I have an arrangement with Bob, the owner of our local gas station. Every day his newspaper guy delivers the New York Times, and every day we drive out there to pick up our copy. Except Mondays. For some reason the distributor will not deliver the Times on Mondays. That is the one day I am spared the news. (I know I can read it online, but I don’t.)
Today, for example, one headline was “Civil Cases Against Major Polluters Plummet Under Trump’s E.P.A.” That took up page A12. On page A13 the headline read, “E.P.A. to Stop Updating Noted Climate Database After Creator’s Censure.” The other headline on that page was “Wind and Solar Projects Slow to a Crawl Under Trump.”
The paper also had articles about Trump putting pressure on colleges to change the admission rules, that Israel wants to take occupy all of Gaza, that Trump is asking U.C.L.A. for a billion dollars, that the Republicans in the Senate are changing the rules to make confirmations easier, and that Trump is going after Leticia James in N.Y.
There were more, but why go on? My country is disappearing before my eyes, aided by sycophants in Congress, by state legislatures, by local party hacks, by tough guy bros, by creeps like Stephen Miller, by thugs in ICE, by craven cabinet appointees, by big oil, by billionaires, but why go on?
Just when I think it can’t get worse, it gets worse. You can see why I like Mondays.
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