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The Super Bowl of Internet Beefs Nobody wins in the Trump-Musk breakup.

“The Trump-Musk feud is not so much a distraction as it is evidence of a societal tendency toward abstraction, even obfuscation. A cage match is easier to watch than a discussion about who deserves benefits and resources.”

The Ultimate Bait and Switch of Trump’s Tariffs How to understand the phony trade deals with Britain and China

“All of this hullabaloo about nonsense deals with Britain and China serves to distract from the brute reality of the Trump and MAGA trade agenda.

There are no real deals.”

Who Gets ‘Panzer’ Tattooed on Their Arm? The ink that tells the story of Trump’s second term

“..this is the constant problem of trying to make sense of the signs from people in Trump’s orbit—the recurrent use of white supremacists’ favorite sequence of numbers, ambiguous (and sometimes unambiguous) Nazi salutes, and other dog-whistling. How much benefit of the doubt really should be given?”

What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.

Trump’s Jewish Cover Story The administration claims to be protecting Jews while advancing an agenda that most Jews oppose.

“But this branding is profoundly misleading. In reality, Donald Trump and his allies have been using “anti-Semitism” as a pretext to advance a radical agenda that has nothing to do with Jews at all—and that most American Jews do not support.”

The thing about Trump’s team is that we learn how many morally bankrupt, marginally intelligent, men of utterly average substance have walked among us, seemingly successful, running money-making firms, CEOs and venture capitalists - even the richest man in the world.

They have been unmasked.

The Diseases Are Coming Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn government tear will have lasting effects on global health.

“Musk and Trump have destroyed the shield that once protected America from the next global contagion. Deadly diseases don’t bother with borders; no wall will keep them out.”

Why the Trump Administration Canceled Me I was supposed to give a book talk about civil rights at the Jimmy Carter Library. I think I know why the invitation was rescinded.

“Stifling inconvenient discussions is dangerous business, and it goes far beyond book talks. The Trump administration has flaunted its contempt for many of the country’s cultural, scholarly, scientific, medical, and educational institutions while announcing its intention to defund and destroy them.”

One Word Describes Trump A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.

“To say, then, that Trump lacks the temperament or attention span to be a dictator offers little comfort. He is patrimonialism’s perfect organism. He recognizes no distinction between what is public and private, legal and illegal, formal and informal, national and personal.”

The blatant lie behind Elon Musk’s power grab DOGE isn’t about fixing America’s debt problem.

“In truth, the Trump administration has given us no reason to believe that it cares about reducing the national debt.”