Yeah but these guys never quote anything Hamilton wrote, pretending instead that it was all Madison. Problem solved! 🙄

We find ourselves saying “What the f***!” so often these days.

No, the statute’s expiration is exactly why they’re doing it. This allows them to “investigate” and release “results” without ever having to go to court and prove any of it. Just another cynical exploitation of the system.

“The year was 1863
A paper said that I was free
But no one read it to my ears
And so I slaved for two more years”

- Rhiannon Giddens, “Better Git Your Learning”

Excellent write-up. Any thoughts about the Homeland Security directive asserting the right to enter courthouses for immigration detention actions? www.ice.gov/about-ice/er...

Or to put it another way: J.D. Vance’s mere presence is so toxic that he killed the pope.

This is unfortunately correct. There will be no changes in anything actually meaningful during the current administration.

If you take this together with the RAND Corp. report a few years ago about massive income inequality, the pieces fit together well. The nation is not healthy, and the first step toward fixing it is clearly seeing the problems. These revised measurements are a crucial first step.