Greetings! Get ready for ads projected on the Washington Monument and other iconic structures in our nation’s capital. That’s just one of the alarming insights in the Washington Post’s epic takedown yesterday of Donald Trump’s shambolic rampage against D.C.’s architectural grandeur. Philip Kennicott, the Post’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning senior art & architecture critic, called the vulgarian POTUS “the  most significant threat to the city’s architectural and design legacy since British forces burned the Capitol and White House during the War of 1812”.... Trump must be running out of items to boost on Truth Social. Late yesterday morning, he posted a link to a story in The Gateway Pundit from January 6 (!).  The piece from the far-right extremist website reported that Lt. Michael Byrd, who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt as she stormed  the Capitol building during the J6 insurrection, runs a daycare center with his wife that receives federal funds. Beats me why The Donald flagged it on March 23. More disturbing that he’s legitimizing content from such a disreputable operation...Kudos to the latest episode of the Emmy Award-winning HBO Max  series “The Pitt” that contained a timely anti-ICE message. In the powerful episode, two ICE agents bring an injured and apparently undocumented immigrant in handcuffs into the ER, throwing staff and other patients into a frenzy.  Without drifting into left-wing polemic, “The Pit”  made it  impossible to ignore the masked brutality of  ICE agents and the dystopian fear they spread in the name of immigration control. The Huff Post has more...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Donald Trump took a break yesterday from overseeing the war with Iran to trash Texas Senate nominee James Talarico.  In a blistering Truth Social post he wrote, “I believe that any human being running against him -- sick, incompetent, close to death or, even a child -- would win. He may be the Worst Candidate I have ever seen, other than, of course, Gavin Newscum.”  The portly POTUS then took a characteristic racist and sexist swipe at Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), calling her “low IQ,” his favorite insult for female politicians of color...Breitbart suggests that Trump has already won the war because U.S. bombs have destroyed 130 naval vessels.  This pro-war POV aligns with what’s appearing in much of the  right-wing publications. High-profile war critics like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly may garner mainstream media headlines, but the majority of MAGA media supports Trump's war....Miranda Devine, a MAGA-loving NY Post columnist, has a new podcast featuring FCC chairman Brendan Carr, a free speech opponent.  According to the show’s promo notes, Carr riffs on “biased” TV shows like "The View” and “Disney’s woke agenda” that put its broadcast licenses in jeopardy. Worth noting: one of the program’s sponsors is The Wellness Company, which is pushing “American-made Ivermectin,” the controversial drug that was falsely purported to treat Covid-19... RIP Chuck Norris: The action film and TV icon, beloved by the Right for his macho posturing, died March 19 at 86.  What few film fans know is that Norris was a prolific columnist for the far-right website WND during Trump’s White House 1.0...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard