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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

today in 'Shit That Happened While I Was Writing This Shit' —

"F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Material"

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/fbi-washington-post-journalist.html

perfectly normal stuff, am I right

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Funny how “classified material” only becomes a crisis when it’s a journalist doing journalism — not when a geriatric turd hoard boxes of secrets like souvenirs in the bathroom of his civilian golf hotel.

Maybe that journalist needs a GoFundMe set up now too!!!!

Linda Weide's avatar

Yes. Not like the con man Jon Ross, and all the con man and women of MAGA raising money in his name for themselves. Notice how the FBI and ICE are not going to states like Texas to do this, where people greet you with a shotgun or automatic military grade rifle if you try to come into their home.

Pam Humphrey's avatar

Nope. They are coming to Texas. I just read somewhere that Texas is second in the country for ICE activity. You just don’t hear about it because the Texas news media sucks Donnie’s butt and our elected officials are Nazis who love this tough hombre stuff. You should see the commercial with 72-year-old John Cornyn “riding” a 4-wheeler off-road at top speed. Freaking hilarious!

Pam Humphrey's avatar

PS: I don’t own a gun.

barb's avatar

They're trying to send a message of fear to reporters and it's fu**ing chilling given how essential the media is to a functioning democracy or whatever vestiges of it that we have left.

Merrill's avatar

NATIONAL STRIKE!!! "Don't Tread on Me" "Give me Liberty or Give Me Death" ' We hold these truths to be self evident...: and so forth

Stand strong and unified. We'll soon find out if a country of +300 million can stand divided.

rlritt's avatar

When is the strike.

Mary Jo's avatar

Women's March has a Free America Walk Out planned for Jan 20.

rlritt's avatar

I'm between jobs at the moment, but are there marches?

Kay-El's avatar

“FBI searches people’s homes looking for mean things said about Trump”. It’s coming

arne link's avatar

My God! If they check my internet presence I'm off to the camps. See you there, my friends.

Kay-El's avatar

Oh yeah, I’m screwed. At least I’ll be in good company

arne link's avatar

I hope that we will be allowed two pencils...

Kay-El's avatar

One about the size of my pinkie with the lead broken off

Lise Buranen's avatar

Sounds a lot like... well, never mind. <retch>

rlritt's avatar

Hell no! You're clearly a dissident. You get one pencil and its been used. Deal with it.

Jan Moon's avatar

Yeah, they'll take my laptop. And my No Kings poster. Oh, my Obama 2028 bumper sticker. And the sign on my front door that says, "In this house we say please and thank you, and fuck Trump." And Lev Parnas's book, Shadow Diplomacy. And the list goes on. Have at it guys. I'll never shut up. So you can kiss my ass. I'd say I'm not mad at you but you'd shoot me and my kids would be sad.

Annabelle's avatar

Jan, I hadn't even thought of my books! I got several that twatwaffle or Stephen Goebbels, the sofasexual, or anyone from his pack of liars might consider "slander"

Jan Moon's avatar

Twatwaffle is a very wonderful word. I'm going to have to stea . . . borrow it.

Cathy 98280's avatar

“sofasexual” the BEST!!! 🤣🤣🤣

rlritt's avatar

No Pritzker 2028 or Newsom 2028!

Beshear for VP

Carol C's avatar

Newsom is fighting a proposed billionaire tax in CA.

Mary Jo's avatar

See you there!

Ellyn's avatar

Me too- and about everyone else I know!

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Kay, I’ll be the guy dressed in all blue, but yes I’m going to be there with you all, bring famous quotes from Jeff so we have some laughs.

Cyndi's avatar

I'm looking forward to meeting you all in person!

Joe Witkowski's avatar

We can write stuff from there together

Cathy Rady's avatar

we may want to steal a page from the J6 choir and shake the rafters with protest songs (Pete Seeger anyone?)

Ellyn's avatar

Suppose Dropkick Murphys will be there? 🤞

2Cats2Furious's avatar

I knew it was a mistake to make my actual legal name my user name, damnit! When you see the warrant issued for Ms. 2Cats2Furious, you will know they’ve got me.

Bill Corbett's avatar

I’m waiting for my bus ride to.

Paula Dean's avatar

They'll simply shoot me. I'd be too much trouble to jail with all my health problems.

2Cats2Furious's avatar

What, you think they’d bother to actually treat your health problems while you’re in prison? You funny!

Paula Dean's avatar

No, that's why they'd just shoot me. Plus, I'm incapable of keeping my mouth shut and I'd tell them what I think of them, in case they missed the sign on my door.

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Plus I’m also sick and whine a lot. Once again Paula thank you for posting Ms Good’s photo our sister from MN.

Joanne Filipo's avatar

All of us here will be together in our internment!! 😆

Kathy H's avatar

They gonna need a bigger boat.

Jan Moon's avatar

Be better to swim. Boats get blown up.

Cathy Rady's avatar

Yup! and no problem for anyone who's trans

Annabelle's avatar

arne, I reckon I'll be right there with all y'all. Damn, that's an awful lot of reading for somebody to do...

Skepticat's avatar

This ex-pat might be scrubbing her phone and locking her computer before returning (verrrry reluctantly) to the States, though the very small airport where we clear never has been a problem before. A Canadian friend stopping in Florida on the way home scrubbed every one of my emails from her phone before leaving.

Gina's avatar

my daughter paid extra and went out of her way to avoid stopping at a US airport

Pam Humphrey's avatar

I’ll be standing at the gate to welcome you.

john augustine's avatar

I believe they are already doing that at airports when entering country and looking at your phone social media

BluDotInARedSewer's avatar

I read recently that people are basically using burner flip phones and leaving the smart phones at home when they fly internationally so that if their phones are searched, they won’t face BS harrassment.

Abigail Norling's avatar

Yes. This is true.

rlritt's avatar

Really they look at your phones?

Carol C's avatar

It depends on who are and what you look like.

Cheri Collins's avatar

That’s exactly what I thought about doing yesterday. Great minds, etc.

Kay-El's avatar

I wouldn’t come here if I didn’t already live here

Jan Moon's avatar

My primary care doc is Canadian. I asked him why he is still here. Told him to take me with him when he goes. He promised to toss me in the trunk of his car. What a guy.

Linda Weide's avatar

I entered the US 2 times in 2025 and my social media was not checked at all. Nothing was checked, but my face was scanned. My only social media presence is on Substack, and apparently that is not on the list. Actually it must be because there was a Substack using influencer who stood up for his rights with CBP and got hassled.

Derek Smith's avatar

Not on the list ... yet.

Sue Munda's avatar

I’m going to Mexico next week, so I might be thrown in the hoosegow (sp?)) on my return.

rlritt's avatar

Really. They have time for that? I went thru LAX to and from Japan last spring and they barely searched my carry on much less my phone.

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

Egad! I hope not. We'd all be guilty.

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

If walls could talk.

Scott Gilbert's avatar

I wonder how much they brought with them, just in case they didn't find any.

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Yikes... good point. I hope the journalist has good legal representation. This is astoundingly messed up, but so is everything currently.

john augustine's avatar

yes normal for an unlawful fascist regime

Will's avatar
2hEdited

"It is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of classified disclosures, for federal agents to search a reporter’s home," says the NY Times headline.

They really need all of us to rewrite their headlines. How about exceedingly fascist?

Nancy Potter's avatar

According to the article, Natanson described herself as the Post’s “federal government whisperer”, and said she would receive calls day and night from “federal workers who wanted to tell me how President Donald Trump was rewriting their workplace policies, firing their colleagues or transforming their agency’s missions”

So if we see a lot of firings over the next few months that have nothing to do with classified documents, we'll know the real reason for the search.

Lise Buranen's avatar

It's an apparent reference to fascism.

Will's avatar

Say it out loud.

MountainBoyMike's avatar

and lemme guess without reading the article, they didn't have a search warrant because fuck that due process bullshit, "we do whatever the fuck we want!"

Oregon Larry's avatar

Thanks, but too bad they don't say whether they had a warrant or not.

Susan Keefer's avatar

Yes, the FBI and partners executed a search warrant at a Washington Post reporter's home in Virginia (near D.C.) on January 14, 2026, as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified information, with Attorney General Pam Bondi confirming the action to find illegally leaked data. The warrant targeted the reporter's devices and personal property, though she is not considered the focus of the overall probe, which centers on a Maryland-based system administrator charged with unlawful retention of national defense information.

Oregon Larry's avatar

OK, thanks. I guess that makes it a little better. Not.

Wendymae's avatar

Right? Because that means a judge is backing the law breakers.

rlritt's avatar

Pam Bondi is one of the people behind Project 2025.

Lisa Bieber's avatar

Mabe they'll find more Epstein files

Permian Extinction's avatar

The best thing that happened was Ahn Hyo-seop appearing on Jimmy Fallon and on the Today show promoting the power and goodness to transform in Kpop Demon Hunters after it reached over 500 million views on Netflix and winning two Golden Globes.

Linda Weide's avatar

Jeff, thank you for a hearty laugh today. Do I dare read this link and lose the good feeling. My husband heard me laughing and said, "Oh dear!" He knew I was reading you.

Babe Paley's avatar

If it turns out that this story isn't true, I still love the idea: that during Watergate the reporters were worried about the government getting their notes seized, and so Katherine Graham would keep them in the safe at her home.

Marc Panaye's avatar

If it is patel who'll do the searching.......

Mike Hammer's avatar

TJ Sabula is a national hero and has already made over $200,000 in one of his go fund me accounts. Calling Trump a pedophile in public can bring rich rewards and fame. Good sign of the times and besides, Ford was a Nazi.

Unity In Defiance's avatar

True hero, and the speed at which his GoFundMe accrued funding was a testament to how many truly wanted to say that--and so much more--to his orange droopy face.

Ole Anderson's avatar

After listening to the Ford exec kiss Fat Donnie’s lard Ass the whole time I am officially no longer a Ford pick up buyer, after 54 years of brand loyalty.

I should have known long ago after learning of Henry Sr.’s currying favor of Adolph Hitler many years ago. I’m done for good now!

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

No wonder my dad warned me at age 3 about all this shit now happening.

Lisa Ham's avatar

Ok. I want details. What did he say to a 3year old?

Richard Von Busack's avatar

“But not anymore!”—MDC

Michelle Vancura's avatar

When Trump mouthed fuck you and gave him the finger, TJ Sabula should have responded by shouting, “I’m 40, far too old for you!”

Richard Von Busack's avatar

Ain’t that a tiny finger? Lord Bittymitts looks like that inbred character Kristin Wiig played in the Lawrence Welk satires on SNL

Kay-El's avatar

So small, I had to watch the video twice to see it.

arne link's avatar

Kinda like his micro mushroom, right?

Annabelle's avatar

That's what I've heard..😉🤔🤭

Cathy Rady's avatar

enoki, but only half its size

and the stench'll gag you

247kath's avatar

Lord Bittymitts for the win LOL😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Mary Hall's avatar

It's goin' in The List. Thank you for your contribution!

PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

Lord bittymitts! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Irascible Ink's avatar

Lord Bittymitts! 😂

Kay-El's avatar

To TJ Sabula: you’re a national hero

To Scott Adams: Fuckity bye

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

He'll be lava hot tubbing with Scalia, Kissinger, and Rushbo in no time, if hell were real, anyway.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Shitler's decaying body odor is a hopeful sign he won't complete his term. An auto exec purportedly commented off the record that Trump smelled like rotting roast beef, and that he fired off at least six farts during their meeting. Lovely. Your poster boy, MAGA.

arne link's avatar

I think that the farting is a display of dominance. They are forced to endure it. It makes them small in his eyes.

Cathy Wray's avatar

Arne, I think you're right!!!🤮

rlritt's avatar

Its sounds like my old grandmother when she no longer cared what people thought.

Cathy Rady's avatar

it's been suggested that the feces smell is possibly a sign of irritable bowel syndrome - which apparently hasn't been treated successfully

but the rotting roast beef . . . wow! Sounds like he's already half dead:

Putrefaction is the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter, especially proteins in dead organisms, by bacteria and fungi, resulting in the breakdown of tissues, liquefaction of organs, and the release of foul-smelling gases, causing discoloration and decay. It's a key stage of decomposition after death, leading to the characteristic rotting smell and tissue disintegration.

Kay-El's avatar

I always wish there was a hell when people like these croak.

Paula Dean's avatar

I believe that Hell is Living in This Timeline. After all, we're living under the rule of the Antichrist, aren't we?

serenity's avatar

Before the elections my mother was telling people that trump was the antichrist. I still find that entertaining.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Me too, to mete out the justice that we were denied in their lifetime.

Cathy Rady's avatar

me too; even if those nuns weren't lying and I'm liable to head down there myself.

if so, I will spend all of Eternity heckling those assholes.

2Cats2Furious's avatar

I’ve never believed that hell was real, and now it’s my most fervent hope.

Brad Yazell's avatar

I just got an email from Soros. My reservation is confirmed at the Snelling Lodge on Minnehaha Ave in Minneapolis this weekend for practicing the next fake riot. See you all there.

Paula Dean's avatar

Including free meals and an open bar!

Rocky's avatar

Trump didn't flip off a "heckler".

He said FU to a US citizen using their 1st Amendment Right to state grievances against their government.

Susie's avatar

Excellent point. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Mema's avatar

It's horrible that America has the worst president in the history of America. He's pulling out his wee wee finger but he's not RELEASING THE EPSTEIN FILES. So Eff the 🍊🤡. He's disgusting.

Nancy Potter's avatar

I suppose that's the last time we'll see Trump in public at an event where not every person has been completely vetted. There are millions of us who would never physically harm Trump but would love to give him a piece of our mind, but the thin-skinned baby can't stand hearing what real people think of him.

Carol C's avatar

To him we are not real people. He is the only one.

rlritt's avatar

You know whats way worse. The Heritage Group who produced Project 2025 which is the directions for the fascist take over of the US. Trump is their clown who takes up all the attention and all the blame. You can go online and find the names of the people who wrote it and are behind it. Pam Bondi is one.

arne link's avatar

That's the president of America, folks. How low he has brought this beautiful country. This must end. When I'm exhausted, I think of the brave people of Ukraine freezing in the dark and still fighting, still producing drones. Where are our drone makers? Remember "bombs in basements"? Do it for America. End this reign of horror now.

CA Productions/Carol Ann's avatar

Get out in the streets everywhere this Saturday.

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

I am going to a pop up today.

Martha Howell's avatar

I worry that the younger generations don't realize that presidents used to be held to a higher standard. My mom is in her late 90s, and not always on the ball, but hearing about his outrageous and disrespectful behavior never fails to garner a lip curl. When you grew up listening to Fireside Chats, your standards aren't even in the same astral plane as Trump's behavior.

Paula Dean's avatar

I can't express how much I love this comment, arne. Thankyouthankyouthankyou.

Kim Steeves's avatar

Preznut just keeping it classy!

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Even the way President Pedo extends a middle finger is pathetic. He stuck out the teeniest tiniest little stark white porcelain fragile hand, and then halfway extended a bitty nubbin of a finger. Total weak sauce--just like everything else about him.

As fragile and thin as him.

I applaud TJ, a true American hero and patriot. He deserves every bit of that GoFundMe money. It is likely 3-4 years of salary for him.

Cyndi's avatar

It may be that he can't control his hands well enough to fully open them any more.

arne link's avatar

We can hope. Maybe the body odor is him rotting from the inside? Inshalla and Lord, hear our prayer.

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

And there we have it. An employee at the Ford plant is held to a higher standard than our POtuS. Fuck Ford for suspending him. He deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for having more balls than congress.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

Henry Ford was a fucking Nazi bigot. Fuck the whole Ford family.

Let me sum up's avatar

I'm just going to point out that that video with his dead pedo bestie is literally the only time I've ever seen him do anything approaching a laugh. Make of that what you will.

Tess's avatar

Blabbering lunatic ——YES…and how many more times will you be writing…and WE will be saying….”FUCK!” Please send him to a nursing home. Thanks.

Stephen Brady's avatar

At least in a nursing home he would get bathed regularly. Adam Kinzinger said in an interview (I think by Jimmy Fallon) that he smelled "like butt and armpit". Here it is again. Our national embarrassment never bathes...

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

A person rotting from the inside out can't get rid of that stench by bathing. His guts are coagulating.

arne link's avatar

He's probably afraid that someone will stab him. He eats McDonalds food because he is afraid of being poisoned.

