Tom Kean, Jr. Returns To Congress!

Return to Congress. Tom Kean, Jr. tales of depression.

Empathy over antipathy.

That mean girl, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) knows depression. She suffers from it. 

She has her divorce, her eldest son always causing trouble, she was embarrassed by a then boyfriend groping her during the play of Beetlejuice, her near defeat in her previous district and President Donald J. Trump vowing to oust her come next election.

Boebert will be one of the sole noisemakers in the Congress. Marjorie Taylor Greene left Congress after the president turned on her. Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) gambled the chances on higher office only to be rejected.

They will leave Congress along with a handful of Democratic and Republican establishment members.

Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) lost after Trump endorsed their primary challengers. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) lost because Texans wanted a serious person.

Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) and Dan Goldman (D-NY) were ousted by Democrats tired of the status quo and AIPAC spending.

So for over four months, Rep. Tom Kean, Jr. went missing. Despite winning his primary and being backed by that curmudgeon, President Donald J. Trump, constituents were not seeing him.

Now he has returned citing clinical depression.

😳 Rep. Lauren Boebert torches Rep. Tom Kean for his 4-month absence due to depression.

🎥: @jacob_wass pic.twitter.com/BmwE5Vy4SR

— TMZ (@TMZ) June 30, 2026

Boebert said, "bullshit."

The way she addressed it was not good but I get where she is coming from.

This may be a first. Boebert is taking this job seriously for once. She is expected to win her seat come November. She is not trying to embarrass herself this time. During the Joe Biden presidency, Boebert is still a total bitch. It almost cost her her reelection bid.

Boebert called Kean's explanation on Tuesday for his prolonged absence from Congress “embarrassing” in an interview with TMZ Washington's Jacob Wasserman outside the U.S. Capitol.

Boebert doesn't buy Kean's excuses.  

Boebert showed little sympathy for Kean after he revealed earlier in the day that he missed some four months of work due to depression. The Colorado Republican slammed Kean for not representing his voters, going so far as calling his absence “taxation without representation.” She also would not offer Kean her full support for reelection, despite adding that she wants to see the GOP keep the House — and he represents a crucial swing district.

“So a few weeks ago, we chatted and you were like, ‘Where is Tom Kean? What’s up with Tom Kean?’ Well, today he says he’s been gone for over 150 days because of severe depression,” Wasserman began.

Boebert replied, “I don’t even think he used the word ‘severe’ — he just said he was diagnosed with depression. I, for one, have been marked safe from depression today.”

Wasserman pressed, “What do you mean by that? What does that mean?”

Boebert replied, “‘I’m here.’ You haven’t seen those memes. Come on now, you’re younger than me. Okay, I guess it’s a Facebook thing, huh? It’s more Facebook. Okay.”

Wasserman pressed more, “Okay, so what’s your take on it?”

Boebert replied, “I think it’s embarrassing, still, even more so. I mean, sure, like, take care of yourself, get healthy, but who gets to take four months off of work because they’re sad? Like, that’s not a—”

Wasserman pushed back, “Well he might not be sad. I mean, it’s, it’s—”

Boebert jumped in, “Depressed. He’s depressed. He’s sad. And I, okay, whatever the reasons, maybe it’s embarrassing. I don’t care what party you’re part of, it’s not okay. I mean, I think there’s a dose of depression that comes with these pins that we’re given, and so I mean, if you can’t build up a tolerance to it, then maybe don’t be here.”

NPR: Not Yet!

This ghoul will retire but likely in September.

NPR retracts its report that Samuel Alto is retiring.

“Editor's note: Earlier today, we erroneously published a story saying that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring,” NPR put out in a statement on it's website. “Neither Alito nor the court's public information office has announced his retirement, and we have retracted the story.”

There was speculation that the white nationalist on the Supreme Court was going to retire shortly after this inept Roberts Court concludes its session.

The news is definitely on the record.

President Donald J. Trump pressured Anthony Kennedy to retire in 2019 to get Brett Kavanaugh in. When Ruth Bader Ginsberg died in 2020, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) quickly pushed for Amy Coney Barrett to get confirmed despite pledging to not confirm nominees in a presidential election.

Republicans are secretly plotting for a boast to their fragile majority.

Trump has a job approval of 31% and Vice President JD Vance has a job approval of 33%.

Republicans have a job approval of 24% and the Democrats have a job approval of 25%.

Congress overall has a job approval of 21%. 

The Supreme Court has a job approval of 25%.

Basically, we are in civil war numbers. All forms of governance is negative. None of these entities are improving the lives of the working class.

Alito is 76 and Clarence Thomas is 77.

Thomas, the second Black man to sit on the Supreme Court is the longest serving justice.

He was appointed by the late George H.W. Bush. 

Trump could get up to get two or three Surpreme Court nominees this second term.