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Historian. Proud George Mason University PHD
Nobody wants this. Next step, renaming the nation's capital to Trumptown. Besides political and cultural pillage, what this paean to fascism will do to traffic visibility and flow alone is horrendous. Doubt it's permitted and approved by anybody anywhere.
December 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Nobody wants this. Next step, renaming the nation's capital to Trumptown. Besides political and cultural pillage, what this paean to fascism will do to traffic visibility and flow alone is horrendous. Doubt it's permitted and approved by anybody anywhere.
This is also the Old America, let's be clear.
December 31, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This is also the Old America, let's be clear.
“Peace” talks should only be held inside the country that war is destroying. Not likely with Trump and his henchmen in charge, but there’s always a chance of better perspective and urgency than a meeting half a continent away by a sunny beach or dazzled by the gilt of the gleaming Oval Office.
December 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“Peace” talks should only be held inside the country that war is destroying. Not likely with Trump and his henchmen in charge, but there’s always a chance of better perspective and urgency than a meeting half a continent away by a sunny beach or dazzled by the gilt of the gleaming Oval Office.
The one time he speaks the truth…..
December 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The one time he speaks the truth…..
While you're at it, how about reviewing all Executive branch violations of federal law in the past week alone. More importantly, how about doing something, taking action.
December 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
While you're at it, how about reviewing all Executive branch violations of federal law in the past week alone. More importantly, how about doing something, taking action.
"Looking out across the hall’s empty seats,..." washingtonian.com/2025/12/17/a...
A Kennedy Center Musician on What It’s Like There Now
The NSO’s principal violist discusses plummeting attendance and worrisome headlines.
washingtonian.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Looking out across the hall’s empty seats,..." washingtonian.com/2025/12/17/a...
Footnoting and crediting here that @jamellebouie.net authored this oped, not Professor Tribe, and as expected and as Tribe's sharing would indicate, it's another brilliant analysis.
December 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Footnoting and crediting here that @jamellebouie.net authored this oped, not Professor Tribe, and as expected and as Tribe's sharing would indicate, it's another brilliant analysis.
So many calls to invoke the 25th Amendment. But Section 4 calls for action from those whose self-interest, financial, and political power depend on Trump in office. Suspect it ain't happening. constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...
constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...
constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...
constitution.congress.gov
December 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
So many calls to invoke the 25th Amendment. But Section 4 calls for action from those whose self-interest, financial, and political power depend on Trump in office. Suspect it ain't happening. constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...
constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...
constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...
Anybody catch her strident support for administrative policy duing the recent Noem hearings? The MTG concept of empathy is self-serving and erratic.
December 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Anybody catch her strident support for administrative policy duing the recent Noem hearings? The MTG concept of empathy is self-serving and erratic.
But only in conjunction with government-approved Times New Roman font
December 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
But only in conjunction with government-approved Times New Roman font
Presumably Malone isn't talking about measles epidemics that undocumented European immigrants spread among indigenous populations in the Americas starting around, say 1600--along with smallpox, TB, malaria, and other diseases. Thought not.
December 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Presumably Malone isn't talking about measles epidemics that undocumented European immigrants spread among indigenous populations in the Americas starting around, say 1600--along with smallpox, TB, malaria, and other diseases. Thought not.
Hey, all you guys who watch/read/listen to/comment on things so the rest of us don't have to--you can skip this one, thanks anyway.
December 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Hey, all you guys who watch/read/listen to/comment on things so the rest of us don't have to--you can skip this one, thanks anyway.
Blatant racism is not okay. It's never okay. Failure to call out Trump's degrading hate and vile speech is not okay. Silence is not okay. It's shameful. It's cowardly. There is no excuse.
December 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Blatant racism is not okay. It's never okay. Failure to call out Trump's degrading hate and vile speech is not okay. Silence is not okay. It's shameful. It's cowardly. There is no excuse.
So much scrutiny. So little vision. So much talk. So little action.
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
So much scrutiny. So little vision. So much talk. So little action.
It's quite reasonable to believe Lakanwal was a covert operative, perhaps as a condition of asylum for a wife and 5 children, an option denied to so many who worked for the US in Afghanistan. 3000 miles across country? Farragut Square? Better options existed, even messed up with guilt, pain, PTSD.
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It's quite reasonable to believe Lakanwal was a covert operative, perhaps as a condition of asylum for a wife and 5 children, an option denied to so many who worked for the US in Afghanistan. 3000 miles across country? Farragut Square? Better options existed, even messed up with guilt, pain, PTSD.
and to ensuring the public knows that vaccines are requisite to human health. I stated that Trump believes in vaccines, but this is totally irrelevant because, like RFK, Jr., Trump's medical knowledge comes from badly formed google searches and black magic.
November 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
and to ensuring the public knows that vaccines are requisite to human health. I stated that Trump believes in vaccines, but this is totally irrelevant because, like RFK, Jr., Trump's medical knowledge comes from badly formed google searches and black magic.
No Cassidy, here's what you can say: As a physician, I took the Hippocratic oath. As a Senator, I swore to defend the Constitution. When I voted for RFK, Jr., I broke both vows. I believed an ignorant, dangerous liar, and I was wrong. I will dedicate myself to removing him from office...
November 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
No Cassidy, here's what you can say: As a physician, I took the Hippocratic oath. As a Senator, I swore to defend the Constitution. When I voted for RFK, Jr., I broke both vows. I believed an ignorant, dangerous liar, and I was wrong. I will dedicate myself to removing him from office...
Good job, but honestly...phone providers, retail sites, entertainment sites ought to preface with fine print stating "It's not you, it's me." The faceless programmers are highly fallible.
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Good job, but honestly...phone providers, retail sites, entertainment sites ought to preface with fine print stating "It's not you, it's me." The faceless programmers are highly fallible.
Ms Piggy is way out of Leavitt’s league. Mundane pork adjectives will do.
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Ms Piggy is way out of Leavitt’s league. Mundane pork adjectives will do.
Eurydice was a hungry young girl
A runaway from everywhere she'd ever been
She was no stranger to the world
No stranger to the wind...
...The weather ain't the way it was before...
...And there ain't a thing that you can do...
...'Cept for hurry up and hit the road
Any way the wind blows...
A runaway from everywhere she'd ever been
She was no stranger to the world
No stranger to the wind...
...The weather ain't the way it was before...
...And there ain't a thing that you can do...
...'Cept for hurry up and hit the road
Any way the wind blows...
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Eurydice was a hungry young girl
A runaway from everywhere she'd ever been
She was no stranger to the world
No stranger to the wind...
...The weather ain't the way it was before...
...And there ain't a thing that you can do...
...'Cept for hurry up and hit the road
Any way the wind blows...
A runaway from everywhere she'd ever been
She was no stranger to the world
No stranger to the wind...
...The weather ain't the way it was before...
...And there ain't a thing that you can do...
...'Cept for hurry up and hit the road
Any way the wind blows...
Oh, Professor Chafetz, your ivory tower gleams and glistens.
November 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Oh, Professor Chafetz, your ivory tower gleams and glistens.