Kansas GOP today gave up on the idea of redistricting Sharice Davids out of her seat. She threatened to run for Senate, which severely diminished the GOP’s enthusiasm for the idea. kansasreflector.com/briefs/kansa...

Meanwhile, Meta’s social networks are glitchy nightmares, as anyone who has to deal with them for work can tell you.

Of course, the fact that this attack was illegal has its own consequences.

In Trump’s social media post, he seems to be at least suggesting that this was limited: U.S. goes in with the bombs, but now it’s out. All back to normal except now the nuke sites are destroyed. Is there any way that can be our reality? Or does this action commit the U.S. to future actions?

Thank you Anne! :)

The federal dollars that Kansas stood to lose functioned as a form of pressure on Brownback and the right in Kansas; without that I wonder whether we’d have a Kansas Arts Commission today at all.

Yeah… and the destruction to be wrought by whatever they’re going to do to the NEA and NEH is just getting started. It’s not just the direct money that might go away, it’s all the activity and matching funds from state, local and private partners.

And like you said, it’s all interlinked nationally. WNO served as a training ground, commissioned new works, created co-productions with other companies. Alan Held, who’s a WSU professor now, sang Wotan there! All kaput, most likely. Sigh…

This could send Washington National Opera under, and it’s not as though new, big-time opera companies are getting started nowadays. So the end (or radical diminution) of WNO would represent more or less permanent damage to the artform and the opera industry in the U.S.

Wow, Ian Bostridge? Hi there! Your Rake’s Progress record was the first opera CD I ever bought :)

If this includes USDOL administrative grants to state departments of labor, it could shut down the unemployment insurance system across the country.

Nice!