Originally published at: The Trump Administration’s Assault on Federal Courts Gets More Shockingly Authoritarian - 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. Trump’s DOJ Just Sued Every Federal Judge in Maryland It is really starting to look like Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is carrying out a completely unprecedented and coordinated vendetta to undermine the authority of…
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“Let me read the bottom line here. President Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history…”
https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-iran-bombing-yelling-press/
Wow. Just a stupid, lying tool.
The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history. The operation, given the codename OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France. The beaches were given the code names UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO, and SWORD. The invasion force included 7,000 ships and landing craft manned by over 195,000 naval personnel from eight allied countries. Almost 133,000 troops from the United States, the British Commonwealth, and their allies, landed on D-Day. Casualties from these countries during the landing numbered 10,300. By June 30, over 850,000 men, 148,000 vehicles, and 570,000 tons of supplies had landed on the Normandy shores. Fighting by the brave soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the allied forces western front, and Russian forces on the eastern front, led to the defeat of German Nazi forces. On May 7, 1945, German General Alfred Jodl signed an unconditional surrender at Reims, France.
https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/world-war-ii-d-day-invasion-normandy
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Like Donald Trump, Pam Bondi enjoys being cruel and dominant.
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I posted this last night in the thread for the Evening Briefing, but it bears repeating here for a larger audience:
RE: “Trump Admin Escalates War On Impoundment Control Act,” the House GOP is already attacking GAO. On Monday night, the House Appropriations Committee, Legislative Branch Subcommittee introduced its FY26 bill for markup. The bill calls for a nearly 50% cut to GAO’s budget. It’s a clear, partisan retaliation by the GOP leadership, as seen by the summary in the Committee’s press release:
Redirecting the Government Accountability Office’s efforts to be reflective of congressional priorities and cutting funding to curtail the agency’s self-directed, liberal initiatives.
All of the GAO’s Impoundment Control Act work is required by law and to call any of GAO’s work “self-directed, liberal initiatives” is utter garbage.
The full Appropriations Committee holds its markup hearing on the bill Thursday [today] at 10:00am.
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Ah come on man! You insult the Dear Leader!
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As far as these people are concerned history started in 2016.
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Oh, snap!
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said the United States hit Tehran’s nuclear sites but achieved ‘nothing significant’, as he vowed his country would ‘never surrender’ to its enemies.
Khamenei condemned what he called Donald Trump’s ‘showmanship’ and claimed that the US President ‘exaggerated’ the impact of the strikes on three nuclear sites ‘because he needed to.’
‘Anyone who heard [Trump’s] remarks could tell there was a different reality behind his words - they could do nothing,’ the 86-year-old Iranian leader said.
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And he stopped just short of saying that any attempted follow-on attacks will not result in missile launches, but direct attacks on US bases in the region.
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On those fired/rehired/fired employees getting demands for money -
Some former employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who were fired, rehired and fired again this spring say they have received debt notices from the federal government to pay it back for health care coverage. Those workers also say the notices are for coverage they never had.
The notice says the charge is for health care premiums for the eighth and ninth pay periods of the year, a time when their health coverage plans had already expired, the workers said.
When NBC asked, nobody knew anything. No one had access to the information. Can’t comment on personnel matters. Blah, blah, blah.
After NBC News inquired about the problem with NOAA’s media affairs group, probationary employees received an acknowledgment of a possible error from the agency in an email.
Whoopsie!
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While it may be that roadkill kennedy is ‘creating a vaccine crisis’ he is doing it with the blessing of the republican party. That’s a point that should be made over and over again in the corporate media (assuming they’re interested in accuracy and fairness).
Putting americans at increased risk of disease and death is a cult policy, not just the policy of a particular member of the cult.
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It would seem Trump will need some sort of large, enraging distraction, what with all the negative press about his grand bombings. No doubt something stupid and terrible is on the menu, to be dragged out of the kitchen in the next day or two.
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The big horrible piece of crap bill
“But that bill — the one and only major legislative effort of Trump 2.0 — is the most regressive, least populist policy package in memory. With its distinctive mix of tax cuts laser-focused on the rich and spending cuts that most hurt middle- and low-income Americans, it would shift more resources up the income ladder than any bill passed since scorekeepers started keeping track. And when voters learn what it would do — even Republican voters — they recoil from it.
“We know, because we asked them. In a survey we ran after the House version of the bill passed, we showed a random selection of voters how the bill would affect the take-home income of less affluent Americans versus the top 1 percent. Opposition exploded, with only 11 percent of Americans supporting the bill — one-third the level of support seen among those not shown the distributional results. Among Republicans, the shift was even larger: Support and opposition flipped — to nearly 3 to 1 opposition from nearly 3 to 1 support.”
Fortunately for Republican officeholders, 99% of their supporters have exceedingly short memories, and/or are intellectually incapable of making the connection between legislation that makes them worse off and the Republican congressmen and senators that they continually reelect in Pavlovian fashion: the same officeholders responsible for the bill becoming law.
It reminds one of the quote attributed to Hitler: “How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.”
Non-paywalled:
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And don’t forget to smile for the cameras after you’ve called the media “fake news” again.
Remember that old chestnut whenever he doesn’t like the message. Always attack the messenger and watch the entire corporate media curiously find a way to back off entirely.
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McIver (R-NJ)
LaMonica R. McIver (born June 20, 1986) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey’s 10th congressional district since 2024. A member of the Democratic Party,
Just a typo but one that is impossible because the DOJ no longer prosecutes Republicans.
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Ah yes, another day of human predators doing their grizzly deeds on other humans.
I predicted the Trump administration would think it operated without legal boundaries yesterday after the latest SCOTUS ruling. And they got right on that.
Robert Kennedy Jr fowling his family’s name with a poisonous scheme to kill large masses of citizens by withholding scientifically verified medicine.
And adding Elon Musk to the mix of predators makes it feel more hyenas than leopards, more of a pack attack on the public.
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When I first saw this yesterday, I read the ending as “And here’s how we will follow them—when we get to SCOTUS, and not before." Because immunity begins at conception, or something.
Oh, and Emil Bove got it right, so there.
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When an Iranian ayatollah is more credible than the alleged leader of the free world, I think there’s a problem.
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