Trump and the Republicans keep saying that there’s some Radical Left that’s responsible for everything wrong in the United States. If that’s so, can someone please tell me where and how to join it?
In the Meantime, You’re Dead
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As President Trump has shown with his drone assassinations of unidentified Venezuelans on boats in the Southern Caribbean, if the leader of the free world wants to kill you, he can come up with a legal justification that won’t withstand legal scrutiny. But by the time you make it before a judge, you’ll be blown to bits.
I’m Just an Executive Order
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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.
Behind Closed Doors, Biden and Harris Were Amazing
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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 War on Ennui
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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?
The Evolution of American Heroes
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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.
Kumbaya
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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.
No Political Violence, Trump Says
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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.
Rules-Based Order, Revised
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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?
Steal, Pay, Leave
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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.
