What an awful week… and it’s only Monday! The horrors continue in Texas. And, everywhere else, the stupidity continues and continues and continues. Probably the only one surprised by how things have been going though is Ghislaine Maxwell.

Where do we go from here? David Waldman will tell us! Tomorrow. Today, we will review how we got here.

How woke do you need to be, to march in uniform with African Americans, stoking the Civil War before Lincoln was even elected? Wide Awake.

It’s not a constitutional crisis if the Constitution is dead. The Gop crack suicide squad sprang into action to protect Donald K. Trump last week. Who knows how much more they can take, but the Supreme Court has plenty more to give where that came from.

It’s July 4th! And we’re celebrating by pretending it’s July 5th.

Hey, anything to get another day closer to the end of the Trump regime!

But to be more precise about it, we’re pretending it’s July 5, 2019. Why? Well, July 5, 2024 wasn’t a particularly uplifting moment in time for us. But the day after Trump’s first attempt at a Washington, DC “military parade?” That’s entertainment!

So we’re re-running the July 5, 2019 episode, which Scott Anderson originally summarized this way:

But… Did. They. Get. Off? 

The rain was almost… almost like a “sign” from above that yesterday’s greatest show in history would be the hugest lesson in irony. In that, it did not disappoint. 

David Waldman takes us through Donald Trump’s history lesson on ramming the ramparts at airports during the Revolution. If you think Trump sees history in a strange way, wait until you hear how he sees himself. Profile in courage Donald Trump wishes he could be the good person he really is inside... it’s just that you provoke him so.

An open letter to the director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum states why we again need to say Never Again.

Trump tries to come up with a way to rig the Census that someone will believe, but why bother when lies work so well? Oregon’s governor uses her executive powers for good.

Cheese and whiskey are targeted in the US’s latest proposed tariffs on EU, as the Jim Beam bourbon warehouse is allowed to burn down to keep from polluting the water.

What will the Gop do without the NRA? The Indian government already has a plan in place for dealing with Ivanka Trump-like intrusion.

Serena Blaiz—Daily Kos’ peacearena—reports on the expanding local news desert, and the unexpected hits on your local economy.

Today, we again are under the cloud of another mass shooting. Also, just as we were reaffirming our freedom from tyranny, the Gops are passing their mega-cruel, mega-despotic, mega-deadly, mega-totalitarian, mega-ignorant, mega-MAGA bill.

David Walman would be addressing the above, but presently David’s at the wheel of the KITMmobile passing through golden valleys, fruited plains, etc., and therefore put together this brand-new prerecorded KITM!

Ever think that customer service has pre-determined a level of discomfort that you will need to endure in order to earn the favor of their attention?  Well, you are correct! They save money through attrition of disgruntled customers, not the cultivation of satisfied ones… and that kids is how destroying the United States makes business sense. The Social Security Administration will be designed to become the flagship of FUBAR, as destroying the will of new parents and senior citizens promises the most in profit and satisfaction.  Now, even Big Balls is facing shrinkage, as DOGE loses access to grants.gov. This frees up a few hundred million in grants that they had disappeared in order for them to expire. (Profit!) Meanwhile, Donald K. Trump personally froze $7 Billion in school funding in his new Shits and Giggles Initiative.

Wednesday, and it’s David Waldman and Greg Dworkin’s last live appearance before Explodey Day! Probably not their last alive appearance, though. They don’t seem the types to screw around with such things.

Zohran, the Destroyer! Zohran, the Magnificent! Zohran, the Relatable! Nothing scares Democrats more than winning, because if you win... you could lose. And yet… sometimes a win or two will slip in, like in New Jersey, or maybe around San Diego. Of course, winning just invites death threats.

Don’t worry Dems, Trump says he holds all the levers, and well, he kind of does. Paramount anted up its $16 M (to make $8 B), and the bag gets passed back to CNN.

Lisa Murkowski got hers, if you want any, you be a Senator.

