This is another one of those days when I shouldn’t have read the news.

Trump’s border czar: “I don’t care what the judges think” 

Trump’s Open Defiance Of Federal Courts Is Now At Hand

Trump Lays Groundwork for Investigating People Pardoned by Biden

EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration 

Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order 

Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants

With Arrival of Bongino, Trump Loyalists Take Command of the F.B.I.

Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.

MAGA figures start chatter over Derek Chauvin pardon

Trump Gloats About Dubious Golf Title as Americans Die in Severe Storms

Retail sales came in weaker than expected, another bad sign for the US economy

I’m not even gonna bother to comment. The headlines say it all. Add to all this misery, an early morning fire killed seven llamas at a farm across the street from my daughter’s house. Their barn caught on fire and they were locked inside. And sadly, that’s pretty much our situation as US citizens.