The grocer will offer tabs to government workers … Says the man who thinks he’s treated unfairly by the press

Trump: The grocery store will float you the food on credit until the shutdown is over. That's how it works. pic.twitter.com/3oSNtLlto0

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 24, 2019

I’m quite sure grocery stores all over America will rush at the chance to extend unlimited lines of credit to government workers.

Quite. Sure.

 

The Guardian: Adelaide breaks its all-time heat record, hitting 46.6C, in extreme Australia heatwave

Just so we're clear, being the hottest place on Earth is not the way that I had hoped Australia would be leading the world re. #climatechange when I started working on this thing … but it's probably what our current level of policy ambition deserves.#climatecrisis #auspol pic.twitter.com/oPnEilRpcv

— Alexei T (@AlexeiPT) January 24, 2019

Jiminy Christmas it looks hot in Australia right now. Look at them breaking records like it’s the Olympics.

Read more here:

In Port Augusta, 300km north-west, an all-time record was also set, as the city hit 49.5C.

Last week, temperatures in Adelaide, home to 1.3 million people, hit 45C, sending homelessness shelters into a “code red”, and sparking fears of another mass fish death in the Menindee Lakes in the neighbouring state of New South Wales.

In central and western Australia, local authorities were forced to carry out an emergency animal cull, shooting 2,500 camels – and potentially a further hundred feral horses – who were dying of thirst.

 

Let them apply for loans!

Being old, rich, white and out of touch is Wilbur Ross’s middle name.

WILBUR ROSS downplays 800k workers missing checks as "a third of a percent on our GDP. So it's just like it's a gigantic number."

ROSS then says this about fed workers going to homeless shelters to get food: "I don't quite understand why." Says they should just go take out loans pic.twitter.com/0sOmZGEozD

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 24, 2019

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who regularly walks around in $1,000 velvet slippers during the day👇, appears on CNBC and wonders why furloughed federal workers who aren't being paid just can't go get a loan. #Letthemeatcake pic.twitter.com/gEVaHOQDVn

— M/I_Investments (@MI_Investments) January 24, 2019

Thoughts on unpaid federal workers:

"In some sense they're better off."
– Kevin Hassett

"It is a little bit of pain but it's going to be for the future of our country."
– Lara Trump

"There’s no real reason why they shouldn’t be able to get a loan."
– Wilbur Ross

— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) January 24, 2019