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09-07-2025
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Trump Stages Another Boffo Reality TV Episode In LA Park
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM's Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. The Apprentice isn't the only, or even the best, prism with which to view Donald Trump's approach to politics, but it is an essential one. Trump is always putting on a show in which he will always be, if not the hero, then at least the strong protagonist, and he needs villains. Lots and lots of villains to vanquish. But not just any villains. He needs villains whose defeat touches the deepest, darkest parts of the American psyche. And so the villains he picks often wind up being people of color, women and foreigners, and what they may lack in actual villainy he makes up for by casting them as derangedly violent or sexually deviant or otherwise sinister in comic book ways. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass — a Black woman — fits the bill for Trump, and it appears that she will have a recurring role in Trump's rogue gallery. Yesterday, in a made-for-Fox-News stunt, heavily armed federal immigration agents swept through Los Angeles' MacArthur Park in a dramatic but mostly ineffectual set-piece that seemed designed more to antagonize locals than to serve any legitimate law enforcement purpose. On cue, Bass rushed to the park and later denounced the maneuver at a press conference. 'What I saw in the park today looked like a city under siege, under armed occupation,' Bass lamented. Calling it a stunt doesn't make it any less threatening or alarming, but it does suggest a need to be self-aware about getting caught up in the Trump-created drama and playing to the type he has cast. That's easier for the rest of us than for local elected Democrats or others unwillingly caught in one of Trump's reality TV episodes, especially those who are powerless and vulnerable. The president of the Los Angeles City Council, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, understood the game, noting wryly: 'If you want to film in L.A., you should apply for a film permit like everybody else.' In preserving your self-awareness, it helps to remember your audience. Trump is playing to his own with a well-worn script that has the rough contours of a pro-wrestling bit. Leading the 'raid' of the park was Gregory Bovino, a Customs and Border Protection official who played the boastful tough guy with a puffed-out chest. 'Better get used to us now, cause this is going to be normal very soon,' Bovino told a Fox News reporter. 'We will go anywhere, anytime we want in Los Angeles.' And then there is the right-wing propaganda machine. It gobbles up the Trump-generated content and eggs it on, as here where a host questions Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin about why Bass hasn't been arrested: Of course, the Trump administration already arrested Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) when she attempted to conduct oversight at a detention facility in New Jersey. Like Bass, McIver is a Black woman. Garrett Graff, on the One, Big Beautiful Bill and its insane funding level for immigration enforcement: 'As someone who has covered federal law enforcement for the last two decades and has spent recent years writing both about the state of democracy today and authoring history books about the fall of fascism in Europe in the 1930s, it's hard not to look at the new legislation and fear, most of all, how we're turbo-charging an increasingly lawless regime of immigration enforcement and adding superpowers to America's newly masked secret police.' My report from court yesterday on the U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis efforts to pin down the Trump administration on what it intends to do next to Kilmar Abrego Garcia. She ordered the Trump administration to produce a witness of its choice for a hearing Thursday. El Salvador told a United Nations body that the detainees shipped to CECOT by the Trump administration remain the 'jurisdiction and legal responsibility' of the United States. Lawyers for the detainees filed a UN document, which reported El Salvador's position, in the original Alien Enemies Act case in DC. Wisconsin state judge Hannah Dugan lost her motion to dismiss the criminal charges against her for allegedly interfering with an immigration enforcement operation in her courthouse. She can appeal the magistrate's ruling to a district judge. Jason Zengerle: The Ruthless Ambition of Stephen Miller Michael Feinberg, the senior FBI agent targeted by the Trump administration for his personal friendship with Peter Strzok, recounts his decision to resign after learning from his supervisor that his career would be intentionally stalled.
