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Starve the Children and Ground the Planes

Gavin Newsom captioned this AI pic “Goodnight, Peasants!” as Trump fled to Florida to escape the intense pressures of Washington. Unless you’ve been asleep for the past week, you know how:

    • the courts and Trump have mishandled SNAP and screwed its 42 million poor people
    • the shutdown keeps setting records
    • Trump melts down about “affordability”
    • the administration fails to pay air traffic controllers and, thus,
    • Trump has caused the biggest travel nightmare ever.

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All that glitters is not gold.

Matt Ford (TNR): The raw spectacle of Trump tearing a hole in the White House to hang out with his rich friends is already a potent symbol of his presidency—almost ham-fisted in a way, as if it were drawn by a third-rate political cartoonist for a fourth-rate newspaper. At every level, the entire project may be the perfect summation of what his administration has been like for the country. Continue reading “All that glitters is not gold.”