Outside the Beltway

In classic dictatorial moves, Trump wants to influence art and culture.

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.

This week: more X-Men (the John Byrne run to be precise).

Terrorism in Colorado. Continued awful violence in Gaza.

One for the pantheon of utterly terrible public non-apology “apologies.”

I question the timing.

Administrative “errors.”

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.

It is as if qualifications for positions of power matter.

“Gone Fishing”

Will no one rid me of these meddlesome judges?

This time: Chinese students.

Well, most of them.

Hint: another variables may be the key.

Clearly not the Trump administration.

This isn’t normal.

Is it time for the Democrats to move to the center?

The Uncanny X-Men!

Keeping a running list of examples of the dishonesty, unreality, poor governance, and authoritarianism of the Trump administration.

It was rather unusual.

More from the annals of unrealty.

Or does it?

Budgets are choices and choices reveal values.

Is the worst of the idiocy over?

A massive purge ahead of the long weekend.

Another example.

One piece of a larger puzzle.

This time: the Social Security Administration.

“May Day Mammatus”

He is either too dishonest or too stupid to hold the office (or, you know, both).