TEXAS HOLD ‘EM: The right wing and hard-nosed attorney general of Texas said yesterday that he willask for a court order to vacate the seats of any Democratic lawmakers who are not back to work by Friday. The Democrats left the …

TEXAS HOLD ‘EM: Texas Republicans voted to issue civil arrest warrants for dozens of Democratic lawmakers who left the state to deny the legislature a quorum for voting on congressional redistricting map that would create five new Republican districts.   It’s not …

LONE STAR: Democrats in the Texas legislature left the state yesterday to deny Republicans the quorum they need to approve a redrawn Congressional map designed to assure them five more seats in the US House of Representatives.   The 150-member Texas House …

TRADE WAR: President Trump last night blew up the order of world trade once more with an executive command setting new import tariffs while citing a trade deficit with many countries that constitutes, he claimed, “an unusual and extraordinary threat to …

ECON 101: The Federal Reserve for the fifth time in a row yesterday left interest rates as they are in the face of President Trump’s demand that they be lowered by a dramatic 1 percent. Two members of the Federal Reserve …

DENIAL: Making climate change denial a part of policy,  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced yesterday that the EPA is repealing the 2009 determination that planet-warming gases including carbon dioxide are a threat to public health.   The formal announcement was made yesterday …

HUNGER GAMES: President Trump yesterday openly disagreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on whether there is starvation in Gaza.  Trump said that he’d seen pictures of children on television and that they “look very hungry” and “we have to get the …

TRADE TRUCE: The Trump administration and the European Union have reached a deal that appears to divert a trade war between the US and the 27-nation economic bloc that is this country’s biggest source of imports.   The deal sets a 15 percent …

MONEY, POLITICS, AND JOURNALISM: The federal Communications Commission yesterday approved the merger of entertainment companies Paramount and Skydance in a decision that appears to have been contingent on President Trump’s personal settlement of his lawsuit against CBS News and 60 Minutes, which …

THE EPSTEIN GAME: Attorney General Pam Bondi informed president Trump that he is mentioned in the investigative files regarding sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, but in what context is unknown, The NY Times reports.   The story comes on yet another day in …