

Hereâs all the shit we couldnât cover today:
- On Monday, the State Department announced that itâs ending U.S. funding for the UN Population Fund, which provides family planning and maternal and child health services in over 150 countries and also works to end the practice of female genital cutting and child marriage. The administrationâs claim is that UNFPA âsupports, or participates in the management of, a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization in China,â which is clearly false; the Bush administration made a similar shitty argument. [The Huffington Post]
- The Trump administration called a devastating chemical weapons attack on Syrian civilians that killed dozens, including a number of children, âreprehensibleâ in a four-sentence statement that also managed to blame the Obama administration. The administration did not quite clarify how they will respond differently than their predecessorsâseems like a few days ago Sean Spicer was talking about a âpolitical reality that we have to acceptâ regarding Assadâs regime, which was swiftly followed by... a chemical weapons attack. [Time]
- Two verbally incoherent Putin fans are having a private meeting today, and I would really give one of my fingernails for the transcript. [CNN]
- Sebastian Gorka, a White House counterterrorism advisor with an apparently endless number of fucked up skeletons in his not-very-well-hidden closet, publicly supported a âviolent racist and anti-Semitic paramilitary militiaâ in Hungary, Forward reports. Meanwhile, a Wikipedia user by the name âSk-Gorkaâ has extensively edited Sebastian Gorkaâs Wikipedia page. [Forward, CNN]
- Hereâs why Republicans have been shrieking about Susan Rice all day. [New York Times]
- A majority of Americansâ55%âapprove of Obamacare. Naturally, the GOP is still trying to repeal it. [Gallup]
- The number of vacancies at the State Department is really astounding. [The Huffington Post]
- Meanwhile, at the other State Department that is located wherever Jared Kushner happens to be, Trumpâs ex-bodyguard Keith Schillerâbest known for the time he hit a protester in the faceâwas seated at the table in a meeting with Iraqi officials. [Twitter]
Here are some tweets that the president was allowed to publish:

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