Even for an administration given to chaos, that seems to me to regard chaos as an operating principle, the present moment verges on the exceptional. This is a moment when, if I didn’t have such a low opinion of Donald Trump’s intelligence, I might ask what our attention is being diverted from.
Updates
- Originally published, April 9, 12:46 pm.
- April 9, 7:17 pm
- There is a new blog post, entitled, “Farewell, California, I’ll miss you and I won’t miss you.”
Migration
Alexander Bolton, “GOP fears Trump return to family separations,” Hill, April 8, 2019, https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/437930-gop-fears-trump-return-to-family-separations
Brent Kendall and Louise Radnofsky, “Judge Blocks Trump Administration Policy of Returning Asylum Seekers to Mexico,” Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-blocks-trump-administration-policy-of-returning-asylum-seekers-to-mexico-11554758038
Seung Min Kim, “Grassley warns White House not to oust any more top immigration officials,” Washington Post, April 8, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/grassley-warns-white-house-not-to-oust-any-more-top-immigration-officials/2019/04/08/0b896e26-5a55-11e9-b8e3-b03311fbbbfe_story.html
Brett Samuels, “Trump denies he’s planning to restart family separations at border,” Hill, April 9, 2019, https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/438050-trump-says-hes-not-planning-to-restart-family-separations-at-border
Jake Tapper, “Trump pushed to close El Paso border, told admin officials to resume family separations and agents not to admit migrants,” CNN, April 9, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/08/politics/trump-family-separation-el-paso-kirstjen-nielsen/index.html
Climate change
George Monbiot, “Rewild the World,” April 7, 2019, https://www.monbiot.com/2019/04/07/rewild-the-world/
Automation
Sarah Nassauer and Chip Cutter, “Walmart Is Rolling Out the Robots,” Wall Street Journal, April 9, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/walmart-is-rolling-out-the-robots-11554782460
Donald Trump
Damian Paletta, “Mnuchin reveals White House lawyers consulted Treasury on Trump tax returns, despite law meant to limit political involvement,” Washington Post, April 9, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/white-house-treasury-lawyers-discussed-trumps-tax-returns-before-democrats-request-mnuchin-says/2019/04/09/9693618e-5ad2-11e9-842d-7d3ed7eb3957_story.html
Israel
Michael Lerner, “Racism and Israel’s election: How did the Jewish state become an oppressive state?” Tikkun, April 9, 2019, https://www.tikkun.org/racism-and-israels-election-how-did-the-jewish-state-become-an-oppressive-state