David Simon

The aging, latent police reporter in me can't help put pause to remark on the unforced error of the SAC in Salt Lake's FBI field office making the unforced error of announcing they have recovered a “footwear impression.” A shout-out to toss or destroy those shoes, ASAP. That's a detail you keep.

Mike Lee is fecal. For his written thoughts on the horror in Minnesota alone, any healthy republic would immediately expel him from its national legislature. That's all. That's the tweet.

The highest court in our land has determined the government can deport human beings to countries not their own and without any legal review -- until at least such time as a court rules this unconstitutional. And, oh, the matter will be litigated for years. Welcome to the American gulag. It's here.

For those of you still waiting for this administration's release of the full Epstein files and the prosecution of those involved in child sexual abuse, consider this moment something of a tell:

If Trump and Hegseth keep waging this war with Iran any better, we're gonna have armed Houthis on the coastline between Galveston and Beaumont and and drones blowing up that-ass big pipeline between Midland and Corpus Christi.

I'm quite sure this is footage from the celebratory cultfest in Texas. Albeit, the production values seem stronger and more inspiring somehow.

Go poke a sofa.

"Make Germany Great Again." One must credit the late, great Molly Ivins in noting that it probably sounds better in the original German, at a big open-air rally with a bunch of bright banners and a lot of emphatic saluting.

The point being Donald Trump, to this moment, remains refreshingly innocent of the crime of bribery. Attempted bribery, sure. Breach of contract, yes. Fraud? Goes without saying. Grifters gonna grift.

Good thing we obliterated their military capabilities several times or these people could become a real pain in the ass.

Strange. I thought the gaping maw of hell would come for the studio execs first.

Fair. At this point I can't remember if I was half-dressed, coffee going cold in front of me, while I stared at a TV screen in front of me in horror, or if I was in downtown Manhattan trying to help people but instead being pulled from rubble by two brave, burly NY firefighters. One of the two.

State of the republic: Our leader lies brazenly and ridiculously to exalt himself and steal valor as we remember one of our greatest tragedies. On the same day, the head of national museum resigns because this leader demands American history be rewritten so rank dishonesty can prevail over fact.