June 29, 2026 -

The Caller, the Children, and a President Who Said Nothing

Someone tried to weaponize Michigan’s child-welfare system against Pete Buttigieg’s four-year-old twins. The White House has yet to condemn it. That silence is not an absence of leadership — it is leadership of a particular kind, and it tells us everything we need to know about the country we are heading into in November.

Five Hundred Days, One Verdict: The Senate Hears the Receipts

Connecticut’s Chris Murphy did what the country’s institutions have largely refused to do — he stood on the floor of the United States Senate and read the ledger of Donald Trump’s second term aloud, month by month, deal by deal, pardon by pardon. The question is no longer whether the corruption is real. The question is whether anyone with the constitutional authority to act still cares.

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