Tom Clark
@tomsclark
Political scientist at Stanford University studying law, courts, policing, public safety. Go birds. www.tomclarkphd.com
I'm posting this now so I can quote post in a few months with a picture of Lucy yanking the football away form Charlie Brown.
Oh my. Who could have predicted that Trump would use some sycophantic lackey to do his bidding and then rip away any benefit as soon as it could cost Trump some personal graft.
You mean, the stock everyone said was overpriced but we were all forced to buy because Nasdaq changed its rules for this one special company, in fact turns out to be a bad investment?
It’s almost as if radically scaling back surveillance of an infectious parasite undermined the government’s ability to respond to an outbreak. apple.news/AU7UjBeLKTau...
Heading to a conference in Dallas-Fort Worth. This is the right attire for the evening rodeo, right?
I wonder whether this cease-fire will also involve continued bombing campaigns.
We now live with a government where law enforcement officers and lawyers-the two groups whose honesty and accountability are integral to the justice system-frequently lie to the courts without shame. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...
President "give me a Nobel Peace Prize" is already lining up another war he wants to start. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...
Right on cue. I’m surprised it was this long between the tariff decision and him threatening a war. It’s been half an hour, already! Explain to me again why we shouldn’t remove from office a temperamental man-child who abuses power to lash out whenever someone stops him from having his way?
America 2026: There’s a measles outbreak among the children being held without due process in a prison camp.
Thank god NBC has these commentator to tell me what to look for in the speed skating event.
Sometimes I worry about the robots taking over. Then I do things like watch out Roomba try to learn the floor plan of the new house and get lost 4” in front of the dock.
The president does not have the power to do this. But Congress and the courts will just roll over.
A crackpot lawyer who has made a career of trying profit from suing vaccine manufacturers is now in charge of the government’s health bureaucracy. I guess it’s not surprising that his agency keeps conducting BS studies to lay the groundwork for page financial payouts.
Trump has trashed the economy with massive taxes (tariffs) on the American consumer, and his solution is, rather than to reverse course, spend taxpayer money to bail out the agriculture industry (presumably with tons of partisan strings attached).
Breaking news. Someone from the Trump administration claims that an investigation results in “total exoneration” when, in fact, it does not.
While Hegseth likes the imagery of himself as some tough guy rappelling from a helicopter into a battle zone, dodging bullets, in fact he gave the order to murder these people from the cool, calm confines of an office. This is no “fog of war” situation.
Everything Trump says is clearly pretext for the use of power in his own, rather than the public, interest. Why can't the media just say that explicitly? He's not attacking universities over antisemitism, and he's not attacking Venezuela because of drugs.
Oh no. A head of government politicizing the military and grabbing immunity from prosecution? The end of democracy....
So the Democrats are heralding a soft commitment to comply with the law as a victory in their negotiations?
This is a page on the official White house website right now. www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/
I suppose that's one way of putting it, @nytimes.com. There are some "perils" to the executive branch adopting the view that it is not bound by law.
Here’s the federal building in Chicago. In the Loop, fenced off to keep people away. I have spent a lot of time walking around this place, and seeing this feels very dystopian.
The @washingtonpost.com has done a lot of bad reporting lately, helping the regime’s narrative. But this one really caught my eye. Kimmel didn’t talk about Kirk - he talked about the GOP using his assassination for political gain. And that’s why he was suspended. It should be reported that way.
More crackerjack reporting from the Washington (In the Bag) Post. No, it’s not unclear whether Trump can do this. It is clear he cannot, unless we’re all on board with the law not binding anything Dear Leader does.
“Mr. President, I invite you to see your big, beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor, because you are really the transformational president of the American worker,” Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer told Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...