Rick Harrison

“Yeah, we know that come tomorrow None of this will be here So hold tight to your anger… And don’t fall to your fears” —Bruce Springsteen

Gratified to see widely respected journalist Margaret Sullivan endorse my view that major media must depict Trump’s abuse of power as a “five-alarm fire” – because it is.

You can't expect the New York Times to give any attention to a story about the president being credibly accused of violent rape when the story breaks so close to an election. It's not like we're talking about something *really* important, like email security protocols.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

OBAMA: "Trump is focused on enriching himself & his family/friends. A Venezuelan billionaire wanted a pardon, so he paid a Trump lawyers $50 million — and lo & behold! The pardon falls out of the sky... We’ve never seen a president straight-up grifting on your dime like this."

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

The president sides with child rapists and their enablers. That's the message I'm receiving.

This sick, vile, disqualifying ad, siding with a monster who abandoned her 12-year-old daughter in favor of the boyfriend who raped her, and hasn't seen her daughter in 50 years, accusing Acton of lying about, it is being headlinezed into normalcy. It's NOT normal. Don't do that.

we're going to need a long-term plan, with broad political appeal, for ending impunity & holding the trump administration accountable for its crimes, malfeasance & cruelties. not 'tit-for-tat' but an american version of transitional justice. my take in @slate.com 👇

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My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Demonizing someone who thinks he is better than everyone else because he is white is *not* the same as demonizing someone who is black because he wants to be treated the same as everyone else. JD Vance is an ignorant apologist for White Supremacy.

The slithering back to even vaguely positive or optimistic analyses of Trump’s second term after the abominations of January 6th cleared the way for today’s abject betrayal of the Ukrainian people. It’s astonishing how many public figures on both sides of the Atlantic are complicit in the crime.

Today would be a good day for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that yes, he is a lunatic, and they should report and write accordingly.

This language endangers lives. It treats gay people as by definition worthy of contempt and less than fully human and trustworthy. To discuss it as "strategy" or an odd "choice" is to put yourself in the service of minimizing it, to volunteer as thecleanup crew for evil men. I'm sick of it.

Let me be specific: Donald Trump is an f-ing traitor. He is in cahoots with Putin and Russia to break our democratic ally, Ukraine, which makes all of us less safe. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

This was all so predictable. In fact, many people predicted it.

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 60,000 times, shame on Biden and the radical left communists and immigrants and

QUICK QUIZ: Which of these was an actual TV show to air on CBS in 2024: NCIS: Topeka Law & Order: Animal Control Unit Cold Case: Criminal Minds CSI: FBI NCIS: Hawai’i NCIS: No Jurisdiction FBI: Dubai US Coast Guard: Vessel Boarding Security Teams (VBST)

Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.

Assuming they aren’t lying (just for fun), how is paying for something you don’t use considered an act of fraud? What even is the concept here?

Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

So much of society’s functioning relies on shared faith in the persistence of abstract ideas: Money can be used for goods & services. Laws protect us & punish bad actors. Elected officials should serve the public good. We possess inalienable rights. Fascism is bad. Facts are real. Seems so quaint.

Remember when a year felt like a long time?

From the archive: Just “moving on” past a calamity without examination and accountability invites the next one. 7:20 PM · May 18, 2021

Pretending to go for it on fourth and short just to try to draw the defense offsides is loser crap. It also never works unless you are playing the Jets.

It’s possible this video just put five years back onto my life.

This is an opinion article filled with observable facts (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/o...

Pretending to go for it on fourth and short just to try to draw the defense offsides is loser crap. It also never works unless you are playing the Jets.

When they do this, it's not enough to reject the demand. You've got to shove it back in their face, and ask why they never ask Republicans to denounce the racist mass murderer who is their party's top donor and who was given the keys to the federal government to cause mass chaos.

The embarrassing decision to call Lake Ontario “Lake America” is an admission of defeat. If we can’t understand basics of economics and politics, if we must lose a trade war to Canada while we are losing a shooting war to Iran, let us paste our name somewhere. snyder.substack.com/p/our-trade-...

This is downstream of America's oligarchy problem. The GOP is the party of the top 1% of the wealth distribution, but also the ~25th-80th percentile. Meanwhile, media is the provenance of the 90th-99th%ile where you'll encounter dumb campus leftism, but not Nazism or Christian nationalism.

There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.

Honest Question: What IS the biggest scandal of this presidency?

Most major media still won't say directly that the U.S. is sliding toward dictatorship. Will they ever sound the alarm, or will they be part of the most shameful episode of journalism neglect in our nation's history? My Stop the Presses newsletter.

In the future, when a Democrat does anything remotely similar to these egregious acts of corruption, obfuscation, and outright deception, they will suddenly act like they care. As if their outrage originates from some untouchable integrity. Most will act as though they have forgotten. But not me.

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning

Experts aren’t always correct. The best ones know that. But they also know more than you. That’s what makes them experts.

An experienced fact-checker, Linda Qiu, at the most well-resourced and serious news organization in America, STILL cannot manage to call a true statement true: "Susan Collins helped Trump slash Medicaid to the tune of $990 billion.” —Troy Jackson This is true. Here's why Qiu gets it wrong:

"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...