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What Trump Did

Joe Zeigler

Joe Zeigler

05 Dec 2025 — 3 min read
What Trump Did

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It's Theature

It's Theature

With a Body Count Trump promised a million deportations a year. That was the number his people used. A million. Said it with the confidence of a man who has never had to actually do anything. The actual number, based on real data, runs behind Biden’s pace. Biden deported

By Joe Zeigler 17 Apr 2026
Lunch at the Lodge

Lunch at the Lodge

Florida He was already at the table when Lanying and I sat down. Big guy, maybe sixty-five, seed cap, the kind of handshake that's trying to tell you something. His wife was small and quiet and spent most of lunch cutting her food into smaller pieces than it

By Joe Zeigler 14 Apr 2026
The Fire

The Fire

We Walked Away From On July 17, 1955, the people of Arco, Idaho went to bed not knowing what had just happened to their town. About 1,200 of them, most of them ranchers and their families, in a little city in the Snake River desert. Before the experiment, everyone

lock-1 By Joe Zeigler 12 Apr 2026
They Want the Power

They Want the Power

They Don't Want to Share It Missed Tuesday. Sick, miserable, and horizontal for the last few days. Still not entirely upright but close enough to write again. Back to work now. More coming. The data centers, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, are consuming electricity that would stress a national

By Joe Zeigler 10 Apr 2026
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