Friends,Tonight, Trump is throwing an 80th birthday bash for himself (he says it’s in honor of the 250th birthday of the United States) with a “Freedom250” Ultimate Fighting Championship cage match on the South Lawn of the White House at 8 p.m. ET. It will be a bloody gladiator fight taking place inside a 600-ton, 154-feet-tall skeletal structure called “the…Read More

Friends,The trustees of the Social Security fund said Tuesday that the fund will be depleted by late 2032, a year earlier than the trustees’ projection last year of 2033. If nothing is done, benefits will automatically be cut six years from now.The common understanding is that Social Security’s shortfall is due to the huge postwar baby boom, now retiring, and…Read More

Friends.Either he knows he’s lying — in order to further undermine confidence in our elections and as a prelude to attacking the outcome of the midterms — in which case he needs to be impeached and convicted.Or he doesn’t know he’s lying — he really believes that our election system is “crooked” and that the major media are “crooked” —…Read More

Friends,I’ve been watching JD Vance as carefully as anyone can track a snake in the grass, which is to say, with some difficulty. He has seemed uncomfortable with Trump’s grandiose foreign ambitions, especially Trump’s failed war in Iran, but I’ve seen no evidence that JD has spoken out against any of it even inside Trump’s ego-echo chamber. Vance hasn’t carved…Read More

Friends,Heather is back (after a grueling week; we wish her mother a speedy recovery). Today we take a deep dive into Trump’s Department of Injustice, now headed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who’s criminally prosecuting Trump’s enemies — including private citizens such as E. Jean Carroll. We also examine Trump and the Republican Party’s obsession with testosterone — part…Read More

Friends,Trump’s war in Iran is entering its third month. Gas is $1.50 more at the pump than it was before February 28. Other prices are rising. The American economy is showing signs of the dreaded stagflation (the combination of inflation and stagnation that’s difficult to overcome). There’s a loud outcry over revelations about Trump’s self-dealing, including his $1.8 billion slush…Read More

Friends,The 2026 Billionaire Tax Act initiative recently submitted enough signatures to be put on the California ballot for the November 2026 elections. Its goal is to raise revenue by imposing a one-time 5 percent wealth tax on California billionaires to offset large cuts to California’s Medicaid caused by the Trump regime and Congress when, in July 2025, they cut federal…Read More

Friends,He’s no longer even trying to hide it. He makes a deal with himself for a $1.8 billion slush fund to reward loyalists willing to defy the law and commit violence on his behalf, and for a pardon of himself and his family for any illegal self-dealing and financial wrongs “FOREVER” (it’s in all caps in the document). Then, when…Read More

Friends,Today I want to talk about prostates. (Wait! Don’t delete this post! Give me a minute to explain why you might be interested.)All of us are getting older, and some of us are becoming quite old. Many old men, like Joe Biden and me and several million others in the United States, have prostates that contain cancerous cells. But because…Read More

Friends,What should Democrats be demanding as a condition of releasing funds for the Department of Homeland Security? Over the last few weeks I’ve discussed several important conditions: agents must not undertake warrantless searches; use racial profiling; pick up suspected undocumented people from schools, hospitals, courts, or places of worship; or carry lethal weapons. Today I want to add an increasingly…Read More