Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 49. Sunrise is 6:36 and sunset is 5:39, for 11 hours 3 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 7.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1947, Soviet NKVD forces in Hungary abduct Béla Kovács — secretary-general of the majority Independent Smallholders’ Party — and deport him to the USSR in defiance of Parliament. His arrest is an important turning point in the Communist takeover of Hungary.
Perhaps after at least thirteen children with four women, and who knows how many failed dalliances, furtive assignations, and meaningless encounters, Elon Musk1 doesn’t care much for telling one woman apart from another. It’s probably especially difficult for him when he’s asked to identify an accomplished professional woman (or any woman) in daylight.
And so, and so, predictably Musk’s political action committee has confused Judge Susan Crawford of Dane County with another woman of the same name:
One of the first attack ads launched by a Elon Musk-backed group in the hotly contested state Supreme Court race has landed with a resounding thud.
That’s because the ad that Building America’s Future is currently running on social media doesn’t feature Susan M. Crawford, the liberal Dane County judge running for the high court against conservative Brad Schimel.
Rather, the digital ad has a large photo of Susan P. Crawford, a law school professor at Harvard University. It appears Building America’s Future lifted her picture from her Wikipedia profile.
“Susan Crawford: Wrong for Wisconsin,” the ad says.
Ok, but which Crawford?
Perhaps, more accurately, it should read, “Wrong Susan Crawford for Wisconsin.”
See Daniel Bice, Elon Musk group posts photo of wrong Susan Crawford in digital ad, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 24, 2025.
One brown-haired woman’s like another, right? All women lawyers are the same, don’t you know? The name on a Wikipedia page matters more than the bio from that page, isn’t it obvious? Massachusetts and Wisconsin are so similar, aren’t they?2
That’s top-notch discernment from America’s shadow president.
Top notch.
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- Musk is a petulant man — more needy adolescent than worthy adult — an appetitive boy. ↩︎
- That would be one long commute. ↩︎
Firefall at Yosemite National Park: