Somewhat irrelevant, but whenever I read stories about the current DNI head designate, I run into an odd culture shock. Jay Clayton was also the name of a wonderful but little known female avant-garde jazz singer, who passed away a couple of years ago. I keep picturing her in charge of the intelligence community.
The corruption in DC goes both ways, but the GOP way is much, much deeper. Dems, 'pubs, indies, they should all be named, impeached, and their states forced to have special elections next November third!
Blanche is STILL Trump's personal attorney, and will be whether he is confirmed or not. Anyone who is nominated for AG will also be Trump's personal attorney!
Thanks, Home of the Brave, for this wake up call. Seventy-five percent of Americans believe the government is hiding Epstein's client list. Ten percent think this administration has helped accountability. That gap—between what people know and what institutions will do about it—is the defining crisis of this moment. Not just on Epstein. On everything.
I grew up in apartheid South Africa, where the government was also expert at managing files. At deciding what the public needed to know, and when, and how much. The Situation Room meetings, the PR strategizing, the image control over justice. Only difference was in SA, the meetings were in a secret chamber, held by a secret society.
I've spent the past year writing a novel set in a near-future America where the machinery has finally broken down completely. There's a moment early in The Kingdom of America where a character hands the protagonist a black T-shirt. On the front: 'I ran to the war in Persia' in orange letters. Beneath it, a photo of the President. Below the photo: 'Aboard the Lolita Express.'
The hardest part of writing it was the wealth of real material—deciding what to leave out. I've changed names to protect myself from lawyers, but the usual disclaimer about resemblance to people living or dead felt, in this case, is a bad joke.
Somewhat irrelevant, but whenever I read stories about the current DNI head designate, I run into an odd culture shock. Jay Clayton was also the name of a wonderful but little known female avant-garde jazz singer, who passed away a couple of years ago. I keep picturing her in charge of the intelligence community.
The corruption in DC goes both ways, but the GOP way is much, much deeper. Dems, 'pubs, indies, they should all be named, impeached, and their states forced to have special elections next November third!
Blanche is STILL Trump's personal attorney, and will be whether he is confirmed or not. Anyone who is nominated for AG will also be Trump's personal attorney!
Thanks, Home of the Brave, for this wake up call. Seventy-five percent of Americans believe the government is hiding Epstein's client list. Ten percent think this administration has helped accountability. That gap—between what people know and what institutions will do about it—is the defining crisis of this moment. Not just on Epstein. On everything.
I grew up in apartheid South Africa, where the government was also expert at managing files. At deciding what the public needed to know, and when, and how much. The Situation Room meetings, the PR strategizing, the image control over justice. Only difference was in SA, the meetings were in a secret chamber, held by a secret society.
I've spent the past year writing a novel set in a near-future America where the machinery has finally broken down completely. There's a moment early in The Kingdom of America where a character hands the protagonist a black T-shirt. On the front: 'I ran to the war in Persia' in orange letters. Beneath it, a photo of the President. Below the photo: 'Aboard the Lolita Express.'
The hardest part of writing it was the wealth of real material—deciding what to leave out. I've changed names to protect myself from lawyers, but the usual disclaimer about resemblance to people living or dead felt, in this case, is a bad joke.
It publishes July 4th, 2026. For an Advance Reader Copy: https://thekingdomofamerica.com/