Daughter Number Three

The Trump regime's assault on Head Start doesn't get the attention it should. This AP story from a few days ago and this update de...

As ICE and DHS generally (and the National Guard and other paramilitary operations) ramp up their unconstitutional and violent actions aroun...

It's time for my more or less annual reminder to support cartoonist Tom Tomorrow's Sparky's List , as all of the publications th...

I have a hypothesis about Trump's 250 pardons for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Of course, if it happens, pe...

The Supreme Court makes me hate June. As climatologist Peter Gleick said on BlueSky a few hours ago,  Do I have this right? The Supreme Cou...

One name: Russell Vought.  He wants to put himself (or people he controls) in charge of deciding how all the U.S. government's grant mon...

I'm overwhelmed by today's bad news ( multi-decade sentences to the Prairieland defendants in Texas and multiple 6–3 SCOTUS decisio...

In the past few days, Facebook has shown me a couple of statements that resonate with the political situation we are in. First, this: It re...

After yesterday's story about the tiny number of asylum cases that are found in favor of applicants by Trump regime judges, it was extr...

Yesterday, I wrote that it wasn't possible to come up with adjectives to describe the corruption of Trump and his administration. As Ch...

I admit my imagination failed.  I couldn't imagine how bad this second Trump administration would be, and I now know it will get worse. ...

I've been saving this one: It could have been posted any time, really.  

I'm a Supreme Court watcher, but not professionally, and there's a lot going on these days. So I wasn't very aware of the major ...

Depending on what you have read about Cole Allen, the attempted shooter at the White House Correspondents Dinner, you may or may not know th...

Here's some news from today that may or may not get coverage: RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vacci...

The Trump regime has made a practice of firing qualified immigration judges and replacing them with loyalists who will follow Trump (and Ste...

From Garrett Graff, a journalist and historical writer: In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and S...

I have mixed feelings about whether now is the time to be spending hundreds of billions of dollars to return to the moon. Like many (most?) ...

Minnesota 50501 recently gave us Operation Metro Surge by the numbers . As they put it: Overall, not a very effective operation and these d...

I don't know what to do.  Beth Sawin just said on BlueSky, It's ok to feel sad and bewildered. In fact I'm coming to think that...