Why I’m Reading Teen Vogue . . . March 24, 2025March 23, 2025 . . . but first: Kudos to Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat, who explains: . . . These big MAGA-red boards welcome passersby to a completely alternate reality. . . .“President Donald J. Trump, Rebuilding America’s Infrastructure. . . .” . . . As the signs say, the project is funded by the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. But when that bill passed in the fall of 2021, it succeeded only despite a historic sabotage campaign waged against it by the then ex-president. Trump, operating out of Mar-a-Lago at that point, called the bill “a loser for the USA, a terrible deal.” He dubbed it the “Non-Infrastructure Bill.” In an unprecedented move by a former president, he attempted to rally Republicans to torpedo the effort, branding any party member who voted for it “weak, foolish and dumb.” When 19 GOP senators and 13 House members joined with most Democrats to pass it anyway, he. . . compared [them] to appeasers of the Nazis. One of his allies, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, labeled them “traitors” to the nation. The atmosphere was so poisonous that a constituent of one House Republican [threatened] to kill him.” The constituent was arrested and charged with harassment. All this over a roads-and-rail bill. Given this history, that the government’s now putting up signs giving Trump credit is a new level of Orwellian. . . . The facts are that Trump the builder tried for four years to pass an infrastructure bill but flopped. Biden the supposedly doddering geriatric came along and pushed one through with bipartisan support — in his first year. Join Indivisible! Get your local chapter to design and fund a billboard near any Democratic infrastructure project: “Funding for this project was made possible by [your representative and senators, if it was] and OPPOSED by Trump and 94% of Congressional Republicans.” Watch this National Park Service clip. Post billboards: “Park Ranger Layoffs Ahead. Elon Musk Needed A Tax Cut.” Trump and Musk are forcing the elderly and disabled to travel to Social Security field offices to handle issues heretofore handled over the phone — even as staff and field offices are being cut. Republican Senator John Curtis of Utah had sensible things to say about Social Security yesterday. Watch. I don’t know what reforms he plans to introduce . . . you know what MY bill would propose . . . but this is the sort of discussion we should have. If only more Republicans were like John Curtis! And now! Teen Vogue. Musk’s daughter, now 20, calls him “a pathetic man-child.” And — not that 16-year-olds and their mothers and doctors should have any say in this (Trump feels these are his decisions to make) — but her opinion is that “Transitioning as a minor was something that was medically necessary for me to do in order to be not suicidal, and it is really important that we protect access to trans care for trans youth.” You can read it all in Teen Vogue.