Today I hiked 13.5 miles of basically obliterated trails. Perhaps not my best decision ever.
I just realized that Trump does have a plan to end illegal immigration: simply turn the USA into a worse shithole than anywhere else on the planet.
Finished: Eye of the Storm, by Jack Higgins 📚. The fictionalized story of the 1991 mortar attack on #10 Downing Street. Higgins brings in many of his favorite characters, right back to Liam Devlin. Airport reading, but good airport reading.
House Transportation proposes to include $20 per vehicle fee in GOP megabill
Oh look, another regressive tax!
Amazon has no choice but to display tariffs on prices now
Bezos answered the White House by rolling over and showing his belly and whimpering. The Verge rightly roasts him by quoting back some of his asinine rhetoric on how his wealth enabled him to stand up against intimidation.
Boycott Amazon.
The Trump administration’s anti-rights campaign is turbocharging harmful trends already present, gutting international human rights protections and endangering billions across the planet, Amnesty International warned today upon launching its annual report, The State of the World’s Human Rights.
Trump Administration Proposes Defunding Suicide Lifeline for LGBTQ+ Youth Beginning October 2025
Literal erasure in action.
Color additives banned? Not exactly.
Marion Nestle (who has been a nutrition researcher and writer for decades) looks at what RFK Jr’s “ban” of artificial dyes will actually do. (Spoiler alert: nothing.) Also incidentally calls out some of the lies from his press conference.
Exclusive: Most Americans see Trump as “dangerous dictator,” poll says
The other 48% are in denial.
(And yes, I’m cherry-picking the poll that most sings to me. Deal with it.)
White House blasts Amazon over tariff cost report: ‘Hostile and political act’
How’s that sucking up going for you, Mr. Bezos?