The national interest

 Security clearance has been revoked for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Antony Blinken, Fiona Hill, Norm Eisen and Alexander Vindman because The Leader does not like them and they were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 "precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing."  Apparently it's not enough to promise gullible senators that if they confirm you, you won't take another drink.  Senators have been gulled before.  Remember "Roe is settled law"?

The Leader had bigger things on his mind.  He is double-plus-displeased by his official portrait recently unveiled in the Colorado state capitol:

It's not his vanity, it's the "many people from Colorado" who have called and written him, and the painter, who "must have lost her talent as she got older" because her Obama portrait "looks wonderful."  Or could it be Obama who looks wonderful compared to -- well, see for yourself.

Sarah Boardman's painting was put on display in August 2019 but went unnoticed until now.  The rage directed at "Radical Left Governor" Jared Polis is baffling because even before the January 20 Putsch Polis was celebrating the choice of Roadkill Bob Kennedy to destroy public health and promising to support The Leader's depraved deportation plans.  And I can't remember anarchy breaking out in Aurora.  Maybe I was preoccupied with the burning of Portland, or was it Seattle?  Anyway, Polis was Newsom before Newsom.

A much more attractive target for abuse these days is Maine Governor Janet Mills, who was unimpressed by his demand that transgender athletes be barred from women's sports or the state would lose federal funding.  Now he's demanding "a full throated apology" because women who challenge him make him crazier than women who paint him warts and all (or if you like, jowls, fish lips and all).  The governor's response:  "It's not about transgender sports, it's about who makes the laws and who enforces the laws...I stand for the rule of law and the separation of powers."  Governor Polis, write that five hundred times before the end of school.

The leopards are sniffing around Ron DeSantis's unfortunate face.  Last week it was impossible to find a bigger fan of hollowing out the federal government -- he even started his very own DOGE so the people of Florida who depend on government programs would be doubly screwed.  Then someone reminded him that Florida is Hurricane Central, not to mention a low-lying target for rising oceans.  Now he has decided that cuts to NOAA, the people who predict tropical storms, should have been made with a K-Bar knife instead of a chainsaw.  He's pretty sure The Leader will come around because he lives in the damn state, doesn't he?  Sure, Ron, but President Musk doesn't.

In a break with tradition, the Superbowl-losing Kansas City Chiefs have been invited to the White House.  Their many MAGA players and the quarterback's hot wife probably have something to do with it.  All players will get goody-bags containing secret plans for a war with Iran.

There is nothing that can't be monetized, including the White House Easter Egg Roll, which has occurred since 1878 with only private donations from the American Egg Board.  For upwards of $75,000 sponsors are being invited to partake in all sorts of branding opportunities, with proceeds going to the Donald J. Trump Renovation Fund.  The White House is not going to gild itself into a palace fit for a king Leader.

The Leader has promoted the idea of his good friend Wayne Gretzky becoming "governor" of the state of Canada after the Anschluss.  Not everyone in Edmonton shares his enthusiasm, and at least one of them decided to say it with shit.

A spokesman for the Oilers said there is "zero tolerance" for such un-Canadian behavior toward "the greatest hockey player ever to play the game."  Gordie Howe might have something to say about that.

As predicted, Major League Baseball has joined the other gutless cowards in removing DEI references from its career page.  In a possibly related story, Dodger shortstop Mookie Betts, the only black player on the team, reports losing fifteen pounds in two weeks owing to a mysterious illness that has kept him from eating.  Is there a condition called pernicious racism?

Former actor Gerard Depardieu is in Paris to face charges of sexual assault on two women in 2021.  I can't believe he hasn't been invited to the White House yet.

Last year Israel killed 42 people in Lebanon and injured thousands (all terrorists, of course) with exploding pagers.  Netanyahu was so proud of this ploy that he gives them away as souvenirs, and one happy recipient was Senator John Fetterman (?-PA), who responded, "Oh, I love it, I love it."  His is silver plated and probably not the exploding kind, but if he ever thinks of not voting for another $100 billion in military aid...well, I'd take it out of my pocket if I were you, Senator.

Beware, evil doers who own parking garages!  Alina Habba is the new U.S. Attorney for New Jersey and that's her area of expertise, if any.