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This Year’s World Cup The quadrennial World Cup will be over tomorrow, and either Spain or Argentina will emerge as champions.... https://a1skeptic.org/2026/07/19/this-years-world-cup/

Trump’s Nothingburger Speech There was a time when I was young and naive when I thought being able to vote over the Internet might be a good idea.... https://a1skeptic.org/2026/07/17/trumps-nothingburger-speech/

The Anti-Weaponization Fund With Todd Blanche’s nomination for Attorney General to be heard this week, I though it might be a good time to review Trump’s attempt to create an "anti-weaponization" slush fund for his allies (including pardoned January 6th Participants), which was engineered by Blanche.... https://a1skeptic.org/2026/07/14/the-anti-weaponization-fund/

Campaign Finance: More of the Same One of the cases that was decided by the Supreme Court in this last term is a case called…... https://a1skeptic.org/2026/07/12/campaign-finance-more-of-the-same/

The Birthright Citizenship Decision I’m going to spend the next couple of weeks trying to unpack what the Supreme Court did at the end of its last term, because the Court did a lot.... https://a1skeptic.org/2026/07/03/the-birthright-citizenship-decision/

Gerrymandering in Alabama With today’s decision allowing the state of Alabama to go back to using its racially gerrymandered congressional map in the wake of the decision in Louisiana v.... https://a1skeptic.org/2026/06/04/gerrymandering-in-alabama/

Ken Paxton is your GOP Senate Candidate in Texas

The Texas Republican party, as is by now well known, decided to nominate their current Attorney General Ken Paxton to be their candidate to replace outgoing Senator John Cornyn in the Senate. Cornyn has served in the Senate since 2002, and will have served 24 years when he leaves office. He is a mainstream Republican and reported fundraising machine, none of which helped him in his primary effort…

Imagine the Level of Delusion

From the first time that I ever heard of Donald Trump — and honestly, I don’t remember exactly when that was, but it was probably through People Magazine — I thought that he was an obnoxious character, the poster child for the “Ugly American.” Since then, of course, my opinion of him has gone lower and lower. But even I never thought that I’d see something this ridiculous. Trump, as is well…

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Republican Hypocrisy and Identity Fusion, part 2

Having established in Part 1 of this two-part essay that Republicans have abandoned or reversed many of their proclaimed principles in their support of President Trump, it’s time to look at the most common explanation: identity fusion. Identity Fusion Identity Fusion is a psychological concept describing a state where a person’s sense of personal identity becomes deeply merged with a group…

Republican Hypocrisy and Identity Fusion, part I

Well, by now it’s clear that there is not a single thing that the MAGAverse and Trump supporters used to claim that they believed in that they are not willing to disregard or contradict. The whole thing has become almost comical, as the scale and breadth of their hypocrisy becomes apparent. When the contradictions become so stark and obvious, even the most sophisticated cognitive gymnastics will…

President Trump's New Low

After what he posted in the wake of the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle by their very own son, our Cryto-pedohile piece of excrement of a President really has hit a new low. Rob Reiner and his wife died in about as cruel a fashion as you can die: being knifed to death by one of his own kids. Imagine lying there, with the life ebbing out of you, knowing that one of your own kids had…

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Final Dismissal in Georgia

You might have missed it, but a sad event took place last week in the legal cases against Donald Trump. It was the final dismissal of the case in Georgia. The one where they had Trump on tape, saying, “All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. I just want to find 11,780 votes. Give me a break fellas.” They had this mothereffer on tape! They had…

Why the Fuss about the Epstien Files?

As we wait for the release of the Epstein files, a question arises as to how and why these particular files became so important. We have to set some context for all of this. Epstein wasn’t the first and won’t be the last powerful rich white guy to take advantage of women. Pizzagate For context, let’s go back to the “Pizzagate” conspiracy in which Qanon followers and other MAGA types came to…

Trump's $230 Million Tort Claim

Since the Supreme Court liberated Trump from criminal liability in Trump v. United States, the Donald’s assault on legality has been non-stop and unrelenting. There are so many examples that we could examine, but I want to examine one particular issue, because it’s one that (as a former government lawyer) I have some familiarity with. And that issue is Trump’s demand for $230 million compensation…

Are the Moderate Democrats Wrong?

Well, the Senate voted last night to re-open the government after 41 days of getting nowhere. The seven Democrats who voted to re-open are Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA), and Tim Kaine (VA). Independent Angus King (ME) also voted in favor while Republican renegade Rand Paul (KY) voted against. The approved…

These are our Young Repubicans

So, this story about the Young Republican National Federation is really quite astounding, and should reverberate throughout our news cycle for a while to come. If you’ve been hiding under a rock, or just tuned out our relentlessly frustrating news cycle, there is a group of young Republican leaders that are part of the National Federation, that have been carrying on an extraordinary chat on the…

Should Trump be Eligible for the Nobel?

Should President Trump be eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize because of his efforts to procure a lasting peace plan between Israel and Hamas? The question is no longer quite the joke that it would have been a few months ago. Below we consider that question in detail, here are the main points of the proposal. How many of these will actually be fulfilled, only time will tell. But here is what was…

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