Dave Scocca

Masses of junior staffers who can be compelled to testify because the pardons mean they can’t plead the fifth?

500 years ago today, a pandemic, a divisive election and white-on-white violence sparked one of America’s greatest traditions A thread.

I guess England and France used up all the goals?

England gonna England

One more and JD Vance is going to have to start showing up for work.

Donald Trump released a man from jail and then that man molested 2 kids. If you can't do anything with that, Democratic messaging assholes, then get out of politics.

Pats now 52 points underwater in Super Bowls

“Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi….But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.” — D. Thompson*

90 day suspension of US tourist visas and this is all over

If you hire a third-party company to conduct customer service surveys, and they don’t respect my unsubscribe request, you’re getting all zeros.

So we started a war with Venezuela because the senile old fool believes the conspiracy theory that Venezuela changed the 2020 election outcome by manipulating voting machines. And next we're going to go to war with Denmark and destroy NATO because he doesn't understand a Mercator projection.

Musical thought for January 6: “Don’t wag your fingers at them and turn to walk away…”

“The only thing the elite Washington press corps likes more than a bipartisan commission on debt reduction is a stack of flag-draped coffins.” web.archive.org/web/20200103...

Dear Canada: Please hurry!

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

AND a Democratic Congress needs to support all these reversals with enough legislation that a future president can’t re-Trump without congressional support. Yeah, if T did it with an exec order it can be undone the same way, but only Congress can lock it in.

If you are betting on individual pitches in MLB, you are either a cheater or a degenerate gambler.

one of the reasons voters believe the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans is because the democratic party itself believes in the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans

Making assumptions about Trump’s goals that have no basis in reality.

Happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks. On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

If they’re going to break the law and put Trump’s face on the currency, can they at least put him on a bill? Do you know how hard it is to wipe your ass with a coin?

How do you stop a serial killer? defector.com/how-do-you-s...

One less Nazi is always a good thing.

Isn’t the vast majority of violent crime STATE crime?

“The constitutional amendment is unconstitutional” is real high-quality legal analysis.

Publicly contesting the professional judgments made by doctors is journalism; publicly contesting the professional judgments made by journalists is activism

“Who believes that Donald Trump—fixated on imaginary graves and Photoshopped tattoos—is going to be able to process new and alarming information in the middle of the night, with the fate of the world at stake?”

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 91, SPORTS ANALYTICS DEP'T.: The Worst Score in Baseball Is 5 to 2. Everybody did a bad enough job that somebody else would have needed to do an unusually good job to somehow salvage a victory, and nobody did. www.indignity.net/losing-margin/

Is @mcmegan.bsky.social talking here about 1986-88? “The most powerful nation in the world and its nuclear arsenal were left in the hands of a man who could not reliably recognize people he’d known for years, maintain his train of thought or speak in coherent sentences.”

They should have billed them for the bullet.

Indignity Morning Podcast No. 479: Beneath contempt. This is only about “dueling perspectives” in the same sense that New York City and Al-Qaeda had different ideas about the best use for the World Trade Center. www.indignity.net/indignity-mo...

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

Durham needs to up its bull statue game @charliereece.com

Cause of death: JD Vance

How are you going to restructure Social Security when you can't even figure out how to set up a standard, stable child-support program for the free-range baby farm you run as a hobby?

Either the U.S. government *is* able to exert monetary and diplomatic pressure on El Salvador sufficient to produce Abrego Garcia’s release, or it isn’t. The latter would be either a bald-faced lie or a pretty stunning concession of our national impotence. The Vice President should pick one.

Obviously. Once you catch an infectious disease, you’re no longer healthy!

The bargain vs. the boot: defector.com/the-bargain-...

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Every policy announced to combat “campus antisemitism” is simply a demand that colleges suppress and punish student expression.

Huh, weird

What a weak administration!

When you’re Legoland, you can really cheap out on having carousel horses with ornate detail.

Let’s make sure assholes like this get tried in state court for state law violations.

When we moved in 1978 and were looking around for a swimming pool near our new house, the first place we visited turned out to be whites-only.

“Why are these people who took time out of their lives to go to a town hall with a US Representative so interested in the US government? It is a mystery!”