FEMA Spent a Ton Fighting California’s Fires. Now It Wants Victims to Pay It Back.
Mason Trinca (Washing Post via Getty Images) When disasters strike and overwhelm cities and states, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is supposed to step in and help emergency response and recovery efforts. Unfortunately, FEMA is best known for its failures—dangerously slow response times, public relations scams, languishing aid—and it seems now the agency has hit another…
An Even More Deranged Monday Morning of Tweeting for President Trump
Ron Sachs/ZUMA On Monday, President Donald Trump’s Twitter account kicked off an unusually active round of inflammatory and offensive activity that saw multiple falsehoods, typos, and cheap shots against his Democratic presidential rivals. In what could be considered the most appalling moment, the president retweeted a fake, poorly Photoshopped image of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)…
Is This the Greatest Listicle of All Time?
Are you on Team Harry¹ or Team Royals? My household is split. However, the royal dustup has now produced one undeniable triumph: this listicle from BuzzFeed, which might be the greatest listicle of all time. Of course, I would say that, wouldn’t I, as a Team H person? ¹By which we mean Team Harry/Meghan, of…
Making Sense of Biden-Warren Voters
David Becker/ZUMA I was thinking the other day about people whose top two choices in the Democratic primary are Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren. How bizarre! I mean, are you a centrist or a progressive? How can those two be your top choices? Do people even know what the candidates stand for? But it turns…
Don’t Let Trump Fool You Into Thinking He’s Improving Health Care
Alex Edelman/CNP/Zuma President Donald Trump took to Twitter Monday morning with a brazenly false claim about his health care policy. Mini Mike Bloomberg is spending a lot of money on False Advertising. I was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your Healthcare, you have it now, while at the same time winning the fight…
Are Manufacturing Workers in High Demand?
The Wall Street Journal reports that American manufacturers are having a hard time finding workers: Half a million U.S. factory jobs are unfilled, the most in nearly two decades, and the unemployment rate is hovering at a 50-year low, the Labor Department said Friday. At the same time, Americans are moving around the country at…