...I realize we’re supposed to become inured to the incoherent ramblings of a president who drifts through life unburdened by things like reality or consequences or object permanence, but for some of us, the mental callouses haven’t quite built up, making garbled presidential tweet farts like the ones Trump ripped Tuesday night still seem shocking in their pungent perversity.

 As the US media contemplates the minutiae of past and present crimes of our ruling family, Don Culo e la sua famiglia, its consigliere,  Don Michael Cohen, and various capos -- Kushner, Pruit, Manafort, etc., and even some Russian oligarchs, miscellaneous Israelis and others involved in Don Culo's public-private/win-win deals for himself and his family,  the world rolls on. -- blj
 

5-29-18
OpEdNews
The Syria connection to Iran, Afghanistan and China
By Pepe Escobar

 
6-9-18
The Atlantic
Trump Goes to War Against the Democracies
Through the G7 summit, the brittle pretense of unity held together. Then came the tweets.
David Frum
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/06/trump-g7/562487/

 A person following South Carolina politics, even if they don't know it was the Canadians that fired on Fort Sumpter, just don't know whether to whistle "Dixie" or hum "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina," these days. -- wmh
 

 
It's worth noting that, as occurred in the Nixon administration, subordinates partake of the chief's corruption and compete with more and more outrageous acts of government destruction to show their loyalty so that they can stay in office a little longer regardless of the bad publicity and collect a little more of corruption's benefits.

 
Only with a university would Joeville be viable. I’d put mine in the city center, not on the outskirts as was done, mistakenly, with the new UC campus in Merced. I’d also put my university in charge of the local school district—creating a teachers college in the process. Mathews, Zocalo, June 11, 2018

 
National Geographic has thoughtfully put together a running account of the damage the regime of Don Trump, il Culo, and his famiglia has done and will do to the environment of the nation and the world. -- wmh
 
5-11-18
National Geographic
A Running List of How Trump Is Changing the Environment
The Trump administration has promised vast changes to U.S. science and environmental policy—and we’re tracking them here as they happen.