A telltale of the Trump Department of Justice was who would be willing to sign off, to appear in court, to assert and argue some of the most specious and absurd positions taken by the Trump administration to circumvent the law and make Trump’s wildest dreams come true. One such guy was senior adviser to the Attorney General, Henry Whitaker.

Back in November 2025, in an effort to resuscitate the failed prosecutions of James Comey and Letitia James, Whitaker told Judge Cameron McGowan Currie that Comey and James were trying to “elevate what is at best a paperwork error,” when they flagged the fact that they were being prosecuted by a random insurance lawyer with a MAGA hat. At the time, he called it “fanciful” to suggest that the DOJ sought to evade Senate confirmation by continuing to treat Lindsey Halligan as the U.S. Attorney. Currie tossed both indictments anyway.

As no dead horse goes unbeaten by this administration, Whitaker took the matter to the Fourth Circuit, opening his September argument thusly: Continue reading →

Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington Charles Floyd reached the breaking point. He sent a letter to the district’s chief judge saying his office lacks the manpower to defend the United States against the avalanche of habeas corpus actions brought by immigrants held in ICE custody.

(Here is the letter sent, page 1 and page 2.)

There are severe personnel problems throughout the Department of Justice, as experienced career AUSAs have either been fired for doing their job when the targets of their prosecutions were Trump or Trump-adjacent actors, or fled the department as its focus changed from enforcement of law to persecution of Trump’s enemies or scapegoats. But never before has a United States Attorney openly asserted that he neither can nor will perform the functions of the office because it has become overwhelmed by the sheer volume of cases. Continue reading →

Republican pariah Sen. Thomas Massie will reintroduce his resolution of impeachment against the macho show pony, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and it would appear from soon-to-be Speaker of the House Hakeem Jeffries that the Democrats are all in this time. Is it accountability or revenge? Regardless, Trump is having none of it and has threatened to use the Department of Justice to go after Democrats for going after Republicans.

Amidst all that mess, there are signs that the president is deeply concerned about anyone getting a window into how his administration has been operating. Yesterday he insisted that the Democrats are “threatening a lot of people…just because they happen to be Republicans, or Republican supporters.” He said that the Democrats’ promises to investigate the administration are themselves crimes and that he is ordering the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate. The post is convoluted, but Trump insists that “there have been no impeachable acts committed, or even thought of, by the victims of this illegal process.”

Shortly after, he posted, “These SLEAZEBAGS should go to jail for what they are doing”, “The Senate must act, and stop being pushed around to the point of the Republican Party losing Elections, and worse!” he insisted.

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With the Iron Maiden canned, Trump has made “the odious Stephen Miller” his new chief of staff. The Democrats could not have asked for a better political gift, Miller being the architect and head cheerleader of the worst and most despised Trump initiatives, from the rounding up and removal to random countries of anyone with skin of a hue less white than his to the murder by the military of people in boats on the open seas.

The 41-year-old Miller embodies much of what America voted against, and Trump’s elevating him to COS, the position closest to Trump and most likely to be the last voice he hears before he indulges in his most unseemly whims, is a declaration of war against America. Continue reading →

TO: College Football Playoff Committee
FROM: Me
RE: Tuesday’s bullshit

Dear Learned Persons of the CFP Committee:

Like every good SEC Football fan I watched the initial rankings you posted on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. After viewing the rankings on ESPN and listening to the ensuing discussion, I have two questions.

1. With all due respect, what the fuck is wrong with you people?
2. With all due respect, are you high and what are you smoking?

You ranked Alabama at #5 in the initial Playoff Rankings. Tennessee is at #13. I humbly invite all of your moronic asses to make this shit make sense. Continue reading →

More than 100 people wasted their time showing up and expressing their outrage and opposition to Trump’s glorious triumphal arch before the Trump-controlled National Capital Planning Commission. The meeting went late into the night, but the outcome was never in doubt, as the chair of the commission made clear beforehand.

“President Trump’s historic vision for a monumental arch at Memorial Circle would complete a project over a century in the making, and honor our nation and her veterans, and provide the sacred ground of Arlington National Cemetery with the monumental gateway it deserves,” Mr. Paoletta said. “It would also represent a generational security opportunity to protect our nation’s capital.”

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Hakeem Jeffries, expected to be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, made it clear that it was not his intention to use his majority over the next two years to seek retribution on Trump and his sycophantic enablers. Rather, he said his focus would be on “getting things done” by making life more affordable. Radley Balko makes a compelling argument about why that won’t work, and why that ignores the mandate given the Democrats by this overwhelming rejection of Trump, MAGA and the long list of people who enjoyed the fruits of corruption.

Sure, the Democrats should work with whatever sane Republicans remain in Congress to end Trump’s tariffs, get us out of the war in Iran, and do whatever else is within Congress’s power to stop this administration’s assault on the economy. Continue reading →

At the end of the movie, The Candidate, Robert Redford utters the prophetic words “What do we do now?” Indeed.

Trump was crushed yesterday. Trump, of course, blames everyone and everything but himself, because that’s what Trump does. He told his faithful to pretend he was on the ballot. They did. Regardless, the outcome is a monumental repudiation of Trump. This cannot be denied.

But that doesn’t mean it’s an endorsement of the Democrats, and even more pointedly, either wing of the Democratic Party. Winning in Texas, Kansas and Iowa certainly isn’t an endorsement of the left-wing agenda, even if El-Sayed prevailed in Michigan. The Democrats didn’t win because they’re so beloved. They’re not. They won, but only because they weren’t Trump. Continue reading →

It’s been a grueling campaign season. Ridiculous amounts of money have paid for a relentless stream of television advertisements ranging from the flagrantly deceitful to the overtly disgusting. But it’s now over and time for decisions to be made. Will this be the end of the 2026 midterms or the start of a new round of games to undermine democracy?

Trump will now be officially the lamest of ducks, not that it will stop him from efforts to impose his aesthetics upon a nation that doesn’t share his adoration of goldish doodads and the construction of monuments to his imagined glory. The war of choice in Iran remains unresolved and unresolvable, the Epstein files remain undisclosed, the enemies of Trump remain perpetual targets of prosecution by a Justice Department that exists to do Trump’s bidding, America’s standing in the world has been reduced to an untrustworthy pariah and prices at the pump and the grocery store continue to crush Americans. Continue reading →

Political polling is nothing new. I got a job doing political polling back in the 1970s, cold calling random people on a list to ask about their affiliation and who they would be voting for. Most people hung up on me. Some were all too happy to engage and tell me far more than I asked. In the end, it meant nothing.

Today, we’re inundated by polls. From what we’re being told, it would appear that the Democrats will take the House of Representatives and have an outside chance of taking a majority in the Senate. Will it be a blue wave, a tsunami or will it be a puddle? Trump says the polls show his support to be overwhelming and his endorsees will take it all. What polls he’s talking about is something of a mystery. Continue reading →