Quote: “They then dropped the animal off at a farmyard with a blanket to warm up and dry off before wandering on to, presumably, regular moose activities.”
Dana sez, O Canada. (h/t The Morning Dispatch)
Quote: “We need to recognize that Trump’s authoritarianism arose in part from a perception that our government couldn’t do anything well, and needed a strong leader like him to produce outcomes. You can’t beat a would-be authoritarian by criticism alone; if the Democrats are ever to return to power they need to explain what positive things they will do and how the country will be a better place in five or ten years.” (Frances Fukuyama, with a h/t to The Best of Journalism)
Dana sez, ‘Nature red in tooth and claw.’ That frog is seriously salivating. (Winners of the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026, gift link under the image)
Quote: “By the time he sat down to dinner at the White House that evening, he had — without raising his voice, without breaking decorum, without uttering Donald Trump’s name a single time in anger — done something no Democrat, no journalist, and no foreign leader has managed in a decade. He made the President of the United States look small in his own ballroom. And he did it with jokes.”
Dana sez, Full speech above, Blundell’s eviscerating commentary through the link beneath his name. (Dean Blundell, h/t John Naughton)
The trial of the penis grandma. (Slate)
Dana sez, I can’t even.
Quote for the day
Public discourse about taxes and inequality is, even more than discussion of other economic topics, infested with zombies — ideas that should be dead, having been proved wrong again and again, but that keep shambling along, eating people’s brains. —Paul Krugman
[Dana sez–That Bezos interview is the same one in which he proclaims that the second Trump administration is more “mature” than the first. I do not think that word means what he thinks it means.]
Outro, wherein Charles III’s great X 4 great-grandfather weighs in…
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