Refusing to vote to reopen the government unless the ACA subsidies are extended is maybe the single most popular thing Democrats have done since…jeez, I don’t even know when. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/dont-lose-...

We’ll be back to gazing at our newsfeeds and holding our breaths waiting to see if our Navy and Air Force have begun bombing Venezuela, or Delta Force special operators have rappelled from a helicopter into a drug lord compound somewhere in Mexico. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/wtf-is-wro...

So long as there are Confederate flags and Nazi flags and Nazi salutes and Jew haters and white supremacists walk proudly among us, we are a fallen country. We need to save ourselves from this horror before it’s too late. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/maga-extre...

They’re shooting boats out of the waters off the coast of South and Central America. How long before someone walking down an American street carrying a sign with an “almost treasonous” criticism of Donald Trump is shot without warning? luciantruscott.substack.com/p/no-defenda...

The parade of cars and people and cans and boxes of food, and back in Washington D.C., the SNAP program, even with its struggles, amount to living proof that this country has a soul. Even with all its struggles, that soul is a good one. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...

Let this be a clarion call to Presidents Biden and Obama and Clinton and Bush. We need you. You were elected by your fellow citizens to lead us while you were in office. We need your leadership now more than ever. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/for-trump-...

Who called Black people “monkeys” and “watermelon people” and praised those who believe in slavery as a group of Young Republicans recently did in yet another group text? Yabbos, that’s who. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-nation-n...

The two words are, chickenshit pretenders. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/in-the-rea...

If you visit Washington D.C. today, or next week, or the week after that, you will see soldiers in the streets carrying rifles, and you will see a national monument, the White House, that has been vandalized by a madman. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-pretend-...

This is why big countries should not go to war. They will lose because the leaders of their armies are delusional ignorant fuckwits with too many gold bathroom fixtures and too much desperately unearned self-importance. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/why-big-co...

He’ll sell tickets to people who want to attend the dinners and kiss his ass. He’s going to tack a gaudy, disgusting display of bad taste onto the history of our country and make billions of it. He’s Donald Trump. It’s what he does. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/destroying...

I can guarantee this: No AI system would have put a headline on a column on the subject of artificial intelligence using the words “grilled cheese sandwich.” luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-grilled-...

I’m old enough to remember when going to a demonstration was a good time for guys to pick up chicks and for girls to check out some hot dudes. Today, we marched to save each other’s lives. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/people-mar...

Donald Trump wants a war with his “enemies within.” It might not happen this weekend, but American citizens will die in Trump’s undeclared war before this goes much further. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/is-trumps-...

Welcome to 1964. Welcome to Jim Crow. That’s where we will be if the Supreme Court puts a torch to the Voting Rights Act. Not only will they ban the teaching of slavery, they’ll bring it back to life in all but name. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/republican...

I’m sure that as a species we are not born with a death wish, but we have lived our lives for thousands of years as if we are, and that characteristic of human beings is a real tragedy. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/death-wish

Is there another national leader who has been all over the map about abortion to gay rights to free speech to Russia to its war in Ukraine to come-and-buy-your-drugs-from-me? Hmmmm…let me think…could his name be Donald Trump? luciantruscott.substack.com/p/here-is-ho...

That’s a homemade tie-dyed t-shirt, bellbottoms from Brooklyn, and Acme boots. It was the 60’s, man. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/2nd-lt-tru...

There will be nothing restraining Trump from using soldiers from the state of Texas as his own private army, following his orders and nobody else’s. This isn’t a slippery slope we’re on. Trump is following the playbook of Adolph Hitler in the 1930’s. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-u...

Politics is the way we elect our representatives to run the governments of the country and the states. When federal soldiers become involved in enforcing the law in a state that has not requested them, politics ends and something else begins. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

12 Noon Eastern today: I'll be doing Substack live on Steve Schmidt's "The Warning" Steveschmidt.substack.com

In the court room overseen by at least one female jurist in the state of Oregon, the rule of law still prevails. For how long that will hold true is a question not only for Oregon, but for the whole nation. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-wha...

