Scott Michaux

If I wasn’t embroiled in Shetland I’d follow your lead.

As Trump Sows Tariff Confusion, Rules of Global Commerce Give Way to Chaos Blunt letters dictating terms posted to social media and changes late in negotiations have left trading partners wondering what President Trump will do next.

News Analysis: President Trump's assault on global trade has lost any semblance of structure. He has changed deadlines, blown up negotiations and tied his tariffs to complaints that have nothing to do with trade. It's preventing companies and countries from making plans.

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.

Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".

Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.

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I love the lack of effort to march in step. They don’t want to be there.

Aide to Rep. Nadler Is Handcuffed Amid Confrontation With Federal Agents

Federal officers entered Rep. Jerry Nadler’s office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and handcuffed and briefly detained one of his aides. The confrontation happened shortly after the aide observed federal agents detaining migrants in a public hallway outside an immigration courtroom.

He still thinks foreign countries pay the tariffs, asylum seekers came from insane asylums, and he stopped funding to study transgender mice.

There is no cure for weapons grade stupidity.

President Harris would have been there for North Carolina, even if she had lost the state.

Don’t these fools EVER learn with this guy? No. No they don’t. And won’t still.

In that case, he’s not wrong

“The Boeing 747 is being given to the United States Air Force/Department of Defense, NOT TO ME! It is a gift from a Nation, Qatar, that we have successfully defended for many years. It will be used by our Government as a temporary Air Force One, until such time as our new Boeings, which are very late on delivery, arrive. Why should our military, and therefore our taxpayers, be forced to pay hundreds of millions of Dollars when they can get it for FREE from a country that wants to reward us for a job well done. This big savings will be spent, instead, to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Only a FOOL would not accept this gift on behalf of our Country. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

he thinks American voters are really dumb

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

Says the parts most people are too chicken to say. 👍

Well said, Eamon

Lynch: Donald Trump is trying to bully his way to an Open at Turnberry, but he’ll be a loser There was a time when major championship venues were selected largely on the merits of the golf courses.

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YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Rory McIlroy on His 17-Year Masters Journey and Getting Congratulated by Elton John and Tiger Woods

Rory on Jimmy Fallon

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Airliners abort landings as Army helicopter makes ‘scenic’ loop around Pentagon The Black Hawk was trying to land at the Pentagon’s heliport, bringing it close to a pair of airliners, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Two airliners abandoned landing attempts at Washington’s Reagan National Airport on Thursday afternoon when an Army Black Hawk took a “scenic route” near the flight path and circled the Pentagon before landing at a military heliport.

Jill Sobule, Singer Behind ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ Dead at 66 Ms. Sobule, 66, died Thursday morning in Woodbury, Minn., her publicist said. She had been scheduled to perform songs from her musical later in the week.

Jill Sobule, the singer and songwriter whose hit “Supermodel” and gay anthem “I Kissed a Girl” were followed by three decades of touring, advocacy and a one-woman musical, died in a house fire in Minnesota. She was 66.

Trump signs order seeking to end federal funding for NPR and PBS The executive order also instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to halt indirect funding of NPR and PBS through grants to local stations.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday evening seeking to prohibit federal funding for NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

The order, which could be subject to legal challenge, called the broadcasters’ news coverage “biased and partisan.”

Analysis | Trumpian math: Two nonsense numbers that don’t add up Trump inflates tariff revenue by 10 times and accuses Biden of “losses” that exist in his imagination.

Fact Checker by Glenn Kessler: President Trump inflates tariff revenue by 10 times and accuses Joe Biden of “losses” that exist in his imagination.

Best we can tell, Trump was talking about something completely different — and equally wrong.

E.P.A. Set to Cancel Grants Aimed at Protecting Children From Toxic Chemicals The cancellations, set to apply to pending and active grants, also affect research into “forever chemicals” contaminating the food supply.

The Trump administration is set to cancel tens of millions of dollars in grants to scientists studying environmental hazards faced by children in rural America, among other health issues, according to internal emails written by senior officials at the EPA.

Opinion | Naval Academy Censors Ryan Holiday’s Lecture on Censorship How a lecture to the U.S. Naval Academy on censorship was censored.

Just before the author Ryan Holiday was scheduled to deliver a lecture at the U.S. Naval Academy, he was asked not to mention the recent removal of 381 supposedly controversial books from the campus library. Holiday refused, and the talk was canceled. This is the story he was going to tell.

Trump’s American History Revolution As the 250th anniversary of America’s independence approaches, the president is moving to put his stamp on how the nation’s story is told, in Washington and beyond.

Since returning to the Oval Office, President Trump has moved forcefully to advance his vision of history. For many in the historical profession, Trump’s moves are nothing short of an assault on history, an effort to sideline critical inquiry and purge the past of facts.

Three ex-presidents denounce the current one in a two-week stretch While presidents have been at odds before, there is often a sort of camaraderie among the small club of individuals who have served in the highest office in the land.

In just over two weeks, three former presidents have taken to the public stage to sound the alarm against President Donald Trump, despite the tradition that former presidents generally refrain from publicly criticizing their successors.

Have you never been to a college football game in the South? Been a pretty satisfying alternative for a long time.

If you don’t see that Trump is running a concentration camp in El Salvador, you just don’t Wansee it.

Slept in my R.E.M. t-shirt and I feel fine.

It’s quintessential Trump that literally the only thing in his life he didn’t lie about was his intent to implement a policy that is crashing the economy and ruining everyone’s life. 😘🤏

Trump Family’s Cash Registers Ring as Financial Meltdown Plays Out (Gift Article) The party was on at a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at the president’s Doral resort in Florida and a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as markets tumbled.

Even as the stock market crashed, President Trump was in Florida at his Doral golf resort and Mar-a-Lago club helping pump up family businesses, evidence that Trump continues to monetize the presidency. A NYT behind-the-scenes look with Theodore Schleifer and Zolan Kanno-Youngs nyti.ms/3XPqyIa

Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers Say Nearly 2,000 scientists urged that Congress restore funding to federal agencies decimated by recent cuts.

Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an open letter on Monday of conducting a “wholesale assault on U.S. science” that could set back research by decades and that threatens the health and safety of Americans.

Trump administration cuts some funds to Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood said on Monday it had received notice that the administration would withhold Title X funding from nine of its affiliates effective Tuesday.

The Trump administration will begin to withhold some federal funding from Planned Parenthood starting Tuesday, a move that will curtail access to services including cancer screenings and affordable birth control, the organization said.

Trump’s Science Policies Pose Long-Term Risk, Economists Warn (Gift Article) Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.

Tariffs get all the attention, but ask economists what they're really worried about and many will point to the Trump administration's cuts to federal support for the sciences, including canceling grants and revoking student visas.
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