The Daily Parker

I will definitely make time this weekend to drool over the recent photos from the James Webb Space Telescope. It's kind of sad that no living human will ever see anything outside our solar system, but we can dream, right?

Closer to home than the edge of the visible universe:

• Josh Marshall highlight's a reader's note explaining how the historic conservatism of the Executive Branch legal team won't work any more.
• The President's conservatism doesn't work either, as recent polls and Democratic-party frustration will show you.
• Eugene Robinson says Republican candidate for US Senate from Georgia,  former football player Herschel Walker, has a "combination of utter ignorance and total confidence, which challenges even that of the former president."
• David French declares flatly that our Constitution isn't working.
• Julia Ioffe explains how the Russian penal system (don't call it a "justice system") means bad news for everyone who enters it, especially people with political value like Brittney Griner.

Finally, an F/A-18 slid right off the deck of the USS Harry S Truman and into the Mediterranean, which will probably result in a short Navy career for at least one weather forecaster or helmsman.