Originally published at: Trump Lays the Groundwork to Rig the 2026 Midterms
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. The Ratfucking Is Already Underway The Trump Justice Department is taking the unprecedented step of compiling a national voter database, the NYT reports: The effort to essentially establish a national voting database, involving more than…
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As far as the South Korean workers were concerned, they knew their visas were sketchy before they even got here.
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Same/not the same as when Dems did when they were stonewalled by the GQP last term.
Changing the rules would take time, with procedural votes potentially Thursday and early next week to complete the process, according to a person familiar with the GOP plan who requested anonymity because it hasn’t been released publicly.
They haven’t done it yet. We’ll see if all of them go along - it’s not a given that they will.
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The Trump administration this week reactivated a contract with Paragon Solutions, a spyware company that had its federal contract put on hold last year due to restrictions the Biden administration imposed on the use of commercial spyware that had a record of being deployed in repressive ways abroad.
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Once again, I am ASHAMED to admit that I voted for Cleta when she was in the Oklahoma State House.
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About that Nobel Peace Prize…
The United Arab Emirates could pull out of a peace deal it signed five years ago to normalize relations with Israel, a senior Emirati official warned twice this week, as Israeli plans to annex the West Bank spark backlash in the region.
The UAE’s new warning—a surprising shift—highlights an unwillingness among Gulf Arab states to overlook the actions of Israel, America’s strongest regional ally, whose decisions have made diplomatic engagement difficult at a time of growing frustration over the war in Gaza.
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Climate change and environmental (lack of) Justice.
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Charleston is one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities – and one of the most flood-prone. As climate change prompts sea levels to rise and storms to grow more intense, this historic city has become a warning bell for what’s to come along America’s coasts: Some neighborhoods will retreat and others will be protected, and still others – often lower-income communities – may be left behind.
In Charleston, those futures are colliding. The city and the federal government are planning a $1.3bn sea wall to defend the iconic downtown peninsula with its regal, pre-civil-war mansions and majestic moss-covered live oak trees.
But under the current plans, the wall would not extend to lower-income neighborhoods like Rosemont, a historically Black community bordered by a freeway and hemmed in by industrial sites. That could leave those families more exposed to rising waters than ever.
“I’ve seen how all those floodwaters demolish people’s houses,” Brown said. “I don’t think I want to be part of that.”
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Skip Mikell, a longtime community leader in Union Heights, a historically Black neighborhood near Rosemont, stood at the end of Peace Street in Rosemont, looking out over the marsh.
“In 70 years, where we’re standing, if nothing’s done, it’s going to be water,” Mikell said, adding: “The gentry of Charleston have connections, they have money, they have a voice. These communities are voiceless.”
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Fascist at home. Fascist abroad. Fascist in the White House.
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As a Day 1 AMA editor you know that there are three sexes, and innumerable genders. Genders merely describes characteristics of a sex.
These tax-free churches minting bigots need to be burned to the ground.
In 1865.
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Over the past several weeks I have had a sense of impending dread, of a realization that, yes, the US is fully fascist and never coming back - at least in my lifetime. And certainly not without a good deal of violence and destruction . . . and grief. That is simply the historic trajectory, Barring a miracle we are facing civil war or the grinding heel of the thug’s boot or civil unrest. I suspect a combination of all three.
I am glad I am old. I am glad I left the US. I do not want to see the murderous end of this.
And none of this grim conclusion was necessary - it all comes from pique, stupidity, greed, rage, and ego.
Sickening.
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… ‘worthless’ without sunlight or wind. Elon Musk reminds DoE about batteries: ‘Um… hello?’
Among the most prominent replies was from Elon Musk, who cut through the noise with just two words: “Um … hello?”
Alongside his reply, the Tesla CEO boosted his company’s large-scale battery business, which had recently touted a 370-megawatt-hour storage project in Australia designed to stabilize the grid and expand renewable use. His post garnered a little over half a million views. Tesla also has a solar panel business for use in homes.
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Did Israel just bomb Qatar?
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Is all the commentators asleep? Morning memo for half an hour and I’m number 14.
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The only question is which three GOP senators will be allowed to “vote their conscience.”
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The video, which does not show anyone’s face, captures audio of a student objecting to a professor teaching that there are more than two genders. The student says this conflicts with President Donald J. Trump’s executive order and her religious beliefs, and the professor responds she has a right to teach the lesson and the student has a right to leave.
That professor is correct. That student should just drop out of the class if he/she thinks it is so bad. LGBTQ has been around for a long time but suddenly has gotten deficient/inferior when given a label.
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In regards to that ombudsman overseeing CBS -
On Monday, Paramount revealed who the ombudsman would be: Kenneth R. Weinstein, the former president and chief executive of the conservative-leaning Hudson Institute think tank.
“Conservative leaning” = leans so far they are nearly prone.
It has some wondering if Weinstein’s mission, based on his stint with the Hudson Institute, will be to pick through and question any CBS News stories that are critical of Trump and the right.
Has “some” wondering? Of course that’s his mission
CBS just has to remember going forward they’ll need to start a timer with every interview of someone in the GQP. If they want a 3 minute segment, when that alarm goes off it’s “Thank, that’s literally all the time we have for this” and cut the mics.
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And, sadly, one other aspect – sheer laziness on the part of large segments of the population. I never realized how fucking lazy Americans were on the whole. Most couldn’t be bothered to read neon signs flashing on the wall for years.
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Well send PuPPy out to jump on the heads of those that aren’t here.
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