- More right-of-centre commentators are having doubts about Donald Trump. Joe Scarborough points out that for a former president to get only 51% the vote in a primary is not a good sign for him. Now Scarborough is one of the more moderate rightwingers, but now even Ann Coulter is saying that Trump is no longer a viable candidate - and that Trump voters are "morons". Hate to agree with Coulter on anything, but she has a point there.
- Bill O'Reilly was all in favour of Florida's law requiring books to be pulled from school libraries... until it was applied to his own books. He still says he favours the law, but thinks it shouldn't apply to him.
- Separation of church and state is supposed to be a big deal in the US. A 1954 law called the Johnson Amendment prohibits churches, as well as other nonprofits, from "engaging in any political campaign activity", but the "Christian nationalist" crowd is planning to flout the law by having MAGA-leaning churches actively work to put Trump back in the White House. No doubt they're counting on the IRS not having the guts to take away the tax exempt status of churches; we'll have to see how this goes.
- Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution in the US Senate calling for the State Department to report on whether Israel has violated human rights; the resolution was pushed aside by a 72-11 vote.
- German journalists report that several elected officials with the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), as well as two members of the supposedly moderate Christian Democratic Union, attended a secret meeting with more overt neo-Nazis and other extremists, in which they discussed plans for mass deportations, not only of new immigrants and refugees but of "unassimilated" German citizens. This has sparked nationwide protests calling for AfD to be banned.
- The European Union has prohibited companies from claiming to be carbon neutral in their advertising if said "carbon neutrality" depends on carbon offsets.
- Russia plans to build a village outside of Moscow to be a safe haven for American and Canadian rightwingers. I urge those folks to take Putin up on the deal, and let the rest of us enjoy life without them.
- The thing about millennials being poor because they spend too much money on avocado toast is, of course, ridiculous, but there's actually a good reason to stay away from the stuff.
- The Great Salt Lake may be headed the way of the Aral Sea unless appropriate measures are taken.
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