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TMTG, again

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Published: August 15, 2026 20:58

Late last year, Trump Media and Technology Group announced that it planned to merge with TAE, a 27-year-old fusion energy company. It was a weird idea! A strictly inferior version of the X social media platform meant to tie up with a company that hopes to…

Good news from Missouri

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Published: August 6, 2026 15:36

I grew up around Kansas City, Missouri on both sides of the state line – in Kansas through middle school, and in Missouri during high school. If you've watched the latest episode of Ted Lasso, you know that we enjoy confusing people with our names and our…

The view from the other side

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Published: July 4, 2026 18:49

I have spent the past week in London.The suburb of Richmond is home to the National Archives of the United Kingdom. The Archives have a considerable collection of documents from the rebellion of the American colonies and the war for independence. In…

How to Repair the World

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Published: June 14, 2026 22:43

I've just finished an excellent book by Theo Baker called How to Rule the World.Baker begins his book in the Fall of 2022, when he was a newly-admitted freshman at Stanford University. He opens with an on-campus meeting with a Silicon Valley CEO teaching…

DNI

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Published: June 3, 2026 15:04

In addition to today's longish piece on incompetence over at the Department of Justice, I want to flag another piece of news that surprised and disappointed me today.Tulsi Gabbard was the least-qualified US Director of National Intelligence in the history…

Legal twisting and turning

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Published: June 3, 2026 14:46

On May 19, the US Department of Justice announced that it had settled a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump, two of his sons and his real estate company against the US Treasury and the IRS. The settlement included the creation of a fund of $1,776,000,000 to be

Start making sense

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Published: April 29, 2026 15:09

For the past decade or so, I've donated money and time to political efforts that I support. I've done that locally, but also nationally, giving time to and canvassing for issues and candidates here in California and in other states.That's landed me on

Asymmetric warfare

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Published: April 13, 2026 22:49

Thousands are dead after more than five weeks of Donald Trump's war on Iran. Most of those are Iranians, including heavy civilian casualties due to attacks on infrastructure and at least one school. But the death toll includes members of the US military,…

More unusual Trump family M&A

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Published: February 19, 2026 18:15

I wrote recently about plans for Trump Social to merge with a fusion energy company. It's a weird deal – the two businesses are in different markets building different products for very different customers! – but after thinking about it for a while, I…

Immigration and elections

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Published: February 5, 2026 18:40

News broke this past week or so on two fronts that I want to cover here.ImmigrationOn the American television series Law and Order, each episode begins with a narrator intoning, "In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate…