@peterhamm
New York City kid worked in communications leadership roles on Presidential, Governor, and New York City mayor’s political campaigns. Served three prominent national nonprofit organizations. Began career as a newspaper reporter.
So the three Trump supplicants on the Court think the tariffs shouldn’t be disallowed because it would be messy. What part of the Constitution allows illegality so as to avoid messy cleanups?
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“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
Thomas Paine, 1776.
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country. But he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman….”
Top ICE Lawyer in Minnesota Departs as Immigration Lawsuits Overwhelm Courts www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
He tells us what he’ll do.
We laugh, then it happens.
He promised invasion; he invaded.
He promised troops at home; they’re here.
He promised retribution; prosecutors and investigators are now targets.
He seized ballots; he’s calling to seize elections.
This isn’t bluster; it’s a plan.
Stop laughing
He’s no Jaime Lannister
I think this is a cover story and these Alaska-based soldiers may go to Greenland.
Pentagon Tells 1,500 Troops to Prepare for Possible Deployment to Minnesota www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
PSA: If Bill Kristol can say this dems should be able to say it
The writers have done a spectacular job this season revamping their fascinating "Marjorie Taylor Greene" character. The suspense over what she will do next is compelling. A lot of things are going on with MTG, maybe some good, others bad, and we won't know exactly what for two or more seasons.
And he reopened the case before flipping on it, so his Justice Department can say the law doesn’t allow it in an open case.
Frederick, Maryland wants No Kings
True that! #politics #religion
He speaks to dead people
What I hate about social media: the Declaration of Independence gets ZERO likes. Lol.
“…when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…”
No wonder the White House didn’t want Abrego Garcia to ever come back. Folks, we’re PAYING for that torture with our taxes.
I wrote about my car, our collective sanity and the state of Fuck It. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
More deaths coming.
Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...
This has the potential to be a really important day in American history. Whether restorative, or destructive, is uncertain.
A remarkable photograph by four-time Pulitzer winning photographer Carol Guzy.
“You can’t make this up.”
- Marsha, making it up
Benjamin Franklin once penned an essay entitled “Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One.” If Trump read, he would be wise to learn from it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
She was a class act. Kind, whip smart, so elegant. It was an honor to serve her.
I am saddened to hear about the passing of Secretary Alexis Herman—my Soror, a trailblazer, and the first Black woman to lead the Dept. of Labor. Her impact on this country and the fight for working people runs deep. Rest in power, Madam Secretary.
I’m almost 64. And I have never carried $3,000 cash with me ever. Has she heard of credit cards, Apple Wallet, Google Wallet, Venmo, yada yada?
