This post explores why Democrats do not have the support and confidence of enough voters and how they can overcome this deficit.

Read Haberman's explosive article in the Times about this war, starting with Netanyahu's presentation for war in the Situation Room and the failure of Trump's advisors to be adults.

How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran

And here we have it. Israel was the goad and Trump's advisors were not the adults we needed.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

Probably

Is the next step is to make it punishable by death.

This survey provides some useful information, but its headlines about how Americans view the morals of fellow citizens are not justified by the data. Moreover, the survey's design implies that morality primarily consists of behaviors marked by controversy and societal division.

Trump says Democrats must cheat to win. What do his supporters think? NPR spent several days traveling across a pair of swing districts in Pennsylvania to find out. The answers show how much has changed since the 2020 election.

A hopeful sign.

www.npr.org/2026/03/12/n...

Never say never, but just killing a leader is unlikely to bring desirable change whether it's Kamenei in Iran or El Mencho cartel boss in Mexico.

Well, he says he has permission from SC, and Justices do not contradict.

Nor was the Court worried about consequences of Citizens United or the overthrow of abortion rights.

The dissenters were worried about the fallout and chaos from the ruling. That is so rich. Dod the worru about consequences of Citizens United or overturning abortion rights?

Tjeu have beem lapdogs to him

Bondi is worse. She also uses the law to attack political foes.

An Atlantic writer wrongly equates social justice research in the Humanities with wokeism, which he says leads to advocacy versus the search for truth and new knowledge.

Trump gets the Monroe doctrine wrong. He should take a page from Bad Bunny | Ted Widmer The US president has twisted the 1823 doctrine to suit his quest for domination. It originally had a very different vision for the Americas

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The Democratic Party is the only viable oppositional force to MAGA, but it must articulate a fresh vision to earn the trust and support of more voters.

Compared with a year ago, White Protestants and religiously unaffiliated adults now have significantly less confidence that Trump acts ethically in office. For example, 26% of White nonevangelical Protestants are extremely or very confident Trump acts ethically in office, down from 38%. And the share of religious “nones” who have a lot of confidence in Trump’s ethics now stands at 10%, down from 16%. Confidence in Trump’s ethics has remained low among Black Protestants.

Extremely or very confident Donald Trump acts ethically in office
White evangelicals 40%
US adult avg. 21%
Unaffiliated 10%
Black Protestants 7%
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/09/w...

The Smearing of Alex Pretti and NSPM-7 How administration officials' labelling Alex Pretti and Renee Good as "domestic terrorists" fits in with NSPM-7.

I joined forces with @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social.

We explain deep connections between senior administration officials' smearing Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and ICE protestors as "domestic terrorists" and how this fits into the draconian NSPM-7.

Important for more people to wake up to this.

Yes, but the criticism comes easily now because there is some incontrovertible video evidence indicating murder. But neither DHS nor ICE produced the evidence, and committed themselves to a policy of policing so that there is no inhumane treatment, let alone murder.

Heartbreaking .

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Supporting reference?

The MAGA attack on empathy undermines human decency and the golden rule. It is designed to alleviate any guilt or moral responsibility arising from assaults on groups deigned unworthy of moral treatment.

After a lapse of 2 years, I feel compelled to re-establish my blog on the moral dimension in education, society, and politics. “Silence is complicity” is one big reason among others. In this post, I explain.

Opinion | Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...

Perhaps Trump does have a master plan: to take over Latin America and Canada, let Russia take over Europe and Ukraine, and let Chinaa hava all of Asia, including Taiwan.

Trump is regularly using his office to corruptly enrich himself, his family, and his rich benefactors. There is no evidence that Walz has done likewise in this daycare scandal. And did Walz ever set up a cancer nonprofit and siphon off donations to enrich his family like Trump?

Trump says US bombed alleged drug facility in Venezuela. No one knows if it’s true. It could be a lie from social media, or a conflation of other stories. Either way, Americans need to know.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-us-b...

Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.