Late afternoon links

I haven't had a chance to work on the comments problem, because, you see, I have another job. I've also had a plumber and a carpet cleaner here today, traumatizing poor Cassie who couldn't show them her blanket because she got shoved into a different room. She's now on her bed in my office rather than on one of the couches downstairs. I expect she'll get over the soul-crushing exile she experienced for nearly an hour today.

If only she knew what the rest of the world was like:

• Ezra Klein says the OAFPOTUS "has overwhelmed himself," blowing way past the limits of the administration's miniscule competence: "That is why most White Houses pay such close attention to policy processes and chain of command: These are all ways of filtering the torrent of information and decisions in order to conserve the focus and attention of the president and his top aides." Ruth Ben-Ghiat told you so.
• In case you need it, Paul Krugman has a refresher on the Federal Reserve.
• Matt Yglesias doesn't see a lot of difference between California Governor Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris. (Personally, I think Newsom will be a great vice president to JB Pritzker.)
• James Fallows explains what we know and still don't know about the helicopter-jet collision over Washington last year.
• The City of Chicago has released 25 finalists for the "You Name a Snowplow" contest, with "Abolish ICE" taking the lead with 80% of the nominations. (My favorite is "Daniel Brrrnham.")

Finally, be careful which LLMs you use to help with your coding. KOI has discovered that MaliciousCorgi extensions send everything you type (and then some) back to unknown endpoints China. I'll stick with Claude and ChatGPT on Copilot for now.