After reading the many tributes to Senator Graham from his friends across the aisle, I'm suddenly very sad that I never had a chance to vote for him.
Sunday, July 12, 2026
A Long Proud Career
There will be many tributes to one of the favorite senators of our rotten political journalist class.
My view: he was one of America's most successful serial killers.
What are his proudest accomplishments? War. All war.
People will pay tribute to the man he wasn't instead of the man he was proud to be.
Remember him how he would want to be remembered. He wasn't shy about his support for and love of every war.
The internet tells me David Petraeus first applied "Three Amigos" which I had forgotten. Perfect.
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Happy WHCA Dinner (Soon)
Jake Tapper is distributing a new set of cheeky pocket squares!
The Trump administration has issued subpoenas to several New York Times journalists after the newspaper reported on security concerns with the president’s new plane, according to the outlet.
Shahada
Gramps is having a normal post-market close Friday.
There was a time when anything Trump posted was covered like OJ's Bronco. Now media outlets mostly pretend his posts don't exist, or "translate" them into appropriate President.
Friday, July 10, 2026
Let Them Fight
Funny.
Read the full article. There are good bits!
Apple on Friday sued OpenAI in federal court in Northern California, alleging trade secret theft, saying that the artificial intelligence lab took the iPhone maker’s intellectual property in order to develop its own consumer hardware.No respect for IP? Shocking. There were no warnings.
“This much is clear, however: at every level, from members of its Technical Staff to its Chief Hardware Officer, and in coordination with business partners, OpenAI has been stealing Apple’s trade secrets and confidential information,” the company said in a legal filing.
Read the full article. There are good bits!
They Could Still Tout It
Don't really understand the entire premise here. Trump isn't gonna veto it (presumably). They passed it. It will become law .
President Donald Trump said Friday that he will not sign a bipartisan housing bill in protest of Republicans’ inability to advance separate elections overhaul legislation, dealing a major political blow to vulnerable lawmakers in his own party.
The housing bill is set to become law at midnight even without Trump’s signature. But GOP leaders had originally hoped to tout the moment as a historic economic achievement ahead of midterm elections that are likely to be defined by Americans’ concerns over the cost of living.
"AI Agents"
I really think the only people who could imagine the computer assistants would work well are the people who have actual assistants do everything for them and therefore don't understand the complexity of "simple" tasks.
NEW YORK, July 2 (Reuters) - Meta (META.O), opens new tab Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged shortcomings in the company's sweeping restructuring at an internal town hall on Thursday, saying the systems known as AI agents had not progressed as quickly as he had expected, according to a recording heard by Reuters.
Sure, Jan
I hope they showed him some scary pictures.
Yes of course it's possible. Even likely given recent actions! But I am skeptical that Israel has some additional intelligence beyond "they probably would!"
Israel shared new intelligence with the U.S. that it said indicated a fresh Iranian plan to kill President Trump, people familiar with the matter said, a finding that would mark an escalation in the war between Washington and Iran.Analogous to this one:
I Spoke To Mitch McConnell Yesterday For 20 Minutes
I don't think all changing norms regarding are bad. I actually think it's good that marital infidelity isn't A HUGE SCANDAL THAT GETS MONTHS OF COVERAGE, absent other considerations. Voters can think it's important or not, but journalists putting on their Victorian frocks and heading to the fainting couches was always ridiculous.
But being completely unconcerned with the health of the president of the United States and prominent members of Congress is bizarre.
If it comes out that Jennings was completely lying here, CNN won't fire him.
But being completely unconcerned with the health of the president of the United States and prominent members of Congress is bizarre.
If it comes out that Jennings was completely lying here, CNN won't fire him.
“I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky,” the pundit wrote.
“He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes… about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.”
Subsequently on appearing on The Arena with Kasie Hunt, Jennings was asked by the anchor whether McConnell would be willing to dial into the studio from his hospital bed.
“As we wrap up here, do you think he’d be willing to call into the show? Could we get him on the phone now?” Hunt asked.
Her guest carefully brushed aside the request, answering instead: “I wasn’t really expecting him to call this morning, to be honest so when the phone rang and I was able to talk to him, I was frankly pretty grateful.
Videos taken by the neighbor show emergency responders wheeling a person on a stretcher toward an ambulance. The videos are shot from some distance, and the face of the person is not visible. Once in the ambulance, the person’s lower legs appear to be covered by an orange blanket, but feet are visible.
The neighbor said they asked officers what was going on, and the officers responded that there had been a “medical emergency.” But when the neighbor inquired if McConnell was having a medical emergency, officers said they would block the street for anybody. The neighbor said they learned from another eyewitness who saw the individual’s face that the person on the stretcher was McConnell and he was not wearing an oxygen mask.
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“In a situation where perhaps time is of the essence, there seems to be a little bit more urgency, but there was no urgency here,” the neighbor told CNN.
Then the emergency vehicles left the street, the neighbor said their sirens were not on.
Obey The Decider
If MY PRESIDENT wants to travel in his fancy new plane, I do not think the Deep State should stop him.
The new Air Force One, which President Trump flew on earlier this week to Turkey, lacks the same defensive countermeasures that were security features of the old model, including its advanced antimissile capabilities, according to multiple officials who have been briefed on how the jet was retrofitted.
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“The new Air Force One is a state-of-the-art aircraft that has been fitted with high-level security protocols that ensure the safety of the president and his staff,” Steven Cheung, the communications director, said in a statement. “As the president has said recently, there are many enemies of America who have their sights on him, and we use every tool at our disposal to address those threats.”
Thursday, July 09, 2026
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