Trade Deficient 0
The Trump maladministration is trying to get foreign countries to comply with its anti-DEI (that is, racist and bigoted) “policies.” Here’s a bit from the report at Mediaite:
Specifically, U.S. embassy officials in Stockholm gave the city’s planning office 10 days to sign an agreement stating that Swedish officials would comply with U.S. anti-discrimination laws and eschew DEI policies that run afoul of them. The agreement would apply to contractors that do work for the U.S. embassy.
Emoluments 0
The editorial board of The Philadelphia Inquirer follows the money. They suggest that
While Trump feeds the masses bread and circuses, he is laughing all the way to the bank.
Follow the link for an inventory of the illicit income.
Republican Thought Police 0
It looks as if things didn’t go so well for the Republican thought police in the recent school board elections in Texas.
The Dolly Parting 0
Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump’s becoming obsessed with the idea that children only need one or two dolls as a response to his tariffs leading to higher costs and shortages.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” exposes his portable phallus to children.
Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.
QOTD 0
Maureen O’Hara:
There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else’s entertainment.
I wonder what she would say about “social” media.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Short commercial at about the one minute mark.)
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette’s Gene Collier warns of some arresting developments.
This New Gilded Age 0
Thom argues that Donald Trump’s it’s-absurd-to-call-them “policies” will bring back sweatshops.
Suffer the Children 0
That’s not scriptture. That’s a Republican family value.
