Pocahontas, Only Bitchier

Plus: NFL punter’s wife looks good in bikini, Trump unveils historic peace deal

It’s Friday, October 10, 2025

There’s war on the streets and peace in the Middle East. President Donald Trump announced this week that Israel and Hamas agreed to phase one of his plan to end the war and release the hostages abducted during the brutal terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023. If the Europeans weren’t so miserable and anti-Semitic, Trump would be a shoo-in for the Nobel Peace Prize. White House photographers captured an iconic shot of Secretary of State Marco Rubio whispering in Trump’s ear after delivering a note informing him a peace deal was “very close.”

Isn’t it refreshing to have a real president again? Trump gets handed notes about the historic Middle East peace deal he brokered, whereas his predecessor, Sleepy Joe Biden, relied on notecards that told him where to stand, how to walk to avoid another embarrassing face plant, and which journalist to call on for a softball question about the importance of diversity. It’s hard to believe we had to put up with this clown for four years while Democrats insisted everything was fine, and goony White House staffers said things like, “To answer the question on everyone’s minds: No, Joe Biden does not have a doctorate in foreign affairs. He’s just that fucking good.”

We really lucked out. Just imagine the notes Secretary of State Ilhan Omar, Press Secretary Ian Sams, or Climate Czar Bill Nye the Science Guy would be passing President Kamala Harris in the Oval Office right now.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Democrats: Donald Trump commemorated the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by releasing the hostages and ending the war. Meanwhile, the “Squad” members who best reflect the passions of the Democratic base didn’t even put out a statement. Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, sent a fundraising email marking the anniversary of Israel’s “ground invasion” of Gaza, and accusing the Jews of “meddling” with his campaign.

DEI on the ropes: As far as we can tell, the government is still shut down. Not that anyone cares. Democrats are trying to show their voters what “fighting” looks like, but it’s not going well. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) is starting to take heat from Democrats for his performative antics and for being the least charismatic politician in America not named Hillary Clinton. It’s like they don’t even care about his historic blackness.

Slowly but surely, Democrats are starting to realize that promoting people for the sole purpose of “celebrating diversity” tends to produce suboptimal results. In other words, they’re not sending their best. We’ll find out how they really feel about Jeffries once he’s gone, just like we did with Karine Jean-Pierre, the “groundbreaker” who made history as the first black lesbian to serve as White House press secretary. KJP is now widely regarded by her former colleagues as a terrible press secretary who was “kinda dumb” and “often created more problems than she solved.”

Related: Mamdani Ally Eyes Primary Challenge Against Hakeem Jeffries

Pocahontas’s apprentice: In November 2021, then-congresswoman Katie Porter (D., Calif.) won the “Badass Woman Award” at an annual conference hosted by InStyle magazine. The award was presented by Hannah Einbinder, the actress who screamed “Free Palestine” at the Emmys last month and had her mediocre cleavage blurred out by a Hamas-aligned propaganda network. Porter won because MSNBC viewers saw clips of her using a whiteboard to DESTROY Republicans in committee hearings.

Things haven’t been going so well for Porter in recent years. She tried to capitalize on her celebrity status by running for U.S. Senate in 2024. She got trounced by Adam Schiff in the primary despite raising almost $30 million and being endorsed by her old Harvard law professor, Elizabeth Warren, aka “Pocahontas.” She claimed the election was “rigged,” threatening to erode the foundation of our cherished democracy.

Now Porter is running for governor, and she went viral this week after making an ass of herself in a low-key interview with a local reporter. After losing her cool in response to some basic questions about California politics, Porter huffed that she wanted to end the interview. Then, in a vaguely threatening manner, Porter warned the journalists that she didn’t want to have an “unhappy experience ... on camera.”

Counterpoint: Some might argue that her enthusiasm for berating journalists is a mark in Porter’s favor that may help her if she makes it to the general election. It worked for Greg Gianforte, the current governor of Montana who won a seat in Congress (and a Free Beacon Man of the Year award) in 2017 after taking down a scrawny British reporter who tried to ask him about health care policy. “You just body-slammed me and broke my glasses,” the journalist whined.

