Know any autocrats who are just champing at the bit to take away your rights? We cats can think of one. Do us a favor, and don't remind him that today is Le Quatorze Juilliet — he'll want another one of those military parades in DC, and we all know how that turned out. (You can, though, tell him that the storming of the Bastille was the kickoff to the destruction of the French monarchy. Not that he'll get it.)
Meanwhile, here are some stories that are catching our attention — and in some cases, disgusting us.
We're glad Jimmy Carter isn't around to witness Team Trump's decimation of the Education Department. So, will Linda McMahon get fired, since she won't have anything to do now, or will they keep around a skeleton crew to harass higher ed? On the bright side, though, think of all those formerly employed federal workers who will have tons of free time now to volunteer for Abigail Spanberger's campaign and for Democrats running for office across Virginia.
The Jeffrey Epstein fallout is still going strong. In just a couple more days it'll hit one Scaramucci! Now, the Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court not to take up Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her 2021 sex-trafficking conviction. Maxwell, who will stay hunkered down in the hoosegow until 2037, has got to be furious. After all, if there's no Epstein client list, why is she in jail?
The only reason we can think of for firing your top DOJ ethics attorney is that you're not planning to do anything ethical.
CNBC has named the American states with the worst quality of life in the nation. They are Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Utah, Indiana, Texas, and Tennessee (the worst of the nine). Gee, what do these states have in common? Can you guess?
Let's end on the potentially positive note that Americans might not be as hateful and awful as we fear — Trump's gleeful roundups of immigrants (and frankly, of anyone who has a brown skin or speaks Spanish) appears to be going over like a lead balloon. A new Gallup poll has Trump’s handling of immigration losing favor by a wide margin: 62 percent to 35 percent. More than twice as many people (45 percent) strongly disapproved as strongly
approved (21 percent). Nearly 80 percent described immigration as a "good thing" for the country. Nice work, Donald! We cats PURR.
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