S. Michele Nix

#windmills @rpsagainsttrump.bsky. #diaperdiplomacy

Reporter: I'm going to show you what 20,000 people in the streets of downtown Los Angeles looks like

US reputation sinks around the World (Pew Research).

Sad to learn of Joseph Nye's passing. What a remarkable thinker, writer, educator and public servant. Rest easy.

Today we lost one of the greatest thinkers in political science—Joseph Nye. His writings didn’t just inform me; they shaped my worldview. From his reflections on power and geopolitics to his foresight on America’s global role, his insights were prophetic. His legacy will endure for generations.

Just another ordinary day.

Spooked by Trade Wars, Trump Officials Hoard Supplies: 'It Would Be Stupid Not To!' Donald Trump’s aides and administration officials are hoarding toilet paper, food, and household supplies before his tariffs cause prices to spike.

"Some Trump administration officials are stockpiling toilet paper and food before Trump’s tariffs cause prices to skyrocket."

Fired DOJ attorney says on TikTok that Trump pardons cost $1 billion Former pardon attorney Liz Oyer says Americans lost out on restitution because President Donald Trump sidestepped the usual clemency process to pardon allies.

Liz Oyer, the Justice Department’s recently fired pardon attorney, made a staggering claim on social media this week: President Donald Trump’s pardons of people convicted of white-collar crimes have cost Americans $1 billion.

Scoop: White House launches Drudge-style website to promote Trump The site represents the administration's latest effort to circumvent the mainstream media and present itself in a positive light.

The White House is producing and hosting its own propaganda website to spin its narrative about what it’s “accomplishing.”

This would be a good tactic for the opposition to take on with its own narrative.

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YouTube video by WUSA9 Civil rights leader says artifacts were removed from Smithsonian’s Museum of African American Histor

What?

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

Our cover this week.

YouTube video by Democracy Now! Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on Trump's tariffs

Economist Joseph Stiglitz says Trump's tariffs are harmful.

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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

Trump Signs Orders Punishing Those Who Opposed His 2020 Election Lies The president targeted two officials from his first administration and an elite law firm as part of his campaign for retribution.

"Mr. Trump has fixated on punishing — among others — elected Republicans and officials in his administration who have defied him or later opposed him."

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

He has never acted rationally. But rational people kept constructing rational edifices to explain his behavior.

White House threatens to VETO the new Grassley/Cantwell bill to require Congress’s approval to impose tariffs. This affirms that it will effectively require two-thirds of the House and Senate to limit (or undo) President Trump’s moves on tariffs.

The Dow plummets.

UPDATE

Latest results in the critical Wisconsin Supreme Court election

(20% of votes in):

Susan Crawford (endorsed by Democrats)
Votes: 246,895
Percentage: 53.8%

Brad Schimel (endorsed by Republicans)
Votes: 212,062
Percentage: 46.2%

Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏

Senator Cory Booker has now broken the record for the longest Senate Floor speech, previously held by Strom Thurmond (24 hours 18 minutes).

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

"The Trump administration acknowledged . . . it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up."

Mike Waltz Is Losing Support Inside the White House Although Trump decided not to fire his national security adviser over the Signal group chat, Waltz’s position is tenuous, officials say.

As we all suspected:

"Two U.S. officials also said that Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members, including separate threads on how to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine as well as military operations."

In any other administration of the past 80 years, the defense secretary and the national security advisor would, following an equivalent scandal, now resign.

YouTube video by ABC News Sen. Lisa Murkowski blasts fellow Republicans for being 'afraid' of President Trump and Elon Musk

To Lisa's colleagues in the GOP - join her. Strength in numbers. You can do it. You know some of you want to - FIND THE COURAGE. This country won't survive if you don't.

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Opinion | Trump upending world order will cost America dearly The decline of American influence is a gift to Russia and China.

“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, 91, with some words for Donald Trump

Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species

Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber 😢😩 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...