Politics

Is it TOO MUCH to ask that we have a President who can keep his eyes open during meeting time? Why yes, I suppose that it is. So the plane touched down in Saudi Arabia. Out of said plane walked—or rather WADDLED—our President. Some stragglers were with him, including Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio. Oh…

Dear Palmer Report readers, it’s been a tough year but the fight is more important than ever. For that reason I’ve launched the Palmer Report 2025 Operating Expenses Fund. If we can fully fund this, it’ll bridge the gap and ensure that Palmer Report can keep fighting now and into a crucial 2026. I’m asking you…

Donald Trump held a signing ceremony for an executive order this week and then wandered off without signing it, but I’m not here to talk about Trump’s worsening dementia today. I’m here to talk about something that’s in danger of getting overlooked amidst all the rest of the chaos: the staggeringly blatant corruption. Yesterday Trump…

The evening is made for pondering complex questions. Sometimes, the night skies seem so close that we can almost reach out and touch them. Of course we can’t. We can’t touch them, and we cannot see, although I certainly wish that we could, the most vivid purple stars shining down. We can’t see purple stars…

Trump has finally allowed refugees into the United States. Well, sort of refugees. They are in fact well-dressed, affluent Africans. From South Africa. Okay, they’re white. But Trump says it has nothing to do with race. “It’s a genocide that’s taking place.” There’s just one problem. There is absolutely no evidence that genocide against Afrikaners…

Being the geography nerd that I am, I enjoy studying state characteristics. For example, did you know that the people of Maine are known to have the smoothest complexions in the country? Perhaps it’s all that sea air. Maine also has the rockiest coastline, and is considered the most tranquil state. Indeed, when I visit…

I recently wrote that Donald Trump’s social media posts have begun committing the worst sin of all as far as he’s concerned: they’ve become boring. Trump (or whoever is ghostwriting for him) tries to hype something, but it either falls on deaf ears, or becomes an instant punchline, or unwittingly gives something away. It’s happened…

Let’s talk about election interference, which is one of Donald Trump’s favorite catch phrases. Unfortunately, it has never been and will never be true-until now. The Trump administration is guilty of election interference, and they may have made a big mistake in interfering New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka’s run for governor of his state. This…

When Trump won in the 2024 election, he gained support from certain voting groups such as younger men, Latinos, and non-white voters with no college degree. That seems centuries ago, even though it’s only been, in reality, a few months. Still, that couple of months is long enough for Trump’s support among ALL of these…

It should be noted as a public service that the name Karoline contains letters that spell the word “lie.” It should also be noted as a further public service that the name Leavitt contains letters that spell the word “lie.” That Karoline Leavitt, with her massive Christian cross perennially on display, is a double-barrelled lying…

There is a reason why the mandatory retirement age for Air Traffic Controllers is 56. Being an air traffic controller is one of the most stressful occupations in the world. There are so many souls to take care of. Lives hang in the balance, and in this particular job, even one error could cost many…

Donald Trump’s social media posts have always been horrifying, often incoherent, and usually illiterate. But now his social media presence has become something else entirely: boring. It’s not just that Trump never really did return to Twitter, and instead prefers to shout into the abyss on his own failed social network. It’s that PT Barnum’s…

As if we don’t already have enough to worry about. We have one hell of a problem, brothers and sisters, and believe it or not it’s not Trump’s fault. At least, not yet. But give him time because soon it will be. I’m talking about the avian influenza A (H5N1) virus, affectionately known as bird…

1984 was a scorching, deeply disturbing piece of literature that is often required reading in schools, much to Republicans’ chagrin. In recent years, Republicans have begun taking on the characteristics of Big Brother to an unheard-of degree. I suppose these members of the GOP, if they ever bothered to read the book at all, came…

Back in August 2020, I wrote about Donald Trump’s dangerous refusal to take his intelligence briefings seriously. At the time, a HuffPost investigation found that Trump received briefings an average of only around twice a week. By contrast, his predecessors, President Barack Obama and even George W. Bush, made a point to read the briefings…

People in rural areas favor the GOP. That’s a fact, just like it’s a fact that people in densely populated urban areas favor the Democratic party. When Donald Trump won the 2024 election, we at Palmer Report said that Trump voters would feel his wrath the strongest. And so they have and they will. They…

Donald Trump has been on the national political stage for a decade, and throughout that entire time, his behavior has been so malignantly bizarre that there is still widespread debate about his motives and intentions. Is he strictly trying to plunder the country for his own personal gain? Is he trying to destroy America for…

When they look at us, they don’t see people. When they peer into our psyches, they try their best to dehumanize us, to reduce what they do not understand , our personhood, our laughter, our very beings are anathema to them, we are a million laughing Pandora’s, but they despise our curiosity, our ebullience, our…

The Covid-19 pandemic and its attendant shutdowns devastated the world economy. Tens of thousands of small businesses, especially the public-facing kind such as restaurants, barbers, small grocery stores and the like, closed their doors forever. Supermarket shelves quickly emptied out due to the twin ravages of panic buying and supply chain depredations. Inflation demolished savings…

It’s a joke! That was my first thought upon hearing the news that former Fox Host Jeanine Pirro had been appointed by Mr. Trump to be acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Well, it had to be a joke. Surely nobody not even moron, could possibly be that stupid right? Right? Nope. As…

When the Trump regime wrongly arrested a Wisconsin circuit court judge two weeks ago (yes, that was only two weeks ago), I wrote that it was an attempt at faking a power play. Trump was, as usual, picking on someone smaller than him. He wanted to make it look like he might be willing to…

Donald Trump makes me tired. His incompetence, his lies, his embellishments, and everything else just make me tired. From judges on down, he keeps being informed that he can’t do the things he’s trying to do, but he refuses to listen. I have never seen such an evil, bullheaded man before in my life. He…

This is not good – not good at all. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday that it is discontinuing its database of ” billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.” This is likely because of the staff reductions. We can blame Elon Musk and DOGE for this. This database has been most useful because…

Shortly after Pope Francis died, my wife and I did what millions of other people across the world did. We watched the movie “Conclave.” (It was brilliant, by the way.) Afterward we played a game. What nomen would we pick if we were elected Pope? She picked “Leo” because, like me, she is a cat…

Poor MAGA — poor, poor little MAGA. For about five blissful seconds — five seconds — MAGA was starry-eyed over the new Pope. MAGA excitedly chattered that this was a win for Donald John Trump! An American Pope! Surely this was a nod of approval for Trump, right? Right? Not quite. It seems that MAGA’s…

Of all the aspects of the federal government that Donald Trump has weaponized for his own corrupt gain, the US Attorney’s Office for Washington DC might be the most flagrant. Trump quietly name Ed Martin as interim US Attorney, and Martin immediately proceeded to use the office to go after Trump’s political enemies. Now Ed…

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Were I able to have a conversation with the mythological boy, Icarus, I’d ask him earnestly why he did it. Why did he not listen to his father? He was warned, and he was warned with all the love a father has for his son, but still, alight with hubris and excitement churning inside him,…

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It was bad enough that Donald Trump got steamrolled by the Prime Minister of Canada on Tuesday when his administration badly needed that country to cave and make any sort of a trade deal on the tariffs that are going as poorly as anyone would imagine. Things got considerably worse later on in the day…

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