This, one million times over.

truly no-one could have foreseen it

The universal injunction ruling is making me feel physically sick. Unless I'm missing something, basically there goes the constitution, the rule of law, everything.

Happy 12th Is The Supreme Court Going To End Birthright Citizenship Day to all those who celebrate by retching into a bucket.

Happy 12th Is The Supreme Court Going To End Birthright Citizenship Day to all those who celebrate by retching into a bucket.

Been noticing this in the classroom for years, and it is a big problem.

What's interesting about this is that while the White House thinks that doing shocking things to increase the salience of immigration as an issue is good for it, this seems to show that the reverse is true.

"After this week, I’m no longer calling it the Trump administration. I’m calling it the Trump regime. And that regime has a few characteristics which we need to take note of." My weekly round up covers just two topics - the U.S. authoritarian descent and the Mid East war. Because isn't that enough?

California needs to arrest those DHS officers. Kristi Noem needs to be impeached. Dems need to grind Senate to a halt until she is convicted.

Wow. New Quinnipiac poll finds Trump's approval at 38-54. And note this: Trump approval on immigration: 43-54 Approval on his deportations: 40-56 Can we say Trump isn't winning on this issue yet?

It is so notable how bad the east coast media is at covering the reality of what is happening in Southern California (not just LA).

We feed you. They hunt us.

It's also a blank check to incite some violence every time the White House doesn't like the current news cycle.

One thing I love to not do is lecture people who may lack PhDs in politics but are seeing their families ripped apart right in front of their eyes on the exact modalities of protest they should use to respond to that.

just gonna leave this here

completely normal

I wrote about how Trump's arguments about being able to send whoever he wants to a jurisdiction beyond the reach of the law reminds me of "fugitive slave" laws before the Civil War. amerex.substack.com/p/trumps-dep...

Trump continue to negotiate with himself and lose, I see.

One thing I really liked about the Biden administration was that I spent very few nights awake at 11pm worrying about various possible forms of apocalypse.

Trump is straight-up just signing executive orders telling DoJ to investigate specific critics of his. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Sure, buy equities, there's only like 1,343% or something tariffs on imports from China and 10% on everyone else, the economy will be booming!

I swear they are just trying to make all of us historians shoot ourselves as part of their de-woking agenda.

Increasingly concerned about geopolitical instability from Trump's trade war - and in the short term, not long. The president has shown himself to be detached from reality. America is led by a madman. That perception can lead to all kinds of miscalculations.

Trump being able to do this by fiat is as much a story about the imperial presidency as anything else. The U.S. foreign policy establishment built the imperial presidency, thinking that someone responsible - one of them - would always control it. And then they lost it.

Wrote this piece for @fpcthinktank.bsky.social about the three theories as to what Trump is doing.

Trump Denial Syndrome has always been a much, much bigger problem than Trump Derangement Syndrome.

TIL that Rage Against the Machine played a DNC set in 2000 and released it on Spotify last year, and it's really good. I saw them live that same year and I still remember how electric it was when they opened.

Not many people want to say this because they didn't say it at the time (and I include myself), but the tariff issue was basically unlitigated by the Harris campaign. And - and this I did say - the Biden admin as a whole did nothing to push back on Trump's poisonous trade narrative in general.

tried something similar this morning but the specific question 5yo asked was for me to clarify the feedthrough of tariffs to mortgage rates and it did not go this well

I gotta tell you, as a fairly boring normie lib, it takes a lot to get me screaming along to Rage Against the Machine lyrics at 10am, yet here we are.

I'm really glad that my perennial "Trump is extremely bad at politics" take has become blindingly obvious conventional wisdom again after a misleading blip of a few months following Nov 2024.

As I've written before... is he senile, and if he isn't and becomes it, how would we know? amerex.substack.com/p/trump-roun...

The Trump administration's massive security breach gave us a fascinating window into the foreign policy priorities of key figures in the admin, as well as its vague policy-making process.

@andygawt.bsky.social 🗣️ “...the UK also needs to look beyond the “special relationship” and instead think in broader US-European terms. The UK government has to realize that this second election of Trump means that the world is changing. American goodwill cannot be relied on anymore.”

Earlier this year, we asked FPC friend’s @andygawt.bsky.social & @tonysilberfeld.bsky.social what the 2nd Trump administration had in store for both foreign policy & the ‘Special Relationship’ ➡️ fpc.org.uk/trump-2-0-wh...

I wrote about "Military MAGA", the branch of the movement that has taken over the Pentagon - with terrifying implications. amerex.substack.com/p/how-911-cr...

Amid everything else going on in the world, the continued existence of the James Webb telescope is a bright spot that gives me hope.

It used to be said that the goal of NATO was to keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down. Trump's Europe policy is about keeping the Russians in, the Americans out, and the liberals down.

I don't have the documents to hand, but when I was doing research into the Vietnam War I came across American officials talking about legends of buried Japanese gold in Vietnam. Never made much sense to me. But maybe it was part of some old batshit conspiracy? Will go back and look again.

Finding it much harder to stick to my health goals now that Trump is in office, but plus side, chances of any of us living long enough for it to matter decreasing by the day

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

I appear to have imported so much tea from India that the Dutch tax authorities have classified me as a commercial reseller.

Trump's tariffs don't have a rational policy objective - they are a dominance display, designed to make him look strong.

One of the things that makes it so hard to deal with Trump supporters/media is that they seem to actively revel in being made to look like gullible rubes.

What is Elon Musk up to? I tried to figure it out.

I really wish that Democrats would stop acting like this is remotely true and instead start acting like a party which just lost an election by a very narrow margin and is right on every substantive issue likely to define the politics of the next four years.

Won't anyone think of the Kentucky bourbon?

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country