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09-07-2025
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Trump Official Suggests Replacing Deported Farm Workers with Medicaid Enrollees
There are several layers to my conclusion that today's remarks from President Trump's agriculture secretary are among the most creatively maniacal I've heard yet from the administration. 'There's been a lot of noise in the last few days and a lot of questions about where the president stands and his vision for farm labor,' Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters during a press briefing with Republican governors Tuesday. 'Ultimately, the answer on this is automation, also some reform within the current governing structure, and then, also, when you think about there are 34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid program, there are plenty of workers in America,' she continued. First, it touches on an issue that the Trump administration has struggled to reach a consensus on since the president first launched his mass deportation effort in states and cities around the U.S. As I noted in TPM's Morning Memo last week, Trump has been flip-flopping — to a truly cartoonish degree — on the question of whether to upend the agriculture and hospitality industries for the sake of following through on his core campaign promise: to deport people in cruel and attention-grabbing ways. While Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has excitedly sent ICE to terrorize and arrest immigrants in blue states and cities, there's been more hesitation around whether to conduct raids in rural communities, the kind that in many cases produce America's food, and where many residents, including farmers, voted for Trump. There's been similar hesitation around how and whether to target restaurants and hotels, which rely on seasonal workers and, in many cases, have executives that generously support the Republican Party. In mid June, DHS advised staff to temporarily pause ICE raids at farms, hotels and restaurants. Just days later, DHS officials reversed course on that directive. Last week, Trump grappled with the political realities of deporting farmers' workforce during an interview on Fox News, when he suggested, yet again, that ICE might not target farmers who employ undocumented immigrants as field workers. 'I don't back away,' he said. 'What I do have, I cherish our farmers. And when we go into a farm and we take away people that have been working there for 15 and 20 years, who were good, who possibly came in incorrectly. And what we're going to do is we're going to do something for farmers where we can let the farmer sort of be in charge. The farmer knows he's not going to hire a murderer.' However, it now appears that at least one Trump administration official — one who is specifically tasked with supporting and regulating America's farmers — is supportive of the raids on farm workers plowing ahead. Rollins has, she professes, found a solution for those in the industry she oversees: Farmers short on field laborers due to mass deportations could replace the work with some sort of amorphous AI. You know, the kind that picks tomatoes. Alternatively, they could nab some of those purported freeloaders (child-free, able bodied adults between the ages of 19 and 64) on Medicaid who will soon have to complete work requirements (at least 80 hours per month of work, volunteering, education, or training) in order to access health care, thanks to Trump's disastrous, Medicaid-slashing megabill. While the bill's passage may have finally satiated the desires of Republicans who have long pushed to impose work requirements on low-income Americans who receive health coverage through Medicaid, the majority of Medicaid recipients who are not children and who are not disabled already do work, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The Congressional Budget Office even released data on the legislation that showed adding work requirements would kick people off Medicaid and decrease federal spending on the social safety net program, but it would not actually increase employment. That's not how Rollins sees it. Per her, a new crop of Medicaid recipients looking for jobs when work requirements kick in next year (shockingly, after the midterms) can be sent to the fields. Perhaps this is magical thinking on Rollins' part. Perhaps not. We will just have to see. While there is not yet data on the demographic of voters that will lose their health care coverage due to Medicaid work requirements, we do know a decent amount about whose health care coverage is at risk as part of the general, sweeping cuts Republicans just imposed. Many are, in short, Trump voters. Per NPR: More than two-thirds of nearly 300 U.S. counties with the biggest growth in Medicaid and CHIP since 2008 backed Trump in the last election, according to a KFF Health News analysis of voting results and enrollment data from Georgetown. Many of these counties are in deep-red states such as Kentucky, Louisiana, and Montana. Before the megabill passed the Senate, the New York Times did a deep dive on the demographics of constituents who might be most affected by the proposed cuts put forward by House Republicans. While large cuts to Medicaid will likely hit densely populated urban areas represented in Congress by Democrats hardest (based on the percentage of the population enrolled in Medicaid), a good chunk of rural counties where more than 30 percent of the population is covered by Medicaid have Republicans representatives in the House. That data includes and applies specifically to House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) own district. Per the Times: Of the 10 congressional districts with the highest share of residents enrolled in Medicaid, nine are held by Democratic legislators. There are also pockets of the country that rely significantly on the program where voters favor Republicans. Of the 218 seats Republicans control in Congress, 26 are in districts where Medicaid covers more than 30 percent of the population, according to a New York Times analysis of federal enrollment data. We will see if this unhinged solution to the administration's mass-deportation problems is the one that sticks. Back on good terms with President Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is already acting as a mouthpiece for Trump's agenda, warning that if the world's richest man (and one-time DeSantis ally) Elon Musk decides to support third-party candidates he will end up harming Republicans in the midterms. Musk announced he'd be creating an 'America Party' over the weekend after weeks of teasing it. 'The problem is, when you do another party, especially if you're running on some of the issues that he talks about, you know, that would end up — if he funds Senate candidates and House candidates in competitive races, that would likely end up meaning the Democrats would win all the competitive Senate and House races,' DeSantis said Monday evening. In comments to reporters during a Cabinet meeting today, Trump threatened another federal power grab on New York City if Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani wins the race. Mamdani is a Democratic socialist who has run on a campaign of affordability. He faces other challengers in November, including current Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent after Trump, in February, made him an offer he couldn't refuse. 'If a communist gets elected to run New York, it can never be the same. But we have tremendous power at the White House to run places where we have to,' Trump told The New York Post Tuesday of Mamdani. 'New York City will run properly. I'm going to bring New York back. I love New York. 'We're going to straighten out New York. It's going to — maybe we're going to have to straighten it out from Washington,' he continued. 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13-06-2025
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Right-Wingers Sound Like They WANT Anti-Trump Protests To Turn Violent
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM's Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Heading into a weekend of planned nationwide protests against the authoritarianism of President Donald Trump, right-wing figures in politics and law enforcement seem almost giddy at the prospect of protests turning into riots that they can crack down on ruthlessly. When they're not conflating all protests with rioting, some right-wing officials have been using the tableau of street demonstrations to preen as tough guys ready to crack heads. The posturing is almost certainly fueled by the overblown right-wing coverage of the sporadic rioting in Los Angeles that depicts a metro area of 18 million people as under siege. Taking President Trump's lead, the GOP governors in Texas and Missouri have activated their national guards ahead of the expected protests this weekend. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) hasn't activated the Florida National Guard, but he tried to embody the snarling 'Make my day' ethos of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry, telling a conservative podcast host: If you're driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety. And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that's their fault for impinging on you. Elsewhere in Florida, Brevard County officials held a press conference with the tagline: 'Florida: The Anti-Riot State.' After acknowledging the right to protest, the local sheriff launched into tough guy mode with a threatening rundown of the things his deputies would do to protestors who engage in violence: Earlier in the week, the sheriff in Mobile County, Alabama promised it would be a busy weekend for local 'orthopedic hand surgeons' if protestors break the perimeter his deputies set. The controversy over his remarks prompted him to issue a somewhat conciliatory statement, noting that he had been asked about the rioting in Los Angeles coming to Mobile: It is important to clarify that I do not anticipate any such events taking place here. Our past experiences with protests in Mobile have shown them to be peaceful and organized, and I have no reason to believe this weekend's rally will be any different. The right-wing reactivity comes after years of overheated rhetoric, disinformation, and demonization directed toward the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, some of which did including rioting, vandalism, and persistent civil unrest. In the ensuing years, the BLM protests became shorthand on the right for left-wing and Antifa violence and morphed into a rationale and excuse for the Jan. 6 attack. In addition to the ideological edge, there's a provincial element to some of this. Law enforcement in bigger cities where large crowds more frequently gather have more experience with keeping temperatures down and deescalating things before they get out of hand. Smaller communities and more rural areas have less experience with crowd control, but there's also the frisson of a big national event touching on them in some way, however tenuous. You might remember local police being inundated in the summer of 2020 with