Politics With Charles P. Pierce

And Jane Mayer paints the picture well for The New Yorker.

The phrase he uttered just before walking on the moon is simple, prosaic, and lasting.

Border control used three American children to bait their immigrant mother out of hiding in Chicago.

Its law enforcement, environment, and political leadership are simultaneously deteriorating.

Here's some more banal bureaucratic bullshit out of Camp Runamuck.

Another investigation into the president* has short-circuited.

It's getting weird in the Deep South.

A reminder that "moderate" Democrats are the only Democrats who matter.

The president* is proud of the monster he has created. He glories in the destruction and the almighty rage.

Not of a real progressive platform, and not of the ghost of George McGovern.

The longtime Dixiecrat would recognize today's Republican Party. It is made in his image.

Republican Mike Kelly calls himself a "person of color" to avoid dealing with the president*'s tweets.

The retired Supreme Court Justice is dead at 99 years old.

Attorney General William Barr involves himself in another case with predictable results.

Trump's dismantling of the administrative state continues, to the detriment of science and the nation.

This would be the case under any Republican president.

Plus: an assault on asylum and Wilbur Ross is on the chopping block.

The president* put Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's beef in perspective with some truly rancid tweets.