Does Homeland Security Think We’re Dumb?

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What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers

Our Homeland Security Department Must Think We're All Certified Idiots

Releasing months-old videos from Florida saying they're from Chicago? Our government used to employ a better class of liar. Brilliant. By this standard, the administration could put out still photos of the Haymarket Riot and claim that it was really a No Kings march in Montana. Meanwhile, what's left of the White House responded with yet another chorus of "How Great We Art."

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Declassified MKUltra Transcripts Have Been Released. They Paint a Dark Portrait of America.

There aren't many American Cold War villains as stone evil as Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA chemist who oversaw the crimes and depredations of the Company's MKUltra program. The folks at the National Security Archive have released the transcripts of Gottlieb's testimony to the Church committee, and they are every bit as bad as the country has tried so hard not to recall.

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I Wouldn't Be Upset If This Hawaii State Justice Ended Up on the Supreme Court One Day

Actually, there's some work to be done there. I give one Justice Todd Eddins of the state supreme court. Back at the end of September, Eddins and his colleagues decided to take a bite out of the Nine Wise Souls in D.C.

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Turns Out Special Counsel Jack Smith Made a Big Mistake When Investigating Trump

We were very nice to Jack Smith here in the shebeen on Monday. Then The Washington Pos dropped a saga, and everybody at the bar dropped their heads sadly and stared at a stop two feet beyond their folded hands.

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Republicans Keep Proving That They Have No Loyalty to the Democratic Process

At the time, jurisdictions all over the country already had plans in place to reassert white supremacy at the polls. They were just waiting for the carefully manufactured conservative majority on the Supreme Court to begin vivisecting the Voting Rights Act.

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