The #2 day of summer on Tuesday

Stephan Pastis toots Tuesday to start the day as well. Elsewhere:

• A Federal judge told the OAFPOTUS he couldn't steal $1.8 billion from the Treasury and give it to people who tried to kill Capitol police officers, so he TACO'd.
• Seriously, it's more pathetic than just TACO this time: the whining has gotten so much worse lately.
• Paul Krugman digs into "the new inequality" and explains why traditional statistical methods are struggling to capture the scale of wealth-hording by the top 0.1%.
• In their latest public relations effort to show that they're not all racist dumbasses, Minnesota Republicans held a moment of silence for racist murderer Derek Chauvin. You can blame the OAFPOTUS for all that's wrong in the United States today, but it might make more sense to blame his voters.
• Speaking of racist assholes, Linda McMahon's Department of Education has published rules that would make it nearly impossible for students of the arts and humanities to get student loans, on the theory that starting salary is the only measure of a profession's worth. It's a neat class-warfare two-step as it would make it difficult for anyone other than children of rich parents to get arts or humanities degrees, which I suppose is the point.
• Jeff Maurer shakes his head at the false symmetry between Graham Platner and Ken Paxton.
• Dan Rather suggests that perhaps the Founders 250 years ago would not have gone in with "a birthday fit for a king."
• The RTA is dead; long live the NITA. Will it make regional transit better from Kenosha to South Bend? That's the hope: "The NITA board will have the power to set fares, demand a universal ticket system and potentially create its own regional transit police force."

Finally, writing for Persuasion, Matt Johnson argues that Samuel P. Huntington's "clash of civilizations thesis is even more wrong today than it was in 1993." I'm not sure how persuaded I am by Huntington or Johnson, but the essay is worth a read.