New records reveal Trump’s ballroom is far more expensive than originally promised, jumping from $400M to $600M.
Half of it will be paid for by taxpayers, despite Trump saying it would be fully privately funded.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Professor Wurman complained that my paper did not devote attention to his historical fiction.
Well, he got his wish in a new paper by Keener and Whittington, who thoroughly demolish the hackery:
reason.com/volokh/2026/...
"the vulgarity that is the hallmark of Trump and his surrounding circle of oligarchs is a symptom of something not at all trivial: The collapse of social norms." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-theory...
The obsession with the “threat” of Sharia law, in Texas of all places, is downright surreal. It’s like panicking over the prospect of being invaded by Switzerland.
This is sad on a bunch of levels, not least of which is that it sounds like they’re not seriously reevaluating their own political alignments.
"insane levels of corruption is okay for this one guy" is literally the GOP platform
There are no circumstances in which you are better off voluntarily speaking to the FBI without a lawyer. None. Don't be polite and chat. It could ruin you.
Major Kong to Ground Control
Anthony Michael Kreis
I wrote about the White House UFC cage match, including Josh Hokit calling Michelle Obama a man.
As we turn 250, America is celebrating the worst it has to offer.
www.liberalcurrents.com/donald-trump...
Molly Jong-Fast
ryan cooper
This was never for the American people; it was for the most vicious and barbarous among us.
ICE observers in Minneapolis have begun receiving visits from FBI agents sent to intimidate them. A close friend-combat vet, mother, no criminal record-who was a volunteer observer during the ICE crisis, had a visit and was threatened for taking photos and videoed, claiming that filming was illegal.
