Outside the Beltway

“Krog Street Tunnel”

Town hall meetings are a relic of a different age.

Wildly unpopular policies in hyperpolarized times.

Following the Dear Leader.

Since I was thinking about 2016

Allegations that DOGE put Social Security info on an unsecured server.

If any other president…

The politics of words.

Whoever you are, please stop trying to register clearly fake accounts.

The party that once invoked states’ rights once again turns to the heavy hand of federal power to stamp out any deviation from its own orthodoxy.

The gradual population shift from blue states to red continues.

This week, series one of the British cult classic, Blake’s 7!

A list of words and who actually uses them!

Are Democrats triggering voters by pushing the Overton Window on language, thereby subverting norms and creating barriers to participation?

The disconnect between perception and reality about elections.

Local control over a global enterprise makes no sense.

What was “extreme” a decade ago is now policy.

None of this is good for the quality of our democracy (not that it was great to begin with).

“Swann Covered Bridge”

And threatening states.

And other tales of subverting knowledge and expertise on the altar of a preferred mythic narrative.

This is the United States today.

Elections, the states, and the presidency edition.

Representative Comer doesn’t understand much, it would seem.

This week: Flash Gordon (1980).

The attempt to erase J6 by many at FNC continues…

The thuggish stylings of Tom Homan.

Politicizing the military is legal, but dangerous.

…but don’t let the Epstein matter distract you from everything else Trump is doing.

A strange obsession.