Yesterday got away a bit

I feel a little chagrined today as I expect to release the new version of The Daily Parker this evening, and yesterday I failed to write even a cursory post. I blame meetings and a very long dentist appointment (I'm fine; still no cavities; but the new dentist patient intake took a while).

I also didn't have any time to read these:

• Brian Beutler outlines a workable plan for getting rid of the Schutzstaffel Immigration and Customs Enforcement permanently.
• Yascha Mounk warns that the OAFPOTUS's threats against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell "violate the two democratic guardrails that matter most."
• James Fallows examines the "time of the Mad King."
• Paul Krugman reviews the first year of the OAFPOTUS's economic policies and explains why things feel a lot shittier than the official statistics might suggest.
• For the first time in over 60 years, a dog tested positive for rabies in Chicago, causing the PAWS rescue (where Cassie came from) to review their acquisition pipeline.

Finally, Education Secretary Linda McMahon probably used some A-1 to come up with her plan to eliminate public education as we know it in favor of publicly-funded religious education. I've got an A-1 amendment for her to read while she's dreaming of Christianist madrassas.