BlogFlock“The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and H.H.S. will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a nonexistent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago.” — Andrew Dixon, spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services.
We in the federal government have…
We walk among you, but you do not see us. We are your neighbors, but you do not know us. We work with you, but you do not respect us. We are the silent majority, the undervalued and underrepresented, the stoic and strong. We are the people who buy Red…
“The moment I saw him charging the steps on January 6, I knew I wanted to rip off his Viking helmet and find out how quickly he could send my body into a constitutional crisis.”
“He had a sharp, strong jawline from years of clenching it every…
“Let go of your hate.”
“The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.”
“Some day you’re gonna be wrong; I just hope I’m there to see it.”
“Why do I get the feeling you’re going to be the death of me?”
“You might wanna quit while you’re behind.”
“Laugh…
Go to a festival or fair. Stand in the longest line you can find. Buy something you don’t want.
Wake up at dawn on a Saturday morning. Make pancakes. Peel an orange. Fill two bottles of water. Sing the ABC’s twenty times. Do all of this before you have coffee.…
“The encrypted chat app [Signal] beloved by Elon Musk and foreign dissidents has been embraced by federal government workers, DOGE and military planners.” — Washington Post, 3/25/2025
“Top Trump officials included The Atlantic editor in group chat about plans to bomb Yemen.” — CBS News, 3/24/2025
First and foremost, this book would not have been possible without my beautiful wife, Kate, whose decision to end our marriage gave me unlimited time to finish Neigh It Ain’t So: A Coffee-Table Book of Badly Irregular Horses.
Thanks also to my editor and Domino’s delivery guy, Freddy. How it…
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten.…
" Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick suggested this week that only ‘fraudsters’ would complain about missing a monthly Social Security check, and that most people wouldn’t mind if the government simply skipped a payment. — Axios
People are overreacting that the Trump administration’s planned overhauls of the Social…
“Images of ‘Enola Gay,’ the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan are among those targeted by the U.S. military in an initiative to eliminate content related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).” – Newsweek
“Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared…