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In a bid to assure a Nobel Peace Prize, Trump plans to offer Vladimir Putin eastern Ukraine in exchange for Putin’s assurance that Russia will halt its attempts to annex the rest of Ukraine at least until 2029. According to… Read more“I’ve already started to write my Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech”
This is how it goes: With or without evidence (in this case, without), the dictator declares that escalating crime and disorder threaten public safety in the capital. Such rapidly deteriorating conditions require prompt and decisive action. On this pretext, he… Read moreTrump’s Takover of DC
As has been widely reported, on June 30, 2025, the Trump Administration froze about $6.8 billion in federal education funding that was scheduled to be released the very next day. The move created an immediate crisis for school districts–rural, suburban,… Read moreDon’t set my house on fire and expect me to thank you for handing me a hose
Today, my newsfeed had a Reuters headline “White House defends firing of labor official as critics warn of trust erosion.” The story concerns Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics head, Erika McEntarfer, for issuing jobs numbers that Trump… Read moreThe Mistrust is the Point