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We want a slice of normalcy: a cold beverage in hand, burgers on the grill, fireworks overhead, fireflies after dark, family and friends all around us. And we want it now. Some of us, though, won't get these things. Some of us have been forgotten.

Definition of money, and other thoughts on The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton

There’s an action item at the end of this post. It’ll be more effort than Trump put into protecting our troops in Afghanistan from Taliban boosted by Russian secret bounties.

Jim Jordan, killer clown -- an existential threat to members of Congress who have to put up with him while they represent the rest of us.

The frothy right appears to be claiming -- so as to blame Biden for the FBI's questions about the Logan Act -- that Jim Comey and Barack Obama had the same exchange on two consecutive days.

Somehow, wrestling coach Jim Jordan managed to best most Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee in today's hearing on politicization of DOJ.

Neomi Rao just ruled that District Courts must be totally gutted to prevent Billy Barr from embarrassment.

It has long been clear that the second sentencing memo for Roger Stone was politicized, by ignoring all the enhancements that people who weren't the President's rat-fucker would routinely have applied. But in his opening statement for testimony before the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow, Aaron Zelinsky reveals that even the first memo was politicized by taking out some part of Stone's conduct.

Lieutenant Mohammed Alshamrani, who shot up a naval base in Florida, was not vetted in either Trump's Muslim ban vetting or the Pentagon Insider Threat vetting.