You cannot live here

There’s so much stuff going on daily that it is sometimes difficult to focus on just one thing. Today, I’ll deal with just three, which might not have made the headlines.

First, a new bill that MAGA reps are trying to push through in Ohio: bill HB1 and SB 88. These politicians want to ban ownership by legal residents of Ohio—hailing from countries deemed enemies of the United States—of any property within 25 miles of key infrastructure. But since this infrastructure is defined so broadly as to include railroad tracks, farms, airports and utility poles, one witness displayed a map of exactly what areas they’d be banned from owning property on: the entire state! What a cool trick! In an unfortunate reminder of times past (think WW2), this is targeted mainly at Asian American residents who have owned property there for decades and are fully integrated into their communities. They would be summarily stripped of their ownership. Can’t wait to see those law suits…

Speaking of land ownership, in Arizona, the Supreme Court, with a little hand grease from the current regime, has officially handed sacred Apache land to a foreign-owned mining conglomerate and cleared the way for Resolution Copper to level Oak Flat, a religious site long protected under federal stewardship. Can you say morally bankrupt?

And finally, Trump has now aimed his outrage at a 16-year-old transgender athlete, AB Hernandez. In a now-viral post, Trump falsely claimed she was "unbeatable" and used her as a blunt object in his culture war against California. The facts? She placed fourth in one event, third in another, and eighth in the high jump, hardly the super-villain Fox News would have you believe. The real story here isn’t her athletic performance, but her extraordinary composure: “I’m still a child. You’re an adult. And for you to act like a child shows how you are as a person.” That, ladies and gentlemen, is the sound of a teenager outclassing a sitting president.

H/T to Mary Geddry, Jonathan Larsen, David Pepper