BlogHide Resteemsthomaslknapp (57)in immigration • 2 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Pre-Inauguration Proposal: Arm The Undocumented"TRUE!!!" That's president-elect Donald Trump's response to a post on his social media platform claiming that he plans to declare a "national emergency" and use the US armed forces to abduct…thomaslknapp (57)in consitution • 4 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.A Serious Question About the US ConstitutionLet's get my "news hook" out of the way: President-elect Donald Trump has been offering up names for appointments to his cabinet, and rattling a constitutional saber about using "recess…thomaslknapp (57)in socialmedia • 6 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Social Media Users Can Walk And Chew Gum. Why Abandon One For The Other?In the wake of the latest presidential election, it's morning in America! Well, maybe not, but a lot of people seem to be talking about Bluesky, which implies sun, which implies morning. OK, yeah…thomaslknapp (57)in alexjones • 9 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Bloomin' Onion! Or, Alex Jones And Poetic InjusticeConfession: I've just never been much of an Alex Jones fan. I never saw the value, or even very much of the fun, some of my libertarian friends found in his crazed, bombastic commentary.…thomaslknapp (57)in politics • 11 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Election 2024: The Obligatory Explanation ColumnI hate election explanation columns. I had no intention of writing such a column for two reasons. One is that the explanation for this election (and pretty much every other election) is too simple…thomaslknapp (57)in politics • 14 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Election 2024: Neither "Landslide" Nor "Mandate"With 95% of precincts reporting nationwide according to Wikipedia (as of 4am on Saturday, November 9), it's safe to say that the US presidential election is decided. Donald Trump will presumably…thomaslknapp (57)in joebiden • 21 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.How Joe Biden Could Save Lives And Change American Politics On His Way Out The DoorChildren buried in a refrigerator in Gaza. Author unknown. Public domain. Wait, what? We're talking about Joe Biden? Why? He's a "lame duck." No matter who wins the US presidential election on…thomaslknapp (57)in elonmusk • 22 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.If Musk Wants To Give Away Money, Let HimElon Musk Contemplates the wreckage of Starship SN8. Photo by Steve Jurvetson. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. "The First and Second Amendments guarantee freedom of speech and…thomaslknapp (57)in politics • 25 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.That's Entertainment: Popular Alternatives to the Presidential Campaign CircusAlthough more than 50 million Americans have already voted --- by mail or in person --- "Election Day" formally falls on November 5. The candidates are making their "final arguments" in the media…thomaslknapp (57)in mediabias • 27 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Non-Endorsement Isn't "Neutrality" or "Objectivity"In late October, the Los Angeles* Times* published its list of candidate/issue endorsements for this year's general election. Missing from the list: Any endorsement for president. Semafor…thomaslknapp (57)in studentloans • last monthsteemCreated with Sketch.No, the Student Loan Crisis is not an "Emergency""The student loan crisis," Sabrina Cereceres writes at The Nation , "is a national emergency, and the time to act is now." Cereceres makes a good case that the student debt situation in…thomaslknapp (57)in politics • last monthsteemCreated with Sketch.The Political Show Must, Apparently, Go On ... But Don't Forget It's Just a Show"Politics," political consultant Bill Miller told (reminded?) us in 1991, "is show business for ugly people." The last couple of weeks of a presidential election cycle always put that timeless…thomaslknapp (57)in politics • last monthsteemCreated with Sketch.Election 2024: Prediction and ReasoningThe last few weeks (sometimes the last few months) of a presidential election cycle always leave me feeling somewhat burnt out. As a political columnist, I prefer to focus on events, policy, and…thomaslknapp (57)in ghostguns • last monthsteemCreated with Sketch.Garland v. VanDerStok: A Supreme Court Ghost StoryIn early October, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Garland v. VanDerStok , a case disputing the Biden administration's attempts to regulate "ghost guns" --- firearms built at home…thomaslknapp (57)in abortion • last monthsteemCreated with Sketch.Florida Abortion Measure: Ron DeSantis Angles for a MistrialFlorida's proposed Amendment 4 would add the following language to the state constitution's Declaration of Rights: "... no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability…thomaslknapp (57)in voting • last monthsteemCreated with Sketch.The Virtue of Selfies-Ness RevisitedIn the past, I've written on (my friend and heroine) Caryn Ann Harlos's challenge to Colorado's law commanding that "[no] election official, watcher, or person shall reveal to any other person…thomaslknapp (57)in censorship • last monthsteemCreated with Sketch.Misinformation, Disinformation, Hate Speech, and NewspeakAs a free speech fundamentalist, I'm not seeing much of value on offer from either Democrats or Republicans in this year's presidential election. While I'm not especially surprised, I am somewhat…thomaslknapp (57)in prisonlabor • 2 months agosteemCreated with Sketch.Yes, Forced Prison Labor Is SlaverySouthern prison "chain gang," circa 1903. If there's such a thing as rolling in one's grave, the seismographs around Santa Ana, California's Fairhaven Memorial Park must be going nuts. A Tesla…thomaslknapp (57)in trade • 2 months agosteemCreated with Sketch.Failure to Indulge to Oren Cass's Nationalist Delusions Isn't An "Externality""Donald Trump's proposal to impose tariffs as high as 60 percent on imports from China, and a global tariff of 10 to 20 percent," Oren Cass argues at The Atlantic , "takes the right approach…thomaslknapp (57)in politics • 2 months agosteemCreated with Sketch.Fake Populism is RealPolitikIf there's a single global through line to the politics of the last decade, that through line is the continuing fight over something called, by both its supporters and opponents, "populism."…
