Still cold, but warming

As forecast, the temperature dropped steadily from 3:30 pm Monday until finally bottoming out at -5.6°C (22°F) just after sunset yesterday. It's crept up slowly since then, up to -2.5°C (27.5°F) a few minutes ago. C'mon, you can do it! Just a little farther to reach freezing! Because the forecast for tomorrow morning (-13°C/9°F) does not look great. At least we'll see the sun for a few hours.

You know what else is cold? My feelings toward the OAFPOTUS. I'm not alone:

• Peter Hamby looks back on the OAFPOTUS's recent election endorsements and wonders why any sane Republican would want one.
• Paul Krugman draws a straight line between Calvin Coolidge and the OAFPOTUS, as neither president believed that the US government has any business helping disaster victims. (NB: all the presidents between them emphatically did.)
• Matt Ford chuckles quietly at the brilliance of Costco's lawsuit to claw back the taxes they've paid under the OAFPOTUS's illegal tariff policies.
• Amanda Nelson continues her examination of the more unhinged parts of Project 2025 that the OAFPOTUS and his droogs are actually implementing, looking at the ongoing degradation of the Federal Trade Commission under Adam Candeub.
• Todd Zwillich gives a thumbs-up to US Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and the other lawmakers with intelligence and military backgrounds whose November 19th video teed up the OAFPOTUS's and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's self-owns on the law of war.
• Matt Yglesias reminds both parties that immigration is good for the United States, so cut out both the talk of "remigration" and all the ridiculous land acknowledgements.
• Jeff Maurer laments the decline of comedy movies, and offers six theories about why they died.

Finally, today is the 60th anniversary of The Beatles releasing Rubber Soul in the UK. It's always been one of my favorite albums, and not just from The Beatles. I finished re-watching the 5th season of Mad Men a few nights ago, so I've been trying to put myself back in the 1960s to imagine what revelations the 1965 and 1966 Beatles albums would have been (Help!, Rubber Soul, and Revolver)—not to mention how much the Fab Four's own sound changed in that 12-month period between 6 August 1965 and 5 August 1966.

Before listening to Rubber Soul one more time, though, I have a dog to walk.