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The seizure of a foreign leader and plans for external governance violate core principles of international law and expose how quickly power can be substituted for process. There Is No Legal Basis for America’s Seizure of Venezuela Strip away the moral language and the Trump administration’s action in Venezuela collapses into something far simpler
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Let’s dispense with the cowardly qualifiers. Not that I blame him, I actually stand up for JD Vance who told a white Christian nationalist who insulted JD’s wife to “Eat Shit.” I don’t dislike that statement at all. But then again I stand for all women and…any man that defends them. Then again this
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Colorado does not have a money problem. It has an accountability allergy. Time for a break from the Epstein files for something closer to home. If I’m two cents short on a tax payment, the federal government knows instantly. Not eventually. Not after an audit. Instantly. Letters appear. Deadlines harden. Interest accumulates. The system is
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When the Cameras Turned Off, So Did They MTG and Lauren Boebert’s Epstein silence is the loudest sound in Washington. They were never subtle about it. For days, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert wrapped themselves in the language of “transparency,” pounding podiums and timelines with righteous fury. Release the Epstein files, they demanded. Expose
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They Were Meant to End the Conversation What was billed as a release of the Epstein files was not a reckoning. It was a controlled exposure. A demonstration of how power survives scandal not by denial, but by dilution. The public was given photographs without context, fragments without substance, and insinuations carefully stripped of consequence.
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Donald Trump’s administration didn’t gut NREL because it was ineffective. They went after it because it was effective. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory had the audacity to do something unforgivable in MAGA America, it measured reality. It produced data. It showed where the future was headed. And worse, it did so without caring whether that
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Americans Are Joking About Working for the Cartel Because Washington, Trump, and the War on Drugs Made a Joke of the Country America is losing a vibes war to the cartel. Not a shooting war. Not a border war. A vibes war. And TikTok comment sections are the battleground. Videos joking that the cartel
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America Should Stop Pretending It Was Normal. There are presidential interviews. There are difficult interviews. And then there is the Politico interview with President Trump which played out like a masterclass in how to detach fully and confidently from reality while expecting the rest of the planet to clap. Trump appeared under the studio
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There is something uniquely obscene about a politician announcing himself as the champion of affordability after years of watching people drown and calling it background noise. Donald Trump did not stumble into this claim innocently. He has seized it because his usual weapons grievance outrage spectacle are no longer enough. Voters are exhausted. The bills
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Not smoke. Not patriotism. Fear. The kind that sets in when too many powerful people realize the paper trail might finally catch up to them. The administration is racing to redact the Epstein files like they’re trying to beat a storm surge with a thimble. Names blacked out. Pages sealed. Timelines “under review.” Transparency, apparently,
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The President Who Thinks Americans Do Not Know What Magnets Are Yet Falls In Love With Every Strongman On Earth Including New York’s New Governor By Solin for PragmaticIssues.com The Setup America can put robots on Mars. America can build skyscrapers in months. America can run an entire nation off five minutes of engineering.
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Congress Has One Last Chance to Prove It Isn’t Still the Same Cowardly Institution That Betrayed Us in the 80s I grew up in the eighties when adults pretended child abuse was a misunderstanding or a family matter or something kids “misinterpreted.” It was the decade where schools covered it churches hid it police departments
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Trump and America Want Transitional Housing. The Idea Is Brilliant. The Infrastructure Is a Fantasy.
The Idea Is Brilliant. The Infrastructure Is a Fantasy. The Idea Is Not the Problem, the Capacity Is There is nothing inherently cruel or misguided about transitional housing. In fact, when done well, it is one of the most humane approaches available. It provides structure, expectations, community and momentum. It treats people as participants
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Trump Wants the DOJ to Reopen Epstein But Only for Democrats The latest tantrum, we meant demand from the Trump administration arrived not through a formal briefing but through a blast of political theater amplified by loyal surrogates, the President wants the Department of Justice to reopen the Epstein investigation but only to pursue Democrats.
