Few of us will see the faux-gold applique on the walls. This is the closest to the White House ("the people's house") that most people will get, looking west from 15th St along Pennsylvania Ave., yesterday evening at 5:45 pm

This also goes to a point @donmoyn.bsky.social made last week: College campuses are *uniquely* open, among all American institutions, to debate and disagreement. You can't go to an evangelical church (or any church) or corporation and expect them to give a hearing to an alternative viewpoint.

Arrested for "carrying a pistol without a license" is only possible in DC and the 21 states that require licenses. In almost all the red and very purple states (+northern New England), this would not be a crime. Which is why most of them have higher rates of gun violence and murder than my city.

A long out-of-print political science classic suddenly becomes relevant again.

The Trump voter-suppression EO is a disgraceful mess, but it would be quite a GOP self-own if its proof-of-citizenship standards became law. Not much counts besides passports & REAL ID, if it shows citizenship, which it usually doesn't. Who has passports? Young people, and people w/ college+. 1/2

It's dumb to take this seriously (US had some wealthy people in the 1870-1913 period but was not wealthy overall), but let's play along for a minute: What else happened in 1870-1913? The share of US population that was immigrants was higher than it's been at any time since then. Immigration>tariffs

It's quite explicit in Musk and Ramaswamy's WSJ op-ed from Wednesday, probably written by Russell Vought. www.wsj.com/opinion/musk...