Some encouraging news about our not-as-divided-as-we-seem society (from last July)

As his approval ratings decline, Trump keeps “joking” about canceling the midterm elections and threatening to militarily invade Democratic jurisdictions, just in time for those elections. Glad my family escaped the Soviet Union for this. (quote via Reuters, 1/15/2026)

Wait til he hears what the rioters he pardoned did to federal police on Jan 6, 2021 🙈

What would it look like if The Most Transparent Administration in History!™ acted as if it was not transparent?

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

Daniel Shapiro: I didn’t realize how much I love what this country is supposed to stand for until I watched Trump dismantle it over the past year. Let’s not let the “land of the free and the home of the brave” disintegrate. 🎯❤️ prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...

Hypothetically speaking, what would it look like if our president acted like a mafioso and disguised the fact by simply calling his behavior “tough” and “strong”?

Your latest dispatch from The Most Transparent Administration in History!™ (Politico)

Everyone knows the key to deescalation is escalation

A hypocrisy two-fer! Concern from this administration for federal law enforcement is tough to swallow after the J6 pardons. And remember all the flack Hillary Clinton got for her “vast right-wing conspiracy” comment?

I feel personally attacked, South Korea

tfw Tom Homan (yes, that Tom Homan) is more level headed about immigration enforcement Trump, before watching the video: "she ran him over. She didn’t try to run him over. She ran him over." (NY Times, 1/8/2026)

The dust seems to be settling on a story less about regime change than about resource extraction. If so, celebrations over the end of #Venezuelan repression, socialism, corruption, drug trade, and global destabilization will have been premature. I’m sure we’ll learn from this.

I can be stubborn to a fault, but remaining MAGA after the Epstein coverup and promiscuous foreign adventurism is a whole other level

Thank heavens the US is finally respected among the nations

An anecdote from John Kenneth Galbraith's introduction to a later edition of his The Great Crash, 1929 😅

Your latest dispatch from The Most Transparent Administration in History!™

More Peace Prize material: "the US has bombed seven countries this year, on top of the airstrikes targeting alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean"

A few days ago, Stephen Miller advocated immigration restrictions after watching Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin – whose parents were... immigrants. Also watch this warm WW2-era Sinatra short celebrating inclusivity as central to the meaning of America. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovwH...

Our Christian, America-First #PresidentofPeace demonstrates what it’s like to avoid foreign entanglements and contribute to peace-on-Earth this Christmas

He seems to be driven purely by love for his country. What else could explain any of it?

The logic seems to be that when a single immigrant does something horrific, thousands of other people must suffer, at a minimum, and US law should be disregarded. Some people simply believe our country is safe only if it’s cruel and lawless.

He is an authoritarian parody. Btw, in The Hunger Games, the Capitol city is the actual enemy of the people. And wait ’til he learns what happens to the President at the end 🤦‍♂️

Thankfully this didn't happen. The House unsurprisingly folded and a state of war has existed for months, replete with statutory, criminal, and constitutional violations. Yet it's nice not to have an explicit presidential usurpation of Congress's power to declare war - for now.

The House is voting on a bipartisan Resolution today to block President Trump from illegally attacking #Venezuela. Please take a few minutes to call your representative [house[dot]gov/representatives/find-your-representative] and the White House comment line at (202) 456-1111.

To think that she was always capable of decorum and sobriety

My new @theunpopulist.net article outlines why nationalism is the main cause of growing anti-Semitism on US political right: www.theunpopulist.net/p/nationalis...

Sorry, how many drug traffickers has Trump given clemency to? The problem, to be clear, is not the clemency. It’s the hypocrisy: key elements of Trump’s immigration, criminal, and foreign policy are premised on the idea that drug traffickers are uniquely dangerous.

Now do this for clothing, food, appliances, electronics, construction materials. And for Americans who can only afford ONE DOLL for their kid, they get nothing. (paraphrasing @scottlincicome.bsky.social when Trump made this same point in May)

How did we end up in this timeline? Btw, Trump just pardoned the Honduran ex-President (of the same party) who was convicted of conspiring to import 400 tons of cocaine to the US. None of this meshes with Trump’s immigration and foreign policies against gangs and drugs.

President Donald Trump (3/6/2025): “There will be a little disturbance, but we’re okay with that. It won’t be much.” ...9 months later... Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins (12/8/2025): “The relief is coming. ... It really is a golden age just right around the corner.”

Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to keep voting for the guy who also spent billions of taxpayer dollars to save the farmers he also impoverished last time

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... To be great is to be misunderstood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two months ago, the Wall Street Journal described Trump’s diplomatic strategy as, “declaring victory first and forcing others to fill in the details.” What might that look like?

Who could have foreseen? "It has proven difficult to have cheap food without cheap foreign labor, imports and capital."

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

I didn’t comment on this week’s made-for-TV “peace” deal because real hope for the Congo actually popped up a few weeks ago. Turns out that hope was premature – these deals are usually more about PR and paychecks, not peace.

Trump officials keep admitting Trump policies are hobbling the economy, but prosperity is right around the corner: “You’ll see as the numbers come through over the next couple of months, you’ll see that all pass, and next year the numbers are going to be fantastic.”

Conservative George Will: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement." "The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans."

The DC restaurant industry has yet to recover since the introduction of National Guard troops. While it’s far from the most important story these days, including in DC itself, it’s still worth noting.

What if members of the Muslim community started murdering people in the Caribbean instead of DC? Would it redeem itself then?

How difficult is it to "follow the rules to come in the right way"? Three harrowing stories shed some light. Link to must-see 10-minute video in comments.

I missed this story! Trump’s Labor Department admits a lack of immigrants spells catastrophic consequences for the nation’s food supply.

President law-and-order thinks anyone calling for the military to follow the law by disobeying unlawful orders should be executed. Meanwhile, legal experts, including the top military lawyer overseeing Trump's Pacific-Caribbean murder spree, challenge the killings' legality.

This is George Washington’s copy of the Constitution. You can see—faintly—in the margin, he was carefully noting which parts of the Constitution were “President powers.”

Kimmel might consider interviewing neo-Nazi antisemites like Nick Fuentes if he wants Trump to stop bothering him. (Didn’t get the joke? Look up Trump’s anodyne response to Tucker Carlson’s kid-gloves interview with Fuentes.)

Say what you will about Donald Trump, but he seems to be taking the looming release of his #Epstein files well

Trump & Co. know tariffs raise prices

What’s shocking is that the central bright spot of US economic performance this year has been the stock market. Now we don’t even have that 😫 Source: Bloomberg, 11/12/2025