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Gas Is Above $4 in All 50 States

A_Friend — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:32:59 -0400

It is now official: Gas is averaging over $4 a gallon in every state, according to the AAA.

Casino Donnie's Insider Trading Racket

A_Friend — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:34:36 -0400

3,700 Trades, Zero Accountability

TrumpWatch 2026, Part II: Days of Wine and Corruption

A_Friend — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:39:53 -0400

We've actually had this item on the "to do" list for a few weeks. If ever there is a day to run it, today's definitely that day.

TrumpWatch 2026, Part I: The Greatest Grift on Earth

A_Friend — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:32:07 -0400

Yesterday, Donald Trump's lawyers saw the writing on the wall and realized his and his kids' "lawsuit" against the IRS was going to be carefully investigated by the judge in the case, which would put his latest, greatest grift at risk.

The Day the Music Died

A_Friend — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:33:48 -0400

Future historians may record May 14, 2026, as the day the leader of the United States, the greatest superpower in the history of the world, acknowledged that the country was declining ...

There Are Green Shoots in the Media World

A_Friend — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:30:49 -0400

The media landscape is very grim.

SCOTUS Lets Abortion Pill Mail Delivery Continue

A_Friend — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:33:25 -0400

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the abortion pill to be prescribed through telemedicine and dispensed by mail, restoring for now a 2023 federal rule ...

America in Free Fall

A_Friend — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:33:46 -0400

Donald Trump didn't invent American decline, but he has accelerated it with a fury and recklessness that will echo across the century.

The Capitalized Womb

A_Friend — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:31:23 -0400

What the "underbabied" panic, the abortion bans, and the mass deportations really have in common.

Lost, Not Stolen

A_Friend — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:30:17 -0400

The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election

The Coming Election Takeover

A_Friend — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:31:58 -0400

They are telling you exactly what they are going to do. Believe them.

I Was Wrong About Barack Obama

A_Friend — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:33:48 -0400

Shawn Patrick Connelly: [President] Obama was certainly not perfect. He was not Jesus. But he was a serious, decent, intellectually honest man who served the country with evident integrity and was rewarded, in a significant corner of American Christianity, with eight years of contempt from people who never asked whether their contempt was really about what they said it was about. I was one of those people.

Why Culture War is Enough for MAGA

A_Friend — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:31:34 -0400

Rick Wilson: Why don't the MAGA hardcores understand how well and truly Trump is screwing them? Gas is $4.55 a gallon. Foreclosure filings are at a six-year high. Trump's approval is mired in the low 30s. He hasn't ended a war; he's threatening two more. The grocery bill that was supposed to crater on Day One has done the opposite. By every transactional measure, the measure we were all trained to believe decides elections, this administration is a failure in a saggy Brioni suit.

A Eulogy for the Worst That Has Ever Drawn Breath

A_Friend — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:37:48 -0400

Being a Complete and Unflinching Account of the Most Loathsome Specimen Ever to Consume Resources, Occupy Space, and Insult the Patience of a Universe That Deserved So Much Better.

Trump Accidentally Tells the Truth

A_Friend — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:33:51 -0400

Charlie Sykes: [L]et's be clear here: What he said was obviously true. He really doesn't think about anybody. He really doesn't give a rat's ass about the average American. If you're not hanging out at Mar-a-Lago, you're invisible.We've known this for a very long time, but it's become increasingly obvious as he indulges his obsessions with gilded ballrooms, reflecting pools, golden icons, and stuffing his own pockets with endless graft,