From Pine View Farm

At Above the Law, Mark Hermann imagines what a left-leaning “Project 2025” (he calls it “Project 2029”) might look like. A snippet:

If Trump can eliminate Harvard’s tax-exempt status, then a vindictive Project 2029 should propose eliminating the tax-exempt status of organizations that lean to the right. The Heritage Foundation, Hillsdale College, the Family Research Council, and the like would be good places to start. Let’s see how they do without tax exemptions. Load that idea into Project 2029. Fair is fair, right?

The Rude One recaps Donald Trump’s “Mess with the Press” interview for those of us who have given up on television news. (Warning: Language, and lots of it.)

Bloomberg’s Beth Kowitt notes that “the bureaucracy is an easy target in dis coarse discourse, but, despite its bad reputation, it is, in fact, a good thing. Here’s bit from her article (emphasis added):

But bureaucracy isn’t just inertia, disengagement and red tape. It’s also order and stability. While bureaucracy has evolved into a pejorative term used to describe complicated and pointless administrative procedures, bureaucracy is, at its core, an administrative system and way of organizing.

It’s the framework that provides the hierarchy and formalized rules that help an institution run. “The opposite of bureaucracy is not freedom and agility – it’s chaos,” says Mike Lee, a professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD. “When you remove all the formal structures, things become opaque, less fair and power concentrates at the top.” Exhibit A: DOGE, which has managed to create more turmoil in the federal government than it has efficiency.

I spent most of my career working in a large organization. I can attest from my own experience that she makes some excellent points.

While on the subject, I recently had to renew my driver’s license. It took far too long. But it didn’t take too long because of the persons working at the DMV office I used. They were all working very hard, calling the next person as soon as they were finished with the previous one.

Either it was an exceptionally busy day or they are understaffed. If the latter, be clear: they did not understaff themselves.

Sam and Emma talk with Elie Mystal about why some low firms and universities are capitulating to Donald Trump’s demands.

Sherlock Holmes once said, “When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

Via The Kansas City Star, Elizabeth Shackelford attempts to use that statement to make sense of Donald Trump’s foreign you-can-hardly-call-them-without-laughing policies.

Addendum:

Also, too.