To Trap Academe
The Trumpian questions run from unseemly to impolite,
Drawing universities into a war they don’t want to fight.
The boorish queries take the tack
Of that familiar linguistic trap:
“Have you already stopped being an antisemite?”
Author: Buck Banks
From the Authoritarian Handbook
“It’s difficult to overstate how dangerous this moment is. Using the machinery of criminal justice to pursue manufactured charges against political predecessors is the stuff of strongmen and collapsing democracies… … It corrodes trust in democratic transitions, chills dissent, and redefines political opposition as criminal subversion.”
— Harry Litman
Hochul: Era of Norms and Rules Is Over
“Up until now, Democrats have treated our political system like it’s still governed by norms, guarded by limits and rooted in fairness. Rules were meant to be followed. It hurts to say it, but that era has come to an end.”
— New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), writing in the Houston Chronicle.
Best Reason for Leaving the GOP and Becoming a Democrat
“The list of reasons why I’m now a Democrat continues to grow. Most importantly, my decision puts me in the best possible position each day to love my neighbor.”
— Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, writing in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, on why he left the Republican party to become a Democrat.
RFK Jr. Pulls $500 Million in Vaccine Development Projects
$500 million
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced in a statement Tuesday that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects, all using mRNA technology, will be halted,” the AP reports. “The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, Covid-19 and H5N1 infections.”
Rove: Trump Is Repeating Biden’s Mistake
“To me, what’s ironic is, is that the Trump administration is making the same mistake that the Biden administration made, which was to basically, remember we had Bidenomics is working, well, now we have the Golden Age of American Prosperity is returned, and Americans are not feeling that. Better to say we’re working hard to put America on the right road, rather than declaring premature victory. … I think that’s a big mistake for the White House and is likely to come back and bite them in the midterm election.”
Karl Rove told Fox News that President Trump that he’s “making the same mistake” Joe Biden did and is likely to pay a political price for it.”
Latino and Hispanic Voters, Please Note
“These people do it naturally — naturally. I said, what happens if they get it to a farmer the other day? What happens if they get a bad back? He said, ‘They don’t get a bad back, sir, because if they get a bad back, they die.’ I said, that’s interesting, isn’t it? In many ways, they’re very, very special people.”
— President Donald Trump told CNBC that migrants are “naturally” able to do farm work in a way American citizens can’t.
To Light the Dark Side
NASA’s Sean Duffy wants a lunar nuclear reactor — and soon!
We’ve perfected the tech on earth, so the timing’s opportune!
Just like Elon Musk’s electric cars,
We’ll need electricity to get to Mars,
And an extension cord that reaches from there to the Moon.
