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Trump

Greenland? Really?

And it isn't about defense. Just like Venezuela wasn't about democracy. Or narcotics. What could it be then?

Trump

Nothing New Under the Gun

From the moment Teddy Roosevelt decided the Panama Canal was his personal shortcut to empire, the American narrative in Latin America has been a masterclass in saying one thing and doing another.

War

Operation: Massive Distractstein

Plus, we all dip our beaks in sunny Caracas.

Trump

The Lucky and the Deranged

One prominent group of TDS sufferers are the Mar-a-Lag-Hos. These are the botoxed, siliconed, stretched, tightened, filled, and puffed ladies and gentlemen who wander the red-carpeted halls of the Trump resort and sometimes the White House.

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When Science and Civility Are Gone

If it's the Kennedy Memorial Center, don't you have to be dead to put your name on it?

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Take that, Oslo!

Someone wake the President! He got a prize.

Trump

American Madness

"He continues to exhibit a toxic vanity. His self-involved, insensitive remarks are now totally normal stuff from this abnormal human. This used to be an America where presidents measured themselves against history. Trump manages to make a dead soldier’s funeral about his own perceived greatness."

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Praise the Lord and Pass The Ammunition...

It's all coming undone.

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Another Week in Paradise

Even inter-cranial parasites have only so much tolerance.

Technology

Forget Artificial. Can We Just Get Some Intelligence?

The bad guys are always one step ahead.

Trump

"What is Truth?"

When "alternative facts" become gospel.

Immigration

The Little Pink Rabbit on Highway 83

By the end of 2024, at least 80 people had died in Operation Lone Star pursuits, including children and bystanders. Even some officers began to question the chase policy. “We’re not stopping the cartels,” said one DPS trooper anonymously. “We’re just chasing shadows and wrecking families.”

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Let Loose the Frogs of War

With apologies to Shakespeare.

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Apocalypse? Maybe Now.

Noonan nailed it.

Trump

The Mad King

Like an evangelical minister doing coke rails behind the pulpit, Hegseth paced and preached. “No more division, distraction, and gender delusions. No more debris. As I’ve said before, and will say again: We are done. With that. Shit.” And then he gave them 45 minutes of that shit.

Trump

I Bless the Rains Down in Africa

By the way, I wrote this entirely with an autopen.

national politics

One Nation, Under Gun

To treat Charlie Kirk's fate as inexplicable is to misunderstand the soil from which violence grows in America. In most states, it’s easier to buy an AR-15 than it is to register to vote. We act shocked when those weapons are turned on politicians, activists, or everyday citizens.

Health Care

The Turkey that Destroyed US Healthcare

The swarthy and sinister RFK Jr, the one who appears every bit as baked - physically and mentally - as that dead brown bird on your Thanksgiving table, is dismantling what's left of America's health care system.

national politics

OK, I'll Weigh In

Well, here we go again.

Health Care

The Way We Were

For the first half of the 20th century, summers were not carefree for children or adults. Swimming pools were often shuttered, playgrounds empty and quiet, and parental dread informed every decision about their children’s activities. The polio virus invisibly stalked the world...

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Incoming!

Keeping up with this is is giving me whiplash.

Trump

Onward Into the Past

They're taking us backward. How far can they go?

Trump

Autocrats in Alaska

"In a sane world, one not run by war-mongers, defense contractors, convicts, corporate media, and giant banking and investment firms, Putin and Trump would have been arrested and detained before their feet touched the red carpet strewn across the tarmac at Alaska’s Elmendorf Air Force Base."

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Miss the Cold War yet?

Trump

The Texas Template

MAGA Texas politicians have taken the infamous Parr political family’s petri dish out of the historical closet and studied it for tips on how to destroy democracy for fun and profit, and Trump is learning from their research.