The family separation controversy cooled off for a few hours yesterday as Trump promised to sign an executive order ending the practice. What he did instead was declare we would now operate what Samantha Bee called “Mommy and Me prisons,” which also sets up a battle with the federal courts.
The separation policy has at least torn away most of the anonymity under which racist Stephen Miller has operated in the White House. Everyone knows he’s the source of this policy and the racist attitude of the administration in general, but the mainstream press has been reluctant to call him by his name, which is Racist Scum. Ironically, he’s also Jewish, making him yet another minority-group member who thinks white people mean it when they call him white. He should check with his buddy Richard Spencer on how “white” Jews are.
For those who think Trump knows what he’s doing, apparently he thought this locking-up-babies idea would work for him just like bashing the NFL did.
He doesn’t know what he’s doing on trade, either, as Mark Sumner lays out in some detail for Daily Kos. Summary: The things we buy from China aren’t made elsewhere, but soybeans grow in lots of countries.
Koko, the gorilla who learned sign language, has died at the age of 46. Here’s a video of her playing with her pet cats.
Finally, this dangerously toxic weed hasn’t shown up in Delaware yet, but Virginia isn’t far away and you don’t want to mistakenly touch a plant that causes severe skin reactions and can cause blindness.