- Trump says he'd be honored to meet Kim Jong-un, the authoritarian leader of North Korea. So far, Trump seems to admire the authoritarian leaders of Russia, North Korea, Philippines, Turkey, Thailand, Egypt and the Presidential candidate Le Pen for France. This is normalizing all of the wrong shit, and completely forfeiting the moral high ground on human rights.
- Trump called for the Senate to end the filibuster. Thankfully, the Senate has shot this idea down. For now.
- More nominations: a renewable energy skeptic to lead the renewable energy office at the Department of Energy, and an anti-LGBT fanatic to lead the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights. You can't make this shit up.
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Day 103: Wallowing
Today was unusual, in that I didn't read anything during the day that I thought was worthy of setting aside for this roundup. I've had to rely on other aggregators to find the following.
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