Outside the Beltway

There are real life consequences.

Tucker, Fuentes, and Heritage. Oh My!

The Trumpian Twilight Zone.

The aid continues to grow.

Millions turned out in support of basic ideals.

The public is much less concerned than you are.

Nobel Prize edition.

¡Qué horror!

Blowing up boats because they might have drugs on them is not justifiable, legally or morally.

Our current round of speech repression may prove worse than McCarthyism.

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

As well as the politics that have followed.

The FCC Chair went on a podcast and now Kimmel is on indefinite hiatus.

We’re not alone in dysfunctional politics.

Can Democrats do anything?

If President Trump sends unwanted military force into American cities, the one thing we should not act is surprised.

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.

E-I-E-I-O

A very different way to run a railroad.

A list of words and who actually uses them!

This is the United States today.

…but don’t let the Epstein matter distract you from everything else Trump is doing.

Nor does Benny Johnson.

Things are not operating as Madison intended.

Because of course.

Look, up in the sky!

An unusual diplomatic approach.

Looking backwards in the energy sector.

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

An unserious idea from an unserious man.

Democrats are mostly condemning it and Republicans are divided.

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

She’s making no one happy.

He now faces a federal indictment.

An Air Force colonel spread misinformation to hide the stealth program.

It says a lot about the Trump era.

The bromance is apparently over.

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.

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

The polls are showing a really weird dynamic.

…and I write a bit more than that.

We are at least on the precipice.

Deciphering the meaning of a vague slogan.

Is the DOGE now on a leash?

Russia, Russia, Russia?