It's Going to Take Too Long to Pull All My Hair Out

• Chauncey DeVega Show at Indomitable:

  During this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show, Professor Snyder and Chauncey evaluate the health of American democracy after eight months of Trump as president, discuss how the recent white supremacist terrorism in Charlottesville could potentially fit into Trump's plans for authoritarianism in America, if Charlottesville was a "Reichstag Fire" moment, and how the rule of law is threatened by Trump's regime.

   
• Summary (by Ilana Novick) of Paul Krugman at AlterNet:

  "There’s a word for political regimes that round up members of minority groups and send them to concentration camps, while rejecting the rule of law," he writes in his Monday column. "What Arpaio brought to Maricopa, and what the president of the United States has just endorsed."
  
  It's not hard [t]o understand why Trump would be eager to pardon Arpaio. The president fawns over dictators like Duterte and Putin, and accuses immigrants of being rapists. Of course he'd love the idea of a strongman flourishing in an American county. In addition, Krugman points out, "the pardon is a signal to those who might be tempted to make deals with the special investigator as the Russia probe closes in on the White House: Don’t worry, I’ll protect you."

• ACLU sues over transgender military ban.  (Frances Langum, Crooks and Liars)
• Offshore testing of herpes vaccine:

  WASHINGTON—Defying U.S. safety protections for human trials, an American university and a group of wealthy libertarians, including a prominent Donald Trump supporter, are backing the offshore testing of an experimental herpes vaccine.
  The American businessmen, including Trump adviser Peter Thiel, invested $7 million in the ongoing vaccine research, according to the U.S. company behind it. Southern Illinois University also trumpeted the research and the study’s lead researcher, even though he did not rely on traditional U.S. safety oversight in the first trial, held on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts.

  Because ethical standards are so difficult and expensive and bad for the bottom line, donchano? The university in question is Southern Illinois University
• Anyone check on Galveston?