Whack-a-mole as homelessness policy

Relax, Nevada Republican congressional hopefuls. None of you appear worthy of the wrath of Trump.

A Trump bootlicker selected by Trump minions beat Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, who has a habit of standing up to Trump, in yesterday's primary. This comes on the heels of Trump ousting Republican Louisiana U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy in that state's primary Saturday, because Cassidy voted to impeach him. And earlier in Trump's 2026 Revenge Tour Trump ordered Indiana Republican voters to toss out five Indiana state senators who declined to gerrymander congressional districts per Trump's instructions. Unlike those Indiana Republican state senators, Indiana Republican primary voters did as they were told.

And remember Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger? After Trump lost the 2020 election he told Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes," but Raffensperger instead decided to do his job and administer Georgia elections fairly, honestly, and legally. So yesterday he came in third in the Georgia Republican primary, and will not advance to a runoff.

As I noted yesterday, there are Republican primaries in all four of Nevada's congressional districts this year, and Trump has only endorsed in two of them so far. I'm not aware of behavior from candidates in either of those races that could be construed by even the hyper-sensitive and easily triggered Trump as a slight that warrants wishing them into the cornfield. And besides, Trump may not endorse in those two primaries. But James Settelmeyer and David Flippo in CD2, along with Cody Whipple and Ronda Kennedy in CD4, and all the other candidates in those Republican primaries no doubt live in hope the supreme leader will reach down from on high and touch their aspirations. In a nice way.

IN NEVADA CURRENT

Defeatism prevails in homelessness policy. Nope. Nothing can be done. So whackity-whack. Micheal Lyle reports: Clark County plans to close pedestrian trail in ‘whack-a-mole’ approach to encampments

And now here's the traffic report...  Just kidding, it's the Current, so make that the traffic policy report. Motorcyclists are urging Nevada state lawmakers to allow riders to move between vehicles during stopped or slowed traffic. Whatever strong opinions you may or may not have on this — traffic policy tends to prompt spirited reactions — those opinions will be better informed by this story. April Corbin Girnus reports: Motorcycle riders push lawmakers to legalize lane filtering in Nevada

Even though he lost his primary, the aforementioned Sen. Cassidy will be in the U.S. Senate for the rest of the year. Trump of course has ways of punishing people other than ending their political careers. For instance, he could order his bootlicking and now Orwellian-named Department of Justice to indict Cassidy for some imaginary offense. Hope Cassidy hasn't been arranging shells on a beach! But I digress. Ashley Murray reports: Senate votes to advance resolution limiting Trump war in Iran as Cassidy flips

The state of Nevada's interest, which is to say the gambling industry's interest, is confined to concern about prediction markets competing with the industry's own society-destabilizing sports betting apps. Minnesota, by contrast, also objects to bets on things like whether and when their governor will resign (which he should totally do but not until setting up a shadow account and betting giant sums on the event that he would control; that's a prominent use case for prediction market platforms ha ha). Via the Minnesota Reformer: Minnesota becomes first state to outlaw prediction markets, immediately sued by federal regulators

Good luck