(NOTE: At 2 a.m. Tuesday, my younger kids lost their grandmother. She passed away peacefully with family members at her side. She was 94; her 95th birthday would have been next month. May she rest in peace.)
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It’s not very often that we witness an unprecedented act in the entire 250-year history of this country but yesterday it happened. The House of Representatives voted to fire its Speaker, Kevin McCarthy.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, the ringleader of that action, gleefully raised money during the proceeding and afterward.
It was a spectacle I won’t soon forget. A Republican Party so riven with factional hatred that it simply squandered its majority and self-destructed before our eyes.
When the rebellious members tried to explain their action, their statements made no sense. They were essentially voting themselves out of power for the sake of illogical principles they couldn’t really articulate.
In the end, Gaetz clearly only cares about the attention he can get when saying outrageous things surrounded by cameras. Don’t get me wrong, I was no fan of McCarthy but Gaetz is a joke, a bad one at that.
And a narcissist a lot like his mentor, Donald J. Trump.
In fact, this new crisis was only the latest reminder that the Trump era is all about destruction of any sense of order and that’s why Trump is the single greatest threat to our democracy since at least the Civil War.
HEADLINES:
Kevin McCarthy ousted as House speaker by Republican rebels (FT)
What Newsom’s relationship with labor says about his Senate pick (Politico)
Tensions flare between Chicago and White House over migrant crisis (CNN)
Senators fume after McCarthy jams them on Ukraine aid (The Hill)
UAW makes new counteroffer to GM; Ford lays off 330 (AN)
Judge issues gag order in Trump fraud trial after ex-president posts about law clerk (CNBC)
Trump Could Lose Trump Tower (and Other Properties) in Fraud Case (NYT)
Trump turns his fraud trial into a campaign stop as he seeks to capitalize on his legal woes (AP)
US Supreme Court rebuffs lawyers punished after 'woeful' suit backing Trump (Reuters)
Hunter Biden pleads not guilty to gun, false statement charges (WP)
he police chief who led a highly criticized raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended, the mayor said. Chief Gideon Cody’s suspension is a reversal for the mayor, who previously said he would wait for results from a state police investigation before taking action. [AP]
Canadian wildfires reduce air quality in Southwest Florida (WINK)
Pope Francis opens possibility for blessing same-sex unions (ABC)
Walmart, Target and Other Retailers Say Shoplifting Is Getting Worse, But Some Experts Disagree (Messenger)
Which Way Is The Afghan Way? (NDTV)
Angelina Jolie gets huge shout-out for supporting Afghan women (Geo)
Let it shine: the unexpected benefits of sun exposure on skin (Guardian)
Why Big Tech’s bet on AI assistants is so risky (TR)
New data shows that without intervention, generative AI jobs will continue to cluster in the same big tech hubs (Brookings)
How AI works, in plain English: Three great reads (Axios)
Amazon appears to be readying an AI enhanced shopping
experience for its customers. (Insider)How does AI art make creative directors feel, really? (Drum)
More than 40% of labor force to be affected by AI in 3 years, Morgan Stanley forecasts (CNBC)
Federal Government Announces They’ve Hidden Briefcase Full Of Slavery Reparations Somewhere In Continental U.S. (The Onion)
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