find the sources of his articles.262728 Over the course of three months, ending April 12, 1972, the CIA spied on Anderson, whose code name in the project was “Brandy”. The CIA ended Mudhen after being unsuccessful at finding his sources and believing that Anderson was beginning to suspect he was being spied on by the CIA, which was able to collect a large file on his personal movements.