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The GOP proudly declares itself the party of personal responsibility, so House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy hasn't shied away from admitting who's responsible for the January 6 insurrection. After concluding a thorough, Columbo-style investigation into that…

Hey, wasn't Army supposed to be able to vaccinate everybody good and Army-style? About that. How Operation Warp Speed Created Vaccine Chaos. — ProPublicaI tried to read this about Kash Patel and very temporary DOD chief Chris Miller, and I just couldn't. Let…

Now that Trump is officially gone (well, unless you ask the very devoted conspiracy theorists who are sure he'll be resuming his tenure as President of the United States on March 4), there has been a lot of speculation about where the Republican Party goes…

I was one of the people who broke Frank Luntz.The day before Biden's inauguration, I was part of a virtual focus group about the current state of our country. It resulted in headlines like "Ex-GOP pollster Frank Luntz says 'I don't want to do this anymore'…

The New York Times continues its relentless investigation into whether President (damn right) Joe Biden is sufficiently broke ass to lead. Last week, the Times dropped a thrilling expose on "Middle Class" Joe's Peloton bike, and just a couple days later, the…

In his first week, President Joe Biden has been doing a lot of very nice policy stuff, including reversing bad Trump policies and also doing some things that should have obviously been done before but for some reason were not. Things that even I — a…

Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert still has a cloud of suspicion hanging over her head over whether or not she had a role in the Capitol riots on January 6. While nothing has been definitively proven, Boebert's connections to militia groups, her tweets…

Last night the New York Times revealed that Trump came very close to deploying the Justice Department to stage an electoral coup on New Year's Eve, and only threats by the entire DOJ leadership to resign en masse put him off it. Which puts us in the very…

Anyone can go to clown school. I could go to clown school. You could go to clown school. But if you never actually work as a clown or register myself as a clown by painting your clown face on an official clown egg at the clown registry*, can you truly call…

Good morning good morning good morning to you! it's that time again, but no it's really that time again, I have about four minutes to get this up and I don't think I'm gonna make it!10. F*ck You, Dead Phil Spector. Phil Spector died. Fuck him. 9. Woman Who…

She's BAAAAAAAAAACK! Your favorite birther-dentist-lawyer-Senate candidate-circus clown Orly Taitz wants in on some of that sweet, sweet frivolous lawsuit publicity, and so she's suing Chuck Schumer and Kamala Harris to prove that impeachment is UNLEGAL. Guess…

David Brooks, the conservative New York Times columnist who likes to present himself as so centrist that he might have admonished the late David Border to knock it off with the wild partisanship, has a heavy punditcrush on Joe Biden, whom he genuinely believes…

I regret to announce that President Joe Biden has Violated Norms and failed at doing Unity by firing noted unionbuster Peter Robb from the National Labor Relations Board. Or, as noted rightwing troll factory The Federalist put it in a headline: "Violating…

After months of a monster making up lies about a stolen election, an attempted insurrection, and a quick impeachment in the House, we've gotten ourselves a nice little respite.The crazies are still here, but their leader has been de-platformed, rightwing…

Back during the primaries, Joe Biden made a lot of people groan when it appeared, early on, that he intended to pursue a "middle ground" when it came to climate change. But as the debates got rolling, Biden actually put together a pretty decent climate…

Is it a good sign when the judge refers to your evidence as "dwindlingly slight and disputed"? How about "the scantest speculation"? Or "faint and factually inaccurate speculation"? Asking for a bunch of dipshits who set themselves up as a rightwing Twitter…

Today is the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. I would like to say that, thanks to certain recent electoral victories, things look less bleak than they did last year at this time — and in some ways they do! — but we've got a very, very rightwing,…

We are now stans of Judge Victoria Roberts.Judge Roberts has been a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan since 1998. Joe Biden had only been president for about 90 minutes when Judge Roberts announced she would be taking senior…

It's been one hell of a crazy month — there was an attempted coup, a new president, a creepy movie star with a cannibalism fetish — and that sometimes means that we miss out on things. Like, for instance, the fact that former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder…

Joe Biden isn't wasting any time getting to work on the coronavirus pandemic, the issue that more than any other sent him to the Oval Office. Yesterday, Biden rolled out a 198-page national strategy for controlling the pandemic, along with 10 new executive…

You might have heard yesterday or this morning that CNN had a hot scoop what said the Biden administration was having to start from square one on COVID vaccine distribution, because of how the Trump administration had left them "no coronavirus vaccine…

The Patriotic Millionaires have their own Tabs! It's TABCEPTION! (Email)It's not what we want to hear about the seditionists, whom we have just properly walloped and who certainly would not return the favor, but Anne Applebaum makes a pretty persuasive…

We interrupt your jubilant exultation over the humiliating exit of Dear Leader Donald Trump to bring you glad tidings of the greatest One Million Moms ever. You know the One Million Moms. There's like one of 'em, and her name is Monica Cole, and she uses…

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki held her first White House press briefing yesterday, and surprised many by taking questions and answering them without sounding the least bit defensive or snotty to the assembled reporters. There wasn't a bit of drama at…

If Mitch McConnell wants to hold his breath until Chuck Schumer pinky swears not to get rid of the filibuster, he can have at it. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (oh, yeah, baby!) seems to be having a wee bit of trouble adjusting to his new JV status…

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the GOP's burgeoning QAnon caucus is a racist, anti-Muslim bigot, and a 9/11 truther. She almost gives “Q" a bad name. Now, Facebook posts from the distant past of 2018 reveal some more garbage beliefs from the…

On Wednesday, Proud Boy organizer and former Infowars correspondent Joseph Randall Biggs, 37, was arrested in Florida for his part in the January 6 storming of the Capitol. That afternoon, he stood in front of US Magistrate Judge Embry Kidd of Orlando,…

Looks like somebody heard President Joe Biden talking about him during his inaugural address.Sen. Rand Paul on Fox News: "If you read his speech and listen to it carefully, much of it is thinly-veiled innuend… https://t.co/oevaRPjrV1 — Ryan Struyk (@Ryan…

In the final days of the Trump administration, the machinery of immigration cruelty kept grinding right along, because even if a new administration was on the way, there was still time to separate some families. Like for instance two Haitian brothers,…

Q is gone.…