Outside the Beltway

Destroying aid because they destroyed USAID.

Thinking about ideology in the Trump era.

Both the policy issues but also the way it illustrates the politics of us versus them.

An unserious idea from an unserious man.

American Angst 101

One expert says yes.

America is always both what it claims to be and what it actually is. The Fourth of July, then, marks our aspirations—and also our shortcomings.

Reality v. unreality.

Have I ever noted the Congress is less responsive to the public than it should be?

Thoughts on the election and on the electoral rules used.

Say what Trump wants or he’ll threaten to sue!

This one was in Tuskegee, AL (and this isn’t a photography post).

Gas prices.

The pattern of attempted intimidation continues.

Not really posts, but hey, here they are anyway.

Trump’s latest social media screed.

Montgomery, AL.

A state Representative and his wife have also been shot and are in the hospital.

Force to create compliance should not be supported or excused. And yet…

The authoritarian rhetoric continues.

The crime: trying to ask DHS Secretary Noem a question at a press conference in a federal building.

A tidbit from Trump’s Fort Bragg speech.

Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg.

“A brazen attempt at political intimidation.”

You know, as one does.

Like in NJ, ICE rejects a Representative from seeing a facility in CA.

Calling a governor names during a crisis.

He now faces a federal indictment.

An Air Force colonel spread misinformation to hide the stealth program.

Resisting gaslighting must be social. It’s crucial for those who oppose Trump’s falsehoods to remind each other, again and again, that 2 + 2 = 4.

I question the timing.

Maybe you can figure out the point, although clearly some people can’t.

It was inevitable.

These sweet, anxious, thoughtful, and genuinely loveable students know in their bones that their future is deeply uncertain and shaped by adults who appear to have no idea what they’re doing.

Hint: another variables may be the key.

That’s a problem, given her job and all.

Habemus habeas corpus?

Arresting Newark Mayor Baraka is clearly a signal.

They wanted chaos but not this chaos.

Gee, I wonder why?

Liberty may be natural to the individual, but political liberty remains an uncommon achievement.

There may be no exit.

Fifth Amendment edition.

An OTB example to illustrate a larger problem.

It’s good to be king.

USA! USA! USA!