Originally published at: How Some Bad Luck Has Made It Even Harder To Rein In Trump - TPM – Talking Points Memo
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Coming Up Snake Eyes 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.…
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I didn’t see any good news in today’s Morning Memo.
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I’m positive that somewhere in Finland there is some good news about some festival where people get nude, swim in icy cold waters and then relax in a sauna.
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Ah, yes, send them to Gitmo.
Sending Migrants to Guantánamo Bay Is a Costly, Abusive Shift in Immigration Detention.
Expanded immigration detention at Guantánamo Bay will likely be quintuple the average immigration detention bed cost of $57,378 annually. As of August 2024, ICE pays a private prison company about $32.68 million a year to provide 120 detention beds at the MOC. That comes out to $272,409 per bed. The detention facility run by the Department of Defense at Guantánamo Bay costs more, some $13.5 million per bed each year.
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Trump really looks like he’s struggling to cover up all of the bald spots. His hair is starting to look pink.
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It feels…different to be alive in historical times, but that’s where we are today in America. At a time when our shared future could go in one of two very different directions. We’re seeing things happening today that haven’t happened in 50 years or 80 years or 100 years, or ever.
People are clearly choosing sides. People like Terry Moran are falling on the right side of history, and the billionaires and our corporate overlords on the wrong side.
We’ve always had the benefit of knowing how things worked out as WW II and the Nazi era is merely a historical event for us. But people living in the moment had no idea what the future held. In fact, it looked quite dreary for an extended period of time. They could only work courageously to shape the future for the better, which they obviously did, successfully. In that sense, I suppose it’s now our turn because Trump’s intentions couldn’t be clearer.
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The rich and the clergy always align with tyrants.
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“In a deeply unfortunate roll of the dice, the only three Trump appointees on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ended up being randomly selected for June’s three-judge motion panel.”
Sorry, but the statistical odds for this happening are too high. The dice were loaded.
Roughly 2 in 1000
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Everything I can find on Trump’s allegedly “new” trade deal with China tells me tariffs on Chinese imports will remain somewhere between 30% and 55%. A range every economist finds onerous and nearly choking off the import of Chinese goods. What is it about this new agreement I’m missing that represents an easing of trade tensions?
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Back To The Future
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.
I really like the last sentence, especially the use of the word “squirrelly”.
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You’re kinda early for the Dog Days of Summer. But the early pup gets the best spot!
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You are the eternal optimist. That or you are rapidly draining the Kirkland Cab 3l.
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Trump says anybody who protests the military parade on Sunday will be met with “very heavy force”
Bonespurs is very brave… when he’s not the one on the front line.
That’s called cowardice.
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We can’t count on the courts. We can only count on each other.
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Hey Elon I think I’ve found the fraud and waste you were suppose to ferret out.
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