Daniel Case

So ... the same administration rounding up law-abiding Latin immigrants at home has no problem bringing home a Spanish man (and U.S. citizen) convicted of a triple murder in Spain from Venezuela because it believes he was "wrongly imprisoned." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...

The DeSantis Administration: A reminder, I suppose, that there may be another timeline somewhere where even Bluesky is wishing Trump had gotten re-elected instead. www.cnn.com/2025/07/27/p...

With Wikimania looming, this reminder of the situation in Cape Town when we were all there in 2018. It could only be much worse in a larger, drier city like Teheran. www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/c...

It takes two to tango: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What I've been saying, at much greater length: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

You know, ICE *could* have just walked into these police agencies' headquarters, picked the people they wanted to hire, and dragged them out. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

If Democratic cities or states really want to make a point about ICE with the power they do have, they can forbid any of their police officers from attending, in uniform, on municipal time, funerals of any ICE personnel killed in the line of duty.

Well, here's one Trump accomplishment that, even if he wasn't trying, we can all get behind. "House Folding Caucus": BWAHAHAHAHAHA! newrepublic.com/post/198612/...

It's not surprising that MAGA appointees react to being investigated like immature teenagers (because that's who they are). But saying that his investigators should "resign in disgrace" is a new one in that department for me. newrepublic.com/post/198595/...

Adroit analysis of the Hegseth-for-TN-governor reports. Either he's looking to get out, or someone's looking to get him out. nymag.com/intelligence...

This has some interesting possibilities. As TNR notes, the earlier effort to use this "rule of five" ended when GSA surrendered, but the appellate precedents holding the law valid are still in place. newrepublic.com/article/1986...

Some people here won't like reading this, but Buttigieg has a point here. Unfortunately the conundrum is that the more Trump tears down the status quo, the more those who depended on it flock to Democrats to restore it. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Sad but true accounting of the policy area where Trump has done the most damage so far, damage not easily undone. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Again, the Epstein scandal is one only Trump could have made for himself. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

As usual, the most politically effective critiques of capitalism have come from the right: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Seems like Hegseth's finally reached his (ahem) bridge-too-far moment with the Pentagon brass. You don't easily take back promotions at this level. Even if you're SecDef and you legally can. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...

Good explanation as to how Trump's lawsuit against the WSJ is likely just a clever backhanded way of spreading disinformation that is never intended to reach trial. The law needs to be amended to prevent the judicial process from being misused this way. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Bit late with my commentary about this, but ... I actually think AI fashion models are a good thing as it would actually be easier to regulate their appearance per beauty standards than it is with actual models since they are purely creations. www.bbc.com/news/article...

OK, if you're serious about this, Jacob, *reject the pardon* in protest. newrepublic.com/post/198286/...

It's nice to see that politics can still make strange bedfellows ... www.politico.com/news/magazin...

An interesting trend here in U.S.-Israel relations that the MSM has largely ignored. Wouldn't it be ironic if the current administration and its supporters wound up being the one to give Netanyahu his biggest headache ever? www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

Continuing the Hegseth scandal watch ... (Yeah, sure, Justin, you *always* meant to leave after six months. Uh-huh) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/u...

There's enough detail about the woman at the center of this to identify her. Some enterprising journalist needs to do it and see if she'll go on the record corroborating this and tell us more about Trump and Epstein's relationship at this time. newrepublic.com/post/198069/...

Good explanation from one of the best reporters on Epstein as to why no actual client list exists and how we came to think that one did: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

There was a time when Republicans accepted as revealed truth the idea that *any* government-mandated expenditure would be passed on to the consumer and Democrats needed to understand that the free market worked this way to win elections. There once was that time ... www.foxnews.com/opinion/reta...

Last question for MAGA/QAnon on Epstein: When Trump pardons either or both of them (as some of his "Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia" followers now want), will you consider that an impeachable offense?

More evidence that, like I said, the potential scandal around Pete Hegseth's indiscreet communications is growing ... www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

In fact, if Trump now feels the entire case against Epstein and Maxwell was fake Democratic propaganda, then he has no reason not to pardon them, based on his earlier pardons. Anyone want to start a petition with that reasoning on the White House page?

Republicans have learned NOTHING from their failure to stop Trump in 2016 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Josh makes the best argument that no client list exists (but there may be other kompromat out there that, while it isn't smoking-gun level, is not something Trump would want to have to explain to the public).

MAGA this weekend: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8md...

Best criticism of the IoT idea yet ... xkcd.com/3109/

MAGA's response to the Epstein "revelations": static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp...

#PentagonLeakerInChief #Hegseth will resign long before #Bondi.

Trump has one way he can get himself out of this, but he won't do it (and for once that would be a good thing): Pardon Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. If the reason is uncharged offenses on her part, then that goes away.

Would MAGA have had such a negative reaction to the non-release of the Epstein file if: ... his name had been Jeffrey Clarke? ... the disclosure that there was no client list had come from a silver-haired white man? Think about it ...

Also, MAGA: Ghislaine Maxwell is doing a 20-year sentence (or will be until Trump pardons her, anyway). She would have likely had the supposed client list. Do you think that if she did, she'd be wearing khaki every day in Tallahassee right now?

Seems like things like this can happen even in Sweden (read the whole thing; this is *rich*) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This scandal is getting deeper ...

Dear MAGA and QAnon (maybe the same thing?): Is it *just* possible that this whole "Epstein client list" you've been after for years was never more than the proverbial dragon for you to chase down the garden path and divert your attention?

THE HORROR!: NYC's Congestion Pricing Has Caused 'Quality-of-Life Improvement' in Just Six Months www.commondreams.org/news/nyc-s-c...

So the Trump regime took a Jeffrey Epstein story that no one was even talking about anymore, announced findings that no one was ever going to believe, released altered footage along with it, and created huge ugly headlines for itself while making Trump look guilty of something. Ta da!

What's the betting that, within a month, Trump posthumously pardons Epstein?

More good news on the urban-crime front the administration and Fox News are in no hurry to tell you ... www.latimes.com/california/s...

The question everybody should be asking isn't whether Epstein killed himself (he did). It's how he was able to.

I'm actually worried that he says this will be the longest book in the series. The narrative issues that D&D get blamed for in the series actually have their root in ASoS's misshapen structure and length, and I don't think it has yet completely recovered. collider.com/the-winds-of...

Expect more on this story as the summer marches on. (Sec. Rollins really sounds like she's choosing her words carefully) newrepublic.com/post/197753/...

Mainstream media and traditional medicine 1 Social media and alternative medicine 0 www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I don't have a substack. I just have a local newspaper willing to publish my letters to the editor: www.timeshudsonvalley.com/wallkill-val...