Many things have happened. Here are some of the things. This is the morning memo of TPM. Register For the e-mail version.
Get the kirk murder to withdraw a power outlet
The day after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Trump administration and its Allies Maga launched a new project to target Kirk criticisms, threatening their employment to the government and in the private sector.
On the government side:
- Dod: The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, sent subordinates to the hunt for members of the service and civilians of the DOD who have laughed or tolerated the murder of Kirk on social networks so that they can be punished. “Several members of the service have been relieved of their jobs due to these messages,” reports NBC News.
- Dhs: The ministry has taken measures against at least three employees, reports the government.
- Virginia: The secretary of veterans, Doug Collins, warned against the sanctions for the employees of the department who were surprised “justifying, celebrating or mocking” the death of Kirk, by executive of the government.
While the government’s internal campaign seems mainly targeted (I say it with a skeptical eye still intact) on these political violence of tolerance, in the private sector, the purge has extended to include the criticism of Kirk and its right -wing extremist policy:
- At least a dozen employers have put the staff on leave or rejected them for remarks on Kirk, reports the WAPO.
- Universities – notably Ole Miss, Middle Tennessee State and Austin Peay, among others – have dismissed or suspended employees for online comments on Kirk.
- A public school teacher in South Carolina was dismissed for an article on Facebook: “Thoughts and prayers to her children, but America in my humble opinion has become bigger today. There, I said.”
- DC Comics has canceled a new series after the author entitled Kirk “Nazi B * TCH”.
- Wapo columnist Karen Attiah said this morning that she was dismissed by the newspaper for bluesky publications that she considered “unacceptable” and “rude misconduct”. According to his story, Attiah’s posts condemned political violence. The only article she shared which directly mentioned that Kirk cited Kirk denigrating black women.
You could reasonably find some of the publications on social networks in question offensive, but getting you in a debate on hikes on social networks is to lose the situation as a whole. The tribal, political and powerful imperatives of the Maga project of Trump mean that the right must grasp its death and consider it as a loyalty totem among the faithful while at the same time doing a decisive test not fair for institutions – societies, universities, media – that Trump was already targeting. They cannot take the test because they refuse to take it, in which case they are again targeted, or they play along and in doing so and prove what Trump desperately wants to believe: that they are all as darling as him.
Title of the day
Reuters: Charlie Kirk ‘allies warn the Americans: crying correctly or
It looks like this should be a big news
Reuters examined a document that has shown that the governor of the federal reserve, Lisa Cook, told his lender that Atlanta’s property at the center of the Trump administration’s mortgage fraud for her would not be used as the main residence. The Financial Times also said that Cook had listed the house as a vacation property. »»
The Trump administrator pushes to see how cruel he can be
Another weekend with the emergency legal proceedings on Trump’s anti-immigration policy.
Given the current rule of law, the American district judge Tanya Chutkan seemed to be reluctant to intervene to prevent migrants who were sent by the Trump administration to Ghana from being sent by Ghana to their country of origin, where they are confronted with persecution, including torture.
But despite his reluctance, Chutkan during an emergency hearing on Saturday still did not buy the argument of the Trump administration according to which he had no control over what Ghana did, even if he denied diplomatic insurance that she did not turn around and send migrants to their country of origin.
“I did not hesitate to say that I think it is a very suspicious pattern,” said Chutkan.
Chutkan suggested that it was not an accident that Ghana reinforced and that the administration obtained the result it wanted.
This so -called chain reflex – by illegally using third countries as intermediaries to manage the transfer of migrants to countries to which the United States is legally prohibited from deporting directly – has been a permanent problem for several months.
However, after a burst of weekend deposits and the extreme publication of the Trump administration to initially refuse to give the other side in the case a copy of a key deposit he had made, Chutkan had not decided to protect the migrants.
Expect a CHUTKAN decision this morning.
Clean in the five aisle
President Trump clearly realizes that he has messed up with the Hyundai factory in Georgia, triggering a diplomatic row with South Korea, which saw dozens of highly skilled workers handcuffed and chained by immigration agents during the very praised operation. Trump displayed on Sunday, which was equivalent to a long “Oops” on social networks, and the head of the State Department No. 2 “expressed regret” with regard to the incident.
Pritzker successfully repels the threat of deployment of Trump
It seems that the great public threat of the governor of the governor of Illinois JB Pritzker of President Trump’s threat to send the National Guard to Chicago managed to publish this effort.
President Trump turns his attention to the blue cities in the red states, namely Memphis and New Orleans, “after the advisers warned him that sending troops to help with local police without the membership of the state governor could create legal headaches they wish to avoid,” reports CNN.
The “legal headaches” do a lot of work there. You could read it as a political return.
Are Kash Patel days at FBI numbered?
After Kash Patel was besieged, spent part of the weekend playing golf with President Trump at his Bedminster, the New Jersey Club, Fox News reported that emergency plans were formulated to withdraw Patel as Director of the FBI and gave him another role in the administration.
The Doj Share of state voter rollers with DHS
The Trump administration has confirmed that the Ministry of Justice shares the electoral lists it demanded earlier this year with the Ministry of Homeland Security so that it can use non-citizens.
Day quote
The American district judge William Alsup of San Francisco, judging on Friday that the dismissal en masse by the Trump administration of probationary federal employees was illegal, but that the decision of the Supreme Court to let the layoffs proceed while the case was unanswered leaves workers without any means of recovering their job:
[T]The Supreme Court has indicated clearly sufficiently through its emergency file to prevail over a judicial repair in terms of rental and layoffs within the executive, not only in this case but in others. And, too much water has now passed under the bridge since the Supreme Court has suspended the preliminary injunction of this court reintegrate the probationary employees. Licensed probation employees have evolved their lives and have found new jobs. Many would no longer be willing or capable of returning to their messages. The agencies in question have also been transformed during the intermediate months by new executive priorities and radical reorganization. Many probationers would not have a message to come back.
A big week to come for vaccines
The CDC vaccine committee stacked with skeptics from Robert Kennedy vaccines, Jr., is expected to meet this week. We do not know how far the committee will use pseudo-science and their own prejudices to upset the recommendations of vaccines, especially for children. Public health experts were horrified when the WAPO reported on Friday that Trump officials planned to abuse data by presenting the panel a misleading image that connects the vaccine coded to the death of children.
“I apologize for this extremely insensitive remark”
During the weekend, Brian Kilmeade of Fox News apologized in the air for his comments last week on Fox & Friends calling for a mentally ill—bastard euthanasia. “Or an involuntary lethal injection, or something,” said Kilmeade on Wednesday. “Kill them.
Two days later, President Trump made the same program and announced that a suspect was apprehended in the death of Charlie Kirk.
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