Outside the Beltway

Birds of a feather and all that.

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

A shocking, but not surprising, event. I fear it’s a harbinger rather than an outlier.

More signs of flaws in the Trump economy.

Trump’s response to the Kirk assassination is to try and further divide us.

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

And let’s look at the catalog, shall we?

Can Democrats do anything?

A student, her cell phone, and yet more authoritarianism in contemporary America.

The Shadow Docket strikes again.

Another win for big donors.

Trump’s lack of focus may spare us the worst outcomes in this one instance.

Air Force honors for Ashli Babbitt.

If President Trump sends unwanted military force into American cities, the one thing we should not act is surprised.

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

E-I-E-I-O

The August jobs report was not good.

Sand in the sheets of civil society.

It is unusual and a problem.

Who needs due process when you have drones?

Don’t confuse them with the ice cream man.

Stephen Miller and Fox News.

Secretary Noem strikes again.

Former VPs get only six months of protection?!

Town hall meetings are a relic of a different age.

Wildly unpopular policies in hyperpolarized times.

Following the Dear Leader.

Since I was thinking about 2016

Allegations that DOGE put Social Security info on an unsecured server.

If any other president…

The politics of words.

The gradual population shift from blue states to red continues.

A list of words and who actually uses them!

Are Democrats triggering voters by pushing the Overton Window on language, thereby subverting norms and creating barriers to participation?

The disconnect between perception and reality about elections.

What was “extreme” a decade ago is now policy.

None of this is good for the quality of our democracy (not that it was great to begin with).

And threatening states.

And other tales of subverting knowledge and expertise on the altar of a preferred mythic narrative.

Elections, the states, and the presidency edition.

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.

…but don’t let the Epstein matter distract you from everything else Trump is doing.

A strange obsession.

The cruelty is the point?

In this case, Noem’s rent-free living.

A heavy-handed move.