complaints and tips fueled by crazy rumors and online misinformation circulating on social media about Antifa invaders. Stay cool this weekend. In a rapid series of events late yesterday, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer held a hearing on Gov. Gavin Newsom's lawsuit challenging President Trump's takeover of the state National Guard, issued a temporary restraining order blocking the move, at which point the Trump administration appealed the order to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which quickly issued an administrative stay last night. For now, the National Guard deployment will continue through the weekend, with an appeals court hearing scheduled for Tuesday. Testifying to the House Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cast doubt on whether the administration would comply with lower courts order reining in President Trump's use of the National Guard but said he would abide by a Supreme Court decision. Hegseth's comments came before the flurry of court actions later in the day in the California National Guard case. I haven't focused on the case of Harvard researcher Kseniia Petrova because it doesn't have the same First Amendment implications of the student protestor deportations or the structural constitutional implication of the Alien Enemies Act and adjacent 'facilitate' cases. It just stands for the Trump administration being really shitty. Petrova's visa was revoked when she allegedly tried to bring undeclared frog embryos through customs at Boston's Logan Airport. The Trump administration wants to deport her to Russia, where she fears reprisals for her earlier political activism. When she challenged the immigration proceedings, the Trump administration drummed up smuggling charges against her for the frog embryo incident. Yesterday, after four months in detention, Petrova was released by agreement of the parties while the criminal and immigrations cases proceed. 'He's a sadist, but not in any fun way …'–Brian Beutler on Stephen Miller Two officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 have sued to try to enforce a law calling for the installation on the West Front of a plaque honoring law enforcement's efforts that day. The House GOP has no apparent plans to put it up. On a 214-212 vote, House Republicans passed a $9.4 billion rescissions bill that enshrines President Trump's unlawful impoundment of federal spending, including cuts to foreign aid and PBS/NPR – but only after two GOP holdout were cajoled into supporting the measure. OMB Director Russell Vought has another funding freeze-rescission scheme in the works, covering some $30 billion in funding for EPA, NOAA, HHS, and other agencies, Politico reports. A new CBO analysis shows how deeply regressive the Trump centerpiece legislation is, an precedented one-two punch of tax cuts for high earners and spending cuts for lower income Americans: In memory of Brian Wilson:
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12-06-2025
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Abrego Garcia Wants A Judge To Seize Pam Bondi's Phone
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM's Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. The slo-mo constitutional clash in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia inched forward with a new filing overnight in which his attorneys are now seeking sanctions against the Trump administration – including individual officials – for stonewalling and defying court-ordered discovery into his wrongful deportation to prison in El Salvador. Among the wide-ranging sanctions Abrego Garcia is seeking is a possible court order for Attorney General Pam Bondi and other key officials to turn over their personal devices for U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis of Maryland to review privately in her chambers. The move to impose sanctions comes after what was supposed to be an expedited two-week discovery sprint ordered by Xinis on April 15 turned into a nearly two-month discovery marathon. Xinis ordered the discovery in part to determine with the Trump administration should be held in contempt of court for refusing to abide by her Supreme Court-backed order to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia. In court the day she ordered the discovery, Xinis was adamant that she would brook no more delays or foot-dragging and ordered lawyers to cancel vacations and drop everything else. 'Nearly sixty days, ten orders, three depositions, three discovery disputes, three motions for stay, two hearings, a week-long stay, and a failed appeal later, the Plaintiffs still have seen no evidence to suggest that the Defendants took any steps, much less 'all available steps,' to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return to the United States 'as soon as possible' so that his case could be handled as it would have been had he not been unlawfully deported,' Abrego Garcia's lawyers argue in the latest filing. The sanctions Abrego Garcia seeks asks the judge: to make factual determinations that are adverse to the administration, such as formally finding that it did not communicate with El Salvador to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release prior to his May 21 indictment; order the administration over its objections to produce the documents it has withheld in discovery thus far, deeming some its privileges waived by its misconduct; or appoint a special master to investigate the administration's 'willful noncompliance' and identify which officials by name 'willfully evaded' the court-ordered discovery, including