Outside the Beltway

A Punisheresque skull.

Of license plate holders and perfume bottles.

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

By law enforcement.

The Feds raid an apartment building in Chicago.

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

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

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

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

It is unusual and a problem.

Who needs due process when you have drones?

Don’t confuse them with the ice cream man.

Secretary Noem strikes again.

Following the Dear Leader.

Representative Comer doesn’t understand much, it would seem.

The attempt to erase J6 by many at FNC continues…

The thuggish stylings of Tom Homan.

A heavy-handed move.

This is all for show.

Authoritarian instructions from Trump.

Trump likes to use force.

One expert says yes.

Reality v. unreality.

The pattern of attempted intimidation continues.

A tidbit from Trump’s Fort Bragg speech.

One poll, to be sure, but not one in Trump’s favor.

There’s always a tweet

Todd Lyons, acting Director of ICE provides the latest example.

You get what you vote for

Today’s an appropriate on to think about the role of suffering in change

Going out on another unforced error

Gaetz’s own party hates him almost as much as the Democrats hate him

The dark side of federalism.

And the real destruction of mail-in ballots

Ignorance and motivated reasoning are never a good combination

A superstar athlete’s treatment by police raises troubling questions.

Sometimes all we have is the choice of how we react to events.

A deep dive into why imperfect Criminal Legal System data is still reliable

It’s been around for a very long time.

More on the potential conflict of interest in Georgia

We need to do better.

tl;dr: Trump is a nightmare client & nightmare clients don’t do well in criminal courts

With the help of Popehat, I call out issues with the Fulton County case &, in doing so, piss everyone off

“Classical liberals” really need to rediscover self examination

An example of why its a good idea to wait for data before making policy decisions.

Another example of the arbitrariness of the death penaly

When belief is more important than facts