Originally published at: How Tina Peters Is Threatening Cutting-Edge Climate Research
The Retribution: Colorado Edition This is all so bonkers that I want to give it a little extra attention in today’s Morning Memo. The nonprofit consortium that runs the National Center for Atmospheric Research has sued the Trump administration to block its effort to tear apart the premier U.S. weather and climate lab — and…
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Frist! No cat. Is he?
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And your new avatar. Nice!
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The judge in the sentencing of Tina Peters describes her far better than I ever could!!
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Does CF-DJT know that the native language of both Venezuela and Cuba is Spanish? And that by and large, the people are not Pale?
Has Baldenfurher Miller not told him that?
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For those few TPM readers who are not following the World Baseball Classic, the United States will play Venezuela tonight for the championship. I am waiting for Trump to announce he has removed the Venezuela team manager.
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Well, good thing consumers aren’t an important part of the Trump economy. We’re just lucky this won’t disrupt all those AI datacenters needing chips from China, since the Iranian oil’s still flowing that way.
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All of those White South Africans who fled to safety in the US aren’t as happy as they thought they would be. Some are heading back. Apparently the risk of death at the hands of marauding Blacks and having their land stollen (sic) is the lesser of two evils, compared to living in the US
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That’s a shame. I’d rather they were already out of the tournament.
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Yikes!
It must look ominous to those who don’t know the cause.
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As the assault on the weather laboratory goes on, I decided to put out my Hummingbird feeders in the middle of March \in case they show up early this year. Climate change is an existential threat to humanity. And Republicans too, by the way.
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Looking forward, however, Trump officials are planning to impose another major round of tariffs using Section 301, designed to cope with unfair foreign trading practices. In particular, they’re proposing tariffs on 60 (!) countries, including Canada, the UK and the European Union, that they accuse of violating rules against international trade in goods produced with forced labor.
Wait — is the administration accusing Canada and Europe of using slave labor to produce their exports? No, they’re saying that these countries’ governments are guilty of “failure to impose and effectively enforce a ban on the importation of goods produced with forced labor,” and that these failures “burden or restrict U.S. commerce.” In other words, they’re going to slap tariffs on Canada, not because they claim that Canada uses slave labor, but because China does, and they claim that Canada is hurting America because it isn’t doing enough to stop those slave-produced goods from entering its own market.
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Dominican Republic had a number of scoring opportunities against USA, but couldn’t cash in and lost 2-1. They had as good a lineup.
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It is about time for the journalists out there move past analyzing each moment that this president creates and discuss just how insane he has become. They need to stand back and look at the total experience.
They focus on those moments as if there is a coherency to them, even if evil. There is none. Trump’s mind is like a box of ping pong balls that gets shaken every time he wakes up in the morning. He is gone, never to return.
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Britain’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, attended the final talks between the US and Iran and judged that the offer made by Tehran on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent a rush to war, the Guardian can reveal.
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Inflation numbers seem better than expected?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/business/economy/inflation-cpi-pce-methodology.html
An obscure methodological change lowered a key measure of inflation in January, prompting questions about how government statistical agencies produce and report economic data.
Why have an indicator at double digits, when you can drop it to 1.8% I mean, it’s still two digits, right?
It was enough to shave .10% of the inflation rate.
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