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Mark Sumner

Author of The Evolution of Everything, On Whetsday, Devil's Tower, and 43 other books.

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Trump's team doesn't need an autopen. They know Trump will reliably plant his pubic signature on anything they put in front of him without bothering to read it. Which is good, because it's increasingly difficult to keep Trump awake, even when people are busy kissing his ass.

Mark Sumner

Trump has an answer for the troubled economy: Lie about it. And right now, he's lying his massive, hairy buttocks off.

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He's not just a technofascist seeking to build an AI-fueled authoritarian surveillance state. He's also an absolutely bonkers pseudo-religious nutcase who views everyone who stands in his way as an agent of ... Satan. And that includes the Pope.

Mark Sumner

The President of the United States exists in a dream world, where he regularly declares things that are not just untrue, but ridiculous. This is patently obvious to the most casual observer … so long as that observer doesn't work for a billionaire-owned media outlet.

Mark Sumner

So long as the federal government was defending the human rights of all people, Republicans hid behind their states' rights cloak. When the federal government went to work attacking people of color, Republicans flat-out begged to be federalized.