Greetings  from the New Jersey Turnpike! I’m publishing today on a bus heading to the DC area.  Wifi is sketchy, but that’s what you get with a $40 ticket...Quote of the week from a Trump cabinet cast member: “I do not think people should be taking medical advice from me,” said  RFK, Jr., the Health and Human Services Secretary (AKA, the person in charge of the nation’s health system). CBSnews.com has more...Not good for President Trump.  National Review points out that Walmart’s prices will rise because of Trump’s tariffs...The president’s granddaughter Kai Trump turned 18 this week.  She seems intelligent, media savvy and camera-ready.  Just a wild guess here on my part, but she could be the future of the Trump political dynasty. Fox News has more....Mark your calendars for June 7.  CNN will broadcast live the penultimate performance of the acclaimed Broadway play “Good Night, Good Luck,” about the dark shadow of McCarthyism and the impact on CBS News in the 50s.  Lots of parellells to the age of Trump 2.0 (Deadline)...Weekend Watch: I give a big thumbs up to the four-part CNN-produced documentary Twitter: Breaking the Bird.  Not only is it a fascinating character study of the offbeat founders and owners – looking at you Ev Williams, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Elon Musk – but it’s also a riveting business drama.  Best of all, it explains how Twitter executives failed to contend with the rise of disinformation and the age of Trump. Available on Max...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard 

Greetings!  Joe Biden’s week just took a sharp turn for the worse.  Yesterday’s Washington Post gave a rave review to the new nonfiction book Original Sin, which offers an inside look into Biden’s harrowing decline during the last part of his presidency and his staff’s efforts to cover it up.  It came on the heels of Tuesday’s NY Times  laudatory critique of CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson “Original Sin” from authors Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.  Right-wing media outlets are salivating at the chance to revisit the wobbly final days of the Biden White House as reported by the two establishment journos. The book, which is already a bestseller, provides a healthy distraction from the daily scandal-feed of the Trump administration kleptocracy...MAGA-world will love this. There’s now a database of “males who have robbed female athletes of success and opportunities in sport and the organizations who have helped them do so.”  That’s what’s on the homepage of the HeCheated database.…Dept. of Surprises: Loomered, the website of looney Trump whisperer Laura Loomer has a column  warning RFK Jr. acolytes and other members of the MAHA movement of “grifters in their midst.”  Specifically, Loomered’s Jacob Engels accuses ex-pharma sales exec Brigham Buhler of “illegally producing medications and enriching himself, which now has many saying he is putting patient safety at risk across the nation”...Housekeeping alert: I’m traveling via bus to the DC area tomorrow morning.  Pray the wifi gods are with me so you’ll have your newsletter tomorrow. Otherwise, see ya’ Monday morning...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard