Pete Hegseth just said that he wants the Pentagon acquisition process to “operate on a wartime footing.” This is, of course, nonsense. https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m52ufkxi5z2p Does this mean that he wants an.
Elliott Morris observes that the 2025 electoral results are inconsistent with the idea that the 2024 election represented a fundamental realignment of American politics, and in particular toward a considerably.
As a follow up on Scott's post about the politics of trying to peel off a certain percentage of weakly committed Trump voters (don't kid yourself: there were non-trivial percentages.
This is the grave of Carrie Jacobs-Bond. Born in 1862 in Janesville, Wisconsin, Carrie Jacobs grew up pretty well off, the daughter of a doctor. But then her father died.
That 24-hour period where the Roberts Court bore some resemblance to a court of law was the kind of emergency that needs to be addressed immediately through the shadow docket:.
Context: A man collapsed behind President Donald Trump during an Oval Office press conference on Thursday with drugmakers to expand coverage and reduce prices for popular obesity treatments Zepbound and Wegovy..
There's an excellent Lawfare podcast on the current situation at the front in Ukraine, especially regarding the difficult situation in and around Pokrovsk. It includes quite a lot of discussion.
Nazis In the Big Tent sounds like a Dead Milkmen song, but they would have meant it ironically. In a loose, rosy-cheeked speech, Graham affirmed that he’s in the “Hitler.
- Strung out nation
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,017
- The inevitable rehabilitation of Livvy
- How UVA surrendered to Trump
- Larry Summers, who is still on the Harvard faculty, tries to strongarm Harvard’s administration into punishing the student newspaper for printing the truth about him
- TV Eye
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- DBTs on Colbert
- The “take my word for it” theory of unlimited Article II powers to order summary executions
- Trump vows to fix something he broke
