Mary Lou McDonald pulled two political stunts this week that impressed - in a bad way - this seasoned critic of Sinn Féin's ruthless amorality. One should be accustomed to the party's revolting retelling of IRA history and the cynical game-playing over Ukraine that is conveniently Putin-friendly.
Rightwing populism in particular relies on an ever-expanding list of enemies from urban elites to benefit claimants, immigrants to deep-state bureaucrats, diversity officers to leftwing radicals, net zero zealots to mild liberals yet this list always contains a striking omission.
That beautiful ending to Trump's SOTU address reminds me why we can't have a second-, third-, or fourth- generation immigrant as president. Love for our country has to be in your genes.
It is, in short, a weed killer. It's the active ingredient in Roundup, the commercial weed killer that has been targeted by thousands of lawsuits alleging that exposure to Roundup/glyphosate causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a deadly cancer. And guess who previously represented plaintiffs in court cases against the evils of glyphosate? That would be Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in his previous existence as a prominent environmental attorney. In 2018, RFK Jr. helped his plaintiff win a historic $289 million jury verdict against Roundup maker Monsanto.
The riddle of the Slovenian Sphinx has been solved, begins New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd's brutal Sunday review of the first lady's vanity project, MELANIA, the documentary. It turns out there is no riddle, no enigma, no mystery, no dark anguish, Dowd writes of the $40 million Amazon project with a $35 million marketing budget adding that the movie shows Melania Trump exactly where she wants to be, in the bosom of a corrupt family that is prostituting the People's House.
We've known about the mendacity for years consider the 30,573 documented falsehoods from the president's first term, culminating in the big lie, his claim to have won the 2020 election but the examples of bracing candour are fresher. This week both began and ended with the US president speaking the shocking truth. At a press conference to celebrate his capture of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, Trump announced that from now on the US would run that country,
"The plan was met with skepticism from many economists, and it is likely to be challenged in court as beyond the constitutional limits of the president."
"Memo to state Attorney General Tish James: If you're going to drag a former US president to court for misleading financial institutions, best not be accused of doing the exact same thing yourself."
