Originally published at: Federal Judge Slams Trump Executive Order Targeting Perkins Coie
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. ‘It Sends Little Chills Down My Spine’ In a closely watched emergency hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell quickly recognized the threat to the rule of law posed by President Donald Trump’s…
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I’m so old, I remember when the GOP was affronted by the prospect of weaponizing the DOJ.
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Here kitty, kitty…
And all this just to “own the libs.”
What a fucking waste.
Someone’s happy, though I’m not sure who anymore.
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In all plagues, whether it be bubonic, locusts, flu or Covid, the destructing agent is a species of creature: bacteria, insects, viruses etc. Having thought about it, I think we have to confess that homo sapiens is a plague species.
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What the fuck are we waking up to this morning!?
(Only what jumped out at me.)
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So EPA is now the Environmental Pillage Accomplice?
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I’ve been having a recurring thought. How will Republicans and the Media blame Democrats for allowing the 
, 
, Dunce, and Miracle Mike to eat their faces.
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“I am sure that many in the legal profession are watching in horror at what Perkins Coie is going through here,” Howell said
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. The second thing we do, let’s impeach Judge Beryl Howell.
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Donnie’s parents never said “NO” to him. Later in life, no one else said “NO” to him. At 78 years old, it is time.
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Be honest, that one at least made sense.
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“So it’s okay to celebrate St Patrick’s day which is based on a culture but not other cultures … make it make sense …”
Making it make sense: Secretary Hegseth is a white supremacist.
Okay, now ask me a harder one.
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Trump came up with a new And genius phrase that nobody has ever come up with before. Nothing to fear, but fear itself in one of his tweets.
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Well, here we go again. Another pardon for a convicted thief (go figure), an EPA that literally WANTS to harm the environment and make things less healthy for Americans. A justice department that has changed it’s motto to “Laws for thee, but rights for me.” A press corp(se) that other than TPM and a sparse few other sites,. likes to report things with the perspective of the dog in the flaming bar meme saying, “this is fine”. To steal a line from the film Airplane, “looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.”
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"If you have a social media page, make sure it is not filled with commentary on the Middle East,’ he told the gathering in Pulitzer Hall.
When a Palestinian student objected, the journalism school’s dean, Jelani Cobb, was more direct about the school’s inability to defend international students from federal prosecution.
“Nobody can protect you,” Mr. Cobb said.
“These are dangerous times.”
At times it feels like a global coup led by Putin, Trump and Netanyahu, on behalf of the very rich, to turn us all into compliant serfs. A new Middle Ages, except with AI surveillance ensuring compliance.
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President Trump has pardoned a Republican former Tennessee state senator in prison for his conviction in a campaign finance scheme.
Proving that Trump has been right all along, the elections were rigged.
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