We had friends come to visit, and I’ve been mostly away from the news — but still reading Heather’s Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American every morning. From the latest installment:
Trump’s assumption of control over the Washington, D.C., police force and his calling out of the D.C. National Guard are definitely ways for him to divert attention from the Epstein files and the stalling economy. But they are also an attempt to create a dictatorship as Project 2025 prescribed. Both can be true at the same time.I hear an echo of Nineteen Eighty-Four there.
Today’s installment also covers the Kennedy Center (still so named), Ghislaine Maxwell’s new prison, the grand jury files from her case, inflation and unemployment numbers, a new (and unqualified) commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, scrutiny of the Smithsonian Institution and its museums, and three spot-on tweets from Gavin Newsom.
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A young man came into the thrift store books today looking for a copy of “1984”.
“We don’t have one at the moment,” I said. “They sell soon as they come in – – but this copy of ‘Brave New World’ just came in.”
“I’ll take it,” he said.
Also a future that's come to pass.
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