Find out just what people will submit to....
https://digbysblog.net/2026/07/04/the-limits-of-tyrants/

Trump "said the word 'communism' so many times, you might’ve thought the Cold War was still on."

That's because he still lives in the Greed Is Good 1980s.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/us/politics/trump-mount-rushmore-america-250.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vFA.ZZ1o.TacftIOKncWi&smid=url-share

In Maine, 61% of voters think the U.S. in on the wrong track. 60% think Collins is too old to serve. Democrats hold a 20% enthusiasm edge. But will they actually vote for change?
https://digbysblog.net/2026/07/03/whos-the-working-classest-of-them-all/

Trump's people hijacked the semiquincentennial celebration planning to make it a "Trump-centered vision of American identity.” They may have comitted wire fraud and charitable solicitation fraud in the process. So what else is new?
https://digbysblog.net/2026/07/03/they-cant-help-themselves-can-they/

Nobody knows more about building golf courses on narrow, flood-prone peninsulas — and tearing up parkland — than Donald Trump.
https://digbysblog.net/2026/07/02/godzilla-was-more-careful/

Charles A. Birnbaum, the president of the Cultural Landscape Foundation: “If you were just to parachute into Washington, you’d say: Gosh, what happened here?”

Happy birthday, America.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/07/national-mall-construction-trump/687761/?gift=PUGLa-mGupQ6uJoaPKPPd5LYeLlQ6zR3L9uw8n9pRAk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

https://digbysblog.net/2026/07/02/vindictive-confiscation/

“The common denominator for each [of Trump’s schemes]: the Trumps win big, and you lose,” tweets Steve Rattner.
https://digbysblog.net/2026/07/02/the-banana-republic-for-which-he-stands-2/

If DSA primary wins represent "a national phenomenon," which nation? Blue states dominated by cities like New York and Denver, or red states filled with rural congressional districts? Don’t count on an “insurgent progressive movement" to save us from fascism just yet.
https://digbysblog.net/2026/07/01/how-widespread-is-the-revolt/

Trumpism is *unexceptionalism*, a return to the blood-and-soil model our founders rejected, to remake our nation of immigrants into what they fled, countries ethnically, religiously, culturally & linguistically homogenous, ruled by hereditary royalty & landed gentry.
https://digbysblog.net/2026/07/01/american-unexceptionalism/

SCOTUS saved the 14th Amendment. So why do I feel like a bullet just grazed my shoulder?
https://digbysblog.net/2026/06/30/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-3/

Nobody knows more about self-dealing than Donald Trump
https://digbysblog.net/2026/06/30/a-matter-of-priorities/

"The first time the Trump administration was able to find any judge, anywhere in America, to state that it had the ability to do away with birthright citizenship was when it got to the Supreme Court.

"And then it found THREE of them."
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/the-supreme-court-scotus-just-made-the-case-for-its-own-expansion-birthright-citizenship?r=riq9&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Fmr pres Bill Clinton: “When people feel uncertain, they’d rather have someone strong and wrong than weak and right.”

(Ex: Trump)

Karl: Republicans are going to make you the poster child for the Democratic Party.
Mamdani (smiling): Let them.

That's how you do it.
https://digbysblog.net/2026/06/29/the-vision-thing/

Fascists intent on ending the American experiment body-snatched the GOP. Or else in their dementia Republicans just revealed who they always were. Should 60-yr-old Red Scare-mongering falls on deaf modern ears, Republicans mean to steal the fall elections anyway.
https://digbysblog.net/2026/06/28/election-workers-of-the-world-unite/

Sign Guy’s message last week was “WHERE ARE THOSE EPSTEIN PROSECUTIONS?” Not files. Not investigations. Not indictments. Prosecutions. Because the issue behind the Epstein saga goes beyond sexual abuse of underage girls. It’s the elite impunity of the Epstein Class.
https://digbysblog.net/2026/06/24/they-aint-going-away-donny/

Mocking Trump's Pool of Doom is the new national pastime.
https://digbysblog.net/2026/06/24/the-stewing-of-the-president/

Clown makeup, clown shoes, dead ducks, and laughter (from a grand jury?).
https://digbysblog.net/2026/06/23/trumps-clown-car-presidency/