possibly ordering the personal devices of key officials like Bondi turned over for the judge's review; impose accumulating fines on officials for each day the discovery defiance continues; and hold the administration in civil contempt of court. Notably Abrego Garcia, who was secretly indicted while this discovery dispute raged and subsequently returned to the United States to face charges of conspiracy to transport undocumented immigrants, is not yet seeking sanctions for the weeks-long delay in complying with the court's order to facilitate his return. Instead, he is focused on the administration's alleged misconduct in defying the court's discovery order by failing to produce the required materials and witness and raising frivolous objections and privileges. That seems to be a strategic decision to avoid the harder questions of whether the courts can order the president to engage in negotiations with a foreign country, to demand the release from a foreign prison of someone wrongfully deported to their home country, and other stickier elements of this case about which the Supreme Court has already expressed reservations. Meanwhile, in his criminal case, Abrego Garcia asked the judge to release him pending trial. In another wrongful deportation case, the Trump administration claimed a 'perfect storm of errors' led it to deport Jordin Melgar-Salmeron to El Salvador on May 7 despite an order from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals barring his removal. In the new filing this week, the administration also changed what it had previously told the appeals court about how the wrongful deportation happened. It took long enough, but U.S. District Judge Michael E. Farbiarz of New Jersey ruled that the Trump administration cannot detain or deport Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. But Khalil won't be released immediately, as the judge stayed his order until tomorrow to give the administration time to appeal his ruling. The Trump DOJ fired two more people who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith's team investigating, including a non-lawyer member of the support staff, Reuters reports. Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights, has made an unprecedented demand for a huge volume of 2020 and 2024 election data from the state of Colorado, NPR reports. While the data demand is not explicitly connected the criminal conviction of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, the Trump DOJ has already taken the unprecedented step of intervening in her federal appeal of her state New reporting from on the highly politicized speech President Trump gave this week at Ft. Bragg: Internal 82nd Airborne Division communications reviewed by reveal a tightly orchestrated effort to curate the optics of Trump's recent visit, including handpicking soldiers for the audience based on political leanings and physical appearance. One unit-level message bluntly saying: 'No fat soldiers.' 'If soldiers have political views that are in opposition to the current administration and they don't want to be in the audience then they need to speak with their leadership and get swapped out,' another note to troops said. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced eight new appointees to the CDC vaccine advisory committee he sacked – and at least a couple of them are real doozies, he NYT reports. The entire board of the Fulbright program resigned over what it said was political interference from the Trump administration in its selection of this year's Fulbright scholars. The NYT reported: The board approved those scholars over the winter after a yearlong selection process, and the State Department was supposed to send acceptance letters by April, the people said. But instead, the board learned that the office of public diplomacy at the agency had begun sending rejection letters to the scholars based mainly on their research topics, they said. The board posted its resignation statement here. 'It angers me when I see these rioters trying to pull barricades out of the hands of police officers and shoving police officers to try and grab the barricades and break the perimeter … I can tell you that if they try to do that in Mobile, Alabama, the orthopedic hand surgeons will have one hell of a weekend fixing hands. That barricade can become a weapon.'–Mobile County, Alabama Sheriff Paul Burch, commenting on this weekend's planned 'No Kings' rally
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11-06-2025
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How Some Very Bad Luck Has Made It Even Harder To Rein In Trump
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM's Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. In a deeply unfortunate roll of the dice, the only three Trump appointees on the 16-judge D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ended up being randomly selected for June's three-judge motion panel. That means they get the first bite at the apple on various emergency motions that come to the court and a chance to shape dramatically the procedural posture of some of the most important cases against the lawlessness of the Trump administration. Yesterday, the three judges – Gregory Katsas, Neomi Rao, and Justin Walker – issued an administrative stay blocking a major order from U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in the original Alien Enemies Case. The stay came as the Trump administration faced a deadline of today to propose to Boasberg how it would provide the due process that the Alien Enemies Act detainees at CECOT had been denied when they were removed in March. If you want to get a little deeper into the history and procedure of the appeals court move, Chris Geidner has you covered. But one point he makes that I want to highlight is the administration's foot-dragging for almost a week since Boasberg's ruling, and then rushing to the appeals court at the last-minute while concurrently asking Boasberg to stay his own order. It looks like a tactic designed to add as much delay as possible into the calendar. The temporary administrative stay won't be the last word from the three-judge panel. They still must decide whether to freeze the order while the entire appeal proceeds, but the odds aren't good. For what it's worth, there's no reason to believe the selection of the three Trump appointees for this month's motion panel was anything more than random chance. