Media scolds yesterday chided Joe Biden for flying Air Force One to Delaware to — sit down now — vote in Tuesday’s primaries. “But, but, but he could have voted absentee!” Well, yes, but remember, he’s accustomed to Delaware election rules, and until Covid Delaware had the tightest restrictions in the country on who could vote when; maybe nobody updated him. And it’s not as if he otherwise never flies to Delaware — he’s here most weekends, which is going to play hell with traffic once Wegman’s opens at Barley Mill.
Lots of stories in the Chicken Little media about the horrors of the impending rail strike became useless relics this morning, as that primary-voting wastrel Biden announced a tentative deal to avert it.
Republican governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida have hit on what they think is a clever strategy for getting rid of immigrants: Busing and flying them to northern states and cities. They think this is a “gotcha” move because they think it will prove … I dunno, something something hypocrisy. Turns out they’re actually doing the immigrants a favor by getting them closer to relatives already in the country, and most cities and states have welcomed them. Instead of revealing northern hypocrisy, the cynical stunt merely demonstrates that ambitious Republicans are mean, shitty people whose mothers probably didn’t love them enough.
Ukrainians have enlisted some help from the heavens in their defense against Russia, and I don’t mean air support.
Is that a rocket launcher in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
The owner of the outdoor gear company Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, announced that he has put the $3 billion company into a non-profit trust that will direct its profits to environmental causes. “Earth is now our only shareholder,” the 83-year-old Chouinard wrote in an open letter published Wednesday. “Instead of extracting value from nature and transforming it into wealth for investors, we’ll use the wealth Patagonia creates to protect the source of all wealth.”
Today’s long read is from Thom Hartmann, on the collapse of neoliberalism both in the U.S. and overseas, and how that will shape politics.