thoughts of an average man
Recently, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stood at the White House briefing room and held up a $250 bill with Donald Trump’s face on it. It is currently illegal to put a living person on US currency. They designed it anyway. This is the most honest thing the Trump administration has ever produced. The Monopoly man … Read more
Donald Trump just handed Texas Democrats the one thing they could not manufacture on their own — a beatable Republican. Ken Paxton won the Texas Republican Senate primary because Trump endorsed him. That endorsement cost the Republican Party $100 million in the most expensive Senate primary in American history and ended the career of John … Read more
Donald Trump has spent his entire political career telling anyone who will listen that he is the greatest dealmaker in the history of deals. He wrote a book about it. He built a brand on it. He got elected twice on it. On Monday he jumped on a conference call with the leaders of Saudi … Read more
Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill on the Fourth of July. Independence Day. He stood in front of the cameras and called it beautiful. He meant it as a celebration. Let’s talk about what he was actually celebrating. The RAND Corporation ran the numbers. State Medicaid budgets will be cut by $665 billion … Read more
Donald Trump just ordered two million federal employees to sign nondisclosure agreements. Sign them or face termination. That is not a headline from a country you studied in a Cold War history class. That is the United States government, this week. The Trump administration’s Office of Personnel Management filed the directive on May 26. Every … Read more
The Republican Party compiled the scandal list themselves. Then deleted it when he won. Within hours of Ken Paxton defeating John Cornyn in Tuesday’s Texas Senate primary, the National Republican Senatorial Committee quietly deleted at least nine press releases and digital ads attacking him. Gone. The NRSC’s own communications director had called Paxton’s treatment of … Read more
Texas has made its choices. On one side of the November Senate ballot: James Talarico, a former middle school English teacher, seminary student, and eighth-generation Texan who flipped a Republican district and spent his career fighting for teacher pay, property tax relief, and prescription drug costs. On the other side: Ken Paxton, a man who … Read more
Last night Texas Republicans chose their candidate for the United States Senate. They looked at a man who was impeached by his own party, who faces active criminal charges, whose wife of thirty years filed for divorce on biblical grounds, and they said — that’s our guy. Ken Paxton beat four-term incumbent Senator John Cornyn … Read more
A Federal Judge Just Called Trump’s DOJ Vindictive — And He’s Right A federal judge didn’t just dismiss the charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia last Friday. He handed down a verdict on the Trump administration itself — and the word he used was vindictive. Let that land. A sitting federal judge looked at the full … Read more
The Supreme Court handed down a decision last month that will likely determine who controls the House of Representatives. Not the voters. The court. Six justices in robes decided the outcome of an election that hasn’t happened yet. Here’s what they did. They ruled in Louisiana v. Callais that drawing congressional districts to protect Black … Read more