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America woke up today to something between a political earthquake and a badly written soap opera rerun. The Epstein files are finally being pried open like a rusted lockbox that every powerful man in America swore had been “lost in the move.” And suddenly Donald Trump is out here on a runway looking like he’s
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The latest stunt from Donald Trump’s ever-growing list of political tantrums is a demand to alter ACA subsidies in the middle of a government shutdown. The move is as strategic as throwing gasoline on a kitchen fire and then demanding applause for the brightness of the flames. He has taken a nation already staggering under
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Chicago woke up to sirens again. This time it was not a school shooting or a freeway crash. It was immigration enforcement. Federal agents rolled into Little Village before dawn with their bulletproof vests, rifles, and scripted lines about public safety. A man opened fire on them from a black Jeep. No one was killed,
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Mr. President, Is This About Guarding America or Guarding Your Agenda Donald Trump is clinging to his demand to kill the Senate filibuster. He says it is time to stop gridlock and start “getting things done.” That sounds noble until you realize that what he really means is “getting his things done.” He has
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Colorado’s Comedic Guerillas – South Park’s Homegrown Boys Are Still Torching Trump and Laughing All the Way to the Avalanche By Solin for Pragmatic Issues Somewhere high in the Rockies, between the smell of pine, skunkweed, and irony, two Colorado boys are still doing divine mischief. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of
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Donald Trump says that 2026 will be the “year of affordability.” Adorable, really, like watching an arsonist promise to start a fire department. Because if there’s one thing Trump knows how to do, it’s drive prices up, gut safety nets, and then sell the ashes back to us as luxury condos. His administration’s latest slogan,
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By Solin for PragmaticIssues.com There’s a certain poetic justice in watching the self-proclaimed master of winning lose his composure. As Democrats notched key election night victories across several states, Donald Trump didn’t congratulate, didn’t self-reflect, no, no he detonated. “And so it begins,” he posted, as if democracy itself were a personal insult. HuffPost called
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Aaron Parnas, his every headline screams civil war, then none of them mean a damn thing. America doesn’t need more panic peddlers, it needs reporters who remember what truth sounds like. Damn I tried to stick up for the journalists when the white house kicked you out… Today a headline screamed across social feeds: “Internal
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Apparently, someone forgot to tell the self-styled emperor in residence that the White House isn’t Mar-a-Lago with better curtains, it’s the people’s house. Yet here we are again, the Trump administration, in a display of paranoid grandeur, has decided to restrict media access to the West Wing. The official line? Security. The real reason? Control.
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For years, the U.S. Department of Justice told Americans to trust the process. Turns out, the process was a performance and the script was written in bad faith. A new court ruling has finally confirmed what anyone paying attention during the Trump era already knew, the DOJ didn’t just manipulate the truth, it manufactured it.
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Denver Mayor Mike Johnson For all his talk about compassion, Mayor Mike Johnston has done little more than weaponize it. He came into office vowing to end homelessness, restore dignity, and make Denver “a city that works for everyone.” What we got instead is a city bleeding cash, housing fewer people, and spending millions
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“Every haunting begins with something left unfinished.” It always starts with silence not the peaceful kind, but the kind that seems to watch you back. As October fades and the air bites with frost, we tell ourselves ghosts are metaphors. Memory tricks. Bad wiring. But there’s something older at play a hum in the
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Why the Cleveland Torso Killer, Glasgow’s Butcher, and the Black Dahlia Murder May Share One Hand for Pragmatic Issues Just in time for Halloween, we thought it would be fitting to revisit three old, and by old i am talking the 1930’s old unsolved crimes. Some would lead you to believe that they are
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Every time someone from the Trump orbit sneers about “Europe’s open borders,” it’s projection, the diplomatic version of calling someone else drunk while you’re holding the bottle. If Europe actually had open borders, half of Hollywood would’ve relocated to Tuscany the moment Trump took the oath for term two. The other half would be flooding
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The USDA has spoken and apparently, the reason millions of Americans are about to lose their food assistance isn’t a decades-long war on the poor or a Trump-stacked agency bent on dismantling social welfare. No, no. It’s the Democrats. Of course it is. Because when in doubt, blame the people who don’t control the
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I mean the leader of Argentina says it all, have you looked at his face? America has officially reached the point where we’re willing to import anything, including questionable meat from a country whose food safety standards make a gas station sushi roll look like a Michelin-star experience. Yes, the U.S. is once again flirting
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Denver’s latest outrage isn’t about potholes, zoning, or housing this time, it’s about cameras. Specifically, the 111 solar-powered Flock license-plate readers now quietly watching, logging, and helping police find stolen cars and fugitives. Mayor Mike Johnston swears they’ve already led to 352 arrests, 250 recovered vehicles, and 39 firearms off the street, a not-bad return
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America is officially out of money and, apparently, out of leadership. As millions of federal workers brace for another week of unpaid bills and shuttered services, Donald Trump has decided the best course of action is… to leave the country. That’s right. The same man who built his political brand on “America First” is
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Of course Donald Trump tore down the East Wing. This is the man who never seemed to understand that one of the many jobs of a sitting US President’s is to facilitate and coordinate the two party’s working together, not use their arguments for his own personal agenda. So it makes perfect sense that he
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