You know how you work really hard on a project and it all gets blown up the day before?
Imagine being an NBC SNL writer this Friday.
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Wild nonpolitical thought for the day.
There is a chance this year that both Patrick Mahomes’ Kansas City Chiefs and Josh Allen’s Bills miss the NFL playoffs.
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Any headline about Trump being shockingly civil with Mamdani is a headline that isn’t about the Epstein files.
No one ever knows someone else’s motivations. But as far as headline grabbing…. On a day that Trump embraces Mamdani, Marjorie Taylor Greene resigns from Congress. And the night isn’t over. Can we all tear up our 2025 batsh*t bingo cards?
DOT Secretary Sean Duffy says to help make air travel better, “Dress up to go to the airport, help a stranger out, and be in a good mood.”
“Dress up?”
And now that Trump’s DOT is getting rid of the required cash penalties for airlines canceling flights you’ll have to buy your own clothes without reimbursment if the alternative is sleeping in them.
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Remember, Trump hasn’t had a Cabinet meeting this week. So he was probably going through withdrawal from his required doses of slavish praise. If Mamdani just dropped a few compliments to him that might have made all the difference.
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Many Americans aren’t great at history.
But anyone clutching their pearls over six Democratic leaders with military backgrounds urging today’s military to refuse unlawful commands should know a name: William Calley
And three words my lai massacre.
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Rep. Jason Crow about not giving up on this country. “We always have this contest between our highest ideals and our worst impulses.”
As an optimist I agree with him. But looking forward to a day when fewer of our “leaders” are trying to appeal to Americans’ worst impulses.
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