David Simon
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Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
On this Veterans Day, a remembrance of Technical Sgt. Murray Lebowitz, my mother's cousinwhose B-24 crashed on takeoff from Bomber Field #2 on Guadalcanal in April 1943. His body was not recovered from the waters off Koli Point.
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
On this Veterans Day, a remembrance of Technical Sgt. Murray Lebowitz, my mother's cousinwhose B-24 crashed on takeoff from Bomber Field #2 on Guadalcanal in April 1943. His body was not recovered from the waters off Koli Point.
I'm not a Marxist. But if he won't sing near me, I'll at least reread a few chapters of Das Kapital. If he promises to shut up altogether, I will have some kind words to say about Stalin.
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I'm not a Marxist. But if he won't sing near me, I'll at least reread a few chapters of Das Kapital. If he promises to shut up altogether, I will have some kind words to say about Stalin.
Wanton murder is a deal-breaker for some democracies.
Who knew?
Who knew?
NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
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The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Wanton murder is a deal-breaker for some democracies.
Who knew?
Who knew?
Is Schumer still the minority leader? Is Durbin still the whip? Is Cortes-Masto still a vice chair? Good Democrats -- rank and file, those committed to restoring party --must tell Act Blue and every candidate with hands out for the coming midterms -- that there's no cash coming without new leaders.
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Is Schumer still the minority leader? Is Durbin still the whip? Is Cortes-Masto still a vice chair? Good Democrats -- rank and file, those committed to restoring party --must tell Act Blue and every candidate with hands out for the coming midterms -- that there's no cash coming without new leaders.
Could not agree with the FBI more on this.
But as a journalist I covered questionable shootings in which FBI agents shot citizens and as bureau policy withheld their names -- including one who had two separate bad shootings and was quietly shipped from Baltimore to another field office.
But as a journalist I covered questionable shootings in which FBI agents shot citizens and as bureau policy withheld their names -- including one who had two separate bad shootings and was quietly shipped from Baltimore to another field office.
Have a question regarding snatching up people.
Where is the line for self-defense if one is accosted by another or others claiming to be law enforcement with no visible official identification?
Where is the line for self-defense if one is accosted by another or others claiming to be law enforcement with no visible official identification?
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Could not agree with the FBI more on this.
But as a journalist I covered questionable shootings in which FBI agents shot citizens and as bureau policy withheld their names -- including one who had two separate bad shootings and was quietly shipped from Baltimore to another field office.
But as a journalist I covered questionable shootings in which FBI agents shot citizens and as bureau policy withheld their names -- including one who had two separate bad shootings and was quietly shipped from Baltimore to another field office.
Nothing inexplicable, mook. You overtopped a post of mine that called for a change in Democratic leadership in the senate with your own appeal for support and I replied to that. This engagement was your own choice. Presenting otherwise later in the thread is kind of assholic.
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Nothing inexplicable, mook. You overtopped a post of mine that called for a change in Democratic leadership in the senate with your own appeal for support and I replied to that. This engagement was your own choice. Presenting otherwise later in the thread is kind of assholic.
This is a civil war.
Lincoln had McClellan, Hooker and Pope.
He junked them for Grant, Sherman and Sheridan
We have Schumer, Durbin and Cortez Masto in our leadership.
Act Blue, lose my fucking number until we're clean of generals who can't fight or discipline the troops. No cash for this shit.
Lincoln had McClellan, Hooker and Pope.
He junked them for Grant, Sherman and Sheridan
We have Schumer, Durbin and Cortez Masto in our leadership.
Act Blue, lose my fucking number until we're clean of generals who can't fight or discipline the troops. No cash for this shit.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is a civil war.
Lincoln had McClellan, Hooker and Pope.
He junked them for Grant, Sherman and Sheridan
We have Schumer, Durbin and Cortez Masto in our leadership.
Act Blue, lose my fucking number until we're clean of generals who can't fight or discipline the troops. No cash for this shit.
Lincoln had McClellan, Hooker and Pope.
He junked them for Grant, Sherman and Sheridan
We have Schumer, Durbin and Cortez Masto in our leadership.
Act Blue, lose my fucking number until we're clean of generals who can't fight or discipline the troops. No cash for this shit.
As of this morning, it is imperative that the Democratic caucus in the senate remove Schumer as Minority Leader, Durbin as minority whip and Cortez Masto as Vice Chair of Outreach.
