This article says people doubt the local government can protect the populace from big moneyed interests, which feels accurate. THAT should be the headline. Big moneyed interests are vying for more power here, and let's be clear, they will see the current headline as free help in their efforts.

The Trumpers may well Streisand Effect this guy -- already an astronaut, Navy combat vet, AZ Senator, husband of shooting survivor Gabby Giffords -- straight into the White House.

Look, whatever you think of his later movies, STRICTLY BALLROOM was really great.

White House to Rollins: "What do you not understand about 'DENY DENY DENY!!?'"

Glad to hear this clarity from Auchincloss.

In the summer of Nixon's resignation, Steve Rogers unmasked an unnamed elected official in the White House as the head of the Secret Empire, and it disillusioned him so much about the US that this was his reaction:

The moment he's asked a question he doesn't like, he wants to know "who are you with," so that he knows what company to punish, threaten, and/or sue.

Ha, well, my feed is filled with politics from five different Anglophone countries and usually I can sort them out; my plea for understanding will be based, again, on how dearly we here would love a fresh US election, sigh

Look, right now we are suffering because no matter what is revealed this month, we cannot oust DJT until after an election -- so maybe this isn't the moment to make this otherwise interesting point.

Like Trump, Cruz will rely on the knowledge that by the time someone asks the Supreme Court whether something is unconstitutional, the Court has already been signaled about what they'd better decide.

What a nuisance it has been to hire new kids out of college, is that the win being celebrated?

Astonishing? Or really funny? Because he always looks so jovial about these things.

The NYT didn't see his loyal base crowding the convention with signs saying the only thing they cared about was Mass Deportations Now.