Outside the Beltway

Thinking about how what is known about Trump and Epstein.

This time in Florida.

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

Who could have seen this coming?

Millions turned out in support of basic ideals.

Serious abuses of power alongside an almost cartoonish set of behaviors.

E-I-E-I-O

A potentially costly rebrand and strange bedfellows.

Who needs due process when you have drones?

One of the big ones has given up.

Here we go again.

Thinking about ideology in the Trump era.

Both the policy issues but also the way it illustrates the politics of us versus them.

They may whine and bluster, but Trump always gets their votes.

One expert says yes.

Believe it when people tell you who they are.

Of course you realize this means war.

The linguistic stylings and white supremacy of Tommy Tuberville.

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

There’s always a tweet

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

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

This time: Chinese students.

Who could have known?

A major reshuffling of the foreign policy team 100 days into the administration.

But the Trump administration is out to wreck it.

Orwell came to mind this morning.

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

It’s scheduled to start tomorrow.

Sorting through the deluge.

Proud Boys and Oath Keepers insurrectionists are now free.

The political upstart may have worn out his welcome.

Normal transition . . . and potential red flags.

“…but I didn’t vote for that.”

Letting wild claims drive the policy discourse.

Greenland, Canada, and Panama. Oh my.

The public has a right to know what its prosecutor has found.

And thoughts on “mandates.”

Pornhub has banned itself in nineteen states to the delight of legislators.

Oligarchy and populism don’t mix.