Here is a random selection of headlines from the New York Times on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. Nothing special about that day–I just picked a paper at random.
A.I. Push and Layoffs at Meta Pile Misery on Its Work Force (p. 1)
Trump Fumes at Iran Offer, Stoking Global Economic Fears (p. 10)
Conservative Group’s Links at State Dept. Raise Alarms (p. 14)
F.D.A. Moves to Allow Sale of Flavored Vapes (p. 15)
Scientists Press Congress on Trump’s Dismissal of a National Science Foundation Board (p. 15)
Cost to Fix Iconic Pool Increases Sevenfold (p. 18)
Land Conservation Rule Faces Repeal (p. 20)
Losing Science at a Federal Agency [That one is about the E.P.A. losing experts involved with wildfires, drinking water, and fertility, among other subjects.] (p. D1)
I know we are supposed to be patient with people who voted for Trump. I know that they were angry at Biden for failure to act on the border, for inflation, for a sense that things were out of control. But damn it, we already had the example of four years of a Trump administration. We already had four years of election denial. We already had an attack on the Capitol. We had a blueprint entitled Project 2025 which laid out the plans now being implemented.
We are in a stupid war. We are losing power to China. We are trashing our environment. We are emphasizing fossil fuels. We are wrecking our alliances. We are causing the deaths of Cuban children. We are imprisoning and deporting people who were helping to build our country. We have a President who calls his predecessors “treasonous.”
I am so tired of this. I am so tired of approximately four out of ten Americans continuing to support this crook and his enablers. I am tired of ICE and Fetterman and the Supreme Court and the Republican Congress and Nick Fuentes and Marco Rubio and Kash Patel and Peter Hegseth and Elon Musk.
And no, I am not planning to get drunk or give up. I am in this for the long haul. I am hoping you are as well.
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