The Bomb Hiding in Trump's Bill

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What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers

Republicans Just Dropped a Major Bomb into the Big Beautiful Tax Bill That Would Blow a Hole in Medicaid

Early Monday afternoon, the Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee dropped a major bomb regarding the tax bill that the majority is trying to slip through the Senate in a fashion that denies the Democratic minority the opportunity to filibuster it.

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No Carcinogen Left Behind! Trump's EPA Wants to Reverse the Ban on Asbestos.

Lord above, I thought we'd all agreed on asbestos. The scientific consensus is undeniable. Huge settlements have been paid out in lawsuits on behalf of hundreds of thousands of victims over the years. Everybody knows how to spell mesothelioma. (Hell, it killed poor Warren Zevon at 56.) But we had not reckoned with the new philosophies of American public health—No Carcinogen Left Behind and Truncated Lives Matter.

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An Executive Order from Trump Now Allows VA Doctors to Refuse Care to Democrats

I seem to recall a certain president of the United States saying just the other day to a very thin crowd that there has been nothing like the U.S. Army in the history of the world. But if you happen to have been part of the absolute greatest fighting force in the history of the known universe, and you happened to acquire a case of PTSD during your service, and now you've smoked a little weed and voted for Democrats, the VA can show you the door because the administration has gone batshit crazy about trans people and is "protecting women."

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Utah Senator Mike Lee Needs to Learn to Shut Up

The shebeen has always kept an eye out for Senator Mike Lee, the famous "konztitooshunal skolar" from the state of Utah, who has gone from a radical fan of the Tenth Amendment to a radical fan of whatever popped out of Donald Trump's comb-over today.

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Trump Only Wants to Go to War for the Ego Boost

Being the sole occupant of his idiomatic, dark personal universe, the president conforms his actions to its idiomatic, dark personal laws and according to its idiomatic, dark personal logic. Given that he has managed to make too much of the government conform to his actions, and too many of us to conform to that logic, it should come as no surprise that he is talking openly about taking the country down the entirely unnecessary and perilous course of joining Israel's attack on Iran.

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