A friend of mine who lives in Los Angeles and has a toddler in day care received this message this afternoon: Part of the message here is: don't send somebody.
To return to a theme we briefly discussed yesterday, Krugman does an excellent job connecting Trump's open authoritarianism to his extremely cruel and unpopular domestic agenda: That 4 percent income.
Apparently a lot of Iranian missiles are falling on Tel Aviv now, so . . . https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1933603410085097537 It would be nice if the religious lunatics could all slaughter each other.
I wanted to commend Alex Padilla for putting it on the line yesterday against Kristi Noem, just as I'd like to commend the politicians in New Jersey standing up to.

There's a bunch of discussion in the thread below about whether Donald Trump really got confused about whether Vladimir Putin fought in WWII, and perhaps thinks he was the leader.
Donald Trump appears to be under the impression that Vladimir Putin fought in World War II, and may have been the head of the Russian government at the time (If.

A lot is happening right now... Good timeline on what we know now about the Israel strikes. Israelis have hit targets associated with the regime, with the air defense network,.
The always interesting John Ganz has some thoughts on a particularly eventful 24 hours: These times are extremely challenging for someone who tries to make a living commenting on politics:.
- The Thom Tillis Bravery Chronicles
- The murder of the slaying of the homicide of parody
- LGM Film Club, Part 502: Siskel & Ebert Review Spinal Tap
- The Late Late Show
- Trump threatens to sue WSJ after paper reveals pervy letter he wrote to Jeffrey Epstein
- Physician, Heal Thyself
- I guess they didn’t teach “make sure that your anecdotal evidence is at least consistent with your anecdote” at Columbia
- Trump and Rubio decimate the human trafficking police
- ICE and American Citizens
- Looking back on the golden age of skyjacking