You may have missed it in the chaos of our current news environment, but this week, the bodies of four American soldiers were pulled out of a peat bog—basically a swamp—in Lithuania about a week after they went missing there while on a training mission. Last week, while a search

Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. Link to the whole collection in the replies.

There are hundreds of thousands of people protesting him. The economy is in shambles. But at least he is winning his club championship….

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Incredible. The White House says notice and comment is no longer required for promulgating regulations so long as the President commands it be done. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

If you want a deep dive into the law & have links to the primary sources so you can take a look for yourself, you'll like my newsletter, Civil Discourse. Here, how to understand the Supreme Court's decision in the Abrego Garcia deportation case. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-supreme-…

Hello from Greenbelt, MD, a few hours before an urgently arranged court hearing in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. DOJ is under a court order to provide an update on efforts to bring him to the U.S. from El Salvador by 9:30am. politico.com/news/2025/04/1…

I love North Carolina because we are home to friendly and good people and remarkable natural beauty. We are one of the best states for business in the nation – and home to the best BBQ and basketball in the country! I’ll do everything to make sure our children and

Our immigration system is broken. The fix we need should come from Congress, like the one Democrats offered in 2024, one that included virtually everything Republicans had asked for for over a decade but that they rejected because Donald Trump ordered them to.

Two federal judges are working overtime to force the government to explain its defiance of court orders and to haul responsible officials in to answer for the administration’s intransigence. I explore why this matters and where things stand in today’s piece, link in the replies.

Another day, another scandal with apparent alcoholic and Fox & Friends host turned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Yup, there’s a second signal chat now, and he’s in hot water again over it. Shall we start the lettuce clock? My write-up in the link in the replies.

It’s 100 days in, and the polls consistently look very bad for Trump, even on his core issues of the economy and immigration. I dive into what the numbers say and what they could mean going forward, in today’s write-up. Check it out in the replies.

In a government rife with backstabbing and attendant paranoia, a bad mistake can feel like devious sabotage. That’s what’s going down between the DOJ’s SDNY office and the Department of Transportation. My “you can’t make this up” write-up is in today’s piece, link in the replies.

This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. Link to the whole collection in the replies.

Almost no one who voted for Trump last year imagined this would be the result: a federal government in full retreat, unwilling to perform its basic and most essential duties.

In around 12 days, we’re going to be hit with an economic shockwave. That will be 30 days from when Trump began a trade war with China. You see, it takes 30 days for ships to cross the Pacific. What that may mean for all of us, in today’s piece. Link in the replies.

So Washington Republicans want to take back a tax on gambling, but they don’t want to stop the biggest Medicaid cuts in history