He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
I have never entirely been able to convince myself that this guy isn’t just engaged in an extaordinarly long-running performance art parody.
Seth CotlarIt turns out that the “civics education” non-profit run by Australian “Alpha Male” MAGA influencer Nick Adams is an enormous grift. This is my shocked face. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Hey, remember when the head of GM -- which is, totally coincidentally, the manufacturer of the Cadillac Escalade -- introduced Trump at his political rally yesterday?
AngryHey I know inflation is out of control and a lot of folks can’t afford basic necessities, but at least we’re tackling waste fraud and abuse by buying… *checks notes* 250 Escalades for the government.
"[D]espite Trump’s dreams of intimidation and control, he can only do so much in our system unless the other branches help him along the way." www.lawdork.com/p/donald-tru...
Donald Trump's effort to run his lawsuits out of Florida has hit a snag: the lawTrump v. BBC, Trump v. NYT, and Trump v. IRS all sent a message to Trump on Monday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.www.lawdork.comTrump has managed to finally be directly, personally at fault for a bunch of ugly economic & social indicators that voters (usually irrationally) blame presidents for.
Aaron RuparNew in PN: Why Trump deserves all the blame for high gas prices "No POTUS has ever deserved to be hoisted on the petard of gas prices more. That’s not only bc of how he weaponized the issue before, but bc unlike almost every other POTUS, he's actually responsible for where the price is right now."
The slur "tonks" is used by Border Patrol to describe migrants. It's derived from the sound a baton or heavy duty flashlight makes when hitting a migrant over the head.
Sergio olmos‘Pretty sure he’s wet:’ Immigration agents used racial slurs during LA sweeps, court records show. “Yeah, just plug us in wherever you see some tonks and we’ll jump out.” “tonks everywhere selling food.” W/ @wendyfry.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2026...
Great point from @moiradonegan.bsky.social on the pod: Trump's gains with young men are vanishing as they realize Trump/Tate brothers faux masculinity isn't helping them: "They’re not being elevated in their own status." Donegan is just brilliant here all throughout: newrepublic.com/article/2135...
Trumpworld Shivs Hyper-Masculine Guru Andrew Tate as MAGA Cracks UpAs MAGA splits over the legal travails of influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, the writer of a piece on the Tates explains why MAGA’s vision of masculinity is imploding—and what it means for our polit...newrepublic.com
“Our results show a fundamental mismatch between the justifications for intensified immigration enforcement and the empirical patterns of that enforcement’s implementation. The majority of those arrested by ICE in the second Trump administration had no criminal conviction at arrest.”
Chloe N East (she/her)My paper is out today in PNAS documenting how ICE activity in Trump 2.0 compares to the last 10 years and the mismatch between the action and the rhetoric. Joint with the fabulous @caitlinpatler.bsky.social and @elizabethacox.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The answer is always no, because the ask from the Trump Administration will always be poorly reasoned, often poorly lawyered, sometimes illegal, and usually anti-constitutional. Your agreement places other institutions at risk, and you will end up like the restaurant owner in Goodfellas.
Greg Sargent"Universities like Columbia are not better off for having capitulated last year. They compromised their independence and suffered reputational damage, yet are still subject to [Trump's] arbitrary behavior." Read @ryanenos.bsky.social on need to resist Trump: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/o...
Unsurprising, but a pity. Honor Among Thieves was a lot of fun, and I’d bet a sequel would perform better. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Sequel Was Written but May Never Be Filmed Due to ‘Financial Reasons’The "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" writers were hired to write a sequel, but it may never be filmed due to "financial reasons."variety.com
Musk is trying to normalize selective empathy (he’s said that empathy is the West’s “greatest weakness”), because an expanded and inclusive view of humanity is one of the common features of people with moral courage. To recruit ppl to his project, he needs them to think and be small, like him.
JUST IN: 4 law firms who repped 35 former judges in bid to overturn Trump settlement w/IRS essentially pass up court's offer of attorneys' fees. Each firm requests $1. Plus about $4600 in court fees/postage. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
IRSTrumpFees072726.PDFwww.documentcloud.org
It never got this bad at the Naval War College while I was there, but lots of people wanted to try to enforce this kind of crap. One reason I wrote as often and as publicly as I did was to make the point that civilian faculty do not lose their 1A rights. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
After Trump’s order, West Point curbed faculty speech. One professor said no.Tim Bakken argues that the Pentagon's attempt to stifle what teachers can say and write makes the military more susceptible to bad decisions.www.washingtonpost.com
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportationsThe couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.www.stlpr.orgA look inside the ruin Trump has made of the Kennedy Center. Blood boiling. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...
Trump Gutted the Kennedy Center. A Tour Guide Wants You to See It Anyway.In a dogged demonstration of love for a Washington institution, Sandy Weiswasser is among a few dozen volunteers still showing dwindling visitors a hollowed-out building.www.nytimes.com