What’s Different Now About Views of ICE?

Thinking about the intellectual foundations of contemporary immigration policy.

A Question for the Filibuster

Where’s the positive example?

Meanwhile, in North Korea…

Dear Leader has a wish.

Meanwhile, in North Korea…

Lies about past White House upgrades. It all start with Jesse Waters, but also heads to the op/ed pages of the NYT and WaPo.

Free Speech Warriors Went Down to Riyadh

They were looking for a show to steal. They were fine with contracts that bind. And they were willing to make a deal

In Front of Our Noses: Patel’s Challenge Coin

A Punisheresque skull.

King Trump?

I mean, who would even think such a thing?

A No Kings Field Report

Thoughts and photos from downtown Montgomery, AL.

If You Don’t Want to be Likened to Nazis…

Don’t talk like one.

Tabby Monday

Bothsiderism is Helping to Kill Democracy

Why is reporting on objective reality so hard?

Meanwhile in North Korea…

Nobel Prize edition.

Land of Delusion

Some recent clips from the administration on Portland.

The Bad Bunny of it All

¡Qué horror!

In Front of Our Noses: Thuggery

By law enforcement.

More Tales from the War Zone

The horror! The horror…

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In Front of Our Noses: War Zones!

Hyperbole? Dishonesty? Distraction? Fantasy? Too much cable TV?

In Front of Our Noses: Zip-Tying Citizens Just in Case

The Feds raid an apartment building in Chicago.

Echoes of Mein Kampf

Stephen Miller’s words at the Kirk memorial.

In Front of our Noses: He’s a Divider, Not a Uniter (Part the Millionth)

A clip from today’s Very Important Meeting at Quantico.

How WWII Affects Contemporary Thinking

Some musings on the wrong lessons from a major global event.

In Front of Our Noses: A Policy of Murder

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

SaturTabs

Comey Indicted

Serious abuses of power alongside an almost cartoonish set of behaviors.

Things That Shouldn’t be Hard to Say

Twenty-Second Amendment edition.

“The President is Authentically Himself” [Updated]

A sad fact about the quality of American leadership and an indictment of Christians who ardently support it.

Homan Update

Sounds to me like he admitted to taking the bag of cash.

Bizarre Conspiracies: USAID Edition

People are weird.

More Attacks on Universities

An attempt to connect higher education and political violence.

Kilmeade: No Friend to the Homeless

He has a solution for homelessness.

Fox New Host: Involunatarily Execute Mentally Ill Homeless People

Yes it was said. No the context doesn’t make it better.

Why the Attacks on Academia Matter

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

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On Ezra Klein, MLK, And Polite Politics

On politics, guns, and people killing people

Pentagon Hunting Down Employees Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk’s Death

A little bit more than the law would allow.

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Messy Reflections On The Assassination Of A Political Opponent

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

Bad Leadership on Display

Trump’s response to the Kirk assassination is to try and further divide us.

Texas A&M Dean and Department Head Removed over Faculty Member Teaching about Gender

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

Our Cancel Culture King

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.

FAFO: GOP & RFK, Jr.

E-I-E-I-O

US Blows Alleged Drug Smuggling Boat Out of the Water

Who needs due process when you have drones?

ICE Trucks

Don’t confuse them with the ice cream man.

Speaking of Propaganda…

Stephen Miller and Fox News.

In Front of Our Nose: Lies and Propaganda

Secretary Noem strikes again.

TGI Tabs