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Everyone needs to stop pretending to be so savvy
28/01/2025

Everyone needs to stop pretending to be so savvy

Look I get it: world-weary cynicism is the official emotion of the political internet, and I’ve indulged myself on an occasion or three. But the fact that we’re in uncharted territory here — that Trump is way more out of control, more openly lawless, than any other previous president, includin...

RFK Jr, charismatic psychopath
28/01/2025

RFK Jr, charismatic psychopath

Caroline Kennedy with the kind of statement that could actually make a difference: Caroline doesn’t pull many punches, pointing out that her cousin’s eventual sobriety came too late for the many relatives and friends whose lives he destroyed along the way (she doesn’t mention the wife he drove...

The Podcast Election
28/01/2025

The Podcast Election

Many of you may have read about our changing media landscape, but in case you haven’t or just want a little refresher on the subject, I highly recommend the Fast Politics segment about Trump reaching out to various podcast bros and YouTubers. TL:DR young men are absolutely swimming in a sea of gri...

The Supreme Court and the Impoundment Crisis
28/01/2025

The Supreme Court and the Impoundment Crisis

To follow up on Paul’s post from earlier today, Steve Vladeck explains that perhaps the central reason for Trump’s latest act of authoritarianism is to get the Impoundment Control Act declared unconstitutional: The move was announced in a cryptic and thinly reasoned two-page memo that went out...

Not even a story
28/01/2025

Not even a story

David Kurtz: President Trump’s corrupt retribution against the Justice Department is now fully underway, with a series of moves over the past 24 hours that in any other era would be the defining political and legal story of the age. Today, it didn’t even make the front page of the New York Times...

The President of the Working Class
28/01/2025

The President of the Working Class

Sean O’Brien must be so excited today! Donald Trump is forcing out top leaders of the US labor board, ushering in a swift reboot of workplace law enforcement while testing the limits of presidential authority. Jennifer Abruzzo, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, said she...

Every issue is a kitchen table issue
28/01/2025

Every issue is a kitchen table issue

Win or lose, every election cycle it seems the answer to everything that ails the Democratic Party is to focus on “kitchen table” issues. Joe Biden did little else, and looked to be on the way to losing the 2024 election handily. Meanwhile, Trump ran on a roster of deranged culture war issues: a...

Tulsi Gabbard’s Dicey Sources of Information on Syrian Chemical Weapons
28/01/2025

Tulsi Gabbard’s Dicey Sources of Information on Syrian Chemical Weapons

The Washington Post has a longish article on Tulsi Gabbard’s reliance on Ted Postol for information on Syrian chemical weapons. Postol, in turn, relied on the pseudonymous Syrian Girl, a propagandist for the Assad regime, who may have had a college level course in chemistry. I wrote about it for B...

The Best Friend China Ever Had
28/01/2025

The Best Friend China Ever Had

Donald Trump’s stupidity helps one nation and one nation only: China. One thing I noticed in Mexico in my recently completed two months there was the sheer number of Chinese cars that have shown up on the market. The Chinese build cars that fit what Mexicans largely need–cheap, small cars. There...

Just Put Trump on Mt. Rushmore
28/01/2025

Just Put Trump on Mt. Rushmore

Mt. Rushmore is the greatest abomination in this nation. I’ve been there a few times and it is always the weirdest experience in this country. The last time I was there, the one thing I most noticed is that it is mostly a destination for angry white people. Some of this I suppose is that […]

Trumps illegally orders halt to all federal loan programs
28/01/2025

Trumps illegally orders halt to all federal loan programs

The White House budget office has ordered a pause in grants, loans and other federal financial assistance, according to a memo sent to government agencies on Monday, potentially paralyzing a vast swath of programs and sowing confusion and alarm among the array of groups that depend on them. The dire...

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,808
28/01/2025

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,808

This is the grave of Don Adams. Born in 1923 in Manhattan, Donald Yarmy grew up in a Jewish-Catholic mixed household that had an interesting strategy for dealing with religions and the kids. Basically, Don’s Catholic mother got to raise him that way and his Jewish father got to raise his brother i...

Thom Tillis hung Danielle Hegseth out to dry
28/01/2025

Thom Tillis hung Danielle Hegseth out to dry

Whether Tillis is a misogynist as***le or whether he’s just playing one to avoid the wrath of Trump and his legoins of fash money is ultimately beside the point since the destination is the same: A key witness in the contentious Senate confirmation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was assured b...

To the Archives—Mitch the No Vote Version
28/01/2025

To the Archives—Mitch the No Vote Version

I took a bit of crap from commenters for noting that Mitch McConnell hates Donald Trump so much that he would vote against some of Trump’s worst nominees. Of course, I was correct and those commenters were wrong when Mitch provided the third Republican vote against Hegseth. I strongly doubt this w...

Trump bans trans people from military service
28/01/2025

Trump bans trans people from military service

To reiterate the obvious, the Trump administration eliminating “DEI” is not about questioning some dubious particular corporate practices, and God knows it has nothing to do with “merit.” It’s about re-establishing hierachies based on race, gender, and sexuality, and nothing more than that...

Career DOJ lawyers fired for crime of doing their jobs
27/01/2025

Career DOJ lawyers fired for crime of doing their jobs

Somewhere Merrick Garland continues to be comforted by the memory of the stirring speech he gave to these people on his way out the door about how he refused to politicize the Department of Justice: The Justice Department said Monday that it fired several career lawyers involved in prosecuting Donal...

Make pandemics great again
27/01/2025

Make pandemics great again

Trump has instructed the CDC to stop working with the World Health Organization: U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior l...

Trump’s Gestapo-style ICE raids
27/01/2025

Trump’s Gestapo-style ICE raids

Robert Kuttner: At around 8 o’clock Sunday morning, in Mountain View, California, four ICE agents in full battlefield regalia followed a resident into a 19-unit apartment building. They carried M15 assault weapons, and had no warrants. They were looking for two Venezuelans, who had lived there tem...

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