Outside the Beltway

Team Trump and the DIA assessment of the Iran bombings.

Over-reading the NYC mayoral primary.

Is that really a good idea?

For all practical purposes, the Constitutional war powers have been stood on their head.

What? Retaliation from Iran?

It is hard to focus.

Well, I feel better now.

Democrats are mostly condemning it and Republicans are divided.

No. But it won’t matter.

Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize obsession.

Is dropping it on Israel the most likely reason?

Cruz on supporting Israel.

Gas prices.

We’re officially past rhyming and into history (or at least rhetoric) repeating.

The pattern of attempted intimidation continues.

The Commonwealth’s off-off year contests will be seen as a referendum on Trump.

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

Trump Mobile!

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.

The challenges and harms of meeting campaign promises.

The prize: sick and dead US children

A tidbit from Trump’s Fort Bragg speech.

Spoiler alert: the joke wasn’t funny

But Not Really (Wink Wink)

Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg.

“A brazen attempt at political intimidation.”

The information bubble is real.

He’s clearly using the standoff with the White House to elevate his national stature.

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

While critics warn of fascism, the public is thus far backing Trump’s immigration crackdown.

You know, as one does.

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

There’s always a tweet

Calling a governor names during a crisis.

Things are getting ugly in LA.

The curious case of the finger tattoos.

Half the counties in America have moved more Republican in each of the last three elections.

He now faces a federal indictment.

It says a lot about the Trump era.

The bromance is apparently over.

You can’t take the politics out of politics.

The newest Executive Order.

The renaming of the USNS Harvey Milk is a prominent illustration.

Maybe they weren’t serious about fiscal discipline after all?