- Tom Durante @ Mediaite: Trump Tells Americans to Stop Panicking as Markets Plunge: ‘Don’t Be Weak! Don’t Be Stupid!’
President Donald Trump promised that his controversial new tariff policy will produce “GREATNESS,” and warned naysayers not to be “weak” and “stupid” as fears of a recession grip financial markets worldwide.
- Teddy Rosenbluth and Lucinda Holt @ The New York Times: Kennedy Attends Funeral of Texas Girl Who Died of Measles
The health secretary has faced harsh criticism for his handling of the outbreak, embrace of alternative treatments and tepid endorsement of vaccination.
- Julia Ornedo @ The Daily Beast: ‘60 Minutes’ Calls BS on Trump’s Reason for Dystopian Deportations
The president said “horrible criminals” were transported to El Salvador—but records suggest otherwise.
- Malcolm Ferguson @ The New Republic: Trump’s Anti-DEI Purge Hits Harriet Tubman and Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman is now DEI, apparently.
- Tom Sherwood @ Washington City Paper: Trump Will Get His Showy (And Likely Expensive) Military Parade in D.C.
Trump’s 2018 plans for a parade of military tanks and planes down Pennsylvania Avenue NW were scuttled. But this year no one will stop him.
- Dan McClellan: The Bible did not give us the due process clause
That's not how parables work.