Hegseth’s Pentagon “renaming” these bases after obscure veterans with the same names as the Confederates the bases were originally named for has all the subtlety of a school bully putting his hand in your face and yelling “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!”

The only throughline to me seems a desire to preserve an imaginary past. For a certain type of conservative, that's happy peasants living off the land locally. For a certain type of leftist, it's happy peasants living off the land that they can visit on a backpacking trip.

Mr. President, I say this with all due respect, but get your head out of your fucking ass.

Thus continues life in The Land of Perpetual Half-Mast™

Restricting H1-Bs and tariffing solar panels are, in particular, so comically stupid that when you hear them you should find an economist to give a hug.