Mark Riley

Reading words a fawning underling wrote for them

I know this community very well. The Shenandoah club the Temple Israel statement refers to as providing food and shelter during this attack is the club established by Iraqi Chaldeans. This is really beautiful interfaith solidarity in action.

As posted elsewhere, the answer is to keep Marco Lil' Marco

He should really ask his machine what Public Utility Commissions do.

He also said Kennedy Center ticket sales were "through the roof." If you're looking for that singular moment when he opens his mouth and doesn't lie, this isn't it.

““I don’t think I’m even allowed to use that clip, because I don’t own it,” Bell said. “So I would like the NFL, the networks, to treat the White House like they’d treat me. To re-instill some faith in these institutions, you have to start holding our leaders accountable.””

Seriously, what experience or qualifications does Erika Kirk have that would justify this appointment?

#ResistTrump

Every media outlet in the country should be loudly calling for Tuberville's immediate impeachment or resignation.

The FAA Administrator made a point of being in flight at midnight of December 31, 1999 / January 1, 2000, to project confidence that the agency had adequately dealt with Y2K problems.

This feels like the least the current cabinet could do ...

Hawaii-50. Hands down. The original one.

You're 85, man. Retire. Travel. Go fishing. Spend some time with your great-grandkids.

A government contractor hires a genius for the CTO job that doesn't know how to use a 'thumb' drive. Now why would they do that?

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

One part of me wants him dead, but another part wants him to survive so he can see us dismantle all he's done, and take his fucking name off everything.

at least once every night when I am done with work and everyone is fed and I start to dig into the news, I lean back in my chair and look at the ceiling and sigh and close my eyes and think "I simply can not wait until this motherfucker dies."

The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.

It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.

I want to ask my two Senators how they are part of the solution. They have been in the office for two and three decades. I seldom hear them speaking as forcefully as this decade has required, but it seems inertia is what drives our politics.

An aside, but that's not how alt-text works.
It should say 'A photo of a large oil tanker, the MAYUREE MAREE, registered in Bancock, burning with one of its lifeboats in the sea and a ladder from the ship to the vicinity of the lifeboat.'

Political Science seems like an oxymoron after the last decade

Opinion | Trump is always ‘ahead of schedule’ Philip Bump: The president says the Iran War is “way ahead of schedule,” but won’t explain what victory would look like. There’s a pattern here.

According to the president, the war in Iran is "ahead of schedule." To which you likely responded: there's a schedule? The answer, almost certainly, is no; this is just something he says, having internalized it as a positive metric back in his developer days.
www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Yeah, that's a euphemism for theft :)

Or, at the very least, to overturn Citizens United

I'm going to take the under

weird way to write "majority opposes"

republicans are not gonna give you back your funding no matter how much you do this

‘If I go home, we don’t have enough money’: the low-paid Filipino workers caught up in the war on Iran Filipino carer Mary Ann De Vera was the first victim of the war in Israel, while thousands of others remain in vulnerable positions across the Middle East Sirens warning of Iranian missiles blare out so frequently that Joycee Pelayo, a Filipino living near to Tel Aviv, doesn’t leave the house any more. Each time an alert sounds, she rushes to help the older man she cares for, supporting him into a wheelchair, then down the steps into a nearby shelter. “Last night, there were three alerts. We received it at about 2am, in the middle of the night, and then 3am, and then 4am,” says Pelayo. Continue reading...

‘If I go home, we don’t have enough money’: the low-paid Filipino workers caught up in the war on Iran

Iran’s Control of Hormuz Means It’s Exporting More Oil Today Than Before the War Tehran is letting ships carrying its crude pass through the strait, while it scares off others that would dare.

An amazing stat:

Iran exported more oil *today* than it did daily before the war.

It's the one country whose tankers are getting through the Strait of Hormuz.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics

How the Roberts Court destroyed our Democracy

"Five presidential elections ago, before the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling that lifted many remaining campaign finance restrictions, the share of billionaire spending was almost zero — 0.3 percent, to be precise."

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...