@delgriffith62.bsky.social
Retired trial attorney in the Midwest. I don’t comment on subjects I don’t know about and wish more people lived by this credo.
Never vote for a Republican at any level of government.
Never vote for a Republican at any level of government.
She is the Carolyn Polhemus of journalism.
I'm reminded that @talkingpointsmemo.com actually had a small but perhaps key role in Olivia's origin story. This goes back to 2013 during @hunterw.bsky.social's first stint at TPM. I haven't done day to day story assignment in a very long time. Late one afternoon I was at my desk and Hunter ...
November 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
She is the Carolyn Polhemus of journalism.
I would say it slightly differently. Voters want someone who unflinchingly stands for his/her beliefs, even if some of those beliefs are unpopular.
GWB was the second worst president of my lifetime, and I never voted for him, but I respected that he stood for his beliefs when they were unpopular.
GWB was the second worst president of my lifetime, and I never voted for him, but I respected that he stood for his beliefs when they were unpopular.
to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I would say it slightly differently. Voters want someone who unflinchingly stands for his/her beliefs, even if some of those beliefs are unpopular.
GWB was the second worst president of my lifetime, and I never voted for him, but I respected that he stood for his beliefs when they were unpopular.
GWB was the second worst president of my lifetime, and I never voted for him, but I respected that he stood for his beliefs when they were unpopular.
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This fool belongs in a memory care unit.
Trump: "I gave them as you know unlimited water, Biden came back with a rigged election, and he immediately restricted the water again. But I came back in and immediately unrestricted it again. So now you have unlimited water to clean your damn dishes."
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This fool belongs in a memory care unit.
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Olivia Nuzzi needs an editor. I would be happy to meet her for a private session.
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Olivia Nuzzi needs an editor. I would be happy to meet her for a private session.
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
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A grim comedic aspect of Mag Judge Fitzpatrick's ruling in Comey's case, finding that Halligan "potentially undermine[d] the integrity of the grand jury" with "fundamental misstatements of the law," is that AG Bondi purported to review those minutes & to ratify everything Halligan did—twice.
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A grim comedic aspect of Mag Judge Fitzpatrick's ruling in Comey's case, finding that Halligan "potentially undermine[d] the integrity of the grand jury" with "fundamental misstatements of the law," is that AG Bondi purported to review those minutes & to ratify everything Halligan did—twice.
This. Too many people are glossing over the “legally entitled to” phrase in his tweet.
Coons on Epstein files: "My hunch is that AG Bondi, having just been ordered on social media by the president to open an investigation into a series of high-profile Dems, will promptly say, 'No, there's an ongoing investigation, we can't disclose any of this,' and the president will back that up."
November 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This. Too many people are glossing over the “legally entitled to” phrase in his tweet.
Pretty easy when you don’t have a spine.
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Pretty easy when you don’t have a spine.
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Images of Jeffrey Epstein’s Elite Parties Reveal A Different Era When Men Took Fashion Seriously
—Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
—Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Images of Jeffrey Epstein’s Elite Parties Reveal A Different Era When Men Took Fashion Seriously
—Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
—Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
JFC. Even someone pretending to be a journalist, like Brennan, should be supremely embarrassed to ask this question.
Margaret Brennan to Tom Suozzi: "Can you explain the focus this past week in the House by Democrats on the Jeffrey Epstein files? Is this a tactic to distract from the failure to extract healthcare changes?"
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
JFC. Even someone pretending to be a journalist, like Brennan, should be supremely embarrassed to ask this question.
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It is interesting to me how the media seems far less interested in Trump's Murder Memo than you'd expect. Only a few reporters seem to be even trying to get a hold of it, and very few commentators are talking about it. Contrast that with Bush's torture memo, which was a national obsession. Weird.
Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It’s never real or doesn’t matter unless it happens to them.
November 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It’s never real or doesn’t matter unless it happens to them.
She’s never been anything more than a Maureen Dowd wannabe.
what the actual fuck is wrong with American journalists?
November 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
She’s never been anything more than a Maureen Dowd wannabe.
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Of course it forms a sperm.
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Of course it forms a sperm.
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It's really weird to see people like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, who once had sweet corporate gigs, have to turn up the creep knob to compete with a generation of personalities that started with an iPhone and a mental disorder.
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It's really weird to see people like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, who once had sweet corporate gigs, have to turn up the creep knob to compete with a generation of personalities that started with an iPhone and a mental disorder.
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He looks so happy when he lies. Like every time he lies a christofascist angel gets its wings.
Mike Johnson accuses Democrats of "trying to manufacture some sort of hoax that the president something to do with Epstein. It is absurd ... they have Trump derangement syndrome."
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
He looks so happy when he lies. Like every time he lies a christofascist angel gets its wings.
The mods are going to kill this site.
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The mods are going to kill this site.
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Bill Clinton had his first two nominees for attorney general fail because they hadn't paid Social Security taxes on their kids' nannies.
Donald Trump had his nominee for attorney general fail because he was raping homeless teenagers.
Donald Trump had his nominee for attorney general fail because he was raping homeless teenagers.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Bill Clinton had his first two nominees for attorney general fail because they hadn't paid Social Security taxes on their kids' nannies.
Donald Trump had his nominee for attorney general fail because he was raping homeless teenagers.
Donald Trump had his nominee for attorney general fail because he was raping homeless teenagers.
I’ll take Things That Never Happened for $1000, Alex.
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I’ll take Things That Never Happened for $1000, Alex.
So this loser would have no problem with Epstein banging her 14 year daughter?
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
So this loser would have no problem with Epstein banging her 14 year daughter?
Hillary Clinton would like a word.
We’re seeing materials that no journalists, not Julie Brown, not Ronan Farrow, not anyone from any paper, managed to get access to before now. The conspiracy theories bouncing around about NYT are nothing more than a show people’s ignorance of what goes into a real piece of investigative journalism
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Hillary Clinton would like a word.
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hook JD up to one of those "experience period cramps" machines and watch him crumble before your eyes
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
hook JD up to one of those "experience period cramps" machines and watch him crumble before your eyes
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With the Epstein emails released today, we have witnessed the greatest-ever example of "Older white dudes don't understand that shit they type into their computers doesn't actually go away." It's like they thought these were high-tech anonymity boxes or something.
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
With the Epstein emails released today, we have witnessed the greatest-ever example of "Older white dudes don't understand that shit they type into their computers doesn't actually go away." It's like they thought these were high-tech anonymity boxes or something.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM