It’s hard to know where to start on a day like this. The Marines are in Los Angeles. Israel and Iran are at war. A U.S. Senator was handcuffed for asking a question. And somewhere in the middle of it all, Donald Trump is rambling about rerouting Pacific Northwest water to save Los Angeles from wildfires and reopening Alcatraz as some kind of dystopian Airbnb-meets-Gitmo reboot. - Mary Geddry

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Banana Republic, USA

From Los Angeles crackdowns to Middle East war, the empire spirals with a cognitively crumbling autocrat at the helm and a forecast that might just rain on his vanity parade.

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