Warrior spirit: Porter has been dogged for years by allegations of being a toxically unpleasant boss, cementing her reputation as the “West Coast Amy Klobuchar.” Porter’s ex-husband accused her of dumping a pot of boiling mashed potatoes on his head. This week’s viral confrontation opened the floodgates. “Now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around,” a former staffer told journalist Yashar Ali.

We got another glimpse of Porter’s unpleasantness when Politico published an old video of her screaming at a staffer to “get out of my fucking shot” while recording a conversation with then-energy secretary Jennifer Granholm in 2021. She also complained about not being invited to the White House. Fortunately for the well-being of Porter’s staff, they already had a statement ready on the topic of workplace toxicity. They just had to slightly revise the one her office sent out in 2023, when the first allegations came to light. As she did back then, Porter said she holds herself to a “high standard” and vowed to be “more intentional about demonstrating my gratitude” to her feckless underlings.

Porter’s atrocious personality is to be expected given her résumé. The daughter of an Iowa quilting tycoon, Porter received an elite education that cost more than the typical American home. She prepared at Phillips Academy (annual tuition: $74,000) before picking up degrees at Yale University (annual tuition: $65,000) and Harvard Law School (annual tuition: $81,000) where she met her mentor Warren, the “first woman of color” to join the faculty.

When she’s not yelling at her staff, Porter is actively disseminating misinformation on social media. For example, she recently claimed that EMILYs List endorsed her candidacy, but we were unable to identify the woman in the photo.

Truth to power: Julie Watts, the local reporter who sparred with Porter, deserves credit for doing her job. That’s a high bar these days for the national reporters in D.C. and New York who regard themselves as fearless truth tellers saving democracy from fascism. It’s important to note the national media’s willingness to write negative stories about Porter is unusually high right now because she’s running in a primary against other Democrats as opposed to a general election against a Republican. The earlier stories also came out during the Democratic primary. Often, these stories involve very little effort beyond opening an email from a rival campaign operative.

This is not the case in Virginia, where Democratic candidate Jay Jones is running against a Republican, Jason Miyares, in the race for attorney general. Major networks have largely ignored the explosive scandal involving texts Jones sent expressing his desire to commit lethal gun violence against GOP politicians and their children so he could go to their funerals and “piss on their graves.” The New York Times finally published a story on Wednesday, nearly a week after the texts were first reported by National Review. Doing what comes naturally, the Associated Press framed the scandal as another example of Republican overreach: “Trump’s GOP seizes on violent rhetoric from Virginia AG candidate as high-stakes elections loom.”

Jones appears to have suffered some blowback, but Democrats are sticking with him because an anti-fascist who wants to murder his political opponents is still better than a fascist Republican.

Modern Vows: The Washington Post and the New York Times were all over the marriage beat this week. The Post wrote about a 38-year-old straight woman who is pregnant with a child she organically conceived with her gay husband. They live in Los Angeles, obviously, are gluten-free, and have “turned their marriage into a career” by posting about it on social media. They see a spiritual healer who told them they shared a “spiritual umbilical cord.”

In a story examining how Gen Z couples (and throuples, polycules, etc.) are dealing with divorce, the Times somehow found an even more ridiculous relationship to highlight:

In 2021, Kira Benson, a violinist living in Seattle, knew it was time to get a divorce. Ending their two-year “lavender marriage” wasn’t an easy decision, but the musician had a supportive ally. “If you have to dump your ex-husband,” Mx. Benson said, “co-dump him with his mistress.”

Before the breakup, Mx. Benson, 27, who uses the pronoun they, checked in with their therapist, who said a divorce would be a “good choice.” Out of queer solidarity, they informed their husband’s “mistress” — this was kosher in Mx. Benson’s arrangement, which was not a legal marriage, but a domestic partnership — about their shared partner’s troubling behavior. The night of the breakup, Mx. Benson and the mistress spent a cozy evening together: “We were eating a lot of comfort food, playing a lot of Animal Crossing.”

Analysis: Um, what the f—?

Palate cleanser: Julia Falconi, the wife of Baltimore Ravens punter Jordan Stout, looks pretty good in a bikini. That’s nice, because NFL punter is one of the most unheralded positions in all of professional sports. The Ravens are 1-4 this season, but Stout boasts the seventh-highest punting average in the league. What does it mean? We don’t know, but there might be a lesson in that. Enjoy!

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