Tileman

I voted today (got my mail-in ballot yesterday). Please make sure you vote in the mid-term elections, too. It’s probably the most important election of our lifetimes.

The rats are abandoning the sinking ship. And yet, still at least 32% of American adults think he’s great. Make it make sense.

Thank you, Dr. Fauci, for your invaluable, brave, patriotic service during the pandemic despite the knuckle-dragging anti-science right-wing Covidiots showering you with death threats as you simply tried to save as many lives as possible. Don’t forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe

I wonder how long it’s going to be before the Republican Party re-brands itself because the word Republican is so toxic that they can’t get anyone to vote for them.

Someone’s welcome to fact check me on this but the Trump Iran War either just exceeded (or is about to) the number of US troops killed in Biden’s ‘disastrous’ withdrawal from Afghanistan. Remember how much outrage was directed at him for the cost of getting out of that war?

I keep getting e-mails, texts and web ads from Dem senate candidates from outside my state asking me to pitch in to help them win and flip the Senate. While I’m sympathetic to their cause, I’m not going to donate until they promise to leave me alone (forever) after I donate.

So, the only times the vote has been rigged against him is while Trump was in power?

And that from an overtly pro-Trump Supreme Court. Our President is an adjudicated sex offender.

Every accusation is a confession- sometimes, years in advance.

"Every one of these children had a name. They had dreams, loves, and futures. Their lives were as valuable and special as your child’s or mine. They were loved, and somewhere, their families grieve for them."

‘The algae always comes back.’

I understand that interviewing a sitting US President is on the bucket list for most journalists, but we need a different set of criteria for deciding whether it’s worth the cost to interview Trump. The answer is a just a hard NO. No complicated math or pros/cons analyses needed. Just NO.

Ross Douthat shows that he is just as out of touch as Trump. While people around the world suffer from war, famine, climate change, cruel cuts to funding for science research, and the demise of USAID (which alone will result in millions of deaths), he wants the mega rich to build pretty things. Wow.

So, now that the IRS has closed all of its Trump audits, I guess it’s time for him to release his tax returns, as he said he would.

Autism causes adults.

It's irritating to see Trump cabinet members (like SecDef Hegseth, yesterday) citing Trump's hunt for 'waste, fraud and abuse' when challenged how they're going to pay for their budget increases. Especially when the DoD can't pass an audit. Pentagon fails financial audit for 8th year in a row

A moving reflection on the American flag and what it means (have a tissue handy). ‘Why I Spent 90 Minutes Steaming an American Flag’, by Nadia Bolz-Weber.

Hey remember this post? Wtf happened...

KEEP ON REPOSTING. KEEP THE TRENDING HIGH. #EpsteinFiles #NoPedophiles #NoKings #NoPEDODENTS #NoTrump

We’ve reached the point where we need to have ‘the talk’ with our MAGA relatives. Be gentle with them, because they have been misled, but also be firm, because they can no longer assert that Trump is leading us in the right direction.

If you’re wondering what Trump’s going to do next, just ask yourself: what would Putin want him to do? More often than not, that’s exactly what he’ll do.

The call is coming from inside the house.

In addition to going to ‘No Kings’ rallies (that Republicans can studiously avoid), we should also be planning ’No Kings’ flash mobs wherever Republican congressional representatives and Senators turn up in public, to ensure that they have no safe space where they can pretend everything’s fine.

Out of Minne, One. Why Minnesota Matters More Than Iran for America’s Future

I look forward to seeing how long it takes Big Oil to spike gas prices at the pump, now that the President had unleashed a new wave of war in the Middle East. Big Oil always raises prices immediately when something bad happens, not to reflect their coming higher costs, but to cash in while they can.

Doubly proud of my Minnesota peeps: first they defy ICE to defend their neighbors; then they win a buncha gold medals.

So proud of Minnesota and Minnesotans today.

FBI Special Agent: “I did not go to law school, go to Quantico and work counterterrorism operations overseas to be doing traffic control for arrest-a-brown-person day.” Inside Kash Patel’s F.B.I.: Meltdowns, Chaos, Vendettas

This is what I’ve been saying for years, but better articulated and supported. Does note bode well for the future of our country.

Elon stands to earn more than all US elementary school teachers added together? Let that sit with you for a while.

Among the many ironies in Trump’s invasion of Minnesota is their repeated detention of actual Native Americans - presumably because they don’t look American enough. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

Who has Alex Pretti’s phone? Will we ever see the video he captured?

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Thank you, Minnesota open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

A good frame-by-frame analysis of video from the confrontation that led to the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis by the New York Times shows pretty clearly that the shooter was not only not 'run over', he stayed on his feet throughout the episode.

Trump is obviously not the brightest bulb on the tree, and clearly he prioritized loyalty over competence in his cabinet picks, but surely someone in the Administration must see that virtually everything they’re doing is straight out of Putin’s plan to destroy NATO and democracy.

I don’t understand why more people aren’t focusing on the role this ICE agent played in Ms. Good’s killing. It appears that his aggressive attempt to open her car door scared her into trying to drive away. If he hadn’t acted so aggressively, perhaps she’d still be alive.

My disgust isn’t rooted in politics. It never has been. I’m not repelled because you vote red and I vote blue. I don’t think less of you because we disagree on taxes or trade or zoning laws.

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Since Elon is all of a sudden concerned about political violence, maybe he’d like to see this?

Republicans are cutting taxes for the rich at the same time that they’re rewarding corporations for sending jobs overseas. They only care about their billionaire and CEO donors. It’s that simple.

Terrific

Sure, President Trump, there’s nothing to hide…well, aside from these items.

New: Daniel Dale fact checks Trump interview: www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/p...

On the eve of his second election — on October 31, 1936 — FDR delivered his coup de grace, explaining the stakes in his fight with the moneyed interests. Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.