Where I was, in northern Michigan, that turned out in recent days to be two big issues: Wildfire smoke and cyclosporiasis. Martyn Wendell Jones has a good take on the wildfire squabble between the United States and Canada down below. I still remember how it felt, watching the DOGE bros do their arsonist blitzkrieg through the government last year. Cyclosporiasis isn’t the first outbreak that Democrats have been able to hang around the neck of Trump and DOGE. “If Canadian leaders and ordinary Canadians decide that they’re just never gonna trust the United States again,” Bouie says, “I wouldn’t blame them.”