Outside the Beltway

Trump attacks the Pope on Truth Social, You know, as one does.

Now an airport.

Sounding a barbaric yawp over the streets of the world.

Democrat wins special election to represent Trump’s home district in Florida.

STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST, naturally.

ICE, ICE baby?

An update from the Commander-in-Chief.

Apathy all the way down.

The appointment of white supremacist to a State Department slot creates some thoughts.

Destroying democracy in order to save it.

Has the tide turned?

The ongoing attempt to venerate the J6 insurrectionists.

Not just the illegal kind. Just anti-immigrant.

An era slowly fades away.

The vindictive pettiness continues.

Ukraine’s president is trying to negotiate a deal that Russia will surely reject.

A clash between American and European models.

The most bizarre report I’ve seen in some time.

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?