This Week and Next

The Grifting Class Chronicles: A Two Day Necessary Pause and Next Week's Excavation

A day late but not a dollar short – sometimes the news cycle demands we step back from the precipice

Well, friends, I confess: I played hooky. While the world spiraled in its familiar Trump-adjacent chaos, I took what I'm now calling a "sanity sabbatical" – because watching democracy's death rattle has become a blood sport, and even the most seasoned gladiators need to tend their wounds.

Last week's hiatus wasn't writer's block; it was writer's preservation. When you're chronicling the apocalypse daily, sometimes you need to step away from the typewriter before you start typing your own obituary. The current political climate has become so toxically absurd that taking breaks isn't indulgence – it's survival strategy. I mean this quite literally, and that should terrify us all.

My public health coverage trudged on, naturally, but watching RFK Jr. practically salivate over the CDC's dismantling gave me what I can only describe as existential vertigo. His gleeful anticipation of destroying …