Outside the Beltway

(While murdering people without due process because of [checks notes] drugs.)

A clear violation of the laws of war. But do they apply?

A childhood friend claims he had PTSD from his actions.

A suspect, an Afghan national, is in custody.

Some signs of hope and of deep concern due to Trump appointees.

Thinking about how what is known about Trump and Epstein.

After months of demanding Republicans resist, he says “We have nothing to hide.”

Newly-Sworn-in-Rep. Grijalva provides the final signature.

A bit of good news.

It’s not what you think.

Not even a misdemeanor.

It turns out that mandatory spending is, well, mandatory.

“What are they going to do? Say, ‘Gee, we don’t want to stop drugs pouring in?’”

Who could have seen this coming?

He becomes the first French ex-head of state to be jailed since Marshal Pétain.

A Punisheresque skull.

I guess if we fail to vaporize you, you get treated like a criminial.

The SOUTHCOM commander has resigned and the Senate is debating, but it won’t matter.

SCOTUS appears ready to supercharge gerrymandering.

Of license plate holders and perfume bottles.

Trump exploits our mistaken beliefs about crime to consolidate his power.

By law enforcement.

The horror! The horror…

Hyperbole? Dishonesty? Distraction? Fantasy? Too much cable TV?

The term which kicked off this week wil decide whether we effectively have a king.

She was not amused by the administration’s workaround.

The decision “was not conceived in good faith.”

The Feds raid an apartment building in Chicago.

The obvious has been made expllicit.

Passing a budget the President can ignore creates a dilemma.

Trump hires only the best!

SCOTUS continues to favor the executive over the legislature.

The evil of others rarely brings out our best.

Blowing up boats because they might have drugs on them is not justifiable, legally or morally.

Serious abuses of power alongside an almost cartoonish set of behaviors.

Sounds to me like he admitted to taking the bag of cash.

Allegations of shutting down an investigation.

Data? How quaint.

He has a solution for homelessness.

Birds of a feather and all that.

To be fully human requires living with and in sometimes unresolvable contradictions

Another day, another step closer towards military policing in the US.

The Shadow Docket strikes again.

Air Force honors for Ashli Babbitt.

A meme that is as muddled and authoritarian as the President who posted it