WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2026Everybody's talkin': In the past few days, the colloquial language has been general over Blue America's public discourse.It wasn't just Michael McFaul—although, as we noted this morning, he offered this assessment of the possible Battle of Nuuk, off in t … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2026Is this what madness looks like? No one has ever said that former ambassador Michael McFaul isn't thoroughly sharp. The leading authority on his career offers this pithy thumbnail:Michael McFaulMichael Anthony McFaul (born October 1, 1963) is an American … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2026Charlie Pierce gets it right: The president continues to rant and yell about how the 2020 election was stolen. Or at least, so says Mediaite in this new report:‘Crooked as Hell!’ Trump Goes on Rigged Election Rant on January 6 AnniversaryPresident Donald T … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2026None of this has ever been hidden: We've long complimented the role played by David Ignatius in what's left of the national discourse. But in his new column for the Washington Post, he directs a blow right at this site! As always, his column offers good, … | Continue reading
MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2026But mainly, Walz drops out: With the Battle of Caracas won, the madness over Air Force One has been general, with warnings issued to Denmark and Cuba, and tariff claims out of control.We'll set that aside until tomorrow. For today, we'll focus on this news … | Continue reading
MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2026"Dangerous," one governor said: Late Saturday afternoon, "there he went again."In fact, "there he went again" again! There the president went again, for perhaps the ten millionth time. Governor Walz noticed what the president had done. He used a key word as … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 2026Is something wrong with this man? You'll understand our decision to postpone the final report in our current award-winning series, THE SQUALOR[S].Last night's arrest of Nicolás Maduro has burned up our time today. As happenstance had it, we were watching … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 2026And he's stopping by woods to buy marble: Is the sitting American president in the grip of some sort of cognitive decline?We don't exactly know how to make some such determination. Meanwhile, Blue America's mainstream press corps has agreed that they will n … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 2026Last summer, he went with another: There's an iceberg-adjacent quality to the moral and intellectual squalor we're describing as "Squalor Red."On the day Jeffrey Epstein died—way back in August 2019—it was easy to spot the part of the berg which sat above t … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2025Why we can't have nice things: Greedily, we fell upon a book review in today's New York Times. The principal headline on the piece caught our eye:NONFICTIONA Philosopher Gives the Old Idea of Universalism a Radical New SpinOmri Boehm’s new book argues … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2025...we'll do for the president's groaners: Our recent reference to sacred Melville pleased a certain Tonight show comedian of the Leno era. With that fact in mind:In this morning's report, we started to create a taxonomy of ridiculous public misstatements … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2025We'd call it Squalor Red: It's one more example of "the problem we all [currently] live with." We can't find it in today's New York Times. But as reported by Mediaite, there he went again:Trump Drops All-Time Whopper About Israeli Hostages...President Do … | Continue reading
MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2025Endless dispute resolved: We didn't see today's exchange ourselves. But over at Mediaite, Isaac Schorr has captured the latest exchange in an ongoing dispute about last year's White House campaign.The endless dispute to which we refer goes like this:Last … | Continue reading
MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2025Our nation's dueling squalors: Jeffrey Epstein died in prison, right there in New York City. He was found dead in his prison cell on Saturday, August 10, 2019. Given the squalor of the time, what happened next was inevitable. In fact, it happened before t … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2025Or so Michelle Goldberg has said: In yesterday morning's report, we focused on a Truth Social post which appeared, late in the night, on Christmas Eve. In that post, the president said this might be the last "Merry Christmas" our nation's many "sleazeba … | Continue reading
MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2025What would Jesus have done? For now, but only briefly, let's set the military strike in Nigeria off to the side.Let's consider the highly unusual person who's able to order such strikes. Last night, in what has become his typical holiday style, he offered … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2025The moral over the medical: Oof—but also, world without end! Last evening, sure enough, there he went again:Trump Lashes Out at ‘Dead Man Walking’ Stephen Colbert, Demands CBS ‘Put Him to Sleep NOW’President Donald Trump lashed out at Late Show host St … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2025Reuters suggests it's a fraud: Did former president Bill Clinton ever visit the hellhole of Jeffrey's Epstein's private island?Through his spokesperson(s) and in his own voice, Clinton has always said the answer is no. In this morning's report, we mentio … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2025Planet of the Humans: Is President Trump a "sociopath?" Almost everything is possible, but a language problem intrudes:As we've noted in the past, "sociopath" isn't a clinical term within the current realm of medical science. Adjusting for technical lang … | Continue reading
MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2025...when Paul Krugman wrote about this: On December 13, the New York Times ran a guest essay concerning the cost of health insurance. Headline included, the essay started like this:$27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That?The debate over … | Continue reading
MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2025...to the flooding of the zone: Long ago and oceans away, sacred Melville famously pondered "the whiteness of the whale." In fact, that was the title of Chapter 42 of his most famous novel. If Project Gutenberg can be trusted, the chapter starts like this … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2025Ever so slowly they turn: Peter Baker, he of the New York Times, is an extremely clear-minded journalist. For that reason, it's odd to see him make this apparent minor mistake in a lengthy "news analysis" piece in today's print editions:NEWS ANALYSISSho … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2025Is there any way this could be dangerous? It was once believed that an earlier potentate had named his horse to a seat in the Senate.The Senate in question was that of Rome. According to the leading authority, this naming may never have happened:CaligulaG … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2025Frogs in pot, slowly they boil: From this morning's New York Times:"The rename was just the latest maneuver in the overall Trumpification of the capital."From the capital on to South America, possibly on to the world? Meanwhile, is