Washington Examiner: Imagine it was someone other than President Donald Trump. Suppose a different leader were posting deranged rants in the small hours, insulting the spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics, threatening entire civilizations with annihilation, and comparing himself to God. What would be the reaction?
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Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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More generally: Trump’s economic policy makes more sense once you recognize it’s just an elaborate bribe-solicitation mechanism.
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
The administration is harboring Brazilian convicts.
The administration is harboring Brazilian convicts.
“No foreigner gets to game our immigration system to both circumvent formal extradition requests and extend political witch hunts into U.S. territory,”the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs said…”
JFC.
Brazil using ICE to get a convicted friend of Trump’s back into custody and backfires?
“The move comes after ICE last week briefly detained Brazilian intelligence chief Alexandre Ramagem, who fled Brazil in September following his conviction for plotting a coup with ex-President Jair Bolsonaro
I’d invoke a Dean Wormer GIF, but this isn’t funny.
JUST IN: Judge Amit Mehta (Obama/DC) opens door to deposition of Trump in #Jan6 civil lawsuits. Discovery against Trump on merits of cases could begin in May. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
I get where you are coming from here, but not sure guarantees that it can never happen should be on the table.
“I wanted to believe it wasn’t real,” said Farid Jubran, a spokesman for the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which oversees Latin Catholics in Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan and Cyprus." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...
…and thanks Ben! Subscribed to help with those efforts.
A series of recent bear encounters has led parts of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to temporarily close.
But still oscillating at 50/50 in SC, correct?
This is the most doth-protest-too-much statement ever protested.
So this is why he wants the MoH. 🙄
One word says it all.
So status quo ante.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
2 weeks? JFC that’s sweet irony.
