Hank Hoffman

Your courageous, crafty Democratic senators at work ruthlessly opposing Trump.

Really, wtaf is wrong with these cretins?

Matthew Yglesias is poking fun at the White House finally realizing its policy is too unpopular to run on? The guy who spent all of 2025 and until circa February of 2026 arguing Democrats shouldn’t even talk about Trump’s immigration/deportation policy? That Matthew Yglesias?

Press critic @froomkin.bsky.social wants to know: "At what point should a news organization devoted to impartiality start stating the obvious conclusion?"

We have a madman as commander-in-chief, who makes his decisions based on “feelings." presswatchers.org/2026/03/the-...

The big culminating scene at the end when Shakespeare & his family chase pigs around w/ big silk ham nets. Glorious slapstick. The sudden tonal shift caught critics by surprise but endeared the movie to 7-year-olds.

The theater where I saw it gave out scratch-&-sniff cards w/ honey baked ham scent.

It was a device used to catch hams. Back in Shakespeare's time, butchers chased pigs around the farm with big ham nets.

It stands up to multiple viewings.

You called their post "moronic." That's pretty over the top. It wasn't. It's a sentiment held by MANY of us who vote Dem & are fed up with the party's unwillingness to go to the mat w/ an extremist GOP.

Just because Republicans bear primary blame doesn't mean that elected Democrats are blameless. And there's a very good reason why many of us are strongly critical—we voted for these MFers, have given to their campaigns, have volunteered. They're more likely to listen to us than Republicans are. /4

Posts like yours are what is called enabling behavior. It enables the fecklessness of Democratic leaders & too many of the rank & file who are comfortable w/ their collegial cross-aisle relationships. Who buy into a bipartisanship norm the GOP ignores. It absolves the Dems of accountability. /3

One big example—a clutch of Dems in the Senate, usually between 9 & a dozen—CONTINUE to vote to support the confirmation of Trump nominees to the judiciary. Including Mark Kelly! WTF! That's exactly the type of behavior that inspires the very NOT moronic skeet you're attacking. /2

That's foolish framing on your part. PARTICULARLY since one of the biggest complaints many (most?) of us have about the Democrats—WHO we vote for—is that they routinely pass up opportunities to hold Republicans accountable or fight harder against the GOP. That's NOT about letting Republicans off. /1

Shame on @nbcwashington.com for their unethical & unprofessional treatment of journalist @marisakabas.bsky.social.

I'm in the minority, I think, in considering The Clash's first album (UK version) their best. With Terry Chimes aka Tory Crimes.

But Topper was an excellent drummer for them.

I saw the Sex Pistols without Sid Vicious.

But with Glen Matlock.

(Unfortunately in 1996, not 1976 or '77, although they were still very good.)

Saw The Clash five times & am pretty sure Topper was the drummer all five times.

Thanks for telling me you don’t understand the first fucking thing about widening the discourse and Overton window.

The issue isn’t whether she could stop the genocide. The issue is whether she could have more affirmatively signaled that she thought our support of Israel was incorrect. And met w/ Palestinians to communicate affirmative empathy. PUBLICLY registered she recognized their full humanity. She didn’t.

I’m a Bernie supporter. He’s sharp. He’s no Biden or Feinstein.

But he shouldn’t run again.

I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

I got in a pre-speech press scrum—I was an alt-weekly journalist at the time—with Henry Kissinger at a college in CT around 2002 & basically got to ask him if he had sleepless nights because of all the people that died because of him.

He disputed my premise (that he was a war criminal).

I have a cousin who, as a kid in the 1960s, ended up sitting next to Serling on a flight out to LA. Apparently he was very nice to her. (Not meant AT ALL in an insinuating way. Truly, the report was that he was kind and friendly.)

There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

This is a phenomenal read of late Cold War history I wasn't aware of.

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.

They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

That is the most likely scenario, unfortunately.

If Democrats regain power & don't move forward with investigations & prosecutions because they want instead to "return to normal" or "look forward, not backward," I will lose my mind.

There MUST be accountability for this degeneracy that Trump & the Republicans have seeded throughout our society.

As a Mets fan, I still cherish that relief appearance by ex-Met Calvin Schiraldi for the Boston Red Sox. A baseball sleeper cell in the World Series.

Minneapolis cartoonist Steve Sack has been on a roll lately.

He's been on the front lines of the ICE invasion and his cartoons are boiling with rage at ICE and Mad Emperor Piggy. Well worth checking out his Substack.

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

First of all, my post was about loudmouth Platner defenders, not Mainers. Second--and I'm gonna say it once and hope it sticks: Every voter has the right to weigh in on every Senate race. None of this "Stay out of it unless you live here" bullshit. The composition of the Senate affects all of us.