Outside the Beltway

Seeing the effects of Trumponomics.

Trump’s One Weird Trick to end the war in Ukraine.

Because of course.

Thinking about ideology in the Trump era.

Looking backwards in the energy sector.

What fresh Hell is this?

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

Mail time!

Trump uses an antisemitic slur.

Believe it when people tell you who they are.

Reality v. unreality.

An attack on the First Amendment in plain sight.

The linguistic stylings and white supremacy of Tommy Tuberville.

Hegseth renames a ship.

Team Trump and the DIA assessment of the Iran bombings.

Is that really a good idea?

Well, I feel better now.

Cruz on supporting Israel.

Gas prices.

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

The pattern of attempted intimidation continues.

A state Representative and his wife have also been shot and are in the hospital.

Force to create compliance should not be supported or excused. And yet…

The authoritarian rhetoric continues.

The crime: trying to ask DHS Secretary Noem a question at a press conference in a federal building.

The challenges and harms of meeting campaign promises.

The prize: sick and dead US children

Spoiler alert: the joke wasn’t funny

Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg.

One poll, to be sure, but not one in Trump’s favor.

You know, as one does.

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

There’s always a tweet

The curious case of the finger tattoos.

It says a lot about the Trump era.

One for the pantheon of utterly terrible public non-apology “apologies.”

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

More from the annals of unrealty.

Is the worst of the idiocy over?

The GOP budget bill.

That’s a problem, given her job and all.