Stephen Brady's avatar

Oh, for sure. He knows people want to kill him. The common wisdom is very rich men have enemies. There is a reason.

Kristy Kanen's avatar

" Religion was invented so the poor would not murder the rich. "

* Napoleon

E Denhart's avatar

There’s some irony for you…

rlritt's avatar

McDonalds is pretty close to being poison.

Martha Howell's avatar

At his age and in his physical condition, a shower is a lot of work. I mean, the hair alone must take hours. He's a lazy guy. When you're the Supreme Leader, people should be thankful they can even smell they're in your presence.

Annabelle's avatar

I just read part of a *speech* by twatwaffle. He veered off into an area he shouldn't, IMHO. Making fun of Biden's way of speaking, because he "coughs/clears his throat" before he speaks. Biden stutters, and that just might be something he learned to do to help with that. I know there are things people do to *collect* their thoughts before they say anything.

AND, the stupid cocksucker(twatwaffle) had the NERVE to call him "Sleepy Joe". Whattheactualfuck is WRONG with this demented old bastard?! Biden has cancer. That is the lowest of the low to make fun of someone fighting for their life. He really is a fuckin piece of shit and a gangster wannabe.

I really can't deal with this pedophile...the dude was right in Detroit...and one more thing...that ICE murderer shot Ms Good on purpose, she DID NOT try to run him over. He MEANT to kill her, and he did. And, not a damn soul that COULD do something, WON'T do anything.

I really HATE these low-life motherfuckers

Reader/Writer's avatar

You kind of have to be human to experience empathy… well, never mind, that’s not true. My dog feels empathy for our kittens all the time and picks them up and gently brings them to me.

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

This whole thing has shown me in neon lights, just how many many very genuinely good hearted people we have in our country. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🩷🩷🩷🩷🥳👍😻

arne link's avatar

Awww, that is so sweet. Thanks for sharing something positive.

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

She was sweet and generously kind to him and he blew her head off. How sick and demented can you be to do that.

Mary Hall's avatar

My genius brother stuttered as a kid, and it was because his brain worked faster than his mouth.

rlritt's avatar

And yet, whats really scary is they polled Republucans and a majority said the muder was justified. Were shown the video before?

Cathy Wray's avatar

I REALLY HATE all the assholes who say the she deserved being shot in the face. Anyone who thinks that, don't come near me. I carry a very sharp *nife.

Cathy Wray's avatar

I REALLY HATE all the assholes who say the she deserved being shot in the face. Anyone who thinks that, don't come near me. I carry a very sharp *nife.

Cathy Wray's avatar

I REALLY HATE all the assholes who say the she deserved being shot in the face. Anyone who thinks that, don't come near me. I carry a very sharp *nife.

Cathy Wray's avatar

I REALLY HATE all the assholes who say the she deserved being shot in the face. Anyone who thinks that, don't come near me. I carry a very sharp *nife.

Mary Hall's avatar

I already posted this article and video, but in case you missed it this is T💩p before giving a speech yesterday -- Oy fkin' vay! https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/trump-throat-clearing-moment-detroit-health-scare-watch-viral-video-article-153443714

Margaret MacKenzie's avatar

Because we know he’s a mathematical genius who can tell time, as well:

Men’s Marathon World Record - 2:00:35

Women’s Marathon World Record - 2:09:56

Will's avatar

Yeah, he can deliver the most ridiculous insult to women while pretending that he's defending them.

Irascible Ink's avatar

Nine minutes. That's not even a power nap. It's a nod-off-and-fart-while-my-homies-lap-my-ballsack snooze.

Susie's avatar

Well-fucking-said!!!

rlritt's avatar

Facts have a liberal bias

Nightmaher's avatar

Pumpkin Head is showing his weakness. It’s written all over his administration. Be safe everyone because the weaker they are the more reckless they will be to all of us. Especially women, that’s who they want to suffer right now more than anyone.

Lise Buranen's avatar

Right now, and always.

Cathy Wray's avatar

The goddamned Heritage Foundation hates women, wants to take away our right to vote, force us into birth. Vote blue or we're all in trouble.