Open Thread

Is This Lawsuit Really Necessary?  Can someone please explain to me why Matt Meyer simply won't, or can't, submit his nominees to the State Senate for the Diamond State Port…

Musk Runs Amok. Dems Do Nothing.  If a political party does nothing to challenge arguably the most-despised person in the world, one who is bent on destroying the fourth branch…

Non-Citizen Nazi Sympathizer Granted Access To All Federal Payment Info: The Trump administration has approved plans to grant Treasury officials affiliated with Elon Musk’s team access to the federal system…

Trump Starts Massive Purge Of FBI And DOJ.  Targeted at anybody who had anything to do with Trump And Jan. 6 cases: President Donald Trump’s administration has launched a sweeping…

The Truth (Partially) Revealed--BHL Tried To Pack Port Board With Her Political Supporters.  Take it from one horse's ass' mouth: The spat between the legislative and executive branches came to…

I rarely (perhaps never) talk about how many people read the blog, and what they read when they read it.  However, the Guest Post on the State IT Office  has,…

I've delayed this long enough.  Here goes: We're in the midst of an unprecedented attack on government safeguards that more or less stop us from sinking into oligarchy.  Or autocracy. …

Post-Democracy America: Trump Fires Justice Department Prosecutors: Acting Attorney General James McHenry fired several Justice Department officials yesterday who worked on the federal criminal investigations into President Trump, according to…

War With Colombia Averted!  Irony intended: The United States and Colombia averted a trade war, for now, after the White House said late Sunday that Bogotá agreed to accept deportation…

Post-Democracy America Day 6:  Trump Destroys The EPA: President Trump is stocking the Environmental Protection Agency with officials who have served as lawyers and lobbyists for the oil and chemical…

Post-Democracy America Day 5:  Trump Fires Inspectors General In Late-Night Purge: The White House late Friday fired the independent inspectors general of at least 12 major federal agencies in a…

Merely Another Random Photo From The Trump Inaugural... W-wait.  That can't be, it must be an optical illusion.  You know, like, what's it called, photo-shopping? a dope-lganger, perhaps?  Perhaps this…

Post-Democratic America Day--Day Three.  Federal civil rights cases quashed? Check. Science silenced? Check.  Career National Security Staff sent home? Check.  The real Trump Bible is Project 2025. Oh, well, at…