Outside the Beltway

Who needs fancy book learnin’ if you already have all the answers?

Although it is still on life support.

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

The move to build Trump’s Big Beautiful Ballroom is moving at record speed.

Some limits on Democratic pushback

Not so much.

She was not amused by the administration’s workaround.

The evil of others rarely brings out our best.

As well as the politics that have followed.

An illustration from the Charlie Kirk discourse as to why stories like the TAMU firing matter.

On politics, guns, and people killing people

And let’s look at the catalog, shall we?

A student, her cell phone, and yet more authoritarianism in contemporary America.

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

The disconnect between perception and reality about elections.

None of this is good for the quality of our democracy (not that it was great to begin with).

Authoritarianism is popular.

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.

Here we go again.

Tit-for-tat is maybe good power politics, but is any of this good for democracy?

Trump asks Texas to further gerrymander the state.

Because of course.

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

An attack on the First Amendment in plain sight.

They’re talking a big game now, but they’ll likely bend a knee. Again.

Of course you realize this means war.

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

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

Half the counties in America have moved more Republican in each of the last three elections.

He now faces a federal indictment.

The boxing great and grill pitchman is gone at 76.

Can we say the administration is putting people in camps?

No more woke crap.

It made history in many ways.

The sadly predicted has come to pass.

Don’t let the door . . .

Letting wild claims drive the policy discourse.

The data are clear (and the predictions were correct).

A hellscape of fire and destruction.

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

It’s not known if they’re related.