I’m guessing the White House wasn’t expecting this level of outrage about its family separation policy, for the simple reason that the desperate reactions among the castle orcs — we’re not separating families/it was an easy decision for us to start separating families — make them look even more like scattering cockroaches than usual. Trump, who thinks in pictures, has to be smarting from the photos of crying children flooding the media, and Democratic politicians like Beto O’Rourke in Texas are holding telegenic rallies outside detention facilities that will get plenty of coverage.
Be sure to call Chris Coons’ office to ask if the Senator is deeply concerned.
If Trump is really lucky, the furor might blunt the growing clamor about the FBI Inspector General’s report, which called attention to the anti-Clinton bias in the agency’s New York office by pointedly ignoring it. Josh Marshall at TPM provides a handy timeline of the copious public evidence that some in the agency hatched a plot to influence the election, and not in Clinton’s favor.
The National Institutes of Health took the unusual step of yanking the funding for a study on the health effects of moderate drinking on cardiovascular health, concluding isn’t public health research, it’s marketing. This could lead to a lot fewer “surprising health news” headlines down the road.
Delaware is far from the only state that went to work on gun control in the wake of the Parkland massacre. HuffPo finds that across the country the most progress was made on the oft-discussed gun rights/mental health boundary, as many states enacted new so-called red-flag laws that make it easier for authorities to take guns from people showing signs of violence and mental illness.