"A free fall not seen in modern history": 100 days of destruction

Donald Trump, who was declared a de facto king or emperor by the right-wing extremist justices on the Supreme Court, has more power than any American president before him, and he is using it to advance his political and personal goals. Trump has been mostly successful in crushing, bending and smashing America’s democratic norms and institutions and the larger culture to fit his will. Read more.

Our fourth branch of government is saving us

From Lucian K. Truscott IV: A new ecosystem of news gathering and distribution has sprung up because people are unhappy with mainstream media outlets. People are subscribing to Substack columns and other online outlets that provide reports and analysis that fill in the blanks left by the fading and failing MSM. Read more.

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Why Trump is pretending to not know how the Constitution works

From Jesselyn Radack: Trump apparently thinks that he can ex post facto incantate legalistic-sounding phrases like “perpetrating, attempting, or threatening an invasion or predatory incursion” and magically shoehorn his rushed and hushed detentions and deportations of migrants into a law meant for members of a hostile foreign nation during armed conflict. Read more.

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