The very 1st thing in your list of events is an assumption, based on nothing Mueller or his office has said or done. How do you know Mueller will even release a report and allow Congress Rs to ignore it? As it stands, there are 2 federal criminal investigations that are happening concurrently with Mueller’s…

Exactly - the idea that Mueller would base key investigative actions that target the President of the United States solely off of the words of one Michael Fucking Cohen is highlarious.

good suggestion - emptywheel is great at keeping everything in perspective and not dropping threads that most journalists seem to forget about.

Which is why Splinter or one of the GMG sites should dedicate a person (or multiple people) to the Mueller probe.  It’s crazy we had 500 days of Kristin Caliwhogivesafuck but not this.

It was assumed that Lee had this in the bag right up until Jeffries threw his name in the ring, and even until the vote totals came out, Lee thought for sure she was going to win (and so did I).  I’m not sure why these types of votes can’t be made public.

What? As opposed to absolutely no coherent political ideology at all? From the writer’s recap here, the only political position I can articulate is unmitigated greed and narcissism. It’s actually helpful to hear that bullshit so plainly spoken - I have enough $ to protect me from what this administration would do to…

People dress up as Santa and reindeer and shit for Halloween now..it’s just not right.  Maybe it’s just me, but I like Thanksgiving more than Christmas so I’m keenly aware of Christmas’ (Christmas’s?) stalkin ass.

I can actually feel my blood pressure spike a bit whenever some cable news pundit goes on about the pitfalls of ‘identity politics’. It’s always accompanied by a need to underline what’s really important to America: ‘working class voters’. Both of those overused phrases do so much work for the person saying them and…

One fateful morning, Papa John woke up, got dressed, had a cup of coffee, practiced his ‘Better’ slogan in the mirror a couple of times, drove to work, said good morning to Delores, gave a head nod to Philip, walked into the corporate boardroom, and then said the N word.

Democrats in AZ did not elect Sinema to work w/ Republicans on the wall - that’s a certainty she should be able to recognize.  Now would be a good time for Schumer to remind her of that.

has a whole entire article been greyed before?

I will never understand this take - also, there was no Finals talk.

Does it even matter if these ‘feminists’ have sons? I presume a son doing porn would be just as potentially world-shatteringly horrible as if it were a daughter performing sex acts on camera, unless you only view adult film actresses as a series of holes to be fucked with no agency in the matter.

lol you said that so much more eloquently than I did - I was just all curse words out the gate.  I don’t have the life force needed to engage deeply with this mess, but tip of the hat to you for doin it.

Understood - I think folks are overvaluing the importance of judicial nominations to red state voters though. That doesn’t move the needle one way or another when it’s time to cast a ballot, at least it didn’t last week. What net benefit did Schumer’s negotiating on that subject have on these vulnerable Dem races?…

Shit, you’re right - Schumer has never been majority leader. My bad.

lolz I don’t - you have boxed me into an intellectual corner. I can’t respond by pointing out the ever-widening gap in wealth equality especially over the last 25 years, how wages for the other 99% are depressingly stagnant while the 1% continues to see exponential growth to their earnings annually, how trillion…

Exactly this

Man, shut the fuck up - nobody said free shit.  We, you, me, all of us except for the wealthiest of the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes every year.  Fixing that, coupled with actually using federal tax dollars for things that will actually help everyday Americans does not and has not ever equaled ‘free shit’. …

That’s because I’m not referring to the last two years only - I’m referencing Schumer laying down for McConnell on judicial nominations as well as his relative lack of results when he was the majority speaker during the Obama years.  When Dems held both houses of Congress, the Senate was not as productive as the…