Donald Trump’s America Is Deeply Unwell, and It’s Time to Say So LEE ZELDIN'S ENVIRONMENTAL THREAT: MUST READ!

                                                           

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Today: "Podcast: Donald Trump's America Is Deeply Unwell, and It's Time to Say So" Plus, Viktor Orbán wasn't the only loser in Hungary's wipeout election; Trump posts AI photo of himself as Jesus; the MAGA civil war is just getting started; and more... How Did California Democrats Let Eric Swalwell Get This Far, Anyway? They surely knew about his misconduct ages ago. And more broadly, California Democrats aren't doing their party any favors. By Michael Tomasky

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Guess Who Else (Besides Orbán) Lost in Hungary's Wipeout Election? Donald Trump and JD Vance, that's who. Is the global tide turning against authoritarian illiberalism? By Perry Bacon MAGA Freaks Out After Trump Posts AI Photo of Himself as Jesus One former Donald Trump fan warned they had "elected the Antichrist." By Edith Olmsted Lee Zeldin Is the Most Lethally Boring Man in the Trump Administration The EPA administrator's bland personality has provided cover for the most destructive reign since the agency's creation. By Liza Featherstone EXCERPT:   Last Thursday, Zeldin appeared at a Heartland Institute conference of anti-environmental, pro-polluter lobbyists and activists who have been working for years to dismantle climate regulations. Before Zeldin took office, this group would have been considered quite fringe. Politico, reporting the conference last week, called them climate “contrarians.” I suppose that’s one word you might use to describe people who argue that fossil fuels are actually good for the environment, and once put up a billboard comparing climate advocates to the Unabomber. The Heartland gathering had one message for Trump, Politico reported: “please keep Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin in place.” Zeldin’s keynote address at the gathering received a standing ovation. It surely wasn’t about the speech itself: He was just as forgettable as usual. But this average-looking fortysomething lawyer was greeted like a K-pop star at the climate deniers’ conference because he has delivered for them beyond their wildest dreams. He has cut billions of dollars from climate grants the Biden Administration had awarded, eviscerated pollution rules and enforcement capacity, and perhaps most significantly, wiped out the legal basis of much climate regulation: the 2009 endangerment finding, which says that greenhouse gases can be regulated because they imperil human life and health. At the Heartland gathering, a leading anti-climate activist called Zeldin “the most consequential EPA chief in the agency’s history.” Idaho Is Ground Zero of Republicans' Escalating War on Trans People Ten years ago, bathroom bans inspired boycotts and celebrity opposition. Where's the national outrage now? By Melissa Gira Grant When Peter Hujar Met Paul Thek A new joint biography traces the lives and work of the two artists, who became lovers in the 1960s. By Jeremy Lybarger

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Podcast: Why Affordability Replaced Abundance as the Democratic Buzzword Policy expert Lindsay Owens says Americans are much more concerned about greedy corporations than overly complicated housing regulations. Read the transcript here. Right Now With Perry Bacon The MAGA Civil War Is Just Getting Started Trump is fighting a growing list of right-wing pundits and influencers who are critical of the Iran war—and who are playing a long game. By Alex Shephard Searching for FIFA Founder Jules Rimet The life of FIFA's founder shows that global soccer's governing organization's willingness to embrace brutal regimes was baked in from the start. By Simon Kuper Pope Shuts Down Trump Tantrum as President Calls Him "Weak on Crime" Pope Leo warned that some people have "abused" the Gospel. By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling Podcast: Donald Trump's America Is Deeply Unwell, and It's Time to Say So The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent Donald Trump's Truth Social feed can get awfully revealing. He just unleashed numerous posts that open a new window on the man and his presidency: the transactionalism; the amorality; and the utter, buffoonish incompetence. In one, he attacked his MAGA allies in a way that displayed his utter lack of any principles. In several others, he revealed that he simply has no grasp whatsoever of the situation he faces with Iran's Strait of Hormuz. All of which raises a question: How do we make sense of the fact that this man is president? We talked to political theorist Alan Elrod, who has a good piece arguing that the election of Trump—twice—should prompt deep introspection about what our country has become. We discuss Elrod's argument that America needs a dose of hard truths about this man and this moment, dissect Trump's "personalist" presidency, consider whether civic malaise produced our current national crisis, and discuss how to pull out of it. Listen to the episode here. Read the transcript here.

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