Outside the Beltway

But it’s a different Bragg!

The details matter.

Part of our current quandary.

Willingness to lie is now a requirement for senior intelligence and law enforcement posts.

The 47th President is flooding the zone.

Remember kids, DEI is the REAL racism

Making Russia happy again.

Just beyond parody at this point.

A brilliant plan with absolutely no conceivable downsides.

More outrageous behavior.

This would include US citizens.

A small step to reclaim Congress’ rightful authority.

This could be a issue for common ground… if both sides are prepared to give a little

Way to go, pro-business party!

An example linked to USAID

An entire Congressionally-created agency seems to have been shut down by fiat.

This should be unacceptable, yet here we are.

An evil genius controls the key levers of government.

We are in the the dumbest timeline.

Common sense for a golden age brought to you by the firm of Dunning and Kruger.

The administration is compiling a list of every single agent who participated in the January 6 investigations.

Or is it?

It’s scheduled to start tomorrow.

An accurate description.

Trump’s reaction to the air disaster is telling in a variety of ways.

The new administration is gutting the senior ranks of the civil service.

The courts will decide whether we have a President or a King.

I have questions.

Is it even a traditional “Buy Out” and is it already in conflict with OPM statutes?

Partisanship is more important than institutional autonomy.

Piling absurdity atop cruelty.

And USAID leadership placed on leave.

Will the pattern persist?

Thoughts on an unnecessary confrontation.

More immigration politics.

Federal workers are afraid and in the dark.

Words to the AfD.

And remembering “jokes” about governing like a dictator.

Yet again, too little, too late.

A billionaire troll with a West Wing office.

Coping in a second Trump term.

On Christian compassion (and hypocrisy) and a little bit of the Streisand Effect for good measure.

You get what you vote for

Agencies are quickly seeking to comply with the President’s order.

Trying to upend 150 years of legal understanding with the stroke of a sharpie.

Only a handful of Republican Senators have objected. Mildly.

Multiple executive orders aim at rooting out the Deep State.

Not all norms.

A difference in degree is a difference in kind.