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Trump Found a Bigger Room for the Joke We were still enjoying Trump’s latest round of trolling. The plaques aimed at former presidents landed exactly where they were meant to. Some of those presidents are…
Dan Bongino Didn’t Leave the FBI. He tapped out. Dan Bongino is resigning as FBI deputy director after less than a year on the job, and the official language already feels like a parody. He…
When Skepticism Becomes a Suspect Behavior I ran across a report this week claiming older Americans are driving political polarization and conspiracy thinking online. You’ve probably seen some version of it already. Still, the headlines…
I wrote this piece for Victory Girls Blog, where it was originally published. I’m sharing it here as part of An Americanist’s Field Notes. Bondi Beach Was Not a Surprise. It Was Permission. Terrorists targeted…
New York Attorney General Letitia James is threatening to remove elected school board members who allow dissent at public meetings. In doing so, she has stopped enforcing the law and started enforcing obedience. This move…
The Trump administration wants visitors from forty two countries to hand over five years of their social media history before they enter the United States. That means five years of content that stretch from casual…
Pete Hegseth, The Washington Post, and the “Kill Them All” Smear Every Friday, the White House releases its Media Offender of the Week. It is a running list of which outlet went the extra…
Halle Berry Torches Gavin Newsom — And His Record Deserves the Heat Halle Berry walked onto the New York Times Dealbook Summit stage and did something Hollywood rarely does anymore. She named names, called out…
The Return of the Apocalypse Prophets Michael Fanone has resurfaced with a brand new prophecy about Donald Trump. This time, he claims the president is inching toward a dramatic escape to Saudi Arabia, complete with…
Biden Built the Pipeline. The Consequences Arrived in DC. A Guardswoman is dead because the Biden administration treated national security like an optional formality. Federal officials warned about missing data long before this attack. Inspectors…
