Hello it’s weekends. It’s the weekend ☕️
Every day of the second Trump administration brings new content that it is difficult to believe that it is real. Thursday, it was a video of armed officers, masked on the border patrols hiding in front of the press conference of the Governor of California Gavin Newsom on redistribution. Friday, it was the official account of the White House which published a video of 20 federal agents arresting the DC man who launched a metro sandwich on an officer during demonstrations against the city’s military control. The sounding soundtrack of the video, the white horodatages on the screen and the agitated edition are straight out of the cops.
The clip is part of the Massive Ad Blitz of the Trump team, which has enlisted the social media accounts of the White House, the Ministry of Internal Security, customs and borders and immigration and customs to represent their administrator as a machine for fighting immigration and Macho crime. A large part of their messaging is transmitted through memes, such as Ghibli-Ai Studio style images of immigrants who cry deported or AI alligators posing as ice agents outside their new center of detention of migrants in the Everglades. Another genre focuses on the equipment, like extracts from Big Ice vans that transport the ass through the Capitol Set on a song by Dababy. Other videos, such as the last of Sean Charles Dunn being stopped in his DC apartment, are oriented at the point of madness.
As my colleague David Kurtz said in the morning memo, it is easy to reject all this as an absurd posture, but “the underlying desire towards violence continues to animate Trump and the Maga movement in a dangerous and unpredictable way”.
These messages are a reminder in the face that the henchmen of this administration militarize our neighborhoods. They have the power to exploit Jeanine Pirro to take care of a crime for having launched a foot, this is what happened to Dunn. They will expel your family and friends, then laugh.
In an article on the same administration for Wired, Tess Owen wrote that they are used to strengthen “US against them”. In addition to normalizing mass deportation, they also exploit the nationalist Christian stories and reach young men via insensitive jokes that have been recycled through the online management of management. »»
Asked about Tess’s commentary, a White House spokesperson said: “We will not apologize for having published memes banger.” A spokesperson for the DHS called him “a silly little story”.
– Allegra Kirkland
Here is what other TPM has to pressure this weekend:
- The question of Maga Benny Johnson’s personality press room is the question of the press room – on the question of whether the “big bullets” should receive the presidential medal of freedom – served as a microcosm of our absurd political moment.
- The ousted speaker, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), comes out of his retirement to collect funds against California’s attempt to redraw her Congress cards in order to compensate for the impact of the Gerrymander, from the Texas Republicans, a move they take at the Beage de Trump.
- A look at how Trump administration is set up to politicize federal data and lengths that it will shape information to adapt to the invented stories of the president.
Crétons.
This is how we live now
A moment last week has encapsulated how different things are in this second presidency of Donald Trump. It was “big bullets”.
The revealing exchange took place Tuesday in a white house press point where Maga Benny Johnson’s personality occupied the headquarters of “New Media” and was able to ask the first question. Johnson is one of the right -wing influencers who said they failed to work with an alleged Russian influence operation in last year’s elections. He is also someone with whom this correspondent has a rather colorful story, so we knew that there was a good chance that it became bizarre when he came to question the press secretary.
Johnson started with something that was more a comment than a question. He took the opportunity to challenge the idea that Washington DC is “a safe place to live and work” before thanking Trump for his decision to bring federal forces to the city police. Of course, the crime has in fact decreased at DC and the presence of troops and other federal agents in the city triggers all kinds of alarms concerning authoritarian development. However, even after this configuration, Johnson’s moment in the briefing room became stranger when he turned to Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the young staff member who would have inspired Trump’s decision to call the troops.
Coristine, who used the nickname of “Big Balls” online, first attracted national attention earlier this year when he was one of the young staff working with the Doge (Department of Government Elon Musk initiative. He has since worked for the Social Security Administration. In the short hours of August 3, according to a police report, Coristine and a companion were victims of an attempted diversion by “around 10 minors”. The report indicates that Coristine pushed the woman away before he was attacked by the group. Trump published a photo of a bloody “big balls” on his social networks while he first threatened to “federalize” DC. The president also said that he had personally called Coristine. But Johnson went further.
“Given the heroic actions of a member of this administration with a few pâtés of houses in this building, the president will plan to give the presidential medal of the freedom of” big balls “,” asked Johnson.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt replied that “perhaps that is something he would consider.” Subsequently, the whole situation continued to be super normal while Johnson fought with criticism and expressed his joy that he had obtained the expression “big bullets” in television shows.
Overall, the episode addressed a large part of what is bizarre in the current climate. It was an example of the degradation of institutions such as the briefing room, which has become a paradise for podcastors and extremist influencers. It also showed how Doge’s henchmen are still there even after the departure of Musk. And that underlined the ridiculous behind the very real decision to send military forces to the national capital.
Everything is so stupid – and so serious at the same time.
– Hunter Walker
McCarthy enters the cat to combat the newsom redistribution offer
Your favorite prefabricated speaker is back.
The former president of the Chamber, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), would have worked behind the scenes to rally his allies against the efforts of the Californian democrats to redraw their Congress card. While the blue state has set up railings to prevent the type of hyper-partisan gerrymandering in which the Texas Republicans are currently engaged, the governor of California Gavin Newsom recently announced a plan to ask the voters to restart certain Congress cards. Newsom and other blue state officials are looking for ways to get around the redistribution commissions independent of their states to draw new cards to compensate for the impact of what is happening in Texas.
The California Democrats offer a new map of the State Congress with adjusted limits that would create a partisan inclination and probably overthrow certain seats in the American Chamber for Democrats.
McCarthy recently declared to his former delegation of the state of state that he was aimed at raising $ 100 million for the opposition campaign, according to Politico.
The efforts in California come in response to the efforts of Gerrymandering led to Texas by the Republican Governor of the Greg Abbott and President Trump. The Texas Republicans have tried to approve new cards that would give the Republicans five additional seats. Trump ordered Texas Republicans to engage in the formerly indisputable practice of redistribution of the cycle in the cycle to try to guarantee that Republicans can keep control of the American house halfway.
– Emine Yücel
Nourished data is only correct when it is flattering for Trump, says Trump Admin
Perhaps Sharpiegate was too absurd to be a sufficient alert sign, but the Trump administration has, in the past two weeks, revealed the lengths that it will go to shape information to adapt to the president’s made up.
Many things have happened since Trump dismissed the Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika Mcentarfer because he did not like history that the monthly revisions of the BLS monthly report tell – one of an economy slowed down in response to Trump’s economic policies.
Since then, Trump advisers have rushed to suggest that data should be collected and published instead. All this serves as a warning sign that the administration is preparing to politicize data which is supposed to be truthful and independent.
In fact, when he spoke to a group of government statisticians this week, the secretary of trade Howard Lutnick suggested that independence and precision were distinct ideas with regard to federal economic data.
“Independence is nonsense,” he said. “Precision is the only word that matters.”
In this spirit, Trump’s economic adviser Stephen Miran launched the publication of the monthly job report in an interview with Axios. And the candidate of the Trump BLS Commissioner, EJ Antoni, posed the idea of completely removing the monthly report, replacing it rather with a less frequent and much less timely investigation.
Apart from his bizarre suggestion, Antoni has his own problems.
“He has just received his doctorate a few years ago,” said Aaron Sojourner, principal researcher in a job research institute. “He published an article which has a quote from a colleague but has never been cited by anyone else. His thesis has nothing to do with work or statistics.” He is also a co-author of Project 2025 and has openly criticized the agency that he is now ready to direct.
The whole thing looks like an early stage plan for manipulation of federal data for the benefit of politically Trump.
– Layla A. Jones
