Reality Sets In on Trump’s New War Surprise! War in the middle of the world’s most important oil fields has consequences

Reality Sets In on Trump’s New War
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In New York Case, Alito May Preview Rough Draft of Coming Blow to Voting Rights Act For court watchers waiting for the Supreme Court decision that could doom...

In New York Case, Alito May Preview Rough Draft of Coming Blow to Voting Rights Act talkingpointsmemo.com/news/new-yor...

Greg Bovino Under Criminal Investigation in Minneapolis Transparency and Accountability CBP commander Gregory Bovino is under criminal investigation in...

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War Is Expensive for the Little People Operation Epic Fury will cost billions that could have been put to much better use

War Is Expensive for the Little People
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A Mad King Who Enjoys Watching Things Go Boom Going … Going … Almost Gone Take advantage of the special pre-sale...

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Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms This article first appeared at ProPublica. Several high-ranking federal election officials attended...

Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-o...

Thinking Back to Opportunities Lost While the Supreme Court Menaces the Voting Rights Act Hello it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️ As I run...

Thinking Back to Opportunities Lost While the Supreme Court Menaces the Voting Rights Act talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

Showdown Over Interim US Attorneys Brewing In Seattle Greetings from Nashville It’s 4 a.m. as I begin to write here...

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People acting like CBS in 2026 bending a knee to Trump is new forget that CBS in the ‘60s canceled “The Smothers Brothers” because Nixon didn’t like their criticism of the Vietnam War.

When Extraterrestrials Attacked the Stock Market Actually it was a Substack post, but the reaction was telling

When Extraterrestrials Attacked the Stock Market
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A SOTU Like No Other So little truth, so much time

A SOTU Like No Other
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Aileen Cannon’s Latest Misdeed Could Have Been Way Worse. No, Really. Worst-Case Scenario Avoided Maybe my standards are slipping and I’m resigning myself...

Aileen Cannon’s Latest Misdeed Could Have Been Way Worse. No, Really. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Of all Presidementia's prior State-of-the-Unions I've not watched in the past, tonight's State-of-the-Union is the State-of-the-Union I'm not watching the most. 🍊🚫

Attack of the Zombie Tariffs A brain is a terrible thing to have eaten

Attack of the Zombie Tariffs
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Donald Trump, Jeff Epstein and the Politics of Impunity A culture of impunity or at least a culture of elite impunity...

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Opinion | The Rise of the Bratty Machines

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

DT declares he's "bored of peace" Disenchanted with the odious assembly he summoned to his lair as another attempt at international extortion, and severely deficit in attention, Delerium Tremens (both root and cause thereof) resumes h...

DT declares he's "bored of peace"
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Judges Big Mad at Trump DOJ in Wave of New Rebukes Presumption of Regularity Is Gone The pace of this important story is...

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Day 1461 of Putin’s Three-Day War Courage, betrayal — and reasons for hope

Day 1461 of Putin’s Three-Day War
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Opinion | What Exactly Is a ‘Concentration Camp’?

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The Fix Is In: Lutnick Family Could Make Killing On Tariff Demise Almost every article on today’s tariff decision includes, somewhere two or three...

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Don’t Be Fooled By the Corrupt Court’s Tariff Decision The depth of the Supreme Court’s corruption has forced us to find...

Don’t Be Fooled By the Corrupt Court’s Tariff Decision talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

The Ultra-Rich Are Different from You and Me Only the little people pay taxes, redux

The Ultra-Rich Are Different from You and Me
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How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy Corruption is a germ’s best friend

How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy
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210. The President's Lack of Power Over Elections President Trump keeps insisting that he can unilaterally change the rules for voting in the midterms. It's not just that he's *wrong*; it's that there's no mechanism through which he could even *try.*

210. The President's Lack of Power Over Elections
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You might think that the inhumane conditions at America's concentration camps is because of this administration's usual lazy incompetence, but, no, it's because of this administration's usual vicious cruelty.

More Thoughts on the Authoritarian International Yesterday, we talked about the global Authoritarian Movement or Authoritarian International (with...

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Thinking Clearly About the Global Authoritarian Movement Day after day we’re seeing more signs of Donald Trump’s slipping grip...

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Making America Stagnate Again Deportations don’t create jobs and will increase deaths of native-born Americans. Who knew?

Making America Stagnate Again
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This Is What an Out-of-Control DOJ Looks Like An Attack on the Constitutional Order Over the course yesterday afternoon and...

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