Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

Incidentally, this is why the President can’t take viagra. It just makes him taller.

Wonder who gets to tell him about this, or if the staff will even bother.

It is genuinely wild how the GOP can insult Canada for over a year non-stop and then get angry about being "disrespected"

Here's the definitive answer to the debate over "who started it": Republicans.

Before Trump pushed TX to gerrymander last year, the GOP had drawn 42% of all districts, versus just 14% for Dems (the rest were by neutral parties).

The maps below from @stephenwolf.bsky.social make this explicit.

Did the people (not even the governments) that were the poorest and most vulnerable to a rapid, destabilizing and deadly cut off to US AID ask you to “extend relief”?

Or was the difference that they didn’t bribe you?

We’ve gone past alternative facts to an entirely new system of alternative math.

Yeah, would like to see some confirmation.

This administration is such a dumpster fire that this horrible news barely registers as a surprise.

Hope General Caine can keep blocking for another few years.

The next administration must make clear that any immigrant, refugee, or asylum seeker wrongly deported, exiled, or otherwise mistreated by this administration will be readmitted with an expedited path to citizenship. Send a plane to get them.

We can't undo the damage. But we can do something.

Zing.

Our country will bear the shame of this for a long time.

Oh. Great.

I imagine that Warsh thinks that he's insulting universities with this, but I think what he's actually revealing is how he has to report anything to the President. If you tell him anything is less than perfect, then you're a traitor.

Warsh may be a reasonable guy and capable economist just playing a role here. But if integrity and independence are qualities we value in a Fed Chief, he does not have them.

Every nominee who dodges this question tells us that they have no meaningful commitment to American democracy.

If Tucker believed this, he would get out of punditry and go do something useful.

He will not.

First: hilarious.

Second: A core belief of Trump-brand conservativsm is there are and never have been difficult problems, only dumb leaders without the strength to be cruel enough to solve them.

It's why they always look so baffled when pushing the "more cruelty" button doesn't seem to work.

Ooh, this looks helpful.

Someone decided to make this movie, and we still don't have a sequel to Master and Commander.

Fantastic. Just great.

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Extremely rude to post his official FBI portrait, George

I would invite you to consider, based on your reading of the gospels, which would make Jesus more upset: destroying a statue of him, or killing a bunch of children.

Now think about which one has made evangelicals in America more upset.

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

The Donald Trump Presidential Library: The only library in the world to have two sets of books.

Red states are doing their best to kill their universities; this is an ongoing project.

I mean, I think that the point of a university is teaching and research, not just making money to fund to the athletic department, so this shouldn't be difficult for academic administrators. But evidence suggests that most of them will get it wrong.

I think that this is likely to be true for a large number of universities, but for those (if any) that decide to prioritize teaching over the financial bottom line, I'd like to think that there's a big market demand for this sort of thing.