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 In one of those 180-degree reversals that are a feature of his derangement,  The Leader  has announced that he doesn't want stinky old Canada after all.  Whatever Prime Minister Mark Carney said to him on the phone, he proclaimed again America's "golden age" without the lumber and energy Canada has to offer.  Just send eggs, OK? This will be reassuring for the three distinguished professors who are leaving  Yale  for the University of Toronto.  Jason Stanley (philosophy) and the historians Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore will take up new positions next fall at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and they don't mince words about America's "descent into fascism" forcing their decision.  "I don't feel confident that American universities will manage to mobilize to protect either their students or their faculty," Professor Shore said, referring to Columbia's cowardice at the possibility of losing $400 million in governm...

 I took a day off knowing there would be twice as much merde  to shovel today and I was right. You can start anywhere.  In an executive order entitled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" The Leader teed off against another institution he hates, the  Smithsonian.   Who could possibly dislike the Smithsonian?  J.D. Vance, whose  approval rating  matches that of a scorpion at a picnic, is ordered to terminate "the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology" which suggests, for example, that long ago white people enslaved black people and that this was a bad thing.  He is also commanded to stop the American Women's History Museum from mentioning transgender women, who officially do not exist, like Sasquatch.  All traces of DEI, which at this point means whatever they say it means, no more and no less, must be erased.  Any pair of male penguins  observed raising a chick will be banished from the National Zoo. ...

The dizzying spin over Whiskeyleaks (thanks,  MPS)  continues to gain momentum, from Greasy Pete ("a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist...the guy that peddles in garbage") to his master ("the person that was on happens to be a sleazebag...he found it very boring and he left early") to their spokesmodel Bottle Blonde No. 1 ("well-known for his sensationalist spin").  Mike Waltz assured Laura Ingraham that Everything Is Under Control ("I just talked to Elon on the way here, we've got the best technical minds looking at how this happened").  Computer error?  "You've got someone else's number on someone else's contact, so of course I didn't see this loser in the group."   Then it got sinister:  "Now whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technical means, we're trying to figure out."  You contacted him, asshole.  Admit it and resign. That's not how it works.  Ownin...

  March 15 :    Jeffrey Goldberg,  editor in chief of the Atlantic, was invited to a group chat on the commercial messaging app Signal.  There he found J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, CIA director John Ratcliffe and national security adviser Michael Waltz discussing plans for an attack on Houthi in Yemen.  At 11:44 am Hegseth sent him "precise information about weapons packages, targets and timing."  Shortly before 2 pm the attack occurred. March 24 :    The Atlantic  website published "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans." March 24:  The first denial was made by  Hegseth .  Cornered by reporters at an airport in Hawaii he pronounced Goldberg "a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes...nobody was texting war plans." March 24:  Back in Washington  Mike Johnson  told reporters, "I just was with the pres...

 Security clearance has been  revoked for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Antony Blinken, Fiona Hill, Norm Eisen and Alexander Vindman because The Leader does not like them and they were mean to him and so their clearance is "no longer in the national interest."  There is no suggestion that they shared information with Russia or China or otherwise misused it.  Nor, I imagine, that they requested to remain in the loop. Jeffrey Goldberg  is editor-in-chief of the Atlantic who has never been president, secretary of state or a national security official.  As far as I can tell he has not been involved in the US government, although he served in the Israeli Defense Force during the First Intifada (1987-1993).  So he was startled, to say the least, to find himself invited into a group chat about the impending bombing of  Houthi targets  in Yemen earlier this month.  Then the secretary of defense/war/whatever it is today texted him "...

 What do a  French scientist  and the British band  UK Subs  have in common?  They were denied entry into the United States for making comments critical of The Leader. At least they know why.  The German foreign ministry said several of its citizens were detained at the border for unspecified reasons and then sent home.  Canadians  who maintain vacation homes in the US report instances of gun violence and home break-ins. This terrifying young Brit is  Rebecca Burke.   After staying with a family in Portland, Oregon, she tried to enter Canada and was told she had the wrong kind of visa.  Returning to the US, she was taken into custody and spent the next nineteen days in the Tacoma Northwest detention facility.  Eventually she was returned to her family, delivered to the airport "like Hannibal Lecter" (her father's words) in leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs.  She plans to create a graphic novel about the ordeal an...

 The  New York Times  reports that more than 80 Teslas were vandalized at a lot in Hamilton, Ontario.  But that was nothing compared to the damage the company did itself:  Nearly all cybertrucks built over the last two years were recalled because they are prone to  "environmental embrittlement."   This interesting term means that when it gets cold, panels fall off.  Some of these things cost $160,000 and they're held together by glue.  A Tesla owner who goes by Stonk King reports that his windshield wipers also bend when they encounter snow. That's not a concern in Florida, though, where attorney general  James Uthmeier,  a worthy successor to Pam Bondi, is offering police raises and promotions for apprehending "leftist protesters" harming innocent Teslas.  It's not clear that he has the power to tell municipalities how to run their police departments but mere laws don't worry MAGAts.  Most people would probably prefer tha...

  This is Navajo Marine Pfc Ira Hayes pointing to himself in Joe Rosenthal's photo of the American flag being raised on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945.  In 1954 the photo was reproduced in bronze as the US Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington Ridge Park, DC.  The DoD should try deleting him from that with Kaptain Ketamine's chainsaw. The Leader's charm offensive doesn't seem to be working with Canada.  To head off protests the  Vancouver International Auto Show  has removed Tesla from this week's event.  Leisure bookings to US cities are down by 40% and  Flair Airlines  has cancelled all flights to Nashville through the summer.  They join Air Canada, Sunwing and Air Transat, which have already cut back on flights to the US.   Jasmine Mooney  is the latest Canadian citizen to experience what seems like retaliatory detention at the hands of ICE.  Her account of this Stalinesque ordeal can be read in Wedn...

  How has Draft Dodging Donny trashed America today? Information on black and female veterans has been purged from the  Arlington National Cemetery  website.  As of this writing the veterans themselves have not been disinterred, but it's still morning. Of course, burial at Arlington was not a goal for a great many of them.  Some were drafted into the army between 1863 and 1973, often because their families were not able to send them to college.  In the era of the "all volunteer" military, some enlisted because service was a path to higher education or better chances of employment, or the military itself seemed like a good career choice.  A few were ordered to join up by judges, as an alternative to jail.  Since the Lee plantation became a cemetery we have honored them all equally, generals and buck privates, Sad Sacks and Medal of Honor recipients, side by side. Big changes coming.  The  General Services Administration  has advised ...

 It is axiomatic among white racists that nothing of value has been contributed to society by anyone but heterosexual cis-males of European ancestry and that anyone else hired, promoted or honored is the dishonest beneficiary of DEI, sometimes called "reverse discrimination."   The Musk-Trump regime has devoted itself to upholding the rights of white people suffering unfair treatment by the literal whitewashing of history itself. It's difficult to point to a dumber example than the removal from Defense Department websites of all references to LGBTQ people (including the hilarious erasure of the plane called "Enola Gay"), women, Latinos, African Americans and Asians.  Difficult but not impossible, because the regime's stupidity is the grace that may yet save us all.  I don't like to say they've bottomed out because who knows what tomorrow will bring.  However... These men are  Navajo Code Talkers,  Marines chosen for their ability to relay radio me...