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is still blocking Judge Boasberg's contempt of court proceedings in the original Alien Enemies Act case. Because the appeals court entered what was supposed to be a temporary administrative stay, Boasberg has been unable to move forward since April 18, a 'temporary' delay of almost two months now. The Trump administration is trying to bring a swift end to the contempt of court proceeding in the Maryland case of the wrongfully deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, arguing that the case is moot now that he has been returned to the United States. In a new filing yesterday, the Trump DOJ didn't just ignore the history of administration's repeated brazen defiance of court orders in the case. It pretended none of that never happened: 'In the face of Abrego Garcia's return to the United States, [plaintiffs] baselessly accuse Defendants of 'foot-dragging and 'intentionally disregard[ing] this Court's and the Supreme Court's orders,' when just the opposite is true.' Abrego Garcia's lawyers are fiercely resisting the case being dismissed, urging Judge Paula Xinis to continue her inquiry into whether the administration was in contempt of court. Given her prior dismayed reactions in-court to the government's misconduct, I would expect her to continue her inquiry if she finds a legal basis for doing so. Still no word on the court-ordered return of Cristian from El Salvador in the other Maryland 'facilitate' case. The Trump administration filed an update Friday that for the first time confirmed that Cristian remains at CECOT. But the administration has erected a fictional wall between DHS and State, with DHS (a party to the case) responding to the court that it's up to the State Department (which is not a party) to negotiate Cristian's return. I would anticipate the court or plaintiff counsel making moves at some point to get answers directly from State. TPM continues to run a liveblog with the major developments on President Trump's military escalation in Los Angeles. The Trump administration could resume sending undocumented immigrants to Guantanamo Bay as soon as today. The planned operation, reported by Politico and the WaPo, would be dramatically larger than the short-lived effort a few months ago to use Gitmo as a detention facility for migrants. The migrants targeted for transfer to the base in Cuba come from a range of countries that includes U.S. allies in Europe. The home countries of the foreign nationals are reportedly not being notified of the transfers to Gitmo. I keep going back to the Trump memo calling up the National Guard equating protests – even absent violence – with rebellion. It wasn't an accident or one-off, as this threat towards any protestors of his military parade this coming weekend in DC shows: ABC News, which kicked off the spate of dubious post-election settlement agreements with Donald Trump, has sent 28-year network veteran Terry Moran packing over his social media post critical of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. Moran's contract was reportedly set to expire Friday and will not be renewed. Here's the key thing to note about President Trump's decision to revert to the Confederate names of U.S. military installations: He's re-naming the bases ostensibly in honor of people with the same names and initials as the original Confederate honorees in order to get around the law mandating the removal of Confederate symbols from the military. So it's a squirrelly way to have all the racism without having to repeal the law. In an Orwellian irony, the board of the Smithsonian Institute has bowed to political influence from President Trump and ordered a full review of its public-facing content to make sure it contains no … political influence. The Trump EPA is poised to announce the easing of a Biden-era regulation limiting mercury emissions from power plants and the elimination entirely of the limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants In 2022-23, DOJ and DHS were sufficiently concerned that Elon Musk was a vector for malign foreign influence that they were actively tracking the foreign nationals coming and going to his properties, the WSJ reports. 'A federal appeals court on Tuesday granted the Trump administration's request to keep the president's far-reaching tariffs in effect for now but agreed to fast track its consideration of the case this summer,' the WSJ reports. 'It is clear that the bureau's current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way. While I wish you all the best, I worry for American consumers.'–Cara Petersen, the acting head of enforcement for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in a fiery farewell email after she resigned her position
