David Mastio

Not too long from now, we’ll be gene-editing our CRISPR kids | Opinion A CRISPR kidney that is part pig, part person is just another step toward editing our children’s genes. Call it sci-fi “Gattaca” in the suburbs.

Here come the CRISPR Kids www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

Trump didn’t start the war on truth, but his weapons are dangerous | Opinion Canning the labor chief will make jobs statistics less trustworthy, but authoritarians thrive in a world of blurred fact and fiction. | Option

Trump is only a pawn in the war on truth www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

We'll see what happens. I am open to the facts.

The Trump Texas gerrymandering apocalypse won’t kill our democracy | Opinion Republicans and Democrats spent a fortune after the last census to gerrymander away contested elections. It didn’t matter much.

No, the Texas gerrymander -- indeed all the crazy gerrymandering -- just isn't that big of a deal.

www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

Mankeeping? No, it's gender defending As is often the case, Cartoons Hate Her put it best: I'm Calling For A Total Shutdown of NYT Articles About The Emotional Labor of Dealing with Men Until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

I wrote about the NYT "mankeeping" story.

Why is this how the New York Times is covering male loneliness?

Three reasons:

1. Their readership
2. The internet
3. Their bias

Let’s get into it.

I was wrong about Trump’s tariffs. His economy is purring along | Opinion David Mastio saw a looming recession, but Trump’s trade deals have staved one off for now. We’re not out of the woods yet.

How I might have been wrong about Trump's tariff chaos. There's no recession yet. www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

Federal Judge Pulls Opinion With Fake Quotes And YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! - Above the Law Uh-oh.

Issuing an opinion with hallucinated cases/citations/quotations in it should be automatic impeachment, I don't care. No excuses.

abovethelaw.com/2025/07/fede...

So you know this crazy Democratic Socialist guy Zohran Mamdani and his plans for government grocery stores? Guess who was spending millions on the idea before he was: Trump www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

Interesting

Heritage Foundation’s Ed Feulner: You don’t know his name, but he shaped your life | Opinion The man who brought you Reagan’s bible paved the way for Trump, too. | Opinion

My take on Ed Feulner's life: www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-... #heritagefoundation #conservative #Project2025

What’s with that enormous picture of Trump hanging in front of a government building? Has America become North Korea?

YouTube video by The Bulwark Tom Nichols: He Looks Guilty as HELL!

@radiofreetom.bsky.social doing his best to “keep it classy” - mons veneris, that was great 👍.

youtu.be/TopmoYONFRU?...

Sol Stern, Lapsed Liberal and Conservative Heretic, Dies at 89

Sol Stern was an independent thinker and an original. And darn good company. I'll miss him. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

Do you remember Donald Trump’s promise to America a year ago? Sadly, I do. | Opinion I was at the GOP convention near the rafters when Trump gave his speech, and I remember being grabbed by the opening lines.

One year ago today, Donald Trump made his most transparently false promise. Now even the MAGA faithful may have noticed. www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

The Trump-Epstein circular firing squad is just like an episode of ‘Seinfeld’ | Opinion A scandal about nothing is shaking Donald Trump’s MAGA foundation, built on nothing. From David Mastio:

Good new column, by @davidmastio.bsky.social, on Trump and the Epstein scandal.

www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

As much as I think the WSJ story is a nothing ... Sykes is right.

Wow, I can't believe I agree with a tweet of Elon Musk.

This is an achievement -- I now own the Epstein-Seinfeld connection on Google. www.google.com/search?q=eps...

I would like to see them in Orange is the New Black.

The Trump-Epstein circular firing squad is just like an episode of ‘Seinfeld’ | Opinion A scandal about nothing is shaking Donald Trump’s MAGA foundation, built on nothing. From David Mastio:

Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and Pam Bondi would be perfect in Seinfeld episode. kansascity.com/opinion/opn-... #EpsteinTrumpCoverUp #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinFiles

what's their definition of children? Under 18?

N.B.

Defunding public media: Is losing the next ‘Downton Abbey’ worth it? | Opinion David Mastio and Melinda Henneberger debate the costs of subsidizing public media and foreign aid. | Opinion

David Mastio and Melinda Henneberger debate the costs of subsidizing public media and foreign aid. | Opinion

As Trump contemplates replacing the Fed chair is the president more like a waffle or a taco? Some other food? IDK

Defunding public media: Is losing the next ‘Downton Abbey’ worth it? | Opinion David Mastio and Melinda Henneberger debate the costs of subsidizing public media and foreign aid. | Opinion

It is great news that NPR and PBS have been cut off from the taxpayer's pocketbook -- My latest conversation with fellow McClatchy columnist Melinda Henneberger www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

just for a week

Democrats will regret their Epstein files glee | Opinion They aren’t heeding the lessons from mistakes conservatives made by embracing the false Obama-Kenya conspiracy theories. | Opinion

Democrats will regret their Epstein games www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

Iranian mother released from ICE detention after Republican House majority leader intervenes ICE officers detained Mandonna "Donna" Kashanian, 64, last month at her New Orleans home. She had been living in the United States for 47 years.

It's great that Steve Scalise intervened for this lady -- who is, by all accounts, thoroughly admirable, and an adornment to our society. But there are others like her -- and members of the GOP leadership can't run interference for all of them. You know? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

MoCo’s Multifamily Construction Market Disappears - Montgomery Perspective By Adam Pagnucco. In the wake of Montgomery County’s passage of a new rent control law, the county has seen its multifamily construction market disappear. ...

How thoroughly did enactment of rent control kill off applications for new construction of multifamily (5+ units) housing in the Maryland suburbs of D.C.? Both Prince George's and Montgomery authorized zero such units in one recent period while the rest of the state authorized 2,038 of them.

this shouldn't just prompt a resignation, it's almost like negligent homicide if any of those people died