If Sean Hannity's floating "trial balloon" theories with the words "some people are saying ..." you can best believe where there's smoke, there's fire. All the more reason to believe Donald Trump's trying to waffle on the agreed upon June 27th debate here in Atlanta.

Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, incidentally, went 'scorched earth" on Trump's continuing predilection for trashing ("sh*t-talking," he phrased it) the United States.

I had one of those "open tabs" I'd been meaning to get around to, and finally had the time today to dive in on it - former Georgia Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan's op/ed in the AJC from a week ago openly hoping his beloved Republican party might do the right thing and pivot from their convicted felon-slash-presumptive nominee.

Oh, PS, white nationalism is on the rise ... still.