Rick Weiss

Kathryn Bigelow’s new film admirably reveals the fragility of nuclear deterrence, but would have had a bigger impact on me pre-Trump, when I still believed the USA would be the most worthy and deserving survivor of a global nuclear holocaust.

Grabbed by unmarked police, pushed into vehicles, deported to camps. The only difference (so far) is how it ended at Magdanek, where I’m visiting, and where the green stains are from Zyklon B.

NYT: ”After the U.S. agreed to acquire a stake in the chipmaker Intel, Trump signaled that he would pursue similar investments in other major companies.”
“Agreed to acquire?”“Investments”?
Is the WH writing NYT copy now?

Badly placed ad in the middle of NYT story about deadly floods.

If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.

This fortune from tonight’s dinner is dedicated to Congress.

You say kleptocracy. I say kakistocracy.
Let’s call the whole thing off.

Counting on you, Wisconsin.

For anyone, including me, who has jokingly quoted the Shakespearean exhortation to first kill all the lawyers: Sheesh am I glad we have (public service) lawyers today. Especially given the lack of progressive leadership right now, they are all that’s between us and a slam dunk open-and-shut coup.

Finland seizes ship in probe of undersea cable damage Damage to the power cable in the Baltic Sea is the latest in a spate of murky disruptions to undersea cables that have put European authorities on high alert.

Cutting other countries’ undersea cables seems like something worse than mere “mischief”.
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NYT story about concerns that immigrants drive down wages for natives takes more than a dozen paragraphs to get to the research showing this to be false, and headline is, “Why Trump Allies Say Immigration Hurts American Workers.” Why focus on what’s wrongly believed and bury the actual evidence?

Interested.