Friday afternoon news roundup

The sun just came out, reminding me that gray skies don't last forever. Neither will all this crap:

• The OAFPOTUS swapping out the head of the Lollipop Guild¹ for the guy who took $50,000 from an FBI agent in a bribery sting doesn't change anything in Minnesota.
• Molly White asks, where are all the freedom-loving crypto bosses now? Right: they're bankrolling the administration and the Congress who are causing all this shit. Because right-wing governments are always, always about the grift.
• Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman explains exactly how the OAFPOTUS's pick for Federal Reserve Chair will likely be "the least influential...ever."
• Jeff Maurer reminds the sane among us that it doesn't matter whether victims are "good" or "bad".
• Julia Ioffe introduces us to "the 'MAGA Barbie' redecorating the State Department."
• Josh Marshall draws a straight line between billionaires demanding privacy for things that everyone else has to declare publicly and ICE doing the same thing. Hint: neither group wants accountability for their actions.

Well, I guess that's it. And the skies are cloudy again.