I Am Cranky
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Cranky feminist. Avid reader. Director of Everything Else.
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Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
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wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
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YOU WERE IN A POSITION OF AUTHORITY AND HAD SEX WITH A CHILD THAT IS NOT A “CONSENSUAL ENCOUNTER” WHAT THE HELL ARE WE DOING HERE
epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
YOU WERE IN A POSITION OF AUTHORITY AND HAD SEX WITH A CHILD THAT IS NOT A “CONSENSUAL ENCOUNTER” WHAT THE HELL ARE WE DOING HERE
Good piece from Krugman on health insurance, which has a delicious throwaway about my “hapless” congressman.
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
The Republican Brain Doesn’t Want To Understand Health Care
For 15 years we have heard the same lies and misrepresentations
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Good piece from Krugman on health insurance, which has a delicious throwaway about my “hapless” congressman.
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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You have one job
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
You have one job
NY needs a new Chairman for its Dem party.
Has New York Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs resigned over Mamdani yet? I hope he hasn't, so that he can instead resign over *improving Republican margins over Trump 2024 in an anti-Republican wave election*. Trump won Nassau by just 4%—now look at this bloodbath
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
NY needs a new Chairman for its Dem party.
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This shit is so crazy and so obviously our biggest problem underlying everything and anyone who says otherwise is either greedy or blind
We said what we said
We said what we said
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
November 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This shit is so crazy and so obviously our biggest problem underlying everything and anyone who says otherwise is either greedy or blind
We said what we said
We said what we said
I have never before been so invested in an American League team as I currently am with the Canadian team. Go Blue Jays!
November 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I have never before been so invested in an American League team as I currently am with the Canadian team. Go Blue Jays!
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Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in local economic activity. Without SNAP, that will mean a loss of $15 billion to the US economy just in November alone.
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in local economic activity. Without SNAP, that will mean a loss of $15 billion to the US economy just in November alone.
I know the @nytimes.com is not what it was but come on, this takes the cake. The headline referred to the correct state but …
October 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I know the @nytimes.com is not what it was but come on, this takes the cake. The headline referred to the correct state but …
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I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.
October 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.
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Schrödinger's young adults: Both fearsome terrorists who need to be deported from the United States for so much as writing an op-ed, and also just kids telling jokes for which they can't be expected to be held accountable.
Vance on public outrage over the "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."
October 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Schrödinger's young adults: Both fearsome terrorists who need to be deported from the United States for so much as writing an op-ed, and also just kids telling jokes for which they can't be expected to be held accountable.
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Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.
The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.
The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.
Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.
The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.
Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
October 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.
The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.
The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.
Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.
The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.
Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
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found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT
Father Larry did not come here to fuck around
Father Larry did not come here to fuck around
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT
Father Larry did not come here to fuck around
Father Larry did not come here to fuck around
October 8, 2025
Antifa is a term used by the far right to define anyone who does not support MAGA: it means “antifascist.”
Antifa is a term used by the far right to define anyone who does not support MAGA: it means “antifascist.”
October 8, 2025
Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S.
open.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
October 8, 2025
Antifa is a term used by the far right to define anyone who does not support MAGA: it means “antifascist.”
Antifa is a term used by the far right to define anyone who does not support MAGA: it means “antifascist.”
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Anytime, anywhere you hear anyone say that democrats have shut down the government, kindly correct them. The republicans shut down the government.
The republicans shut down the government.
The republicans shut down the government.
The republicans shut down the government.
The republicans shut down the government.
October 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Anytime, anywhere you hear anyone say that democrats have shut down the government, kindly correct them. The republicans shut down the government.
The republicans shut down the government.
The republicans shut down the government.
The republicans shut down the government.
The republicans shut down the government.
I’ll be firing up my ActBlue account in the morning. Go Mikie!
The Trump admin illegally leaked my unredacted personnel file to Jack's allies to try to smear me.
The full force of the federal government is being weaponized to defeat me — I’m asking you to help me fight back!
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The full force of the federal government is being weaponized to defeat me — I’m asking you to help me fight back!
Donate here: secure.ngpvan.com/NGY2cCnISU6c...
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September 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I’ll be firing up my ActBlue account in the morning. Go Mikie!
Wow. So - Carr was wrong in pressuring ABC to fire Kimmel.
9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year:
“Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”
“Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”
September 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Wow. So - Carr was wrong in pressuring ABC to fire Kimmel.
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Especially since the very first group of Antifa members will all be Allied & US WW2 veterans….
All US veterans really, because since then, the US armed forces have only fought fascists and dictators.
All US veterans really, because since then, the US armed forces have only fought fascists and dictators.
Since Antifa is now designed as a terrorist organization it will be interesting to see how they determine who is a member and how they prove it is an organization.
September 18, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Especially since the very first group of Antifa members will all be Allied & US WW2 veterans….
All US veterans really, because since then, the US armed forces have only fought fascists and dictators.
All US veterans really, because since then, the US armed forces have only fought fascists and dictators.
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I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
September 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
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Yet another school shooting. It's the GUNS.
Three people, at least two of whom are students, were shot and critically injured at a high school outside Denver, Colorado, on Wednesday afternoon, the authorities said.
3 Are Shot and Critically Injured at Colorado High School, Authorities Say
The attack took place on the campus of Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colo., which is southwest of Denver, according to the local sheriff’s office. At least two of the victims are students.
nyti.ms
September 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Yet another school shooting. It's the GUNS.
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Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…
September 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…
Not only is mifepristone safe, it's a known treatment for other diseases - like Cushing's syndrome. www.endocrine.org/news-and-adv...
September 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Not only is mifepristone safe, it's a known treatment for other diseases - like Cushing's syndrome. www.endocrine.org/news-and-adv...