Trump had a great time in the undrained swamp. What is it about “Alligator Alcatraz” that seems to resonate with MAGA? Does it harken back to a time America could rediscover its lost… greatness?

Sean “Diddy” Combs escaped sex trafficking and racketeering charges but was convicted of a prostitution offense. Jimmy Swaggart would probably forgive that, but can’t look to Donald Trump for forgiveness, for the moment.

Jared L. Wise, who wanted to kill police on Jan 6, has been given an opportunity to do so at the DOJ.

University of Virginia president James E. Ryan took one for the team, and the team’s hundreds of millions in federal funding and resigned, to give Trump his biggest kill yet.

LOL libtards! What happened to all that tariff disaster you said was heading our way? Wait… Oh, this just in….

July! David Waldman will depart upon his KITM Patriotic Tour of America very soon but is here today and even tomorrow with live shows!

Get your 4th of July prepped soon, before Hell buys up all of the charcoal.  Did Republicans kill the filibuster? The Senate did kill thousands of people.  JD Vance dealt the coup de grâce, and promised that there’ll be many more corpses before he’s finished. Elon Musk might go onto the casualty list if he doesn’t shut up. Dems made Susan Collins feel concerned for a moment.

Like changing the direction of a hurricane, Donald K. Trump is using his Sharpie to divert interest rates from Jerome Powell.

Trump and Kristi Noem, who never got the opportunity to pose at Abu Ghraib, made up for it at today’s grand opening celebration of the Everglades “migrant detention facilities”.  Kristi missed her chance to chuck puppies to the gators (at least on camera) but Noem knows that some things are better if kept quiet… like political graft.

Here we are, at the end of a long month, but David Waldman and Greg Dworkin still aren’t tired and can keep it up as long as we can.

Thom Tillis picked up his integrity at the coat check area and left the Senate, rather than having Trump’s fat ugly bill become his epitaph. Of course, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski are oh-so-close to becoming Democrats… until right about now in the process, when someone offers them a “reacharound” or a “wraparound” or whatever the kids are calling it nowadays. No normal person would vote for this bill, but few in DC run into people outside of a photo op. Mayors, however, run into actual people no matter where their cities are, which is a shock to those politicians who aren’t used to that.

Donald K. Trump wants everyone to know that the people who leaked the truth about Iran are LYING and will be prosecuted to the full extent of the laws that will be disregarded in their prosecution. Alligator Auschwitz awaits them all. Trump will release an MS-13 friend of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to get him to take back Kilmar Abrego Garcia and maybe lose him a little better this time. Bibi Netanyahu notes that the more Gazans he kills, the more open he feels towards a ceasefire deal. Pam Bondi, She-Wolf of the DOJ, finds her A-II solutions to be just as fun as her 2A ones.

Here’s what a $1 Trillion Medicaid Cut would look like. Here’s a little of what it would feel like.

David Waldman is BACK for the Friday KITM, then GONE for the weekend, then BACK on the Monday KITM! See how that works?

In local, to KITM World Headquarters, news, the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University can’t operate any “illegal” DEI programs to get federal funding, and they really like federal funding, therefore they’re obeying anticipatorily.  The White House appreciates their cooperation and will now require the resignation of the University of Virginia’s president. In even more local news, the Superintendent of Loudoun Schools, Aaron Spence eloquently describes how Trump can kiss his DEI-loving ass. Meanwhile, a selling point for a four-year degree has always been where you’ll be spending those four years.

People assumed someone had fixed the DOGE by cutting off Big Balls, but he’s only been tucked away, out of sight.

The US is slashing overseas pro-democracy initiatives, yet Samuel Samson over at the US State Department wanted your tax money to go to anti-democracy initiatives to support Marine Le Pen.  Le Pen had the self-respect to turn him down.

Remember when real men were both strong and silent? Why can’t we try bringing back those days again? Why are supervillains always such big mouths?

