Lucian K. Truscott IV
Lucian K. Truscott IV
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I can guarantee this: No AI system would have put a headline on a column on the subject of artificial intelligence using the words “grilled cheese sandwich.”
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A grilled cheese sandwich and a glass of iced tea
That’s how much it’s taking to power the composition of this column.
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Welcome to 1964. Welcome to Jim Crow. That’s where we will be if the Supreme Court puts a torch to the Voting Rights Act. Not only will they ban the teaching of slavery, they’ll bring it back to life in all but name.
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Republican Supreme Court arsonists are ready to torch the Voting Right Act – again.
So, the immolation of the Voting Rights Act by Justice Roberts and his band of merry arsonists continues apace.
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Is there another national leader who has been all over the map about abortion to gay rights to free speech to Russia to its war in Ukraine to come-and-buy-your-drugs-from-me? Hmmmm…let me think…could his name be Donald Trump?
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Here is how Trump could stay in power after 2029 even if he’s not President
If there is one defining characteristic of the Trump second term in office, it is his naked mixing of the presidency with his personal business.
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There will be nothing restraining Trump from using soldiers from the state of Texas as his own private army, following his orders and nobody else’s. This isn’t a slippery slope we’re on. Trump is following the playbook of Adolph Hitler in the 1930’s.
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Trump is using the National Guard as his own private army
Lots of news today on the ICE and National Guard front.
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Politics is the way we elect our representatives to run the governments of the country and the states. When federal soldiers become involved in enforcing the law in a state that has not requested them, politics ends and something else begins.
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The end of politics
Forest fires and tornados and hurricanes are the common enemies of all Americans.
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12 Noon Eastern today: I'll be doing Substack live on Steve Schmidt's "The Warning"

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Trump’s masked and armed agents are already approaching people on the street in cities who look “suspicious” because of their race or ethnicity and requiring them to produce citizenship papers.

This isn’t a slippery slope to fascism. We’re already there.
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The perfect fascism of a raid in Chicago
This is what we must guard against.
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This story is about the obsession with grooming standards of some officers in the army. The obsession dates back decades, and it has a history that echoes the history of this country. It is extraordinary that we are still dealing with this problem.
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The Great Mustache Revolt and the racist history of grooming standards in the military
This story is about the obsession with grooming standards of some officers in the army.
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In the end, the generals and admirals know that presidents come and go, but their job remains the same. The soldiers, sailors, airmen and airwomen and Marines under their command need them to do their jobs in spite of the madness at the top.
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Trump’s speech to the generals and admirals: I don’t even know where to begin
“Unhinged” is one word I heard on the news shows describing Trump’s speech this morning.
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I don’t envy the generals and admirals and noncommissioned officers who will be there tomorrow. I would not want to have to maintain a straight face while Trump treats them as if they are his followers at a MAGA rally and bellows grievance and braggadocio.
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249 years. Nothing like this has happened before.
I’m speaking of tomorrow’s meeting between Hegseth and Trump and 800 generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia.
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Our soldiers didn’t sign up to patrol American streets and arrest or help to arrest their fellow citizens. Martial law, in the end, will be more difficult to impose than Trump thinks it is.
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Will Portland be Trump’s first step toward martial law?
Let’s count down the steps.
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Secretary of Whatever Pete Hegseth is nervous. Everyone at the Pentagon knows it. How do they know Pete is shaking in his loafers? That five-sided building is just like a small town. And what they’re talking about is how weirdly frightened the boss is.
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What the hell is Hegseth up to?
Secretary of Whatever Pete Hegseth is nervous.
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But these are niggling details, and as we all know, Donald Trump doesn’t do niggling details. By this time next year, he will probably be bragging that he has ended six more wars, that windmills are blowing up off the coast of Great Britain.
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How long, oh Lord, how long? I endured Trump’s UN speech so you don’t have to
How many more times will we have to untangle and debunk another lip-wagging screed of Donald Trump like the one he blubbered through at the United Nations today?
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If I were Brendan Carr, I would duck and cover. Kimmel will be coming for the easiest target he’s had in his career, with the sole exception of Orange Littlehands himself.
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Trump’s big gift to Jimmy Kimmel
One word: Ratings.
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