Outside the Beltway

To be fully human requires living with and in sometimes unresolvable contradictions

We must choose hope over despair.

Another day, another step closer towards military policing in the US.

The inevitable has finally arrived.

A meme that is as muddled and authoritarian as the President who posted it

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.

The former White House physican (and current Congressman)’s demotion for misconduct has been reversed.

Don’t confuse them with the ice cream man.

The slur “Trump Derangement Syndrome” unintentionally captures something real about our world.

Since I was thinking about 2016

If any other president…

Local control over a global enterprise makes no sense.

And threatening states.

This is the United States today.

Elections, the states, and the presidency edition.

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

A heavy-handed move.

Trump likes to use force.

Politicizing scientific inquiry is a bad idea.

The optics are not good.

One of the big ones has given up.

A minor scandal involving randos is everywhere.

The incentives for creating quality content are diminishing by the day.

The end of an era.

An unserious idea from an unserious man.

Of course you realize this means war.

Thoughts on the election and on the electoral rules used.

Say what Trump wants or he’ll threaten to sue!

Is that really a good idea?

This phase seems to be over. [Or maybe not!]

Maximalist claims are almost surely overstated.

No. But it won’t matter.

The war is on.

Trump and Netanyahu do not see eye to eye on the matter.

The prize: sick and dead US children

Things are getting ugly in LA.

It says a lot about the Trump era.

The bromance is apparently over.

The administration’s war on higher ed has escalated.

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

I question the timing.

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.

Will no one rid me of these meddlesome judges?

Clearly not the Trump administration.

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

Is the worst of the idiocy over?