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Sometimes Constitutional Law is Dumb A meditation on the Supreme Court argument regarding Trump's tariffs

Some belated thoughts on the Supreme Court arguments about the tariffs: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/sometimes-...

Our School District Can Now Keep Track of Your Child with Just Three Terrible Apps Other than lawsuits, losing track of a child is every school district’s worst nightmare. We haven’t lost anyone yet, but an EdTech company has pain...

"You’ve been given an app for reluctantly volunteering to run the book fair, an app for viewing your kid’s hastily prepared report cards, and an app for lodging complaints about our apps. Now, we’ll also be tracking your child’s whereabouts on three additional apps."

If New York City Is No Longer Going to Be an Unaffordable Police State Run by Crooks, I’m Taking My Hard-Earned Sex-Pest Dollars Elsewhere “New York millionaires are plotting their exit from the city after the election of Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who plans to increase the taxes of...

"Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer a city where everyday residents have to work three jobs and are under constant threat of eviction. Anything short of an excruciating existence for the working class just doesn’t cut it for me."

All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI—In what they described as a collaborative effort to share resources and information in defense of U.S. territory, Pentagon officials confirmed Monday that all six branches of the ...

All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny

The Cheney Effect How Dick Cheney became the accidental architect of Trump’s power.

Cheney rightly came to decry Trump’s abuses of power, but many of Trump’s actions grew out of a contempt for congressional, media, and judicial oversight that was fostered by Cheney and other “normal” Republicans of his generation.
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The Slow Death of Russian Oil Why Ukraine’s campaign against Moscow’s energy sector is working.

A very important article in @foreignaffairs.com The real sanctions hurting the Russian economy are the Ukrainian long-ranged sanctions on Russian oil refining and production. Unlike Trump's sham "sanctions", these are real ones which are taking a real toll. www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/slow-...

Mike Johnson: I Am Tuning Out the News Cycle to Focus on Self-Care Don’t ask me about the news. I am protecting my mental space.

Mike Johnson: It’s True. I Am Tuning Out The News Cycle To Focus On Self-Care

When American Foreign Policy Devolves Into a Bunch of Stuff My latest for World Politics Review

I've said it before and I'll it again: there is no coherent strategy and anyone who tells you differently is selling you something. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/when-ameri...

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by claiming he doesn’t know who he is.

Newsletter: Faced with blowback over his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, President Trump has offered a curious defense: he doesn’t even know the guy.

A Confederacy of Toddlers The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.

Trump’s voters have become like the members of the administration, delighting in the crassness and obscenity that pours out of the president and his circle whenever they are challenged. But policies suffer and the public is poorly served.

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China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans SEOUL—In a historic trade agreement that President Donald Trump touted as a major win for an American farmer, China reportedly agreed Thursday to purchase 11 U.S. soybeans. “I am extremely honored tha...

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Trump Says White Refugees from South Africa Will Alleviate US’s Severe Shortage of Racists “When I was putting together my Cabinet, there were barely enough racists to fill all the positions," he said.

“We have a racist shortage in this country like you wouldn’t believe,” Trump told reporters. “When I was putting together my Cabinet, there were barely enough racists to fill all the positions.”

Trump Is Very Confused About Nuclear Weapons The president says he wants to resume nuclear testing but doesn’t seem to know why.

The president wants to resume nuclear testing. This is a really bad idea - and he can't even get his facts right about why he wants to do it:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The President just announced he is giving $20 billion of taxpayer money to bail out Argentina. That’s outrageous. If he was willing to spend that money in America - to keep American health premiums from skyrocketing, the shutdown would be over tomorrow.

They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

Of Course the President Feels Strange About Paying Himself $230 Million of Taxpayers’ Money, but Really, What Else Is He Supposed to Do? “President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, accor...

"I mean, think about that for a moment. If he let this go and just went back to work, what would that mean? That the law can be used to go after political rivals?"

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

The Dismal Application Record of the Trump Compact The Trump administration hoped to get accepted by some prestigious universities. It didn't work out well.

The Trump administration had high hopes that its compact would be accepted by every university. Alas, it appears that every university rejected the administration except for its safety school. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Opinion | The Tactical Frivolity of the No Kings Protest While what is happening to us is as serious as a guillotine, we must harness our best humorous selves in order to keep it from falling.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“What is happening to us is as serious as a guillotine. We must harness our best creative, humorous and frivolous selves in order to keep it from falling,” writes the author Gary Shteyngart.

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Video: New Ad by Jay Jones Campaign - “Jason Miyares Is Trump’s Attorney, Not Ours” (The bottom line, as @fringemedia.bsky.social puts it: "four more years of Jason Miyares as AG means four more years of wasting our taxpayer dollars on frivolous pro-Trump lawsuits") bluevirginia.us/2025/10/vide...

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

The deal would give Bukele possession of individuals who threatened to expose the alleged deals his government made with MS-13 to help achieve El Salvador’s historic drop in violence, officials said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From https://theonion.com/trump-spends-entire-u-k-trip-trying-to-figure-out-where-he-knows-prince-andrew-from/

Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer NEW YORK—Casting doubt on the mayoral candidate’s ability to effectively carry out the duties of the office, critics assailed New York State Rep. Zohran Mamdani Friday for refusing to share his plan t...

Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer

Young Republican Kids Say the Darndest Things “Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery, and rape…. Vice President JD Vance downplayed [the] bi...

"If you ever needed proof that woke elites are targeting the conservative way of life, well, here it is. Politico, that infamous, Marxist rag, published 2,900 pages of private text messages—all in an attempt to ruin the lives of our youngest eighteen to forty-year-olds."

It turns out that racial profiling in the real world doesn’t work the way it does in Brett Kavanaugh’s imagination.

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

Pumpkin Spice: Now For Men You’re a man. You’re into man stuff, like weed wackers, sports that cause brain damage, and getting hired by your dad’s golf friends. But it’s autu...

"You’re a man. You’re into man stuff, like weed wackers, sports that cause brain damage, and getting hired by your dad’s golf friends. But it’s autumn. And something feels different."

I became aware of David Bier about a year ago when i watched a hearing on immigration policy and he was there at the invite of Dems to defend the Biden approach... even though he was from the conservative Cato Institute. That's about when he became an Enemy of the Regime.