Wednesday, July 1, 2026

The Great American State Fair is Trump's daily humiliation

I love President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair. I love its emptiness. Its expensive food. Its abject failure. ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌  ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ 
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Wed Jul 1 2026

 
Visitors walk the grounds at the Great American State Fair on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on June 25, 2026.

I love President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair. I love its emptiness. Its expensive food. Its abject failure.

Demonstrators rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on Jan. 13, 2026, as the justices hear oral arguments in two cases related to transgender athlete participation in sports.
 

The Supreme Court just ruled for fairness in women's sports

The Supreme Court decision on Little v. Hecox out of Idaho and West Virginia v. B.P.J. allows states to do what’s right.

Becky Pepper-Jackson, the high school transgender girl at the center of West Virginia State Board of Education v. B.P.J., and her mother, Heather Jackson, exit the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on Jan. 13, 2026.
 

Even in this loss, my daughter still won for trans athletes

My trans daughter, Becky Pepper-Jackson, wanted to play the sport she loves. That simple wish took her all the way to the Supreme Court.

President Donald Trump addresses a Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, DC, on June 26, 2026.
 

Why is Trump using scare tactics to get your support? Easy answer.

Linguists and political scientists who study this sort of rhetoric easily spotted Trump's pattern of using speech to drive fear.

Supporters of birthright citizenship rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on April 1, 2026.
 

Trump has a point about birthright citizenship. He was still wrong.

Whether birthright citizenship in its current form is good policy isn't the point. If Trump wants it changed, he must go through the proper channels.

Demonstrators hold letters making up the slogan "Born in the USA = citizen!" outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on April 1, 2026.
 

Supreme Court knows birthright citizens like me are full of patriotism

As a birthright citizen, I believe the president's order attacked the country’s most loyal members, undermining his own call for more patriotism

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 29, 2026.
 

Don't worry. Communism isn't infesting American politics.

The idea that some overhyped radical left is about to take over the nation is laughably false.

People protect themselves from the sun under umbrellas while crossing a street in Paris on June 23, 2026, as France experiences a heat wave.
 

Blistering U.S. heat wave proves Mother Nature is a radical leftist

The brutal heat wave searing much of the United States is proof Mother Nature is a hell-bent on getting Americans to believe in climate change.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom arrives for the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago on June 18, 2026.
 

Should America have a billionaire tax? After you, Gavin Newsom.

Newsom wants billionaires everywhere to pay more. But on taxing his own state's wealthiest, he's singing a different tune.

The Supreme Court on June 29, 2026, ruled that President Donald Trump may fire Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, here at a privacy roundtable in 2020 in Las Vegas. The 6-3 decision overturned a 1935 legal precedent that limited presidential firing powers.
 

Why the Supreme Court just handed every future president more power

A 90-year-old precedent just fell. The Supreme Court's FTC ruling says less about Trump than about how much power every future president will have.

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