Now Available for Mother’s Day: “Melania Trump - Grace & Excellence - Genuine Legal Tender”
Just because I opened the email last week to see the bulleted decanter set, I’m getting more you-know-what from the shinola team at the White House. Today, “This limited-edition Melania Trump $2 Collectible Bill is the perfect way to honor strength, beauty, and elegance — just like our beloved First Lady.”
Guess the Trump team has never heard the expression,"phony as a two dollar bill.”
Trump tells FBI, Homeland Security to reopen Alcatraz — closed since 1963 — as a prison
On Sunday, Trump used social media to announce that he wants to “revitalize” Alcatraz, the Rock in the middle of San Francisco Bay. A prison of one sort or the other since Europeans settled along the shores of the bay, draped in asbestos, rot, mold, guano in an environment far harsher than how pretty postcards make it appear, subject to the rough energy of the Pacific Ocean, surronded by frigid bay water and a legendary (up to) 2 mph undertow that can carry a swimmer out to the sea in a blink, hampering escapes, Trump wants to remodel and expand it for the “worst” possible inmates. Hmm. I think it’s more about “in your face” deep-blue San Francisco.
But Wait, There’s More …
California to spend $239 million to turn San Quentin into Scandinavian-style rehab center
Wait until It/Its hears about this! Notorious San Quentin Prison, not too many nautical miles away from the Rock along the shores of Marin County at tony Larkspur Landing, is getting a do-over as a model of Nordic-style rehabilitation for the lesser criminals in our midst.
Reports the San Francisco Chronicle, the [Gavin] Newsom administration hired the Danish architecture firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen “to help reimagine the maximum-security prison with influences from the Scandinavian incarceration system, where many prisoners live in detention centers designed to approximate life outside prison.”
Architects for the remodel envision a campus “where prisoners will have access to so-called normalizing spaces like the self-service grocery store and a café staffed by other incarcerated people.”