Outside the Beltway

Spouting opinions is far easier work that governing based on facts.

Reveling in cruelty.

The administration continues to show its ideological stripes.

A reminder the US government sent people to CECOT who were then tortured.

Cruelty in service of nativist purity.

Tough guys actions don’t solve massive problems.

Who needs evidence and due process when “bad guys” are involved.

(While murdering people without due process because of [checks notes] drugs.)

A clear violation of the laws of war. But do they apply?

A childhood friend claims he had PTSD from his actions.

A suspect, an Afghan national, is in custody.

Thinking about how what is known about Trump and Epstein.

After months of demanding Republicans resist, he says “We have nothing to hide.”

Newly-Sworn-in-Rep. Grijalva provides the final signature.

Not even a misdemeanor.

He becomes the first French ex-head of state to be jailed since Marshal Pétain.

I guess if we fail to vaporize you, you get treated like a criminial.

Of license plate holders and perfume bottles.

Trump exploits our mistaken beliefs about crime to consolidate his power.

By law enforcement.

The horror! The horror…

Hyperbole? Dishonesty? Distraction? Fantasy? Too much cable TV?

The Feds raid an apartment building in Chicago.

Trump hires only the best!

The evil of others rarely brings out our best.

Blowing up boats because they might have drugs on them is not justifiable, legally or morally.

Serious abuses of power alongside an almost cartoonish set of behaviors.

Sounds to me like he admitted to taking the bag of cash.

Allegations of shutting down an investigation.

Data? How quaint.

He has a solution for homelessness.

To be fully human requires living with and in sometimes unresolvable contradictions

Air Force honors for Ashli Babbitt.

A meme that is as muddled and authoritarian as the President who posted it

It is unusual and a problem.

Who needs due process when you have drones?

Secretary Noem strikes again.

Following the Dear Leader.

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.

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

And threatening states.

The attempt to erase J6 by many at FNC continues…

The thuggish stylings of Tom Homan.

A heavy-handed move.

This is all for show.

Authoritarianism is popular.

Authoritarian instructions from Trump.