I have doubts about the cease-fire: Will the ceasefire stick? It is very difficult to say without a clear sense of the precise terms of the deal, and not even the President seems to have a firm grasp of what Iran and the United States have...
One form of originalism is to just ask the guy who wrote the amendment about what he meant. With the 25th Amendment, you can do that and there's a piece.
I've made no secret of my admiration for Ancillary Review of Books's podcast A Meal of Thorns. In every episodes, host Jake Cassella Brookins invites a guest—an author, critic, or academic—to discuss.
An agreement on a ceasefire in Donald Trump’s war on Iran was allegedly reached last night. The good part was that Trump could step back from his maximalist war crime threats. The bad part is that nobody seems to have any idea what is in the...
Stephen Lerner and Joseph McCartin, two people I respect a great deal, suggest it's possible and note the key roles of union in South Korea and Brazil in resisting fascism..
This man happens to be the Secretary of Defense or War or the Apocalypse or whatever it's called today, which seems like a bit of a problem: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3miybj6ff622f If Hegseth.
Hey all, I copied all of your comments from last week about the comment section, fed them to Copilot (which turned out a pretty good summary), sent that summary to Disqus and then had a Teams meeting with the Disqus folks. Here's where we're at (Disqus...
I don't think it's really possible to grasp the full depth of Trump's narcissism, psychopathy, and always always sheer crude venality. Jonathan Karl: This morning, I asked President Trump if.
An even bigger blowout than anticipated: Voters in Wisconsin ensured on Tuesday that the supreme court in one of the nation’s premier swing states will be controlled by liberals through.
Jacob Levy does a good job preempting what is inevitably going to be a sycophantic defense of Trump's genocidal threats: [image or embed]— Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) Apr 7, 2026 at 2:21 PM There's no sophisticated thirty-dimensional chess going on here, just an impulsive crackpot with.a...
Was this ordered by Pete Hegeseth's vengeful God? Who the hell knows what this means in reality since no one trusts anything Trump says because he is too stupid to.
I have no objection per se to invoking impeachment and the 25th Amendment in the context of Trump's genocidal threats -- telling the truth can be its own justification even.