Trump ramped things up this week. I said last week that I’d keep a running tally, but I’ve probably missed a lot. There is resistance from many directions, and I expect to see more in the form of lawsuits and other actions next week. The problem...
What's happening here is that an extremely stupid and ignorant man who doesn't understand anything about any of this, and who is getting even more erratic as he approaches his.
Detail showing the allegorical figure representing Independence (center) flanked by Miguel Hidalgo (left) and general Agustín Iturbide (right). Anonymous, Allegory of Independence, 1834 (Museo Histórico Curato de Dolores, Guanajato, INAH) When.
This is the grave of Thomas Cobb. Born in 1823 in Jefferson County, Georgia, Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, or T.R.R. Cobb as he was know in his writings, was very much the child of the slaveholding elite South. His older brother was Howell Cobb, Speaker of...
I mean, can we really say that an unelected CEO just taking over the appropriations and personnel powers of the federal government by fiat is even remotely as newsworthy as.
Following up on Cheryl's post, several developments today are alarming in the extreme, and very well could be characterized as a coup, or at least the beginnings of one: https://bsky.app/profile/brandonfriedman.bsky.social/post/3lh2ud3vryc2x.
Web pages being taken down across the government, including scientific materials at places like the CDC. FBI employees are being purged, as are employees in other departments. Friendly countries will see tariffs placed on - practically everything. It appears that this is planned for March 1,...
Commenter Prospero's Ghost points out in a comment to Scott's post below that we're in the following Kafkaesque or Orwellian situation at the moment: Trump has unilaterally slapped heavy tariffs.
Republican presidents wrecking the good economy they're handed by Democratic administrations is the great cycle of 21st century American politics, but Trump really wants to expedite things: President Trump plans.
As we criticize the people who capitulate to Trump immediately or preemptively -- more on that soon! -- we should praise those who don't: The Trump administration’s purge of dozens of senior officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development encountered resistance on Thursday when the career employee...
Update: Lavin has deleted her essay. If I find out why I'll post that information. Thanks to commenter Karen for flagging Talia Lavin's amusing and disturbing re-write of Dorothy Thompson's.
Bill Kristol has actually been one of the very best Never Trumpers, which is something I never would have predicted ten years ago, but that's why American lives have second.