Not only...but also...

 Joe Biden is in Ireland, where he addressed the Dail and quoted his favorite poet, Seamus Heaney (born in County Derry, NI).  But if you read the Brit papers the most significant event was his saying "Black and Tans" instead of "All-Blacks" at a pub in Dundalk.  Also President Michael Higgins's dog barked at him.  If he mispronounces "Rishi Sunak" even a little, he's finished.

Speaking of Sunak, his government is just as chaotic as the last when it comes to aliens.  The Khmelnitsky Orchestra from Ukraine is supposed to tour the UK this month but key members have been denied visas for reasons no one can explain.  The Home Office has taken to housing asylum seekers on a barge in Dorset; those who complain are threatened with deportation to Rwanda.  But these people don't want to take jobs from British musicians -- they want to play and go home. 

It's amazing how real estate and corruption tend to be intertwined.  Pro Publica reports that nearly a decade ago Harlan Crow bought a house and two adjoining lots in Savannah from his dear friend Clarence Thomas and spent thousands of dollars renovating the house, which was occupied by the justice's mother.  Once again, Thomas failed to report this deal.  Crow is such an admirer that he plans to open a Clarence Thomas museum on the site.  Won't that be special?

In the days between the election and the insurrection Trump was frantically raising money from his hordes, with some MAGAts receiving up to twenty-five emails a day.  Did you know it's a crime to use email for the purpose of swindling people?  Yes, it's covered under the wire-fraud statute.  I find that interesting.  So does Jack Smith.

Trump was back in stinky, crime-ridden New York on Wednesday to be deposed in AG Letitia James's civil suit against his corporate shell.  He warmed up by calling her a "racist" and a "LOWLIFE," complaining that she deliberately revealed his arrival time to get him assassinated or something.  Then he relaxed by suing Michael Cohen for breaching confidentiality and "spreading falsehoods."  When it rains in Florida -- torrentially -- filing frivolous lawsuits is the only exercise he gets.  

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been a busy little governor since taking office in January.  She just signed a law "requiring social media companies to verify the age of all new Arkansas users" and get parental permission if they're under 18.  Last month she signed a law allowing 14-year-olds to work in slaughterhouses, but obviously TikTok is a bigger threat than wading through animal blood.  Then an application for state jobs was found to contain the question, "What is an accomplishment of the Governor's that you admire the most?"  A "design error" is being blamed -- apparently this is only for summer internships.  Five hundred words or fewer, please.

State representatives Justin Pearson and Justin Jones were re-appointed to the Tennessee legislature by their local governments, with national profiles and an energized voting base.  The episode also drew attention to the likelihood that Speaker Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) doesn't exactly live in Crossville, which is a violation of state law.  Also, he lives in Nashville but bills the state for travel expenses to Crossville just as if he got his mail there -- another violation.  Governor Bill Lee was so flustered that he signed an executive order strengthening background checks for gun purchases, and asked the legislature to pass a red-flag law to keep guns away from the unbalanced.  If he shows up at a BLM rally wearing a rainbow shirt, we'll know he's had a medical emergency of some sort.  For Tennessee, a good week's work.

Alexei Navalny has apparently been hospitalized after being poisoned.  So we know there are no high windows at the IK-6 penal colony in Melekhovo.

This just in:  After a Texas Trump judge banned the sale of abortifacient pill mifepristone, a five-day hold has been signed by...Samuel Alito.  I don't even know what's going on anymore.