- Via The Guardian: Only one in 10 Europeans now see US as an ally, survey suggests.
- Via MS Now: ICE has detained over 500 babies and toddlers under Trump.
- By Paul Campos at LGM: Ain’t that America.
- Via the AP: Troubled Reflecting Pool faces fresh scrutiny over vandalism claims and duck deaths. The duck deaths are just another ridiculous flourish to this story.
- Via the NYT: A Look Inside the Welcome Bags Planned for White South African Refugees. Gifts if you have the right hue!
- Via the Hollywood Reporter: A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First Target. Worth a read; it was not what I expected.
- By Steve Kennedy at Liberal Currents: Callais Affects More Than Just Congress.
- By Justin Briley at Liberal Currents: Let Us Reflect.
For a year and a half, we have watched an 80-year-old demented, effluvient, affluenza patient stifle our economy, trample our constitution, terrorize our neighbors, insult our sacred traditions, threaten our allies, promise genocide, guarantee holocaust, and start (then promptly lose) an illegal war, the consequences of which we will be living with for a generation. They call him the “king of deals,” but he’s bankrupted six casinos. At every turn, we’re reminded why. We’ve watched as a talentless totem of meaningless celebrity gutted scientific research, pardoned traitors, paid off terrorists, tortured families, murdered innocents, and wrapped himself in the flag of freedom while demanding our gratitude for each humiliation. We see the rosy-cheeked marionette, Speaker Mike Johnson, stumble through some absurd denial of any knowledge of the day’s most significant event to avoid the risk of an octogenarian making a mean post about him. The Supreme Court scrapes and bows and invents new dogmas to crown him godking. The media stumbles around, drunk on the fumes of his power and attention, no matter how bitter the glass. Meanwhile, we are treated as if we cannot taste, read, or hear.
Indeed.