Replace them today with Van Hollen, Murphy and Merkley. Or anyone else who actually knows how to lead and discipline.
Replace them today with Van Hollen, Murphy and Merkley. Or anyone else who actually knows how to lead and discipline.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
As of this morning, it is imperative that the Democratic caucus in the senate remove Schumer as Minority Leader, Durbin as minority whip and Cortez Masto as Vice Chair of Outreach.
Replace them today with Van Hollen, Murphy and Merkley. Or anyone else who actually knows how to lead and discipline.
Replace them today with Van Hollen, Murphy and Merkley. Or anyone else who actually knows how to lead and discipline.
Dead on.
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Dead on.
I don't care how Schumer himself votes. The bottom line is that as Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson would have last night had on his desk eight sealed mason jars with the severed hands of every senator who even thought about raising them to vote yes. As a majority leader should.
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I don't care how Schumer himself votes. The bottom line is that as Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson would have last night had on his desk eight sealed mason jars with the severed hands of every senator who even thought about raising them to vote yes. As a majority leader should.
When Bovino and his gangsters produce a single spent slug or shell casing recovered at the alleged scene with third-party witnesses to said recovery, I'll withhold an initial judgment that this is utter fabricated horseshit.
Ogden and 26th Street at 11:30 a.m. today. Federal authorities claimed someone shot at their agents in Little Village this morning. They spent the next several hours circling the neighborhood, deploying chemical crowd controls and arresting people.
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
When Bovino and his gangsters produce a single spent slug or shell casing recovered at the alleged scene with third-party witnesses to said recovery, I'll withhold an initial judgment that this is utter fabricated horseshit.
We are governed by the most fecal human beings ever to stalk the American landscape.
November 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
We are governed by the most fecal human beings ever to stalk the American landscape.
Eyes on the prize, counselor. There was in fact a legal paradigm in play that matters. And that is why Pritzker has to have local law enforcement between demonstrators and federal facilities. The long game it is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Eyes on the prize, counselor. There was in fact a legal paradigm in play that matters. And that is why Pritzker has to have local law enforcement between demonstrators and federal facilities. The long game it is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Funny cartoon. But this is precisely what the United States Supreme Court has presently decided is sufficient reasonable suspicion to legally stop and detain human beings.
That court is now fetid trash. So is our republic as a result.
That court is now fetid trash. So is our republic as a result.
Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Funny cartoon. But this is precisely what the United States Supreme Court has presently decided is sufficient reasonable suspicion to legally stop and detain human beings.
That court is now fetid trash. So is our republic as a result.
That court is now fetid trash. So is our republic as a result.
Got it. Nancy Pelosi is retiring from government because she is being forced out by angry, emerging leftists in the Democratic party. Not because she is 85 fucking years old.
This fucking guy.
This fucking guy.
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Got it. Nancy Pelosi is retiring from government because she is being forced out by angry, emerging leftists in the Democratic party. Not because she is 85 fucking years old.
This fucking guy.
This fucking guy.
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The hard work is paying off. Gotta keep it going.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The hard work is paying off. Gotta keep it going.
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Know why all the multimillionaires and billionaires will not flee New York after the election of a socialist mayor? It's subtle, but do note they have millions of fucking dollars. And it's the greatest city if you have the cash for it. Or even if not.
Get the fuck gone with these empty threats.
Get the fuck gone with these empty threats.
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Know why all the multimillionaires and billionaires will not flee New York after the election of a socialist mayor? It's subtle, but do note they have millions of fucking dollars. And it's the greatest city if you have the cash for it. Or even if not.
Get the fuck gone with these empty threats.
Get the fuck gone with these empty threats.
Something like those caravans of refugees that would begin deep in Central America and then crawl along for weeks toward our southern border as Fox News spits out fearful jeremiads. Except this will be a stream of BMWs and Benzes on car carriers on I-95 to Florida. And who gives a listless fuck.
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Something like those caravans of refugees that would begin deep in Central America and then crawl along for weeks toward our southern border as Fox News spits out fearful jeremiads. Except this will be a stream of BMWs and Benzes on car carriers on I-95 to Florida. And who gives a listless fuck.
