Seth Meyers

On Sunday, writing for the Washington Post, Bob Moser profiled a candidate who's not really a candidate, South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, asking, Could Pete Buttigieg Become the First Millennial President?.

Too much winning? The coal industry is back? Nope: "Coal mines are closing faster than ever... A bleak outline tonight on the coal industry. A brand new report from CNN suggests more more coal plants have closed during the first two years of the Trump administration than the first four years of the Obama administration. It's not because of regulations but because of competition with cleaner, cheaper forms of energy. Another 20 plants are expected to close this year."Tangent/reminder: In 2016 Trump slaughtered Clinton-- 68.7% to 26.5%; he beat her in every single county.

When Trump invited Chuck and Nancy Over to the White House so he could chop up some Adderall and snort it up, he no doubt already had in mind his frustrated drama-queen routine that would inevitably lead up to an excuse for declaring a national emergency. Yesterday Trump flew to McAllen, Texas to draw attention to new lie about a so-called "humanitarian crisis" at the southern border.

Gallup tracks Trump's approval/disapproval numbers weekly. Last week was a doozy-- right over the cliff. I wonder why. Maybe some people didn't like the idea of teargassing children at the border. Or maybe it was that Climate Change report. In fact, Trump seems to have panicked when it came out and realized his supporters might get mad.

Florida is in the news— and at least it isn’t a hurricane. I think the first time we rang an alarm bell about Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s crooked crony, Broward County elections chief Brenda Snipes, we were picking up on a Politico report by Marc Caputo. In the 2016 cycle, she worked to steal the election for DWS, as sure as DWS worked to steal the presidential primary for Hillary. Snipes broke the law by destroying ballots cast in the tight primary election between Wasserman Schultz and Tim Canova after Canova sued to get access to the ballots.

Good day for Trump yesterday? High ratings, certainly. Not ratings about quality-- rating as in eyeballs. But that's what he cares about. His UN thing (at the bottom of the post) was a doozy and that hour and a half long rambling vaudvillian press conference (above)... oy veh. Bragging, lies, bullshit...It's hard to watch him, to listen to him. It makes me sad for our country, especially that thing at the UN, the best part of which being when the world's leaders just laughed at his campaign-mode crap. Seth Meyers was better:Everybody who fact checks, fact checked his press conference.

My friend Samir Selmanović put most of this together to help Democratic candidates who have sizable evangelic communities in their districts. Neither of us, nor any of our VoteCommonGood colleagues think these communities should just be ceded to Republicans-- especially not when the head Republican is Donald Trump, anathema in too many ways to count to the people who are actual followers of Jesus.

I lived in Europe for over 6 years, mostly in Amsterdam. But I had already spent a lot of time driving all around France and then settling down in Aix-en-Provence. My best friend was half French and half Dutch and I was the only one in our circle with a car... so we visited her mother, a renowned and brilliant painter, frequently. I grew to love Paris over the years and later was thrilled when I became the president of a big international company with a very active regional headquarters in France I was expected to visit. I took every opportunity.

Trump isn't a politician; he's an entertainer and a grifter. And he seems to have believed he could bullshit his way through a presidency with a three-ring circus or, in today's parlance, a reality TV show. But peopler wising up. A new Morning Consult poll released by Politico has Señor Trumpanzee 8 points behind a generic Democratic candidate, 44 percent to 36 percent, with an astonishing 19% undecided. And Trump being in the dump is largely due to women voters.-- and independents.

by Helen KleinUnfortunately, it is time to refocus on this subject: it is urgent.The wagons are circling around Trump, and Mueller is closing in. This week’s reveals have been especially astounding, although this has seemed to be the case almost every week for the past year.