there any chance this c … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2025But first, the world's poorest children: Susie Wiles said many things in her eleven (11) interviews with Chris Whipple for Vanity Fair.Given the number of deaths involved, her most significant rumination may involve the apparent "sociopath"--no, it's no … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2025Except on MS NOW: Last evening, what's left of the sitting American president continued his lifelong flight from the realm of accurate statement.What makes this a "lifelong" flight? From way back in December 2016, we'll let The Guardian tell the tale ab … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2025Fox News rules the cosmos: As we near the end of the year, we're keeping our eyes on the prize--more accurately, on a pair of such measures.Morally and intellectually, the opening of last night's Gutfeld! show was deeply ugly fare. In part for that ver … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2025Our Blue stars didn't ask: Is the sitting president, Donald J. Trump, afflicted with some (serious) version of (what used to be referred to as) "mental illness?"You'd almost think that we the people would actually want to know! At present, the children … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2025...and by what wasn't discussed: We remain stunned by what we saw—and by what we didn't see—on MS NOW programs last night.As of this morning, even Susie Wiles, Trump's chief of staff, is being quoted about the sitting president's bizarre behavior. The re … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2025The dumbness of the cetacean: We've spoken, again and again, about the apparent change in the preferred language.(We've also cited an obvious fact. We're forced to offer our best impressions about such matters because the people who pose as Blue America' … | Continue reading
MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2025...look where it has us now: President Trump has blamed Rob Reiner for Rob Reiner's brutal death.In our view, Colby Hall's reaction to this is well worth considering. But for today, we return to an event which was, as of Saturday, exactly 25 years old.We … | Continue reading
MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2025...to describe a cognitive breakdown: We interrupt our planned report to describe a cognitive breakdown.You won't read about it in the New York Times. You'll read about it only here.This latest incident strikes us as unmistakable. It occurred early yester … | Continue reading
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2025Front-page article AWOL: If you're reading the print edition of today's New York Times, it's right there on the front page.The report was written by Carol Rosenberg. Right there on page A1, the headline on the piece says this:To Resurrect 'Fort Lee' Name, … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2025"Tampon," the flyweight said: America(s) the Beautiful are in a world of hurt. Just consider what happened, this very morning, in the first ten minutes of Fox & Friends Weekend.For starters, it's just as we told you. The sprawling Minnesota fraud event … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2025No Shedding of Cells Left Behind: It fell to Jesse Watters to open the show. It was 5 p.m. sharp in the East. Watters is 47 years old. An imitation of life was about to begin. We were struck by the way this program started. Yesterday, the most-watched pro … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2025On the nation's top "cable news" program: What is Red America being told about Minnesota's sprawling fraud scandal?It's an ongoing topic within Silo Red, even addressed by the president. Over here, within Silo Blue, the topic is being disappeared.This one … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2025And when did she possibly mean it? In yesterday morning's report, we quoted Claire McCaskill saying this about President Trump's endless speech in the Poconos:"That speech—he's not well. He's not well."Due in part to our own pre-existing frame of refere … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2025...Blue stars barely said a word: "And so it did happen like it could have been foreseen / The timeless explosion of fantasy's dream..."The star of the program was back this morning, with a weak aside from his wife, the program's co-host. Where had he b … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2025Then batters "effeminate weasels:" We were surprised by the revelation in this report from Mediaite:Jesse Watters Reveals He Created a Daily Bible Study Group With Greg Gutfeld and Harold Ford...Fox News stars Jesse Watters, Greg Gutfeld, and Harold Fo … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2025So too with our dueling America(s): With Joe Scarborough MIA for the fourth straight morning, it fell to former senator Claire McCaskill to make the obvious statement.Morning Joe's remarkably lengthy new ad breaks continued in the first hour of this mo … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2025Also, Morning Joe devoured by ads: We start today with two cheers for Michelle Goldberg's new column. Headline included, this is the way she starts:Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by MisogynistsIn 1982, Phyllis Schlafly, perhaps the m … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2025...The Five engaged in an act of fraud: The madness within which our America(s) dwell—what used to be called the "mental illness"—is surely there for all to see in this New York Times news report.The madness is there for all to see. The language is appare … | Continue reading
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2025Also, Minnesota's Somalis don't love or respect the U.S.: As we noted this morning, the Fox News Channel has been pounding away about all that fraud in Minnesota. Is Minnesota's Blue American political establishment compromised by these events in some way? … | Continue reading
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2025As always, dueling America(s): For the second successive week, the New York Times has performed a substantial service on the front page—on page A1—of its Sunday print editions.For the second straight Sunday, the Times is challenging those of us in Blue Ame … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2025Weekend Friends try to explain: The friends held off as long as they could. This morning, at 6:23 a.m., they finally confessed, if haltingly.To its credit, Fox News Digital had reported the relevant fact yesterday. The report had appeared right around no … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2025Rep. Omar gets to respond: What manner of "illness" was mental illness? We place our question in a past tense because, when we consult the leading authority, it almost sounds like that familiar locution may be going away:Mental disorder"Mental Illness" red … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2025So did quite a few others: As we've noted in recent weeks, Lawrence O'Donnell has been the must-see cable news anchor of the past month or so.Other hosts at MSNBC have basically gone through the mandated topics, performing critiques by rote. O'Donnell has … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2025Our press corps won't tell you about it: We correct ourselves for the second time concerning Jen Psaki's program. Last evening, she did report and discuss what the president did--what he did for the second straight day. As you can see by clicking this li … | Continue reading