"No one is more military than me" says a man who has never served a day in his life in a room with several actual Veterans. Is he serious?   Well said, Senator Mark Kelly.

Members of the House and Senate who are voting to deny Ukraine assistance on the 85th anniversary of Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 “peace in our time” speech should read some history: Appeasement didn’t work then. It won’t work now.

Again, little of the proposed assistance for Ukraine in the Senate CR was immediately actionable to Ukraine's benefit. In contrast, a government shutdown would have thrown the entire supply chain to Ukraine into disarray and caused vastly more damage.

Supporting Ukraine is a once-in-a-generation chance to make the world safer. Ending that support is recklessness for which we will suffer in all the conflicts that the Ukrainians are preventing or making less likely. Let us help those who help us.

The notion that Biden is suffering from any sort of mental or physical decline is clearly debunked in this interview

When you hear the narrative that “the Crimeans chose to be with ruzzia”, remember all the people who were killed or imprisoned by ruzzians in Crimea.

Before you look at the tweet below, ask yourself what person might be plausibly identified as “the queen of pop culture, music, business, and TV”

My four-year-old was reading Nietzsche when he turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why is God dead?" And when I told him "Ross Douthat says it's because the secular left has banished faith and tradition from the public square," he started crying.

The consensus GOP position appears to be that Democrats are communist satanist pedophile dictators who want to destroy America, and also it is their solemn responsibility to protect us from the rabid lunatics in our own party, in exchange for nothing.

GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker

Contrary to how McCarthy’s defenders are behaving, men failing up is not a Constitutionally protected right. The man made risky decisions and faced the natural consequences of them. I am not his mom, and my job is not to put pool noodles around hard corners for Republicans.

What many people don't know: recent decades have seen incredible reductions in poverty. The poverty rate has *never before* been this low in human history. What new data is now revealing: after the setback from Covid, poverty reduction now continues! blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/pover…

Jeff Timmer Madness (Locura) by Francisco Goya, ca. 1819-1823

The headline is suppressed, so I'll tell you in the tweet: here's my story that the root cause of Kevin McCarthy's troubles was his party's inability to accept that it had badly lost the 2022 elections. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Coooool. Cool cool cool cool cool. theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…

Congressional to do list this week: - Pass aid packages for Ukraine and Israel - Break the Tuberville blockade, fully staff the Pentagon - Approve stalled MENA Ambassadors, other State Dept officials, incl new Ambassador to Israel - Cut the MAGA bullshit x.com/simonwdc/statu…