Comment on Sad day for America

California U. S. Senate candidate Steve Garvey’s (R) property taxes are being paid by Sisters in Christ LLC, an organization that includes his sister-in-law as a manager, the Sacramento Bee reports. It’s not clear what Sisters in Christ’s activities include.

“The Biden administration said Tuesday that it is releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast reserve established after Superstorm Sandy in a bid to lower prices at the pump this summer,” the AP reports.

“Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he is open to allowing states to restrict access to birth control and promised to release a ‘comprehensive policy’ on the issue soon,” the Washington Post reports. Said Trump: “We’re looking at that, and I’m going to have a policy on that very shortly, and I think it’s something that you’ll find interesting.

Politico: “Hogan’s first general election ad is set to air Wednesday, and it’s entirely about abortion. In it, the former governor goes direct-to-camera as he endorses codifying the abortion protections the nation had under Roe v. Wade.” Said Hogan, in the ad: “With Roe overturned, many have asked what I’ll do in the United States Senate.

And unsealed filing in Donald Trump’s classified documents case says there were two rounds of documents discovered at Mar-a-Lago after the FBI conducted its search.

Jacob Heilbrunn: “Mr. Trump’s economic and foreign policy nationalism would subvert the preponderance of power that America has enjoyed since 1945 and that he has promised to bolster. It has been threatened from without but never from within.” “As he vows to upend America’s relations with the rest of the globe, the danger is not that Mr.