“...Pittsburgh is one of those places that never entirely leaves you, even if you go away.” -David Ignatius

Trump’s egregious (repeat) lie about Jan. 6 in the new NBC interview he walked out of: “They had FBI agents ushering them into the building. They had FBI: ‘Go into the building.’” There’s precisely no evidence this happened. DOJ’s inspector general found that the FBI had zero undercover agents in the Capitol crowd. Kash Patel has himself debunked a Trump-promoted conspiracy theory on this subject, saying FBI agents were merely deployed to do crowd control after the police declared a riot. And of the dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who tried a “the cops let me in” defense, just one (1) was acquitted. Even in that case, the acquitting judge said that though the defendant reasonably believed he was being allowed in, the officers in question were actually overrun by the crowd and standing back reasonably and responsibly, not explicitly encouraging anyone to enter. (And they weren’t FBI.)

Again, so much vaccine misinformation from the president. Kids don’t get anywhere close to “88” or “82” vaccines. They aren’t given “a vat” or “big glass of water”; vaccine doses are a tiny fraction of a teaspoon. And they already do receive their shots over multiple doctor visits, not a single visit as Trump repeatedly said or suggested. cnn.com/2025/10/09/politics/… cnn.com/2025/09/27/politics/…

The House majority leader, Steve Scalise. The chair of Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, Tim Scott. The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth. All three made false claims about gas prices over the past two days amid the ongoing spike caused by the Iran war: cnn.com/2026/04/30/politics/…

Sen. Tim Scott said on TV today that “gas prices continue to come down.” They’ve actually gone up over the last day, week, month, year, and since the Iran war started in February. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said on TV today that gas prices are way down from “two years ago,” when they were “$6.” They’re actually up substantially from two years ago, when the national average was $3.66. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested at a hearing yesterday that California’s average gas price the day the war started was “$8.” It was actually $4.64. Fact check: cnn.com/2026/04/30/politics/…

News conference tally: Mentions of Jan 6 or motive: 0 Mentions of Dan Bongino’s birthday: 1

No explanation of motive. Zero mentions of Jan 6 or Capitol riot at news conference Bondi won’t answer a question from @KellyO about Jan 6

NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.

museums, well known for having exhibits about the future

During the meeting with Zelenskyy, Trump pivoted to talking about Washington, D.C., crime, saying the district went from “the most unsafe place anywhere, to a place that now people, fr... politifact.com/article/2025/…

The president's numbers on Ukraine aid - supposedly showing the US has provided more than triple the aid Europe has - remain totally imaginary. Europe has provided more aid than the US has, and Europe has committed way more aid than the US has. ifw-kiel.de/publications/ukr…

Contrary to his regular claims, the president didn't send any water "down to LA." He had billions of gallons sent, for no good reason, from one part of California's Central Valley to another part of the Central Valley. latimes.com/environment/stor…

The first section of the president's executive order on DC cites "rising violence in the capital" even though there has been falling violence in the capital for a year and a half and its reported violent crime rate for last year was its second-lowest in 60 years.

BANK OF AMERICA INSTITUTE: U.S. SPENDING ON SERVICES — HOTELS, AIRFARE, DINING — DOWN FOR THREE STRAIGHT MONTHS, FIRST TIME SINCE 2008

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire. It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

One time I got mugged at knifepoint by two guys and I found myself saying, first and foremost, in reaction to seeing the knife, for reasons that are absolutely beyond me, “now hold on a minute there compadre.”

Just an airport, standing in front of its passengers, asking them to double check which airport they are flying out of

The president is trying to concoct a fantasy world in which prices are “all down,” like not a single price is up, and his opponents are liars for correctly pointing out that federal data shows prices continue to rise: cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/…

Hint for newbs: If you're planning to inflate the debt away, don't tell the bond market first.