Rising Medicare prescription drug costs. What Trump is doing with Medicare Part D drug costs is not quite disastrous, but when it's done in the context of everything else going wrong for citizens, it's absolutely inexplicable! www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Trump's obsession with designing a new Dulles Airport might make sense if all of his other plans had worked out well. If people were living in a decent economy, if the nation were at peace etc. But we aren't and his effort is very badly misplaced. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The situation we're in with Iran is one that Iran is easily able to exploit to make themselves look good and one that fully reveals the “personalist regime” we're living under. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/plumb...

Daa-yum-m-m!!! Ken Paxton might as well hang it up entirely when it comes to getting any votes among Latinos! I don't see him EVER competing with James Talarico for THAT demographic! As the blogger says “Luck is when preparation meets opportunity...” balloon-juice.com/2026/07/29/o...

Russian Navy Day 2020: Putin was on a boat in front of ships. 2026: Sailors in front of a print-out of a submarine. “Today is the Day of Mourning and Remembrance for Defenders who were tortured, executed, or died in captivity.” To all appearances, Zelenskyy's meetings in Washington DC went...

Oh, great! Just what “60 Minutes” needs! A right-wing opinion columnist from the NY Times! Yeah, Ross Douthat (with no newsroom experience) is JUST what they need! Douthat praised Viktor Orban because Orban sought to destroy higher education in Hungary. balloon-juice.com/2026/07/28/m...

Good! Extremely pleased to hear that Musk is highly defensive about how DOGE dealt with USAID. He should be! Heh! Tesla's Cybertruck an even bigger flop than the Edsel! balloon-juice.com/2026/07/27/l...

I remember reading about endless clapping for Stalin. They finally had to establish maximum clapping times because no one wanted to be the first to stop clapping. Another massed missile attack centering on Kyiv. Georgia suffering nationwide...

Heh! Russians trying to make a withdrawal from an ATM in Crimea. Screen text says “Glory to Ukraine! Flee from Crimea!” World Central Kitchen has assembled a chickens kit for people to start with a number of chickens and to then raise them, getting eggs in the process.

So Elon Musk sorta, kinda regrets his whole DOGE period, which I and millions of others recognized as a disaster in the making at the time. balloon-juice.com/2026/07/24/l...

White people and their lack of seriousness. balloon-juice.com/2026/07/19/s...

People like myself have been pointing this out for a while. So a Russian living in Crimea in 1991 all of the sudden finds he's no longer living in Russia, but in Ukraine. Terrible, right? But the majority of...

As usual, Senator Tuberville proves himself to be a complete idiot. Would it have been politically possible for the US or NATO to have launched a war on Russia in 2022, using Ukraine as a launching pad? President Obama certainly didn't think so in...

“But...but I don't wanna! Waah!” Trump is absolutely desperate to not pay E. Jean Carroll what he owes her. crooksandliars.com/2026/07/trum...

In Georgia, Tbilisi Open Air sings an anti-establishment song. Thousands join in. Huh! Putin launches ballistic missiles at Ukraine after having spoken to Trump for 90 minutes. “President Zelenskyy, of course, is in Ankara for the NATO summit.“ Zelenskyy's speech is about ballistic missiles and...

Many years ago, Kim Jong-Un set his minions to study Trump and to thus manipulate him. Looks like Zelenskyy has been doing the same. Who's get the cards NOW? balloon-juice.com/2026/07/08/w...

Trump's assertion that Russian and Chinese ships surround Greenland is pure fantasy. What does Trump know about Denmark's and Greenland's economic relationship? According to his comment, nothing. Also, Greenlanders have zero desire to become US citizens. crooksandliars.com/2026/07/trum...

Out of the 22 largest Russian oil refineries, 19 have now been hit by Ukrainian drones. Omsk, just hit, was the biggest. It was 2,500km from Ukraine. Ukraine got 363 of 419 targets. Due to a lack of Patriot missiles, none of the ballistic missiles or “Zircons” were shot down.

Apparently, as a result of Ukraine depriving Russian drivers of gasoline, Russia has decided to destroy Ukrainian gas stations. “every gas station along the roughly 200-km route between Kharkiv and Dnipro has been destroyed.” A heavy Russian drone...

Americans introduce FIFA fans to the US practice of “tailgating,” the practice of having picnic lunches in the parking lot of the sports arena before the game. Tailgating nowadays involves bringing grills and cooking meals for everyone who wants some. balloon-juice.com/2026/07/05/o...

What's left of the library of Mykhailo Vysotskyi. His family had collected thousands of paintings, photos and books. Russia claims to have captured Kostiantynivka. As this is one of three large towns that make up the Donetsk “Fortress Belt,” its loss WOULD be a serious matter. Zelenskyy pokes...

So again, Trump admits that he hasn't the vaguest idea when the war with Iran will end. “[Iran] sent a drone into a ship. I hit ‘em, then they did something else, and I hit ‘em.” If he keeps having to... crooksandliars.com/2026/07/trum...

One of those “age-old” questions that applies with particular force and relevance to capitalist America. Do businesspeople make good politicians? Unfortunately for Musk the answer is “No.” The skills that...

Trump put out a whopping large financial disclosure form. A close look at it reveals just how lucrative his many threatened lawsuits have been. He's fought 30 such lawsuits, lost them all, but frequently ends up wealthier because... www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

The SAVE Act was passed by the House. The Senate doesn't have the votes to pass it. Trump has added to the SAVE Act so that even the House will not re-pass it. This is just a really, REALLY bad bill! talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

18-year-old Svitlana was on her way, with her mother, to deliver admissions paperwork to the university. A drone struck the bus they were in. Svitlana's mother survived. Svitlana didn't. Massive drone and missile barrages in...

The assembled Servicepeople are completely silent as VP Vance trashes the former President Biden. Vance makes other foolish statements. balloon-juice.com/2026/07/01/o...

Shortage of gasoline in Russia bites ever deeper. President of Georgia plans to attend the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He'll be joined by leaders from Armenia, Qatar and Pakistan. “Russia has...