The Daily Parker

The President arrived in Chicago a little while ago, but sadly I haven't seen either his airplane or his helicopter. Apparently he's just a couple of blocks from me. I'll wave if I see him.

Meanwhile:

• Dana Milbank applauds adult film director Stormy Daniels for giving the XPOTUS some of his own chaos while testifying in New York yesterday.
• On the cover of June's Atlantic, Anne Applebaum explains how Russia and China have perfected a new form of propaganda that aims not to supplant one truth with another, but to eliminate truth altogether.
• In the same vein, Julia Ioffe shakes her head at Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's success at destroying his country the Soviet way.
• Politico outlines the ever-present suburb-vs-city fights about transit funding, in the context of public transit being a public good and therefore not something ever intended to pay for itself.
• Molly White raises the alarm over the state of cryptocurrencies today, even as more people are buying them.

Finally, London houseboats, which one could pick up for under £40,000 just a few years ago, now go for £500,000 plus thousands in costs, pricing out the lower-income folks who used to live on them. They seem pretty cool, but good luck finding a mooring.