It was too hot to exercise, so I nodded out with NPR on the radio. When I woke, the network’s hosts and reporters were reading from a list of grievances:

He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislatures.

Who was this “he”? Was NPR making a statement about Elon Musk and DOGE? Were they accusing ICE?

The staffers — Terry Gross, Nina Totenberg, et al. — read one or two sentences each: “He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.” He has subjected us to “a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution.” He has quartered “large bodies of armed troops among us” and protected them “from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states.”

I wondered if they were referring to the innocent people killed last winter by federal agents in Minneapolis.

The NPR crew mentioned tyrants and “self-evident” truths. “Okay, now I get it,” I said. I ran next door to tell Swamp Rabbit that the clever NPR crew was quoting from the Declaration of Independence — using it to list reasons why “he,” Donald Trump, should be impeached again.

Swamp Rabbit’s radio was tuned to the same show. “You’re crazy,” he said. “They’re quoting what Thomas Jefferson wrote about King George. Ain’t nobody mentioned Donald Trump.”

“Maybe not, but they should,” I replied. “The one tyrant’s been dead a few hundred years. The other one’s still here. He thinks he owns the White House.”