Because sometimes things just need to be said….
The government’s funding deadline is Wednesday, and nobody in Washington is sweating it. That’s the news. Congress got it done a month early. The Senate passed a stopgap bill 90-6, the House followed 370-48 on September 1, and Trump signed it September 2. Federal funding now runs through December 11, which happens to land well …
A federal judge told the President of the United States no on the same building-naming question twice this year, and instead of accepting it like anyone else would have to, he got on a call with a sitting member of Congress and told her she was dumb. Quick timeline, because it matters here. Trump’s handpicked …
Your clocks fall back on November 1st. Again. And they’re doing it even though Congress supposedly already fixed this. Back in July, the House passed the Sunshine Protection Act 308-117, with Trump’s backing, to stop the twice-a-year clock flip for good. A real vote, on the record, with numbers most bills in Washington would kill …
Ursula von der Leyen stood up this week and offered Canada something the European Union has never handed anyone before: associate membership. Not full membership — Canada’s own ambassador-designate was careful to say Ottawa doesn’t want to hand over sovereignty for that — but a new “Alliance for the Future,” built around manufacturing, AI, defense …
Donald Trump has predicted the end of the Iran war so many times that reporters started keeping a running tally. As of this week, the count sits at 23. On September 9, he made prediction number 24: “I think the war’s going to end immediately after the election because they can’t hold out any longer.” …
Congress has spent six years and more than forty separate bills trying to write federal rules for how college athletes get paid, and it still hasn’t passed a single one, zero, since the fight started back in 2021. That’s the tally according to sports law scholar Michael McCann, who’s testified on this exact topic more …
In February, six Supreme Court justices told Donald Trump his tariffs were illegal. Two of the six were his own appointees. His response was to call them fools, question their loyalty, and keep charging you the tariffs anyway. Here’s the part that should bother you more than the insult. On February 20, in Learning Resources …
Try buying more than a box or two of Sudafed at once. A pharmacist will look at you funny, ask a question, maybe make a phone call. Nobody calls that a war on cold sufferers. We built an entire national system, prescription drug monitoring programs, specifically to flag people buying suspicious quantities of controlled substances …
Eighty-six percent of Americans want to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks. Republicans and Democrats can’t agree on much lately — this is one of the rare things they do, and by a landslide. So naturally, the bill that actually passed the House this summer doesn’t ban it. On July 22, the House …
Somebody buys a sports team, and within a few years the city is somehow paying for their stadium. That’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s just how the math works out almost every time. A guy worth a few billion dollars buys an NFL or NBA franchise, then turns around and tells the local government that …
Karoline Leavitt announced this week that she’s stepping down as White House press secretary at the end of the month, and the reason she gave was that she wants to spend more time with her kids. Fine. Maybe that’s true. But I’ve heard this exact line so many times from so many people leaving so …
Black Lives Matter is an exceptionally important in this country – in the world as it gains (finally) some real momentum in the Summer of 2020. The potential for change seems real – the right people are saying the right things and even starting to do the right things. Has the idea of defunding the …