Month: June 2026
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Fire at Will
They had fought a king to escape that power, but today the Court handed it back. Today the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Slaughter in a 6-3 decision that Donald Trump can fire the leaders of independent federal agencies at will, erasing a precedent that had stood for 91 years. In 1935, Franklin Roosevelt…
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Bible Required in Texas Schools
State-required Bible reading in public schools. It seems state-sponsored religion is already here. On Friday, the Texas State Board of Education approved a required reading list of Bible stories and Bible verses for every public school student in the state. If implemented, more than 5 million Texas children will read it, roughly one in ten…
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Vote By Mail Attack
The federal government is trying to control who gets a ballot. Yesterday Postmaster General David Steiner told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the Postal Service will not deliver ballots to voters in states that refuse to turn over their voter lists to the federal government ahead of time. Michigan Senator Gary…
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Reflecting Pool Criminals
One wonders how much state power is now being exerted simply to keep one man from ever having to admit that he was wrong. On Saturday, Donald Trump announced that the United States Park Police had arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. He called it a serious crime against a national…
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Votes for Women
Old, terrible arguments, it seems, never die; they simply wait for new keynote speakers. In early June, Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio gave a keynote platform to tradwife influencer Savanna Stone, who called for an end to women’s right to vote. She is proposing a one household, one ballot system in…
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FBI Raids
These are the things we will look back on when we wonder where the groups who help people register to vote have all gone. On Thursday, June 11, FBI agents searched the Cleveland office of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a group that has been helping people register to vote since 2007. They say more than…
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At Will
A government workforce that can be fired for any reason is a government workforce that serves one man. Wednesday, Donald Trump signed an executive order stripping civil service protections from roughly 8,000 career federal workers. He placed them in a new category called Schedule Policy/Career. They are now at-will employees. Their agencies can fire them…
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State Religion
These are the things we will look back on, when we wonder how it is that we established a state religion. On May 20, the Pentagon ordered a cut to its list of recognized religions from 211 down to 31. Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, directed the change, with the accompanying memo cutting roughly…
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Special Guest Extremist
These are the things we will look back on, when we ask how far was too far, and who spoke up? For a time, Gregory Bovino was the public face of Donald Trump’s deportations, with prominent appearances in immigration raids in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis. After federal agents killed American citizens Renee Good and…
Notes To My Future Self 