We learn from two advisors in today’s Washington Post (paywall) Pruitt’s numerous transgressions exceed anything ever witnessed before.

The totality of Pruitt’s offenses is beyond the pale.

I’ll say. This petty grifter needs to slither back to whatever sh*thole state he’s from and wait for a trial date to be announced.

Meanwhile, courtesy the Guardian (looming paywall), we get a glimpse of how the grifters in the White House used their so-called “charitable foundation” as a personal piggy bank, according to a lawsuit filed by the attorney general of the state of New York earlier today.

Me? I love the quote in the New York Times citing text from the suit itself:

“As our investigation reveals, the Trump Foundation was little more than a checkbook for payments from Mr. Trump or his businesses to nonprofits, regardless of their purpose or legality,” said Barbara D. Underwood, New York’s attorney general…

The article in the Wall Street Journal (paywall) was equally damning:

The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, calls Mr. Trump’s foundation “little more than an empty shell” and accuses it of repeatedly violating laws that govern charities.

Lastly, we read in an article from the Washington Post:

Underwood also asked that Trump be banned from leading any other New York nonprofit organization for 10 years — seeking to apply a penalty usually reserved for the operators of small-time charity frauds to the president of the United States.

Yup, we’ve got an entire administration full of grifters. Petty, narrow-minded, greedy thieves, all clamoring for every penny they can illegally pilfer from the pockets their fellow Americans. Every single one of these criminals should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Link to .PDF version of today’s poster here.

…because we’ve been here before. Ten innocent people murdered this morning at a rural high school southeast of Houston; the sociopath responsible now in custody; flaccid platitudes proffered by complicit politicians all day long…

Again.

Yes, we find ourselves on this all-too-familiar path to perdition…

Again.

Guardian

…is the 16th school shooting this year that resulted in injury or death.

Yes, it happened. Again.

New York Times

It was the deadliest attack on an American school campus since February…

…since February? Anyone else shaking their head in disbelief? Why the need to qualify this statement with “…since February”?

Yes, it happened. Again.

New Yorker

…a man wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, carrying a handgun, had arrived at the school as the reporters had, to give interviews holding forth on the Second Amendment, and to explain how the best solution to school violence was more guns.

Wow. The degree of callousness this sad excuse for an American exhibited is beyond belief.

Wall Street Journal

…is the country’s ninth fatal shooting in 2018 on school grounds, including college campuses and excluding suicides, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, a group that advocates stricter gun laws.

Gruesome statistics, by any measure.

Washington Post

Many of the 1,400 students had staged a walkout April 20 as part of a nationwide protest against school shootings… One sign carried by Santa Fe students during their April protest read “#NeverAgain”.

Four Fridays later, their school was attacked.

Yes, it happened. Again.

A link to .PDF version of today’s poster here.

The Guardian reports (looming paywall) the Liar-in-Chief™ was compelled to admit in a mandatory disclosure statement filed with the Office of Government Ethics earlier this week reimbursing his attorney/fixer for hush money paid to an adult film actress back in 2016.

Ethics experts had been watching closely for the document to see if Trump would confirm that he paid Cohen back for the lawyer’s outlay – concerned that if the president did not he would be in breach of ethics laws.

Trump confirmed – bigly. With respect to ethics, the man has none…

The New York times (paywall) ponders whether or not ole’ Lyin’ Donny™ might’ve run afoul of ethics laws:

President Trump’s financial disclosure, released on Wednesday, included for the first time repayment of more than $100,000 to his personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, in 2017, raising questions about whether Mr. Trump’s sworn filing from a year ago improperly omitted the debt.

In a highly unusual letter, the Office of Government Ethics alerted the Justice Department on Wednesday to the omission, telling Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, that the ethics office had determined “the payment made by Mr. Cohen is required to be reported as a liability.”

Unusual. Highly unusual. Of course it’s unusual – we’re dealing with the most morally bankrupt person to ever occupy the White House!

…and then we have the New Yorker’s (paywall) take on the odd disappearance of suspicious activity reports, prompting a law enforcement official to surreptitiously disclose the existence of these reports before they vanished into thin air – OMG!

The official who released the suspicious-activity reports was aware of the risks, but said fears that the missing reports might be suppressed compelled the disclosure. “We’ve accepted this as normal, and this is not normal,” the official said. “Things that stand out as abnormal, like documents being removed from a system, are of grave concern to me.”

Of the potential for legal consequences, the official said, “To say that I am terrified right now would be an understatement.” But, referring to the released report, as well as the potential contents of the missing reports, the official also added, “This is a terrifying time to be an American, to be in this situation, and to watch all of this unfold.”

There you have it folks. A law enforcement official explicitly stating they are terrified – yes, terrified – of their counterparts’ motivations in other agencies.

Lastly, the Washington Post (paywall) opinion piece by Paul Waldman sums up the dire situation we find ourselves facing:

It starts with the fact that a hostile foreign government mounted a comprehensive effort to swing the results of an American election. Then there are Trump’s efforts to obstruct justice, for which there is ample evidence. Given what we know and what we’re learning literally on a daily basis, nobody sincerely thinks that Manafort and Cohen aren’t going to wind up behind bars.

Let’s hope. In fact, let’s hope every single person indicted as a result of Robert S. Mueller’s investigation ends up rotting in jail for a very, very long time…

…the president may be the single most corrupt prominent business figure in the United States

The fact I can extract the above from an article in the Washington Post as a direct quote from a respected journalist is chilling, to say the least.

In March 2017, I encouraged everyone to #deleteUBER.

…and I still think you should, like yesterday.

Earlier today, the Guardian (looming paywall) published an article exposing the cozy relationship between Arizona Governor Doug Ducey and UBER. Oh, right, let’s not forget UBER’s technology killed a pedestrian in Arizona last week!

According to the New York Times, Uber’s human drivers had to intervene far more frequently than those working for its rivals. It reported that Waymo, Google’s self-driving car spinoff, said that in tests on roads in California last year, its cars went an average of nearly 5,600 miles before the driver had to seize control of its vehicles. As of March, Uber was struggling to meet its target of 13 miles per “intervention” in Arizona, according to the Times.

I dug up the New York Times article (paywall) referenced by the Guardian, and learned:

Uber has been testing its self-driving cars in a regulatory vacuum in Arizona.

Well, that was the case until Monday, when the New York Times (paywall) reported the beleaguered Republican governor of Arizona grew a spine and issued a state-wide suspension on UBER’s, (but not Waymo’s or GM’s), autonomous car program, because, after all, “…Arizona is open for business.”

Hey cowboys and cowgirls, how ’bout ginnin’ up a recall out there, huh? ;-)

A .PDF version of today’s poster is available here.

Update: Hmmmm… Was the collision-avoidance technology simply turned off?