Just a reminder. The Minneapolis killing is not explained by 2 people within 4 seconds; it's a full system crash. Officials "protecting" the agents are hiding behind them. jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/learning-a...

Wait!!! They're shooting white people too?? Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

This creature should be the Dems 2026 poster boy, starting today. Elect a Republican House, you get this for government. Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

How about "Republicans Don't Want a Congress" as a 2026 campaign theme?

After a long morning reading the news, I heard from Robert Burton: jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/todays-new...

This is going to be one expensive pardon....

If this is the-day-before-Christmas-Eve news dump, Christmas Eve will be really something. .

Trump's "Think of me and JFK" offensive echoes my own "Think of me and Alain Delon."

The media punditocracy clears its throat and unanimously announces that "Trump lives in a bubble, blames Ms. Wiles for the bubble, and awaits her defenestration and will spend 6 months admiring the new Wonder Chief of Staff who will destroy the bubble. Trump demands a bubble; it is permanent.

Re-upping this in the aftermath of Trump's Rob Reiner elegy: jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/questions-...

The New York Times follows the National Inquirer into checkout line clickbait contest: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/m...

The lists of Trump's violations have begun to coalesce into stories. That's a turning point. jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/questions-...

Fascinating to watch the "Admiral or Hegseth" drama fascinate the media when if this (the whole operation AND/OR the "double tap") is murder issuing AND following the order are both culpable.

My first girlfriend! And she speaks Russian!

Watch this. The Trump/Hegseth strategy is to transform a self-respecting family of citizen-soldiers into a crowd of video game "warriors", i.e., cartoonish thugs.

The Trump position (here and elsewhere) comes down to "This not a real war, so it can't be a real war crime.

"If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder."

This horrific waste of a sacred life was generated by President's need to perform a colonialist gesture "White troops subordinate Black city." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

John Adams saw how the oligarchs could defeat the new commercial republic. We can watch it happen.

The whole point here---missed by NYT---is allow Trump to say, "I want to release these materials, but the prosecutors won't let me because it would compromise their ongoing investigation." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/n...

With Patel and Bondi strong-arming Lauren Boebert in the Situation Room, we've surpassed "Death of Stalin" and challenge "Duck Soup". www.youtube.com/shorts/Af4QR...

Warren Buffet says there's a class war, and his class is winning. The Dem. cave on shut-down is poignant evidence of group of Democrats unwilling to admit which side of that class war they've been consigned to---evidence of a pathetic sort of social-climbing aspiration......

The "Secretary of War" announces the killing of another boatload of anonymous people. Harry Lime has a question for us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMz8...

jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/what-mamda... Democrats Will Win By Listening

If the Democrats forfeit the God-sent coincidence of Medicare re-enrollment period and shut-down negotiations they are idiots.

Nothing could be more predictable than the infantile "Dems must choose Spangenberger or Mamdani" wave + it hides a tremendous opportunity. If the two model working together on fighting on the vertical anti-extraction axis, while productively engaging each other on the "left/right", Dems win.

Trump last night extolled the Golden Age he has ushered in to, e.g., the "steel mills of Pittsburgh", unaware that there are no steel mills in Pittsburgh and only one mill in the metropolitan area.

Not that you asked, but Trump is desperate to hold onto tariff control not because of good policy, or even revenue to offset tax cuts, but because autonomous control gives him an endless supply of lunatic announcements to dominate news cycles, distract, and give appearance of doing something.

Are you with Stevie Miller or Marquis de La Fayette? No Kings in Paris. Kind of moving when crowd sang the anthem.

A useful footnote for the Banality of Evil chapter on John Roberts and various other furtive apparatchiks who lately mourned the arrival of "The Imperial Presidency".https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/us/politics/originalism-trump-supreme-court-unitary-executive.html

Shouldn't everyone be asking, all the time, that Homan return the $50K ?

Here's a nice encapsulation of the GOP's attitude toward the will of the voter that the Democrats should make full use of. Why don't they?https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/speaker-johnson-has-yet-to-swear-in-newly-elected-arizona-lawmaker-adelita-grijalva

This is not Boomer nostalgia; I'm a Boomer by birth, but completely free of nostalgia for my peers and the period. But the students have to hit the streets. The possibility of living the next 50 years under the rule of Stephen Miller ought to be incentive enough.

Trump added Tony Blair to Gaza Peace Comm. When he learned Peter O’Toole unavailable.

Indicting Comey = bad. Indicting Comey + pardons list = the corrupt "rigged game" that MAGA detests. MAGA may see Comey as an enemy; they see rigged game as an existential threat.

As "Comey is not above the law" is vomited up from DOJ, White House, etc., wouldn't this be an appropriate time to look at the Pardons and Commutations list? These are not independent issues.

Can a few renegade GOP members threatening to stay in after MAGA contested primaries change the picture?

I hope someone can explain to me why the Democrats are not calling, unanimously, loudly, and continuously, for Tom Homan's firing. "I didn't do anything illegal" when you have $50,000 cash in a grocery bag = "rigged game" even when not a crime.

Tom Homan's defense (defense!) is a nice reminder of George Washington Plunkett of Tammany Hall: "I seen my opportunities and I took 'em." What could be wrong with that.

"Departs"? "Hits Roadblocks"? How about "Is dismissed after refusing to charge when finding no evidecence?" History will show NYT complicity in Trumpian takeover. U.S. Attorney Investigating Two Trump Foes Departs Amid Pressure From President www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

The thing to remember when you watch ABC executives cancel Kimmel, etc., is that we have a structure in which the executives are less frightened by FCC, more terrified of each other. The fear that internal rivals will leverage Trumpian force for career ending purposes is endemic.

"An army of the unemployed, led by millionaires quoting the Sermon on the Mount--that is our danger." George Orwell.

It would be a service if mainstream media published a roster of pardoned and their connections.

This is another frantic effort to keep the focus on a Left/Right axis, The Democrats should refuse to engage on it. Have/Have Less/Have Not defines the actual line of battle: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/n...

Many threats of bad things, but really a frantic effort to keep debate on a left/right axis and obscure the top/bottom extraction that is the whole point of the oligarchical tidal wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Substituting the "Red States / Blue Cities" frame for the White/Black realities isn't good manners; it's complicity: jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/when-a-eup...?

Lighting buildings and other commemorations are fine, but, still, it would be good to choose 20 of these at random, and remember: archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....