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And so trying to separate the Affordability Agenda from the Accountability Agenda is dumb. Our economy is being wrecked by the Unitary Executive.

The Columbus Dispatch this morning

Oh, it's just 'everybody stealing money from the state of Ohio' Thats not bad is it?

An invitation to revisit Jean Baudrillard, does it get more hyperreal than this? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Want to hear the best part? They did private focus groups through Center of Christian Virtue.

"If I have to create stories... then that's what I'm going to do" was how he defended the lying hate speech about Haitians eating their neighbors' pets (In Ohio, as it happens). It is no surprise at all that this doesn't bother him.

The Ramaswamy campaign actually had a little plausible deniability when it came to this ad, but they decided that instead of exercising that deniability they’d rather make absolutely clear that they’re on the side of protecting child rapists.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

We scoured social media, court records and local stories for instances of immigration agents holding citizens against their will. The administration doesn’t track these cases. So we have. We’re sharing our database with you.

The Trump administration’s order to allow import of Russian diesel violates a 2022 law banning Russian energy imports while the country’s war with Ukraine is ongoing, according to a bipartisan group of U.S. senators. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/13/r...

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

I spelled out "superpower suicide" in this essay from May 2026. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

Increasing the demand for gasoline by making everything more inefficient and demanding is pretty much as dumb as you get on policy. Plus, this contributed to rebuilding the Detroit mindset of the 1970's... so China can wipe out the whole US industry with EV's in one short decade.

“USDOT said the ​regulation will reduce manufacturers' average cost per vehicle to comply by $1,289 but increase fuel costs by more than $1,600 over the ​life of the vehicles.” 🤌🤌🤌 www.reuters.com/business/aut...

Behold, Speaker Matt Huffman's palpable enthusiasm to discuss his $600 million handout to the Cleveland Browns weeks before Election Day.

Great start-of-term fare here for History students...

More than half of households surveyed that visited an Ohio food bank were forced to choose between paying for utilities or paying for food, according to a new report. Nearly half had to choose between paying their rent or mortgage, or paying for food. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/07/a...

Governor DeWine and Fran DeWine were very close with Ms. Parton.

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... You can't go wrong the Cheese and the Worms.

The fundamental problem we face is that if a single Justice had changed their vote today and stripped citizenship from millions of people in violation of 150 years of black-letter constitutional law, virtually everybody with power and influence in this country would believe that be legitimate.

Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion attempts to divine the intentions and desires of the Fourteenth Amendment’s drafters without a single citation of anything they wrote.

Spent my afternoon vacationing (with my most tolerant loved one) in the basement of a small town Ohio library with the microfiche stretching way back into my memory of latin. #myideaoffun

Biden (& many other Presidents) called out old ideas tonight in favor of new ones, an idea with a long past. Do you know this speech, Don't Pitch Your Tent Among the Dead, by Garfield? The 2nd page, criticizing Democrats of the time, is blistering & relevant. Text here: www.loc.gov/resource/rbp...

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

The naked bloodthirstiness of the average Ohio Republican is truly something to behold in person. It’s even uncouth to the lizard cabal that’s the Supreme Court!

Reuters has a livestream of working trying to remove algae from the reflecting pool 😆

JD Vance is a product of Peter Thiel, who is obsessed with Carl Schmitt. Schmitt argued that a dictator seizes power through a "state of exception"—when the rules are suspended due to some "emergency." "Sovereign is he who decides on the exception." Vance is vastly more dangerous than Trump.

This is Ukraine’s foreign minister: ‘We expect strong reactions by international institutions and capitals. No vague words, silence, or weak steps. We need action now to stop Russian barbarism’

This is a very telling turning point. For people in the west this building is unknown. But for russia it is the historic base of their fake ties to Old Rus. It has deep meaning. Now they internally accepted they will not have it so they are lashing out to destroy. They are losing and they know it.

Fool me 39 times, shame on you. Fool me 40 times ...

The administration’s rapid response account is… mad at the Weather Channel. For reporting the weather.

Passing through Union Terminal in DC, apparently they've "got electrolytes" today.

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