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Not just heartless: soulless.

Trump’s “Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough!” is a call for assassination. From Bond to Apocalypse Now to the cyber-assassin in The Terminator, to terminate means to murder. Message as clear to his corps as “will be wild.”

What gold-standard law graduate will now choose one of the lily-livered firms who caved to Trump? Skadden et al will only attract Category 2s unto the next Gen.

Did any official on the notorious Signal chat think to ask Uh, who is Jeffrey Goldberg?

March 17, 2025 From 1942 to 1945, the Code Talkers were key to every major operation of the Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater.

My first agent told me “Don’t get depressed, get angry.”Brilliant fuel for your fire
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Chuck Schumer’s spine MIA.

Excellent! Hope you all keep standing strong and staying true blue.

A short Shabbat reading~Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16:18)

POTUS & VPOTUS reached new heights of pig-dom today, treating a head of state with as if he were invading their sty, not an invited guest in the Oval.

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Elon Musk Can’t Stop Talking About Penises The world’s richest man needs new material.

Co-President Trusk. A guy who drapes his 4-year-old boy over his shoulders like a Loro Piana shawl. Who loves blowing things up. Who bullies… anyone he can. Calling him “schmuck” may be too close to his dumb dick joke territory, so let’s just say “pathetic.”
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Now that Trump has made himself chairman of the
#kennedycenter, how long before his acolytes insist they change its name to that of another president?

Updates on National Endowment for the Arts FY 2026 Grant Opportunities The National Endowment for the Arts is updating its FY 2026 grant guidelines, with deadlines in March and July 2025. These changes impact organizations applying in the Grants for Arts Projects or Chal...

Jesse Helms, even in Hell, probably felt a frisson of joy.
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Nope. You don’t react to a punch in the face with a parliamentary maneuver, like Dems senate intelligence committee over the Tulsi Gabbard nomination. You hit back. You make major noise to alert the public. Did Paul Revere speak softly on MSNBC?

Trump = Nixon? Nah. RMN was flailing to save his own ass and his presidency. Trump is dumber but genius at media manipulation. He delights his base by beating up on elites and people without power. He’s a perpetual wrath machine made for the billionaires who - like him - want Whiteworld.

LA’s lack of water was the corrupt heart of Roman Polanski’s neo-noir Chinatown back in 1974.