If they want me, I am there.
04.03.2026 23:56
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If they want me, I am there.
I have the answer now, but in the moment I couldn't think of something really good.
Its the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. It is so thoroughly immoral that my brain shuts off when I contemplate it. But the ruling is legal, by definition.
I spent the last two hours being grilled by 300 kids with journalism questions at Druid Hills Middle School. Every elected official should be so thoroughly sandpapered smooth.
One asked me for an example of something I'd seen that was legal but immoral, and I'm still thinking about that one.
The party and Berger's backers reportedly spent upwards of $10 million to hold his seat. That is $764.81 per vote, to lose by two votes.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw lost his primary because he wasn't far *enough* to the right? Holy shit.
Look closely at the details of this case and you may change your mind. The underlying issue is about selective prosecution.
You don't need me to parachute in when the locals are doing the job. I live in Georgia and there's enough weird shit to deal with here, thank you.
Some people still get to work from home. This is apparently a curtained-off part of the Mar-a-Lago banquet hall while we attack Iran. I wish I were joking.
If the EO draft I'm reading on elections reflects half of what Trump actually signs, it won't make it 10 steps in a federal courthouse before the paper bursts into flames. Paper ballots? Hand count? Nuts, but whatever. Notary public to vote absentee? Re-register every election? English-only ballots?
Fuck Jasmine Crockett.
"But ... but ... but ... TRUMP!"
FUCK YOU. That makes it worse. That is an argument demanding permission to be a piece of shit because your enemies are bigger pieces of shit.
You are asking for shit to win.
I am not in the market for shit.
I do not want shit.
Shit is bad.
Do not be shit.
Republicans and their supporters are suing and arresting and deporting and shooting at journalists. Conservative billionaires are buying news rooms just to fuck with the people in them. We are awash in bullshit.
This is not a time for Democrats to think they've got some room to push the needle.
I mean, holy shit. They tossed her because she was asking other congresspeople about her *without her permission.*
Hear me, Atlanta politicians. If you try this shit with me - fuck, if you try this shit with ANYONE and I hear about it - I will find a way to make that matter to your reelection odds.
Jasmine Crockett's team threw an Atlantic reporter out of a rally because they don't like what she writes.
I write for the Guardian, and I've never been thrown out of a Trump rally. This petty bullshit is disqualifying. Fuck Crockett.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
It should be high up in any story about the feds cutting off Medicaid payments to Minnesota that this is against the law and will probably be reversed in court within days if not hours if it happens at all.
Collective punishment is unconstitutional.
We were looking for references to ICE, or Epstein too. Nada. The credit card thing is interesting, though. Two hours and no comment on it when affordability is what people are talking about must mean they got to him on it ... or someone finally told him he can't do that with executive authority.
Of all the stupid, mendacious, insulting things Trump said last night, the thing that bothers me is his reference to voting as a privilege. It is not.
It is a right. Privileges are optional. Rights are not.
Trump is lying about the economy and the Republican effect on the economy, health care, and more.
Fuck. What else am I supposed to do here except say so.
This has to stop. There has to be a point at which conservatives consider the future of the country and their own position and realize that whatever they lose by abandoning Trump will be less than what they will lose by embracing him. How many of them actually want to live in the world he's making?
We squander what remains of goodwill toward the US at our future peril. We will need allies if we intend to prevent China from taking Taiwan in a year or two. We are driving those allies away at breathtaking speed.
I say this, and some midwit shitheel will say that I am taking Iran's side. Do I need to say I'm not? Do I dignify that stupidity?
The regime *should* fall. But anything we do to "help" will reinforce Tehran, because in the mind of the average Iranian, we are the worst problem on this planet.
And if we hit Iran first, we are the aggressors. They would be morally justified in self-defense.
The symbolism of sinking a nuclear carrier may be worth what comes after, given the institutional, visceral hatred by the regime and the low-key disgust of regular Iranians of the United States.
I vibrate with rage at each incremental act of self-sabotage eroding our readiness and our national honor. The bidding war for bonuses for warrant officers. Pushing out a decorated, well-respected public affairs officer for following policy. The posturing idiocy. The degraded intelligence.
I don't like thinking about the US as the bad guys.
I served proudly in the US Army for five years on active duty. I keep a uniform (that I will probably never fit in again) in my closet. I'm staring at a 25th ID Tropic Lightning baseball cap on top of my bookshelf.
China has been supplying Iran with weaponry and military observers. Iran may believe, justifiably, that China's quiet support will make whatever sacrifices surrendered to an attack worth what Iran may do to the USS Gerald Ford and the 25,000 sailors crewing it.
The Navy has been *screaming* at Congress for years that the capital investment in carriers has created a strategic vulnerability - a $10 million drone can kill a $10 billion capital ship. The US has been losing wargames for a decade in this scenario.
Trump seems perplexed by the reticence of the Iranian regime to capitulate while a carrier group is parked on its doorstep and a third of our naval power is bearing down.
I don't think it's occurred to him that the vulnerability of the surface fleet to drones is no longer a theoretical problem.
If Trump suggests that the US should nuke Iran in a first strike, whatever sanity remains in our political structures should come to bear to impeach him immediately, before military commanders have to risk their lives, freedom and honor to prevent it.
There are no more lines to cross after that.
Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
