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It’s only a matter of time before Clavicular lands a position in the Trump cabinet. The early betting is that the “looksmaxxing” influencer will replace FBI Director Kash Patel, who’s come under increasing criticism in recent weeks, first for his boozing—he’s a “raging alcoholic,” one Democratic congressman claims—and, second, for supposed security lapses at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.  Should Patel feel threatened, he can always remind the President that the “bonesmashing” Clavicular—a.k.a. Braden Eric Peters, a 20-year-old from New Jersey who now owns a Florida nightclub—has his own substance abuse problems, having used meth to control his weight and,…

Normally, I am against content labels for media, but I might have to make an exception for The Devil Wears Prada 2. This movie should come with a trigger warning, at least for millennial journalists. The fizzy, frothy comedy is also a jewel-box encapsulation of a generation’s broken dreams, told through the decline of magazine journalism.  The film opens at a journalistic awards ceremony, one of those rubber chicken dinners where journalists give each other plastic trophies to honor worthy (but often little-read) work. Just as our heroine, Andy Sachs (a perky, perfectly neurotic Anne Hathaway), accepts the top honor,…

California progressives are pushing for a tax on billionaires; so are senators like Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.). But as Andrew Heaton explains, such programs don’t work. Just ask France. The post Why Wealth Taxes Fail appeared first on Reason.com. Source link

Talk to anyone in the UK about the prospects for their country, and the mood could hardly be bleaker. The Britain many of us grew up with—with its relatively buoyant economy, its well-functioning services and its high-trust, cohesive society—feels like it is disintegrating at pace, if it has not already disappeared. This is why the next general election, which must be held at some point between now and August 2029, feels destined to be a hinge point in British history. Where most elections are fought between two sets of managerial technocrats, with minor variations in policy, the stakes this time…

More than four months after Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin announced that he was breaking his promise to release its autopsy report on the 2024 election, the decision remains highly controversial. Arguments swirl around whether it’s wise to proceed without public scrutiny of what went wrong during the last presidential campaign. But scant attention has focused on how hiding the autopsy provides an assist to Kamala Harris, who currently leads in polling of Democrats for the party’s 2028 nomination. As Harris eyes another run, she has a major stake in the DNC continuing to keep the autopsy under wraps – and has a lot to…

Three makes a trend, as journalists say, and by that standard, America faces a disturbing trend in its civic life: Weirdos keep trying to kill the president. The trend-making number three was Cole Tomas Allen of California. Strapped up with guns and knives, Allen bum-rushed some metal detectors last week at the Washington Hilton, where President Donald Trump, for the first time as president, was attending the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Ryan Wesley Routh, a career criminal and serial fabulist from North Carolina, was the number-two weirdo. In September 2024, Routh was found armed with a semiautomatic rifle and…

Bones of tortured prisoners. Kolyma Gulag, USSR (Nikolai Nikitin, Tass). (NA)   NOTE: This post largely reprints last year’s Victims of Communism Day post, with some modifications. Today is May Day. Since 2007, I have advocated using this date as an international Victims of Communism Day. I outlined the rationale for this proposal (which was not my original idea) in my very first post on the subject: May Day began as a holiday for socialists and labor union activists, not just communists. But over time, the date was taken over by the Soviet Union and other communist regimes and used as…

The U.S. president has lost the war he started with Iran — or at the very least he has no chance of winning it — but accepting defeat and repairing the damage of the error is simply beyond his reach. President Donald Trump at a Turning Point USA event at Dream City Church in Phoenix in April. (White House/Daniel Torok) By Patrick LawrenceSpecial to Consortium News You have to hand it to Sara Jacobs, the California Democrat and the youngest member of the Golden State’s House delegation. She has an O.K.–plus voting record — at least by Capitol Hill standards —…

Justice Clarence Thomas’ recent lecture commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence continues to attract attention and comment. While some on the left found the speech objectionable or offensive, many on the right have found it to be inspiring and worth engaging. Today, Civitas Outlook has published a symposium of responses to Justice Thomas’ lecture with many worthwhile contributions. Here is the line-up: Hadley Arkes, “Justice Thomas’s House Divided Speech”; Linda Denno, “Reclaiming Our American Inheritance”; Richard Epstein, “Justice Thomas’s Bulwark of Liberty”; Steven Hayward, “‘Silent Clarence’ Meets ‘Silent Cal'”; Charles Kesler, “The Courage of Justice Thomas”; Phillip Munoz,…

Barn on the French Prairie, Willamette Valley, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Can anything make farmers turn away from Trump? How rightwing populism has gripped rural areas, especially among farmers, is evidenced by the results from the past few presidential elections. Still, critical challenges are emerging for key constituencies in Trump’s base, principally due to the damage that the Iran war is doing in the countryside.  Similar conditions pushed Irish farmers to the streets in early April, causing a change among political leadership shortly after, and also helping producers receive some much-needed relief. That Irish farmers took to the streets…