Not much of a rally

The markets started slightly up this morning, but whatever optimism traders had before noon has evaporated. Both the S&P and DJIA are technically up, but less than 0.5%, while the OAFPOTUS continues to act like the demented old man he is.

And to think, Twin Peaks turned 35 today.

Meanwhile...

• The Biden Treasury official who co-wrote the research the OAFPOTUS cited to justify his malignantly stupid tariffs explains how malignantly stupid the OAFPOTUS is.
• Catherine Rampell waits in vain for the little boy to tell the OAFPOTUS he has no clothes.
• Michelle Goldberg finds it fascinating that so many people on the political right continue to have delusions about the OAFPOTUS.
• Paul Krugman returns the focus to the Health & Human Services Department under Robert F Kennedy, Jr., the head of the Quack-Industrial Complex.
• Jeff Maurer equates the OAFPOTUS with Toonces the Driving Cat. (Work with me, here.)
• Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University president Larry Summers argues that universities need to stand up to the OAFPOTUS and his anti-intellectual flunkies.
• Cranky Flyer wants to watch what the airlines do in Chicago as an economic downturn looms.

Finally, SMBC inadvertently explains the Republican Party's entire educational policy, complete with a joke I've made for years: if I ever win the lottery, I'll set up a math scholarship for areas that sell the most lottery tickets.