Mossy Character writes: Sino-Metals Leach Zambia just seems too on the nose.

Heebie's take: Holy shit that's depressing. But yeah: that's the literal name of the company?!?

Robert Reich makes the case that Trump will continue to obey-ish court rulings:

Which leads to a further question: Why has Trump decided not to defy the courts, when the MAGA faithful want him to?

The answer, I think, is that although Trump doesn't pay attention to opinion pieces in The New York Times or The Washington Post (and certainly not this Substack), he does pay attention to opinion pieces in the Rupert Murdoch-owned press -- specifically in the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal.

Their opinions have been uniformly against Trump defying the courts.

In other words, Murdoch is sending Trump a clear warning: If you take on the judiciary, you're on your own.

I don't know, man, but I don't have anything better.

It's either this or marvel how the word anti-semitism has become contorted to justify slashing university funding. (In fact, I tried to write a post on that, but got bogged down thinking that we needed ground rules to keep it from deteriorating into a referendum on Palestine and actual anti-semitism.)

This feeling of despair-blogging is so eerily familiar from Trump1: it's literally so repetitive and kind of boring, but what the hell else do you talk about when the Titanic is sinking? "Oh look, yup, still sinking."

NickS writes: he internet has trained me to expect mediocre listicles, but this surprised me -- clearly deeply considered, researched, and informative.

Heebie's take: I'm surprised at how few of them I recognized. Maybe 25%?