Don’t you miss decency from our politicians? I know I do. There was a time when we didn’t cringe every time the president went out in public.Now, we collectively brace ourselves every time someone puts a microphone in front of Donald Trump, who has made it abundantly and repeatedly clear that he cou…
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Friends,Words matter. When describing a government, they inevitably carry moral weight.Over the last 16 months, Trump and his appointees have so profoundly undermined the United States government that we should use different words to describe these people than we’ve used to describe all previous adm…
Mother’s Day has just passed, so it’s an excellent time to examine what the most powerful conservative think tank in America is planning right now for the women in your life.The same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow its playbook virtually to the letter has b…
If you’ve ever been to Pearl Harbor, you know that the area around the USS Arizona is revered. It is not a recreational dive site. It’s not some playground for pampered, spoiled, and pompous buffoons.It is a military cemetery. Hundreds of American sailors and Marines are entombed beneath its rusted …
Back in 2019, Donald Trump pointed at Hunter Biden’s brief “cup of coffee” with a Chinese banker during a 2013 ride on Air Force Two and turned it into the single biggest line of attack he ran against Joe Biden for the next five years.The grift! The corruption! The selling-out of America! Oh, the hu…
Friends,My first quote of the week comes from Trump on Air Force One, on his way back from Beijing on Friday — telling David Sanger of The New York Times:“I had a total military victory. But the fake news, guys like you, write incorrectly. You’re a fake guy. We had a total military victory. I actual…
They may call themselves the “Pro-Life Party,” but the GOP certainly doesn’t act like it. They claim to be “Pro-” a lot of other things as well: family, faith, women, and above all else, children. In the Upside Down of Trumpworld, “Pro-” actually means “Anti-” every time, because they’re ultimatel…
And now, he’s paving the way for you and me and all taxpayers to foot the bill for the enemies of democracy.You know how the “president” filed that lawsuit in January seeking $10 billion in damages from the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department for the purported damage inflicted by hi…
Friends,On Saturday, Trump took revenge on Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy for Cassidy’s vote five years ago to convict Trump, in his second impeachment, for instigating an attack on the U.S. Capitol.Cassidy thereby became the first GOP senator defeated by a Trump-endorsed candidate in a Republican p…
Justice Samuel Alito wrote the conservative majority’s opinions in two of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions in recent years: 1) Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—overruling Roe v. Wade; and 2) Louisiana v. Callais—neutering the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In both cases, Alito …