Author: maha

The White House Correspondents Dinner must have been surreal last night. There was Trump, with his “I’m not having a good time” face, sitting among […]

Warfighter Pete testified to the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday, and from what I saw he was mostly being an asshole. He also appears to have […]

One of my Facebook friends posted this — Yes, Trump wants to open this protected wilderness to oil drilling.  Canada is burning, but we need […]

The forests that are burning in Canada are a section of the boreal forest. The boreal forest is the world’s largest land biome. It circles […]

By all accounts the speech, which I didn’t watch, was a flop. Certainly the hard-right sites like Breitbart reported Trump’s claims as gospel. Fox News […]

I understand the networks are still deciding whether they’re going to carry Trump’s speech tonight. I have seen claims on social media that they are […]

Remember back when Trump kicked off the Gerrymander War by demanding redistricting in Texas? That was just over a year ago. The Texas gerrymander was […]

There’s been another fatal ICE shooting this morning, this time in Maine. No details yet. Update: Here’s an eyewitness account from the Portland Press Herald. […]

I haven’t yet weighed in on the Mitch McConnell Mystery. Is he alive, or not?  Either is possible, but I’m increasingly leaning toward not. Notwithstanding […]

I guess the much-ballyhooed cease fire is over. And the price of oil just shot up again. Maybe the oil execs should pay Trump another […]

The Fourth is over and so is the heat wave, in the NYC area it least. At mid-morning it’s 65 degrees and pouring rain. The […]

The heat is keeping me indoor by the AC this weekend, and I’ve given up even thinking of attending any local celebrations. So I’m sitting […]

A DSAer knocked off a15-term House incumbent Dem in Colorado primaries yesterday, and the centrists are in a panic. And Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser […]

So Trump’s financial disclosure statements show he made something like $2 billion last year while most Americans suffered financially. And if this were any other […]

Update: And I see we have a request for the dancing banana. So birthright citizenship is safe. Trump meltdown on the way … Thomas, Alito, […]

SCOTUS is dumping a ton of decisions before its summer recess. Among these is the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara. I like the name. Tomorrow […]