This is what the courts (and the country) are dealing with -- equal parts juvenile, callous, and lawless.

Something to make you laugh, albeit bitterly,
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

While Trump deliberately breaks the economy, he’s off buying himself an expensive car. Does he even drive? I mean, besides a golf cart. Meanwhile, the rest of us worry about buying groceries or affording retirement.

Memo to Lindsey Graham: Your list for Elon of what you accomplished last week as a federal employee should lead with "obeyed order to go outside after Trump and Vance ambushed Zelensky in Oval to praise Trump's brilliant display of leadership" - and do so with a straight face.

Asha Rangappa prebunks Elon Musk's Super Bowl propaganda, and explains his personal animus against USAID, America’s humanitarian relief agency.

So the U.S. now supports ethnic cleansing in the service of building a resort? How many ways is this illegal, criminal, and just plain wrong?

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/w...
I’m envious. Imagine a Supreme Court that tells the autocrat, “No, you can’t.”

Ann Telnaes has resigned from WaPo after Bezos killed a cartoon of hers - that depicts him and others kneeling before Trump with bags of cash offerings. NPR has the story.
www.npr.org/2025/01/04/n...

Remember a 2003 story by Seymour Hirsch in The New Yorker entitled "The Stovepipe" that told of how unvetted intelligence was elevated because it justified the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq? Now consider what conspiracy theories Tulsi Gabbard could stovepipe as DNI.

Try as I might, I just can't get worked up about Hunter Biden's pardon. Yes, it was hypocritical. But as anyone who's been married can attest, you have to pick your battles. I don't pick this one, given all the other outrages out there.