It’s Thursday and David Waldman and Greg Dworkin are back to KITM and itching to analyze!

You don’t mess with the Zohran! “Ranked choice” voting defeats “hold your nose and just” voting. You got to hope it’s the beginning of the end of the political consultant era, but good luck with that. When Dems discover they can be elected by listening to constituents DC will become a ghost town. And if you think that Democrats are terrified of Zohran Mamdani, you should see Republicans! Donald K. Trump fears Zohran almost as much as he does AOC. Ted Cruz and Stephen Miller hate Mamdani almost as much as people hate Ted Cruz and Stephen Miller.  Libertarians don’t want Zohran, but always figure that fewer of anybody means more for them anyhow.

About the only people who like Zohran Mamdani are the majority of New York City, who especially like it when things work and don’t cost too much. Muslim youths love Mamdani and talked Muslim olds into voting for him. Not enough Black youths talked to the Black olds. Generally, the Democratic party needs more youths and fewer olds.

Kari Lake’s dream of Trump becoming the Marion Jones of Nobel prizes has been obliterated. Only 38% of Americans support Trump’s Iran War, so instead Pete Kegsbreath has declared war on Jennifer Griffin, and Trump has declared war on Natasha Bertrand.

The next lady on the White House bombing list is Elizabeth MacDonough, Senate Parliamentarian, who has compiled a big beautiful list of Byrd rule violations in the Gop budget bill.

David Waldman and Greg Dworkin are back with the latest in KITM and KITM accessories.

You might not know that Dennis Kucinich was mayor of Cleveland, or that Jerry Springer was mayor of Cincinnati, yet you probably know every mayor of New York City over your entire life, maybe earlier. They NYC mayoral race is like no other, and Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic primary win is a win like no other. The establishment fears him; the political class has been trying to stop him, and with good reason. Zohran is a populist who seems to actually be a man of the people! Not many saw him coming, because no one would bet that voters could find someone with genuine merit. Credit should go to ranked choice voting’s ability to sift out the individual voter’s judgement away from the rankest choice, Andrew Cuomo.

As Donald K. Trump famously said of his bombing of Iran, “I came, I saw, I conquered”. Lately though, Trump’s been quoted, “Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them?” (He might have picked up that quote elsewhere.)

Is Emil Bove the most unethical judicial nominee in modern history? Or is the real sinner the whistleblower who snitched on him? If Trump is infallible, perceiving his actions as failures is heresy, and threatening him is blasphemy, and the whole idea of ethics and morality is open to discussion.

HUD likes the National Science Foundation headquarters, so they are throwing out 1,800 employees. Maybe they’ll locate affordable housing for them.

At least you won’t see Big Balls hanging out around DC… unless you mistake him for JD Vance.

David Waldman is solo today, in front of the microphone, and behind. So, ease off of him, will ya?

Hallelujah! Donald K. Trump and his BFF, God, declared peace for our time yesterday… No... PEACE FOR ALL TIME! No more holy wars, only eternal holy love from… 

Hold on, we have breaking news that Donald’s estimate was a bit off… or perhaps God’s... FUUUUU… Oh, well, Trump cannot fail his children, they can only fail him. Calm down everybody. Except for the shooting and the bombs and the dying and such, there’s all sorts of peace between Iran and Israel. Raise the Mission Accomplished banners, quick, and engrave those Nobel medals today, just in case. Y’know, Kamala and Hilary told us this would happen.

Give Americans two weeks, and they’ll have forgotten all about this. Meanwhile, rule of law, democracy, etc. remain concerns. Masked gunmen ride into town, beating and intimidating citizens, which used to be frowned upon. Now the villains defy courts and common sense with impunity. The Supreme Court’s ruling in DHS v. D.V.D. might sound unfamiliar, but has removed due process, and will maybe kill thousands of immigrants.

Why the long face, Emil? Emil Bove is finding out that recommending the violation of court orders is unbecoming for a judge, maybe even a lawyer.