...on purpose.

I'm pretty impressed that Raskin managed to avoid curse words completely while responding to that....um, nonsense.

And, to tell the truth, this 30% problem doesn't seem to be unique to Americans.

Percentages may vary a little, but in 2025, a lot of countries have a significant problem with a bigoted, nativist far-right.

Thirty percent of Americans are just an intractable problem.

Look, if it's in all caps, it must be true.

In the 2020 Dem primary, Joe Biden was my next-to-last choice as long as Tulsi Gabbard was in the race, for exactly this reason. Joe wanted to be all Lincoln-like and bind up the nation's wounds. I want Truth Commissions.

"Elise Stefanik is full of shit" should be a free space on everyone's bingo card.

I'm afraid it's quite possible that both melania and donald are already being their best. That's it. They cannot be any better than this.

That's a lot of layers for the weather today in Washington.

What's donald hiding this time?

I don't mean to deny, however, that it's white voters who bear the blame for this damage. I'm just not convinced it's quickly reversible.

I don't think this is true in international relations.

By dumping trump in 2020 and then restoring him to the presidency in '24, American voters gave allies plenty of reason to decide that the US is an unreliable partner. I don't think that damage can be undone quickly. Maybe not in my lifetime.

I have no sympathy for this guy. All the HOA documents were conveyed to him between signing a contract and settlement. If he didn't know what the HOA would be like, it's his own f****** fault.

I think buying into an HOA and then flouting it is a particularly detestable kind of self-importance.

Yeah, it's an accident of the calendar that has caused American Jews to contort Hanukkah into some kind of Christmas manqué (and then caused non-Jews to think that's what Hanukkah is).

Deeply ironic for this to happen to a holiday focused (in part, at least) on the consequences of assimilation.

My neighbor already has his garish, whole-house, blue-and-white-lights Hanukkah display up.

Hanukkah is a minor holiday. It's literally categorized as a "minor festival."

And it won't start for another 4 weeks.