Following plans laid down in the Heritage Foundation in “Project 2025,” Trump is inventing a war that does not exist in order to carry out repression using federalized state National Guard soldiers. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-a-...

Trump’s masked and armed agents are already approaching people on the street in cities who look “suspicious” because of their race or ethnicity and requiring them to produce citizenship papers. This isn’t a slippery slope to fascism. We’re already there. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-perfec...

This story is about the obsession with grooming standards of some officers in the army. The obsession dates back decades, and it has a history that echoes the history of this country. It is extraordinary that we are still dealing with this problem. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-great-...

In the end, the generals and admirals know that presidents come and go, but their job remains the same. The soldiers, sailors, airmen and airwomen and Marines under their command need them to do their jobs in spite of the madness at the top. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-spe...

I don’t envy the generals and admirals and noncommissioned officers who will be there tomorrow. I would not want to have to maintain a straight face while Trump treats them as if they are his followers at a MAGA rally and bellows grievance and braggadocio. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/249-years-...

Our soldiers didn’t sign up to patrol American streets and arrest or help to arrest their fellow citizens. Martial law, in the end, will be more difficult to impose than Trump thinks it is. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/will-portl...

You would think that at some point, cooler heads might prevail, and things could go back to something approaching political normalcy. And then you look at Trump and his Supreme Court and you think... Not. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-and-...

Secretary of Whatever Pete Hegseth is nervous. Everyone at the Pentagon knows it. How do they know Pete is shaking in his loafers? That five-sided building is just like a small town. And what they’re talking about is how weirdly frightened the boss is. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/what-the-h...

Trump knows he isn’t going to get the Nobel Prize for his phony claims of ending seven wars. Maybe he’s got his eye on the prize in Ukraine now. We, and Ukraine, can only hope. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-didn...

But these are niggling details, and as we all know, Donald Trump doesn’t do niggling details. By this time next year, he will probably be bragging that he has ended six more wars, that windmills are blowing up off the coast of Great Britain. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/how-long-o...

If I were Brendan Carr, I would duck and cover. Kimmel will be coming for the easiest target he’s had in his career, with the sole exception of Orange Littlehands himself. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-big...

My question is, why is he even bothering to ask for legislation that will allow him to commit murder when he’s already doing it? luciantruscott.substack.com/p/using-our-...

Slavery and its descendants are everywhere in this country. All you have to do is look around. History is in our bodies and in our land. It cannot be denied because it is alive in all of us. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/why-trump-...

Kimmel’s remarks were made with his vocal chords, forming sounds we normally refer to as “speech.” The First Amendment is supposed to protect remarks like Kimmel’s, even if people in power consider his words objectionable or offensive. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-t...

Silly me. It’s not a lawsuit. It’s an 85-page tantrum. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/whiny-litt...

I will not be cowed. I will not bend. I will stand up and be counted and be damned with Stephen Miller and his thought police. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-few-thou...

The next thing you know, he’ll be renaming the Rose Garden “Charlie’s Garden” and putting Kirk’s name under his on the Trump Bible. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-new-bl...

People paid to listen to his podcast and attend his Turning Point USA speeches on college campuses. Capitalism is perfect in that way. You get what you pay for. Martyrdom is its own reward, and the person now profiting is Trump, not Charlie Kirk. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/as-a-maga-...

Guns kill people. There will be more Uvaldes and Sandy Hooks and Parklands and Columbines. We are at the mercy of killers who use guns, because we have allowed guns to rule us. Guns have more rights than we have. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/gun

The whole thing was a stage, and his presentation was as much a play as anything on Broadway. Everyone had a role, and your first act in the drama of Jeffrey Epstein was to keep your mouth shut, or there would be consequences. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/i-read-or-...

Induction involves constantly reaching out. Deduction involves constantly taking in, which is why all those data centers are so enormous. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/why-artifi...

Fascism is turning out to be more complicated than Trump and his minions thought. It turns out that the people have a voice, and they don’t like it when Trump tries to rig the justice system against them. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/fighting-f...

My personal favorite Thayer Award recipient is Cardinal Francis Spellman, who was given the honor in 1967, the same year he groped my thigh repeatedly in his quarters at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/politics-c...