This is my reaction. Like, what the fuck is he rambling about?
20.02.2026 18:37
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This is my reaction. Like, what the fuck is he rambling about?
Ray Romano, Nicholas Braun, Jake Shane, and Jenny Slate all made their Broadway debuts in All Out: Comedy About Ambition
I’m confident that the solution to widespread distrust of mainstream journalism does not involve putting woo-ish health grifters and eugenicists on national television.
NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Bizarre editorial choice by @nytimes.com to portray Trump's threats toward Europe as strong and fearsome rather than as a madman and unhinged tyrant spiraling out of control before our very eyes
My latest for @ms.now: What the Brooke Rollins $3 meal meme shows about Team Trump’s economic blindness. "Trump has assembled the wealthiest presidential cabinets ever ... (But)vast wealth can leave its possessors blind to the economic struggles of ordinary Americans. www.ms.now/opinion/broo...
Top of the World is forever one of my favorite songs. Love you forever, Karen Carpenter. #AT40
New polling as 2025 comes to a close shows Americans are dissatisfied with the way President Trump is handling the economy. Managing Editor of the American Economic Liberties Project @helaineolen.bsky.social discusses the sentiment around Trump’s economy.
www.ms.now/weekends-wit...
The wealth guru ... doesn’t preach sacrifice or patience. Wealth gurus flaunt their riches (hello private planes and gold-plated apartments) promising to let you in on the secret of how to obtain the same. If you can't? That’s on you. You didn’t try hard enough, you didn’t believe in the guru enough
My latest for MS NOW: Trump isn't built to care about your grocery bill. "Trump ... has never presented himself as someone who could empathize with the public’s economic fears, but as a performer of a particular sort: the self-help, get-rich-quick wealth guru." 1/2 www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
This reads like a classic case of elder financial abuse and someone should be looking into it. It seems highly unlikely Eleanor Holmes Norton has the capacity to loan her campaign money to pay the staff.
This is elder abuse.
For @nymag.com I reported on 88-year-old Eleanor Holmes Norton, who was recently a victim of credit card fraud.
Among my findings:
The Norton campaign listed a deceased person as campaign treasurer for 2.5 years
Between '23-25, amid q's about her mental acuity, Norton loaned $110k to her campaign
Happy Birthday!
America must adopt a single-pricing system under which each provider charges all payers the same amount for the same service or product. This will sharply lower prices for private plans, which paid on average 2.5x more than Medicare and Medicaid.
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This is genuinely big news. Shldnt be but is. Republicans are challenging Trump now because he seems weak. No one wantst to back a weak horse. Trump looks like the weak horse.
This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
My latest: How Multilevel Marketing Explains Trump's Corruption. A Q&A with @bridgetgillard.bsky.social abt her book Little Bosses Everywhere. We talk abt how MLMs take advantage of U.S. tropes abt success & failure & their ties to right-wing politics.
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
So now that we all know Trump and his agenda are insanely unpopular, who in the Republican Party or the business world is suddenly going to grow a spine and stand up to him?
Trump is like some demented, self-made version of Hawthorne's Rappaccini’s Daughter. He poisons everyone he touches.
I know everyone is getting a good laugh out of this -- I am too! -- but people in random states showing up at the polls to vote in other city & state elections is exactly what you should expect to happen when the local press is decimated and all politics is national.
That $1 million Intuit, er, donated to Trump's inaugural committee is going to cost Americans billions of dollars in tax prep fees.
🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 sex crimes probe, according to emails obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
ICYMI: Despite Trump's claims that the economy is doing well and that there's "No Inflation," Americans aren't falling for it.
"Americans are not fooled by Trump’s reality-show version of the economy," @helaineolen.bsky.social writes in @msnbc.com
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And … write to the NYT and suggest a follow up.
The New York Times is a national publication that has an extremely large and active Los Angeles bureau.
My latest for MSNBC: "Republicans are making the same mistake as Democrats during Joe Biden’s presidency: trying to convince voters that the economy is better than it is. It didn’t work for Democrats, and it won’t work for Republicans and Trump." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
It really reminded me of a piece the great Barry Siegel wrote for the LA Times in 1989. (Yes, I am old enough to remember this!) www.latimes.com/archives/la-...