Wednesday, June 18, 2025

JEB BUSH WAS RIGHT ABOUT TRUMP AND "CHAOS"

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Jamelle Bouie believes that recent declines in President Trump's polling are occurring because Trump's policies are affecting more ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

REPUBLICANS HATE DEMOCRATS, AND MEDIA LIBERALS CONSIDER THAT AN ACCEPTABLE PREJUDICE

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I told you a couple of days ago that people on the right were portraying Vance Boelter, the Minnesota assassination suspect, as a Democrat ...
Monday, June 16, 2025

TRUMP RENEWS L.A.-BASED REALITY SERIES, ANNOUNCES TWO SPINOFFS

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The big news story this morning is the arrest of the Minnesota shooter, Vance Boelter, but the news with the greatest impact is a policy adj...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

YOUR RIGHT-WING NEIGHBORS THINK THE MINNESOTA SHOOTINGS WERE LIBERAL-ON-LIBERAL VIOLENCE (updated)

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I'm puzzled by one aspect of what we're learning about Vance Boelter, the suspect in the shootings of two Democratic state legislato...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

TRUMP'S MUDDLED, ON-AND-OFF MILITARISM WON'T SPLIT THE GOP AT ALL

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In The New York Times , Tyler Pager and Luke Broadwater tell us that President Trump's approach to the conflict between Israel and Iran...
Friday, June 13, 2025

EVERYONE KNOWS THAT ONLY REPUBLICANS ARE NORMAL!

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They're engaging in totalitarian repression, obviously, but they claim they're freeing people: Kristi Noem: "We are not going...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

IS TRUMP ABOUT TO CHICKEN OUT ON ANTI-IMMIGRANT RACISM?

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I didn't see this coming, though I suppose I should have: Wait did he actually tweet this? Because this is like directly contradictin...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

TRUMP CAME INTO OFFICE WISHING A MF'ER WOULD

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Two commentators I respect, Anne Applebaum and Jamelle Bouie, believe that Donald Trump is militarizing Los Angeles out of weakness. I don...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

GOSH, IF ONLY THERE WERE A WAY TO TEST THE PREMISE THAT THE L.A. PROTESTS ARE AN "80-20 ISSUE" FAVORING REPUBLICANS

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It will not surprise you to learn that Republicans are working the refs, trying to spin President Trump's response to the Los Angeles im...
Monday, June 09, 2025

A FEW DISORGANIZED THOUGHTS ABOUT THE CURRENT JACKBOOTED THUGGERY

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Is what we're seeing in California all about suspending democracy? Seth Abramson thinks so. Donald Trump has become convinced that Rep...
Sunday, June 08, 2025

TRUMP'S SECOND TERM AS SEEN BY HIS BASE: THE WORSE, THE BETTER

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At a moment when President Trump is deploying National Guard troops in California over the governor's objections , in order to contain a...
Saturday, June 07, 2025

THE RETURN OF KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA ISN'T THE BIG WIN IT APPEARS TO BE

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is headed back to the U.S., and The New Republic 's headline reads : Trump Brings Kilmar Abrego-Garcia Back, Comple...