Outside the Beltway

Testing a hypothesis or two.

A million dollars a day.

A tale from my neck of the woods.

We need to be focused on the system, not fantasies about messages and organization.

Lack of understanding and poor institutional design=bad political outcomes.

The second round of No Kings rallies will take place today. Will they matter?

SCOTUS appears ready to supercharge gerrymandering.

Stephen Miller’s words at the Kirk memorial.

Ramping up the H-1B fees is not a good idea.

As well as the politics that have followed.

On politics, guns, and people killing people

There’s a vast difference between someone getting dogpiled on social media and the most powerful man in the world using the machinery of the state to eliminate dissent.

Town hall meetings are a relic of a different age.

Following the Dear Leader.

The disconnect between perception and reality about elections.

Are Red and Blue states even part of the same country anymore?

Most of the world knows that PR is a better way to elect legislatures.

This time at the Georgia Capitol.

The linguistic stylings and white supremacy of Tommy Tuberville.

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

Montgomery, AL.

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

A plea to the mass media and anyone else who is guilty.

A case from rural Alabama.

Public misconceptions about federal waste invite tolerance for questionable workarounds to the constitutionally prescribed manner of determining appropriations.

The targeting of international students.

The illogical of MAGA.

Parade of poor governance edition.

The people who safeguard our nuclear weapons and put out forest fires have been fired.

The details matter.

Only a handful of Republican Senators have objected. Mildly.

Amending the Constitution with one simple trick.

Not a lot of true competition on my ballot in Alabama.

Looking at the US South.

Lying about hurricanes and stoking ridiculous theories about weather control are the latest examples.

RCV is now banned in the state.

And the grotesqueness of the Trumpian response.

There is, unfortunately, a bit of a theme.

A modest proposal for Civil Service reform.

An FNC report on the Alaska House race is a mess.