Posts by Kim Browne
You’ll Never Guess What Trump’s ICE Used Your Tax Dollars For
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is so desperate to look cool, they’ve gone full Pimp My Ride—at the taxpayer’s expense. A cringey recruitment video released Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security featured cars—a Ford Raptor and GMC Yukon—with massive ICE logos plastered on the side, and the name of the president printed on the back…
Read MoreRFK Jr. Is Breaking His Two Big Promises to MAHA Diehards
The true believers of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement are fuming over a New York Times report Friday, which reveals that a leaked draft of the White House MAHA Commission’s second report does not endorse directly restricting pesticides and ultraprocessed foods. When the first report was published in May, Forbes’s Chloe…
Read MoreTrump’s Nobel Peace Prize Obsession Is Getting Way Out of Hand
In lieu of actually promoting peace, Donald Trump has reportedly resorted to begging for a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. The U.S. president phoned Norway’s Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg “out of the blue” last month, hoping to discuss the possibility of acquiring the prestigious prize, as well as the state of tariffs, Norwegian business daily Dagens…
Read MoreD.C. Gives the Middle Finger to Trump AG Pam Bondi’s Police Power Grab
Pam Bondi, however, thinks the incident is no laughing matter. In fact, by her lights, Dunn’s sandwich throwing is the deep state manifest. In a post announcing Dunn’s firing, Bondi claimed, quite grandiosely, that “this is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus…
Read MoreHouse Dems Accuse Trump of Blocking Agency Oversight Efforts
Pam Bondi, however, thinks the incident is no laughing matter. In fact, by her lights, Dunn’s sandwich throwing is the deep state manifest. In a post announcing Dunn’s firing, Bondi claimed, quite grandiosely, that “this is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus…
Read MoreThe 10 Percent Is in a Fit of Rage Over Airport Lounges
Our topic today, however, is the rage of what Barbara and John Ehrenreich once labeled the professional-managerial class. This cohort, they noted in a 2019 update, has been in decline since around the start of the twenty-first century. In an email, Dan seconded that: We sold a broad class of high potential young people on…
Read MoreTrump’s DOJ Seems Awfully Nervous About the Tariff Lawsuits
The plaintiffs’ response was short and curt. Perhaps the lawyers who drafted it knew the judges would see Sauer’s pseudo-intimidation tactics for what they are. Michael McConnell, the lead lawyer, noted that its contents were “improper” for a Rule 23(j) letter because the government “already cited the same events at argument.” Indeed, the oral arguments…
Read MoreCash Payments Were Never Meant to Be a Cure-All for Poor Americans
More important, this study has to be evaluated within a large body of qualitative and quantitative evidence that shows cash payments to families can have a positive effect on both parents and their children, which Waldfogel has recently surveyed for her book. “We know very robustly that if you give families money, it reduces poverty…
Read MoreThis Crucial Demographic Is Turning on Trump, Brutal New Poll Shows
Younger Republicans are turning against Donald Trump, according to a survey by Pew Research Center. A recent Pew survey found that the largest drop in Trump’s support by far was among his youngest voters in 2024, between the ages of 18 and 39. Only 69 percent of Trump’s youngest voters said that they approved of…
Read MoreICE Sure Picked a Convenient Spot for Its Latest Raid
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement conducted a raid right outside of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s rally on Thursday at the Japanese American National Museum in Downtown Los Angeles. Newsom held an event to announce his own redistricting efforts in California, a direct response to the Trump administration and the Texas GOP gerrymandering their House map to…
Read MoreReport: Trump Is Privately Bashing Epstein Victims
Pam Bondi, however, thinks the incident is no laughing matter. In fact, by her lights, Dunn’s sandwich throwing is the deep state manifest. In a post announcing Dunn’s firing, Bondi claimed, quite grandiosely, that “this is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus…
Read MoreGavin Newsom Launches California Into Trump’s Redistricting War
California has its own plan to combat the Trump administration’s national redistricting efforts. California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the Election Rigging Response Act Thursday, a Democratic gerrymandering plan intended to offset efforts to strip liberal areas around the country of their electoral votes. “We’ve got to meet fire with fire,” Newsom said. “We cannot stand…
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