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Trump never lets facts get in the way of his political stunts. That explains the Pied Piper-style histrionics he staged at yesterday’s signing of an executive order to “dismantle” the Department of Education. Most notably, he used children as unwitting extras in his latest act of performative cruelty. These keyboard-native kids looked utterly bemused as… Read more.
Justice Frankenstein scolds his monster Once again, Chief Justice John Roberts found himself in the untenable position of rebuking Trump for showing blatant disregard for judicial independence. This time, it was because Trump demanded the impeachment of US District Judge James Boasberg — all because Boasberg ruled that the administration had no authority to summarily… Read more.
Trump takes jingoistic pride in forcing US companies to bring manufacturing jobs back to America. If they refuse, he threatens tariffs that would make exporting foreign-made products back to the US prohibitively expensive. And he couldn’t care less if this wrecks the global economy – so long as he can claim he’s making manufacturing in… Read more.
On guard, Yemen President Trump took time out from yet another golfing weekend at Mar-a-Lago to announce military strikes against Yemen on his social media platform. U.S. forces launched a ‘decisive and powerful’ attack on Houthi militants in Yemen, President Donald Trump said Saturday, an escalation against the group targeting maritime traffic and American troops… Read more.
From the Blacks they brought in chains to the Blacks and Browns they cage in prisons and the Browns they deport in shackles — for some, America has never been the land of the free… Read more.
Fassbender’s concession becomes a suggestion Michael Fassbender appeared on Happy Sad Confused recently. And he made a shocking revelation worthy of that podcast’s quirky name. Fassbender said that, during his audition to play James Bond, he suggested Daniel Craig would be better. You might wonder about the self-esteem or state of mind of an actor… Read more.
On Wednesday, acting on an ICC arrest warrant, Filipino President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. ordered the arrest of his predecessor and arch-nemesis. Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is now in the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Netherlands following his dramatic arrest in Manila the day before over a brutal, years-long anti-drugs… Read more.
Greenlanders just did what too many Americans failed to do in 2016: they saw Donald Trump as a bullying snake-oil salesman with autocratic and imperial ambitions — and they rejected his pitch outright. With Tuesday’s parliamentary results, Greenlanders made clear their intent to maintain their colonial ties to Denmark. That’s because they fully appreciate the… Read more.
A secretary of state in name only I said from the start that Marco Rubio’s nomination as Secretary of State was about tokenism, not diplomacy. Trump proved me right by stacking his administration with White, DEI (“didn’t earn it”) special envoys, making Rubio irrelevant. Case in point: Richard Grenell, Trump’s envoy of special envoys, was… Read more.
