Deportation, Delivered With a Side of Requests
The Trump White House insisted foreign policy was finally being run like a business. No more freeloaders. No more favors. Everything would be transactional, efficient, and hard-nosed. Which is why it is useful to read the paperwork and see just how flexible those principles became once deportations were on the table. According to internal U.S. […]
King Trump, Meet the Guy Who Quit
Donald Trump has never claimed to want a crown. He has simply described the presidency as if it came with one. “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president,” Trump said in 2019, during an interview meant to reassure the public that everything was under control. […]
ICE Agent’s iPhone Takes Center Stage in Renee Good Shooting — Because When the World Is Burning, Someone’s Gotta Get Good Lighting
In Minneapolis this week, federal immigration agent Jonathan Ross somehow managed to turn what should have been a serious law-enforcement encounter into the nation’s weirdest attempt at TikTokCop. As protests roiled after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, the centerpiece of the controversy wasn’t just the use of force — it was the fact […]
The Founding Fathers Didn’t Envision This — They Envisioned Congress Doing Its Job
Ask most Americans what the Founding Fathers wanted, and you will hear something about freedom, liberty, and a strong president who can take charge when things get messy. That story feels comforting. It is also a modern rewrite. The system the Founders designed put power where arguments live. In Congress. War, spending, trade, domestic force, […]
Welcome to the New USA™
Where Freedom Is Private, Rules Are Optional, and Power Comes With a Premium Plan Congratulations, traveler—you’ve arrived in the New United States of America, a bold experiment in Extreme Limited Government™. Here, we’ve streamlined democracy, outsourced accountability, and let the market decide almost everything (especially things you used to vote on). Please enjoy your stay, […]
Once, Treason Laws Served Kings Against Their Rivals. Now the GOP Wants to Borrow the Crown
Treason™: Now Available as a Executive Order, Courtesy of Donald Trump One of the Founders’ quietest flexes was how paranoid they were about the word treason. Not paranoid like “red-strings on a corkboard,” but paranoid like “we just fought a king who used this word to kill his critics.” So when they wrote the Constitution, […]