Nora Demleitner

Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?

College-age daughter: how about talking to some young people?

Her diagnosis: protests feel like a parade. Where‘s the concrete goal?

Data may not tell the entire story.

We underestimate the mental harm of ankle monitors and the profit margin involved.

How much have the 100 wealthiest Americans contributed to support the arts, local service organizations like food banks, local hospitals, the broader community?

January 6 rioter who was pardoned by Trump arrested for child sexual abuse Andrew Paul Johnson, 44, faces multiple charges in Florida and has pleaded not guilty to the crimes, authorities say

Presidential pardons used to be carefully vetted to spare a president embarrassment.
The vetting tried to assure the pardoned wouldn’t commit any further crimes. In this case it hasn’t even been a year.

Headlines about Abbott‘s declaration should start with its utter illegality.

There are things about the Epstein case I don’t need to know.

A surprisingly effective safeguard in this DOJ meltdown has been the Grand Jury.

The curious US pivot:
anti-crime rhetoric turns apologists with a flavor of demographic bias toward the wealthy.

U.S. Department of Education Announces Six New Agency Partnerships to Break Up Federal Bureaucracy ED announced six new interagency agreements to break up the federal education bureaucracy, ensure efficient delivery of funded programs, activities, and move closer to fulfilling the President Trump's...

Distressing to see that every aspect of our education system will now be overseen by DOL. it represents an ever narrower focus on immediate labor market needs rather than a comprehensive approach to education, individual & societal needs, which include labor markets but aren‘t the sole focus.

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Today's Treasury Department website:
"President Donald J. Trump has signed a Continuing Resolution through January 30th. Thanks to the President’s decisive leadership in the face of radical left-wing obstructionism, the Department of the Treasury has now resumed normal operations."

Embarrassing & demeaning.

This Epstein plea deal selectively chose the least bad fact, camouflaged truth & allowed for more victimization as a consequence.

Crime trending up when even watchdogs join in.

Another customer-focused industry accountability measure goes to die.

USDOT will withdraw rule that would have required airlines to compensate passengers for flight delays.

It was a nice dream to imagine we'd get the same benefit as Europeans, Canadians, Brazilians.

Medicaid changes will impact rural hospitals.
That impact, and especially closure of rural hospitals, will affect rural jails and prisons, leading to even worse care for those incarcerated and the staff there.
It will make staff recruiting harder & ultimately affect public safety.

Update from Ana Swanson

Swiss chocolate.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

The Monroe Doctrine returns.

Numbers have become meaningless & freely invented —300, 3k, 30k, 300k, 3M, 30M, 300M, 3T

Yet, once false numbers are out, the administration will continue to use them. And that is highly destructive to any reasoned policy-making.

the verb does all the work here.

On the curious Epstein defenses:

Non-consensual sex is rape, which is what Ms. Giuffre describes in her memoir.

Age cut-offs differ between states & often the highest sentences are reserved for violations of the youngest but that doesn't make this action legal.

Let's call it rape.

There was that issue of Ken Starr’s resignation from Baylor.

Commutations & pardons are both acts of clemency. But they operate differently.
Let’s pay attention to the words that are being used.

Is this a word play? By all accounts she is asking for her sentence to be commuted.
So the president not considering a “pardon” could literally be true & Maxwell could still leave prison.

Let’s be sure we get our terminology right to avoid surprises.

The anti-expert culture has become a serious problem in an ever more complex society.

Will there be any reckoning for anyone?

It is time to call these strikes what they are: intentional premeditated
Murder.

We have a long & unsavory history of bounty-hunting in this country.
This time will be yet worse in light of public data & surveillance pics.

Similarly, there’s data on maternal incarceration impacting not just her child but other children in the community.
We need to focus on broader societal harm of law enforcement & ICE action on children & communities.

No fridge magnets in Mar-a-Lago.

Since the presidential pardon power is unrestricted — or more accurately it was restrained by custom & presidential concerns about their reputation — there is no formal way to stop clemency.

Felon Freed by Trump Is Sentenced Again, This Time to 27 Months

Presidents in recent decades have been risk averse in handing out clemency. Beneficiaries were carefully vetted to assure that they wouldn’t run afoul of the law again & leave the president embarrassed & worse.

In the current age of impunity, all of these standards have been discarded.