In the classic “I’m Just a Bill” skit from “Schoolhouse Rock,” the process to go from proposal to law is complicated. Now that Trump is governing via executive orders with a compliant Congress, no Democratic opposition, and a rubber-stamp Supreme Court, his ideas become de facto law overnight.
In her new book 107 Days, Kamala Harris claims she was a lioness fighting for Palestinian rights. Not in public, where it counts for a vice president. Behind closed doors, where nobody who mattered could hear her. It’s the latest example of the Biden White House claiming that things were awesome just out of sight.
Trump’s executive order against Antifa directs the government to track down, arrest, and disrupt the group and its funding sources. However, Antifa is not a formal group but an idea. What’s next in Trump’s war against abstract concepts?
Republicans have a strange idea of what constitutes heroism. After years of complaining about liberal cancel culture on college campuses and elsewhere, right-wing conservatives are doxxing and trying to get their political enemies fired, or worse.
In the United States, the vast majority of political violence is directed at the left from the right. Indeed, the Trump administration repeatedly calls for violence against its political opponents. Ignoring history and the facts, however, they’ve cynically exploited the assassination of Charlie Kirk to demand that their liberal opponents stop doing the very thing they are not really doing, but that Republicans are.
Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, it was breathtakingly bizarre to see a president whose administration has perfected the art of violent political rhetoric and action, and is enthusiastically embracing genocide, haughtily decry political violence.
Russia accidentally on purpose invades Polish airspace with drones and blows up a farmer’s house. Israel brazenly bombs downtown Doha, as well as Iran. The UN does nothing. What kind of rules-based order lets countries invade each other without any consequences whatsoever?
The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by book authors whose works were used without permission to train its chatbot. The company will compensate authors or publishers approximately $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books included in the settlement. However, Anthropic will be allowed to continue operating and retain the benefits derived from the unauthorized use of the books.
The assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk in front of thousands of Utah college students shocked the nation and raised the prospect of a tit-for-tat series of retribution killings between the left and the right.
Trump keeps declaring one emergency after another. Aside from the fact that the American public is suffering from emergency exhaustion, you have to wonder how other countries, especially adversaries of the U.S., view our current predilection for catastrophizing everything.
