"Trump's playing a one person game of Dungeons & Dragons, and he's the dungeon master and he's just inventing stuff, whatever appeals to him that minute"
New ep of Nir & Rupar is up on Trump's attacks on Pope Leo and his bizarre governance by Truth Social post: https://www.publicnotice.co/p/you-come-at-the-pope-you-best-not
New in PN: The regime's attacks on Pope Leo backfire spectacularly
"Trump and Vance are caught in a trap of their own making. Dismissing the views of Muslims or Sikhs is easy for MAGAs to swallow. But insisting the pope is out of line is different, and requires twisting themselves into knots." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-pope-vance-attacks
New in PN: Trump's polling is terrible and getting worse
"As for the Jesus imagery he posted on Truth Social and then deleted? Well, new polling asked Americans about it, and about 60% disliked it (including 49% strongly). At this point, even Jesus would have a hard time resurrecting Trump’s numbers." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-approval-polling
New in PN: Trump's litigation extortion machine
"These trollsuits are various flavors of garbage and relatively costless for Trump. Not so for his enemies, who are forced to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, schlep down to Florida, and endure months of stress and uncertainty. And *that* is the entire point of this exercise." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-wall-street-journal-lawsuit-dismissed
New in PN: Trump lost his war on Iran, bigly
"The ability of the free press, much less regime propagandists, to grapple with the scale of the loss and its implications is very much in doubt. It’s worth, therefore, laying out the nature of the defeat, who's unwilling to describe it as such, and why." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-loses-iran-war
New in PN: The world's worst dealmaker screws up the Iran negotiations
"All of Trump’s weaknesses as a negotiator are now on display: His childish understanding of power, his inability to grasp the perspective of his opponents, his belief that anything can be accomplished by threats and violence." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-failed-iran-negotiations
New in PN: America learns about "personalist regimes" the hard way
"Trump’s second-term swath of destruction doesn’t only prove that the fascist moniker is apt. It also shows that America is living under a personalist regime, and it’s wrecking us." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-personalist-regime
New in PN: A regime of idiots — A complete inventory of Trump stooges
"The downside of Trump’s reliance on sub-mediocre stooges is that he’s ended up amplifying his own stupidity and spectacularly bad judgment. Very dumb stooges inevitably emulate his sadism, insanity, and sheer laziness, leading to a government marked by idiocy and sociopathology on a grand scale." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-stooges
New in PN: TACO Tuesday's lasting hangover
"For years, conservatives told themselves that Trump’s constant escalations were crafty gamesmanship, that he was keeping all options on the table to avoid tipping his hand to the enemy. This barely-averted disaster cuts the knees out from under their creative fiction. Trump'’s not performing as a madman.
He’s just barking mad." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-iran-taco-tuesday
“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”
I talked with The Times for a little profile of yours truly. Check it out: https://www.thetimes.com/article/dd968023-2bcf-42e9-9433-d315c60c476a?shareToken=268eae9758a25bba5da53bfe44346e21
New in PN: Note to Democrats — Paying taxes is not a moral failing
"Republicans *want* the tax system to be as inefficient, complicated, and frustrating as possible — not only so the wealthy can exploit it, but so ordinary people will hate it. Unfortunately, for decades Democrats have lived in fear of anti-tax sentiment rather than trying to change it." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/democratic-tax-plans-2028
New in PN: Trump's Total War Budget
"It points the way clearly toward a distinctively Republican vision of America — one in which there's endless money for bombs while the populace is transformed into an impoverished mass of hunger and disease, emitting occasional hoarse pleas for castoffs from oligarchs." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-2027-budget-military-spending
New in PN: Trump's war crime campaign, explained by an expert
"Right now, we are living through a moment of impunity, and leaders in the United States are acting unlawfully. The question is whether and when we snap out of that." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/brian-finucane-interview-war-crimes
New in PN: Federal judge demolishes legal "basis" for Trump's ballroom
"Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote a banger of an opinion granting a preliminary injunction. The ruling makes crystal clear that the administration’s own arguments compelled the outcome. Yes, Donald Trump, you played yourself." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-ballroom-injunction-judge-richard-leon
New in PN: DOJ payout to Mike Flynn has J6-ers lining up at the trough
"Maybe the plan is to normalize theft, getting the public used to watching the president dole out taxpayer money to his supporters so that we’ll hardly notice when he hands himself almost a quarter billion dollars." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/january-6-settlements-flynn
New in PN: Big tech is coming for the midterms
"The political steps tech is taking now portend disturbing things about what could happen when the effects of AI are *really* felt. To see why, we have to understand how the jobs apocalypse could play out, and how the industry would respond." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/big-tech-is-coming-for-the-midterms
New in PN: Tucker Carlson is not your friend
"Unlike Ta-Nehisi Coates, Carlson doesn’t criticize Israel because he opposes ethnonationalism in any form. He *is* an ethnonationalist." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/tucker-carlson-israel
New in PN: The Great Republican DHS Funding Rake-Stepping Fest
"Faced with a metastasizing crisis Republicans deliberately inflicted on the country, Democrats held firm. Republicans, for their part, blustered, caved, caved again, blustered more, then swiftly rushed to bludgeon their faces with each other’s fists." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/the-great-republican-dhs-funding
New episode of Nir and Rupar is live! We discuss why the GOP is in shambles, whether it comes to funding the TSA or winning special elections down in Florida.
We had a lively conversation. Check it out: https://www.publicnotice.co/p/a-blue-wave-hits-mar-a-lago
New in PN: What do you do when you can't trust the govt?
"Trump contradicts himself so often that we’ve become accustomed to disregarding it as nothing but background noise, conveying nothing meaningful. At root, this is the core project of his second administration: to undermine any shared truth." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trumpism-death-of-truth