Day 46. Batumi. The same is happening in Tbilisi too. #GeorgiaProtests #terrorinGeorgia 📷 Mariam Jvartava

"Are we meant to believe the CCP, which spends every waking hour trying to penetrate U.S. networks and collect U.S. data, has no real interest in the gold mine of U.S. citizen data flowing through Chinese servers via TikTok? It’s preposterous. And it fails, miserably, the basic

The difference between Ulysses S. Grant and Pete Hegseth is the difference between promoting an excellent officer and finding out he has a drinking problem and promoting a drunk and hoping to find out he's an excellent officer.

NYT headline: “Poland’s Leader SUGGESTS Russian Hand in Plot to Attack Western Cargo Planes.” But note, the Polish PM Tusk says: “I can ONLY CONFIRM that Russia planned acts of air terror.” Quite different. 😏

🇪🇺davidmcallister: The European Parliament has been very clear: we do not recognize the [Georgian Dream] government or the president. Salome Zourabichvili remains the legitimate president of Georgia and the only legitimate representative of the country in international relations.

Oh, great!! The president as mobster. With every post office and embassy “proudly” displaying.

Speaker is supposed to be the leader of the House as an institution, not a supplicant to the other branch of government…turning the House over to the White House is nothing less than a violation of oath of office.

My take on Trump’s threat to resurrect unilateral authority to impound duly appropriated monies, & the complex constitutional & institutional issues tied its exercise by a president. thedispatch.com/article/yankin…

Your #dailywally is at peace. I am broken hearted that this morning we said goodbye to our very best boy, Wally. He had a delicious breakfast croissant, some snuggles, and a gentle goodbye. I don’t know what I’m going to do without him. I could write ten thousand words here

The guy obsessed with privacy against government is volunteering his data to China, creating a backdoor on his phone. It’s as if that he doesn’t mind government access to our data—he just minds the U.S. government access to our data. Our enemies, he’s fine with.

Always wonderful to have the president violate his constitutional duty to faithfully execute the law right out of the box. But, nah, the rule of law & the democratic order is not at risk. 😏 forbes.com/sites/antoniop…

WTF did you expect?

“I really was kind of bummed out when I saw it,” said Tom Schmidt, a partner at a crypto venture capital firm Dragonfly. “It just felt very grifty and cheap.” Hey, sleep with dogs, you get fleas. apnews.com/article/trump-…

The TikTok saga reveals a larger problem with America's China policy: We're trying to wage a cold war without inconveniencing ourselves. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… Bloomberg Opinion American Enterprise Institute

Tom Cotton & Senator Jim Banks introduced legislation in the Senate today as well. “For too long — trade relations with China have… allowed the CCP to exploit our markets while betraying the promise of fair competition.” - Chairman Rep. John Moolenaar ⬇️ foxnews.com/politics/china…

Speaking to Davos, Trump asks NATO members to raise their defense spending to 5% of their GDP. US % is at 3% or below. Let’s see what his 1st defense budget request looks like. My bet: not 5%, heck, I’ll be shocked if it’s even 3.2%. axios.com/newsletters/ax…

McConnell statement on voting against confirming Hegseth: “The most consequential cabinet official in any Administration is the Secretary of Defense. In the face of the gravest threats to U.S. national security interests since World War II, this position is even more important

How’s this for a Congressional response? Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., acknowledged that the firings violated statutes but shrugged it off: “Just tell them you need to follow the law next time,” he said. Not exactly “ambition countering ambition.” FP51 washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

In light of OMB’s announcement of “freezing” federal spending, I’m re-posting my piece on impoundment.

President Trump issued an executive order on Monday pausing the Justice Department’s enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, saying it was unfair to US businesses. Hate to be a Boy Scout about, but the appropriate Con'l response is to ask Congress to change the law. DUH