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13 May, 2025

Mustard, Relish and Sedition

January 7, 2025 Buck Banks

Kim Jong Un is no towering figure of reason;
And North Korean logic is anything but Grecian.
So if you serve up a hotdog
You’ll wind up in the gulag,
Arrested and charged with high treason.

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Mustard, Relish and Sedition

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“The Trump Administration is drowning in corruption — and few Americans seem to care. It’s another sign of a dying Republic.”

— Professor Larry Sabato, quoted by Blue Virginia.

— Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha, quoted by Politico.

“I think we essentially have become a kleptocracy that would make Putin blush. I mean, keep in mind that in the first three months, the Trump family has become $3 billion wealthier, so that’s a billion dollars a month.”

— Business school professor Scott Galloway, quoted by the New Republic.

“Every day is a kind of Watergate at this point.”

— The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, speaking at a journalism summit.

— New York Times

Numerati

$1 million

$1,000

“The Trump administration says it is going to pay immigrants in the United States illegally who’ve returned to their home country voluntarily $1,000 as it pushes forward with its mass deportation agenda,” the AP reports.

57th

The new World Press Freedom Index finds the U.S. has fallen to 57th out of 180 countries when it comes to overall freedom of the press.

1,120

$? million