In my latest post, I list all the reported intel claims about the war. Not one supports the claims of this ever-escalating administration. (link in comments)

I'm not a lawyer does lack of evidence impede your case www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The President, to be President, had to swear an oath to the Constitution. This is not just a violation of the Constitution. It is an *admission* to violating the Constitution.

When you're reading about the Watergate White House and realize you might as well be reading about today's White House. From All the President’s Men (2014 ed), p. 84.

If only there was a solution to the US demographic crisis... (image courtesy of ChatGPT)

If only Trump had the capacity to end the war on his own. I wrote about the benefits *to him* of doing so here: michaelzigismund.substack.com/p/how-a-loss...

The Most Transparent Administration in History!™️ keeps doing its thing BTW both Republican counterparts – Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), chair of the House Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Roger Wicker, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee – agree on this

From Vietnam to Afghanistan, the American people learned years later that the US government lied to them about how well its wars were going. This is the first war in which the US government is actively deluding itself, and the American people can see it happening in real time.

Milton Mayer, in They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955), wishes the subjects of his Nazi study (his “friends”) felt collective shame. ...But he admits he feels no such shame as an American about American crimes.

What national debt? Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”

Here's my latest (much shorter!) piece. In which I compare Trump to Washington... if he does the right thing. Link in comments.

In light of the news that sanctions on economic activity are bad and unnecessary against an enemy even in wartime, what possible argument is there for maintaining economic sanctions on anyone ever?

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My first Substack is live! A year ago, #MahmoudKhalil and #KilmarAbregoGarcia were arrested. 255 years before then was the #BostonMassacre. #JohnAdams's decision at the time teaches us that our liberties depend on defending the rights of the unpopular. Link in comments.

This is the dumbest timeline

I admit, I'm a NATO skeptic. Yet if I were president, I'd think my allies wouldn’t treat me with such disdain. After all, I would avoid insulting, tariffing, and threatening to conquer them. But maybe that’s why I’m not president.

The closer a promise from this administration comes to upholding the Constitution's protections, the faster it seems to expire

Our pro-death penalty administration may be pleased to hear the no-quarter crime is “especially forbidden” and “subject to the penalty of death” under US law.

TIL high #oil prices are good

More data for your America First scorecard: * Americans' finances wasted * Americans killed and injured * Iran now shipping more oil than it did before the war

NYT with the hot take: "The president sometimes exaggerates or is imprecise..."

Regime change was never even likely. “The report [was] completed about a week before the United States and Israel initiated the war on Feb. 28[.]” Casualty tracker for context.

Remarkable passages on how Germans slipped into accepting Nazi atrocities like boiled frogs – especially the highlighted section. From Milton Mayer’s They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955), chapter 13 (“But Then It Was Too Late”), pp. 168-71.

Why is the Trump administration so worried about its depleted munitions stockpile? Maybe because it keeps going abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

Something to think about the next time he brays about the national deficit

For your America First scorecard Meanwhile Trump & Co. promise more casualties and refuse to rule out "boots on the ground"

"Successful" seems to be the best possible word for this best possible scenario

Among the mysteries future historians will have to piece together is how any of these people continued to show their faces in public

Awkward: <Charlie Kirk, in June of 2025, explaining why a massive US war against Iran, and an attempt to facilitate regime change, as pushed by people like Lindsey Graham and John Bolton, is "pathologically insane":> substack.com/@greenwald/n...

I was quoted in the New York Times yesterday. We're appealing. Link in comments. (Note that, although asylum details are typically private, we received permission to discuss them publicly.)

Probably nothing to see here from The Most Transparent Administration in History!™

The Most Transparent Administration in History!™ doing what it does best

“One year ago, our country was dead. We were absolutely dead. Our country was ready to fail. Totally fail. Now we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world.” – President Donald Trump, 12/17/2025

Compared to the globe’s stocks, America’s stocks are failing.

"We’re respected more now than we’ve ever been respected." - Trump, 1/11/2026

If this government is so against vaccines, how did it get its immunity to telling the truth? This case involves another Minnesota shooting. The agent fired “to defend his life” from a weapons assault that we now know never happened.

What's the problem? As the President said when people first complained about the economic costs of tariffs, just buy fewer pencils and dolls.

This is my close family. They just lost their home :( please donate and share! gofund.me/24ebbd544

From a 5-year-old in detention. Near the bottom, it says, "Let us go." Source: Marshall Project, 1/29/2026

Judge asks why the govt isn't complying with court orders to release the wrongfully detained. Govt lawyer goes off that she's overworked "pulling teeth" to get her "client" to comply. "The system sucks. This job sucks." Wow! www.lawdork.com/p/the-minnes...

In the spirit of bipartisanship, Democrats should do everything they can to help Republicans execute their subpoenas

The Most Transparent Administration in History!™ strikes again!

I believe the technical term for this sort of behavior is “very stable genius”

Bloomberg (1/29/2026): "The regional premium for aluminum delivered to the US market climbed above $1 a pound for the first time as US President Donald Trump’s tariffs make the metal more expensive in the domestic market." Thankfully we don't need aluminum for anything.

US citizen testifies about an arrest when driving to a medical appt for a brain injury. After smashing her car window and assaulting her, DHS taunted and refused her medical care. She awoke to assault treatment at a hospital. GOP reps skipped this event. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcW...

Fox News(!): "The survey shows if the election were today, 52% of voters would back the Democratic candidate in their House district and 46% the Republican. [52%] is the highest recorded for either party; the previous high was 50% for the Democrats in October 2017."

If these domestic terrorist kids didn’t want to get gassed, they would stop attacking ICE and impeding their good work... gassing children.

Was Watergate an attempt to *strengthen* “ballot security” to avoid a repeat stolen election, as imagined by a paranoid president and his circle? Maybe, though Chotiner wasn’t involved. Still, what a passage! From All the President’s Men (2014 ed), p. 28.

Meanwhile, back in the United States of America, the President raids taxpayers for another cool $10 billion