ICYMI: I introduced a package of legislation to reform American democracy by increasing the size of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, as well as restoring the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction to better align with Article III of the US Constitution. Read more:

I just abolished ICE from about 60 feet of city sidewalk. And boy are my arms tired.

Pop Tarts Bowl is today? Why didn't any of you warn me yesterday?

But Loper...

Rich people did just fine when they used to pay high taxes, and I believe they can do it again

Here's what DOGE really learned: That, all in all, our government works pretty well in a scrappy, inelegant but greater-than-a-sum-of-its-parts sort of way. And that the largest source of its inefficiencies is inadequate resources and legal authority. Imagine if the public ever heard that message.

New: “Congress’s Million Dollar Stock Trades In 2025: Nvidia, Microsoft And The Bipartisan Push For A Ban” me, for @forbes.com

Make a Bond film casual Leafraker and then maybe some apple cider

No matter how far Trump's approval sinks in the toilet, I'm still not confident about the 2026 midterms. And neither should you be.

Thousands of Americans have full-time jobs and still can’t pay rent. But they’re a significant and revealing part of America’s homelessness crisis, Brian Goldstone argues in his new book, “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America.” https://bit.ly/4b228Cs

I pretty much assume all cute videos of small children and animals are AI slop now

Back to the Future Part II: The Musical

This Christmas's family gingerbread structure had to be Rowdy Audi, one of the few places of pure joy for us this year. Bonus points if you can name the goal we tried to recreate. (Hope we did the @spiritsquadron.bsky.social & @roseroomco.bsky.social et al. justice in the supporters' end.)

I can't name a single industry where white men have been excluded. So problem solved. Time for cocktails?

I'm not an IR scholar -- would there be any practical significance to China overtaking the US as the top financial supporter of the UN? www.thenationalnews.com/news/us/2025...

The Heritage Foundation's "newsletter" has had 13 stories about anti-Christian attacks since Trump's inauguration www.dailysignal.com/search?q=nig...

If there's any justice when this is all over, Miller will be sentenced to life in Taco Bell

'One Million Years B.C.' (1966) is technically a Christmas movie. Part of it takes place on what would later become December 25.

This platform needs a "But... Never mind. I don't have the energy" button.

I see a lot of people dunking on Miller, and rightly so. But the point of racism isn't the internal coherence, but the power structure: Getting to determine who is in and who is out. In other words, a small group of people get to decide -- not abstract rules.

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/

Top 5 movies new to me this year: 1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) 2. Amadeus (1984) 3. Mother Hummingbird (1929) 4. Tumbbad (2018) 5. Joint Security Area (2000) (Honorable mention: Black Gravel (1961))

Remember, the Secretary of Transportation is absolutely terrified of this subway system. Just mentioning the ACE line will reduce him to tears. And yet ...

In his own way, Wurman's making the case for birthright citizenship. He tries so hard and yet comes up with nothing. If there was a there there, it seems he would have found it by now.

Dr. No, PhD

Other than the Second Amendment, I think the Trump administration has brazenly violated all of the Bill of Rights by this point.

The problem with looking to the Founders is that when they were talking about "good government" they were probably rarely talking about good government. Just like today's policy debates wrapped in neutral language are often sophisticated code for naked politics.

Only 10 more days until the kids go back to school! *cries*

It took the Trump administration less than a year to oust upwards of 10% of career civil service. That means lost of things. But one worth emphasizing is this: The Trump administration cannot blame the so-called "deep state" for its failures. It's *their* deep state now.

As much as I'd like you to read my piece on this, you should really read the linked Heritage article repudiating the gender integration of VMI to understand the kind of freaks running Heritage these days

Not really fully steeped in the political science/public literature. How well does it account for the basic point that the GOP is insane? Or is that like forbidden?

To think, Chevron deference may have been blocking this

It was my fault

I see the Heritage Foundation is still driving our foreign policy. If there was any question about where Trump stands on the turmoil there.

You married well

This is where I'm at. Maybe I'm foolishly pessimistic, but I think MAGA/Heritage emerges from this stronger. We've never seen a political movement like this in US history. We can't assume the usual rules apply. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/24/t...

How much you bench?

Ellie snuggling with her new dragon on her new bed

My brother got the girls a starter record player and some vinyl for Christmas. Their guesses as to what they were included pancake maker and coloring books.

When you reject the NFL, Nascar, Chick-fil-A, and country music, this is pretty much what your left with

Hopefully this gets us off to a good season

Totally normal thing to do

Ellie likes the new bed Santa brought her

Santa came!

Update: This is where we landed with my 5 yo's asking Santa for a Siberian Husky puppy: a stuffy and a letter from Santa

NORAD Santa tracker is Woke

Now the wait for Santa begins

Birthday Boy Bogart Oscar-winning HUMPHREY was born on Christmas Day🎄126yrs ago.

Hell's Heroes (1929)