I expect lawyering and oratory of a kind that will put Darrow's summation in the Loeb-Leopold trial to shame. As Darrow saved his cliehts from execution, I expect the jury in this case to rise as one and hurl stray pieces of their lunch at the DOJ attorneys.
“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.”
Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.
Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I expect lawyering and oratory of a kind that will put Darrow's summation in the Loeb-Leopold trial to shame. As Darrow saved his cliehts from execution, I expect the jury in this case to rise as one and hurl stray pieces of their lunch at the DOJ attorneys.
I am reminded of Michael O'Donoghue's classic National Lampoon essay on the Churchillian Wit:
“If you were my husband, Winston, I’d poison your coffee,” offered Lady Astor.
“And if you were my wife, I’d beat the shit out of you,” came Churchill’s unhesitating retort.
And so forth and so on...
“If you were my husband, Winston, I’d poison your coffee,” offered Lady Astor.
“And if you were my wife, I’d beat the shit out of you,” came Churchill’s unhesitating retort.
And so forth and so on...
Winston who?
Some moments call for statesmanship. And sometimes you just need a guy from Chicago, Illinois.
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I am reminded of Michael O'Donoghue's classic National Lampoon essay on the Churchillian Wit:
“If you were my husband, Winston, I’d poison your coffee,” offered Lady Astor.
“And if you were my wife, I’d beat the shit out of you,” came Churchill’s unhesitating retort.
And so forth and so on...
“If you were my husband, Winston, I’d poison your coffee,” offered Lady Astor.
“And if you were my wife, I’d beat the shit out of you,” came Churchill’s unhesitating retort.
And so forth and so on...
There's still time. All that needs to happen to keep the communist insurgent out of power is for Cuomo to call Mike Pence and tell him he doesn't want to yet again go down as a wimp. And if Pence punks out again, hell, there's a bunch of freshly pardoned warriors ready to storm Gracie Mansion.
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
There's still time. All that needs to happen to keep the communist insurgent out of power is for Cuomo to call Mike Pence and tell him he doesn't want to yet again go down as a wimp. And if Pence punks out again, hell, there's a bunch of freshly pardoned warriors ready to storm Gracie Mansion.
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Still need our help.
It's bad. They really took a hit. And folks are now on the ground in Jamaica moving to help. They need our support:
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How to Help People Impacted by Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica
Hurricane Melissa has devastated parts of Jamaica and brought heavy rains and flooding to other countries in the Caribbean. Here's how to help.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Still need our help.
Don't fret about it. Once that big new ballroom gets finished, the American people are going to happy as hell.
Fox’s Larry Kudlow Recites Trump’s Abysmal Poll Numbers and Says, ‘I’m Not Sure Why This Is’
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Fox’s Larry Kudlow Recites Trump’s Abysmal Poll Numbers and Says, ‘I’m Not Sure Why This Is’
Fox Business host Larry Kudlow tried to wrap his head around some awful polling numbers for President Donald Trump.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Don't fret about it. Once that big new ballroom gets finished, the American people are going to happy as hell.
A nerve wasn't hit, you dumb mook. A functioning brain that has a few clues about just how little ACAB and Defund rhetoric has accomplished in years -- and how it utterly alienated the American political center from supporting any actual reform -- responded in full. You guys will never fix shit.
November 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
A nerve wasn't hit, you dumb mook. A functioning brain that has a few clues about just how little ACAB and Defund rhetoric has accomplished in years -- and how it utterly alienated the American political center from supporting any actual reform -- responded in full. You guys will never fix shit.
ACAB and Defund The Police -- the two most destructive messaging efforts from sloganeers who don't actually want to fix a fucking thing and will, at every opportunity, alienate the entire electorate from actual police reform for the sheer pleasure of their own self-regarding purities.
Eat a dick.
Eat a dick.
Okay but ACAB includes David Simon.
Hard, fast rule from a veteran police reporter: Excepting anyone engaged in infiltrating a criminal conspiracy in an undercover capacity, any law officer who hides his identity from the public is a shitheel is doing vile shit and is, in fact, actively destroying the credibility of law enforcement.
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
ACAB and Defund The Police -- the two most destructive messaging efforts from sloganeers who don't actually want to fix a fucking thing and will, at every opportunity, alienate the entire electorate from actual police reform for the sheer pleasure of their own self-regarding purities.
Eat a dick.
Eat a dick.