This is actual leadership.

Whoever Mike Crispi is, his stupidity has cost him 61% of his net worth in just three weeks. Good job, sir

Did you just realize this? And there are dozens more in the GOP caucus like MTG.

Lots of people are comparing today's global tensions to the leadup to World War I. @halbrands says the 1930s are a much better -- and scarier -- analogy bloomberg.com/opinion/featur… via Bloomberg Opinion

Well, I think we are done here.

Weekend book selection:
“What can you do when those you love . . . slip away from you under a quicksand of lies, and move mentally into an alternative reality where black is white and white is black?” amazon.com/How-Win-Inform…

Even excluding post-2020 catch-up growth, the US has added more jobs per month under Biden than any other president. Morning Joe

Qondi TIL. Makes me think of how Shirley Temple went into diplomacy after acting, including being ambassador to Czechoslovakia when communism collapsed in Eastern Europe (and that reminds me of West Wing Report talking about being a journalist in Moscow in 1991, but I digress)

the courage required to show up for navalny’s funeral is worth our appreciation

.Leader McConnell will be remembered for many things. My top two:
-Leaving KY the 6th poorest state in U.S.
-the most brazen act of political hypocrisy: saying, in 2016, that it was improper to confirm a Supreme Court justice in an election year - only to do just that in 2020

-Putin bombs schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, inflicting terror upon innocent Ukrainian civilians
-then says unlike the West, Russians are a moral people
#CarlsonPutinInterview

Drought now effects 75% of world's population, the Nature Conservancy writes dsqjvx52uljvw.cloudfront.net/4/cincvusp/492…

President heads to NYC this afternoon for three fundraisers (like all presidents, the White House calls them 'campaign receptions'); returns PM

Trump's attempts to torpedo US aid for Ukraine are 'the pay-off for a long-term Russian investment,' Gideon Rachman writes. 'Unless there is a last-minute change of heart in Congress, that wager may finally pay out — on the battlefields of Ukraine.'

ft.com/content/18c529…

Provisions of Senate $118B package:
-tough measures to reduce southern border crossings
-tighten asylum system
-aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan
(the package appears to be dead on arrival in House)

Week Ahead:
Today: Blinken begins Mideast tour
Tues: NV primaries; FAA Admin. Whitaker testifies to House on Boeing
Wed.: Biden fundraising in NY
Thurs.: Supreme Court arguments in Trump ballot eligibility case
Fri.: German Chancellor Scholz at White House

'Since WW2, many individual US policy actions haven’t made sense in narrow economic terms. They have been rational only because America ultimately reaps great rewards from a world that remains relatively peaceful, prosperous and secure.' -Brands bloomberg.com/opinion/featur…

wired.com/story/texas-wa…

Saturday:
President heads to Los Angeles for talks with black entertainment industry leaders - and his re-election campaign
Sunday: Campaigns in Vegas; Biden carried Nevada by 34,000 votes in 2020