Outside the Beltway

The curious case of the finger tattoos.

Half the counties in America have moved more Republican in each of the last three elections.

He now faces a federal indictment.

It says a lot about the Trump era.

The bromance is apparently over.

You can’t take the politics out of politics.

The newest Executive Order.

The renaming of the USNS Harvey Milk is a prominent illustration.

Maybe they weren’t serious about fiscal discipline after all?

A plea to the mass media and anyone else who is guilty.

In classic dictatorial moves, Trump wants to influence art and culture.

Resisting gaslighting must be social. It’s crucial for those who oppose Trump’s falsehoods to remind each other, again and again, that 2 + 2 = 4.

Terrorism in Colorado. Continued awful violence in Gaza.

One for the pantheon of utterly terrible public non-apology “apologies.”

Administrative “errors.”

Maybe you can figure out the point, although clearly some people can’t.

It was inevitable.

It is as if qualifications for positions of power matter.

This time: Chinese students.

Well, most of them.

Hint: another variables may be the key.

Clearly not the Trump administration.

This isn’t normal.

Is it time for the Democrats to move to the center?

Keeping a running list of examples of the dishonesty, unreality, poor governance, and authoritarianism of the Trump administration.

It was rather unusual.

More from the annals of unrealty.

Or does it?

Budgets are choices and choices reveal values.

Is the worst of the idiocy over?

Another example.

One piece of a larger puzzle.

This time: the Social Security Administration.

He is either too dishonest or too stupid to hold the office (or, you know, both).

The GOP budget bill.

That’s a problem, given her job and all.

Some images from the White House Flickr pages that caught my eye.

Zeke Emanuel minced no words.

Presidents have wide latitude in this area but many say 47 is exceeding his authority.

Scary news for the former President.

Non-college-educated White men remain happy.

What Trump and DOGE hath wrought.

Are you tired of the winning yet?

A passing observation on the attempt to gift Trump a plane.

A return to the question of age limits for office.

A hypothetical for your consideration.