Medicare open enrollment starts October 15. Here’s what the ads won’t tell you, from The Hidden History of American Healthcare.

Carl Schmitt taught that real power begins where normal law ends. The American right has rediscovered him at exactly the wrong time.

Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.

For ninety years Americans fought to keep the government from building one master file on each of us. This week Trump and Scott Bessent started one for every child in the country...

NEADA projects $2,627 to heat an oil-burning home this winter, up $878. The HHS staff that ran LIHEAP was fired on April 1, 2025, never rehired, and the president's budget zeroes the program.

Pneumonic plague doesn't spread like COVID–which makes the silence around Irkutsk harder to explain, not easier.

How did we Nazi this coming?

As the right wing media and political ecosystem spread fear and disinformation--he’s a breakdown of the actual facts about Islamic Shariah

Ken Paxton admits he’s lost control of his campaign, whistleblower who exposed Trump officials links to Epstein found dead, Natalie Harp behind Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads

The election in 29 days is going to be a historic wipeout.

Thirteen ads. Lions, eagles, a mugshot, a UFC belt, and a narrator who says the Lord built him. Paid for by the U.S. Government.

On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...

We Must Drain the Poison Out of Our Body Politic If There Is to Be a Better World After Trump

His fund owns the biggest stake in an Israeli giant tied to the arms industry. He calls it Vanguard. Here's the truth. Jared Kushner is an arms dealing, insider trading, future defendant of Nuremberg.

Trump threatens to defeat his fellow Americans permanently

On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...

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A weekly-ish journal on Ireland travel, photography, well-made things, and the strangeness of modern life. Click to read The Dirt Road, by Casey McCallister, a Substack publication with hundreds of su...

, Donny spells it, and so much more...

I wish he weren’t so easy to understand

MAGA operatives flew into Calgary to help break Canada. The separatists said thanks and asked what else they could sell as CSIS opens investigations into the Trump Regime/treasonous Canadians.

The history your civics class left out

They thought they knew who Trump was coming for.

The surest way to escape oil shocks, dictatorial petrostates, and endless energy wars is brutally simple: stop consuming and subsidizing their oil….

Arend Feenstra, Like American Derek Huffman, is about to become worm food in Ukraine because he didn’t want his kids to be exposed to “woke” homosexuality in Canada. Oh, Well.

The chatbot that flattered Trump in the Oval Office is now helping the Pentagon pick bombing targets.

On August 26 the Department of War asked for emergency permission to remove "I have never lived in the United States" from the federal ballot form. It got it in two days. The DNC sued Thursday.

Earlier today, barely 33 days before the midterm elections, Donald Trump admitted that there might not be any line he isn’t willing to cross to make sure that he and his party win the elections in Nov...

Jane Doe, who has said she was raped and plied with drugs at a Cornell fraternity house in 2024, “deserves to know that every fact will be examined and justice pursued,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said.

In which I talk about the new little kitty cat we discovered, and why us humans seemed to need it so badly in the most unserious way possible

Two Danish studies show the ADHD net is finally reaching ordinary Hunters, not just the wounded ones.

And it’s the single biggest reason I’ll never trust Republicans to regulate AI

It's not a weapon you can see. It's an idea about the one thing you can't afford to lose: your mind.

The deeper story isn't the $500. It’s what happens to democracy when politicians steeped in pay-to-play politics start treating ordinary citizens like one more constituency to be won over with money…

A Joint Chiefs chairman, two service chiefs, three top lawyers, the heads of the NSA and DIA, two service secretaries, his own aides, the press corps, and, as of yesterday, one in five of the rest.

A tree from 1829, a garden, a wing of the White House, the Reflecting Pool, the Kennedy Center, two museum labels, and the South Lawn, for a cage fight. An inventory, in the order he got to them.

WOOHOO!! In a *glorious* spanking, Judge Todd Edelman just handed this administration it's as..er.. head on a platter, dismissing Olympian David "Davey" Hearn's case WITH PREJUDICE in the reflecting ...

A Washington Post headline today read: “U.S.

And why a Bush appointee who clerked for Scalia now finds himself in the crosshairs.

The attacks on Jack Smith expose something far bigger than one ugly Senate hearing: a collision between personal political loyalty and America’s constitutional system…

He banned Canadian tequila, sake and Scotch. Canada makes none of them. Americans pay for all of it.

The executive order wasn't policy. It was a sales pitch for domains somebody already owned.

As I was reviewing the various cases against this administration that I am monitoring for you, one that I saw just now stopped me cold: WTAF was this case involving *FEMA* and.... upcoming elections?...