Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
10th May 2025
CNN Dreams: Maybe An English-Speaking Pope Will Change Trump’s Mind?
U.S. plans to receive and aid White South Africans granted refugee status as soon as next week, document shows (Camilo Montoya-Galvez/CBS News) They say that like it was a bad thing.
They’ve watched democracies fail. They see it happening under Trump. (Cameron Joseph/Christian Science Monitor) More to the point, they saw it happen under Biden and Obama. People vote for stupid people and stupid things.
Newark mayor, New Jersey candidate for governor Ras Baraka arrested after refusing to leave ICE facility (Shore News Network) Dramacrats to the rescue!
Trump shut out refugees but is making White South Africans an exception (Teo Armus/Washington Post) They’re real refugees…unlike some.
Kash Patel Is Seriously Infuriating FBI Officials (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast) Good. He’s doing his job.
Three U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissioners have been fired by Trump. What to know. (Betty Lin-Fisher/USA Today) Gitcher Narrative, right here.
Trump has sat for only 12 ‘daily’ intelligence briefings since taking office (Amy Mackinnon/Politico) Perhaps he was tired of being the only intelligent one in the room.
Trump Aide Loses It at MSNBC Host for Discussing President’s ‘Mental Illness’ (Tom Sanders/The Daily Beast) Thesd are the people who were telling us that Biden was fine, just fine.
Senators Push DOJ to Focus on Egg Prices Professor Umbrage is on the case.
Newark mayor arrested during protest at ICE detention center (María Luisa Paúl/Washington Post)
Newark’s Mayor Arrested at Protest Outside ICE Detention Center (New York Times)
ICE moves detainees to Texas facility where judge declined to halt deportations (Washington Post) Both sides can play that forum-shooping game.
She was arrested for an op-ed. Now a judge has ordered her freed. (Andrew Prokop/Vox) Yeah, an op-ed promoting terrorism.
Inside the salacious scandal that derailed Jeanine Pirro’s political career (Rich Schapiro/NBC News) The hunt for heretics and sinners is in full cry.
Lawmakers did not seek Hayden’s firing as Librarian of Congress (Katherine Tully-McManus/Politico)
Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Plans for Mass Layoffs and Program Closures (New York Times)
Trump involved in discussions over suspending habeas corpus, sources say (CNN) Sources say! That proves it!
America’s Richest Foundations Team Up Against Feared Trump Assault (Wall Street Journal)
Federal judge temporarily halts Trump’s sweeping government overhaul (Andrea Hsu/NPR)
Judges have a warning about Trump’s rapid deportations: Americans could be next (Kyle Cheney/Politico) Which judges? “Just, you know, judges!”
Librarian of Congress firing is latest move in upheaval of U.S. cultural institutions (Andrew Limbong/NPR) More accurately, Woke-pervaded cultural institutions.
Pentagon directs military to pull library books that address diversity, anti-racism, gender issues (Lolita C. Baldor/Associated Press) From a Woke standpoint, of course.
Stephen Miller Threatens to Suspend Habeas Corpus because He Got Caught Lying (emptywheel) Very apropos name.
Angry Trump Kills “Woke” Program–and Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters (Greg Sargent/New Republic) Greg Sargent loses his shit.
Trump Is Already Obsessed With the Midterms (Rachael Bade/Politico) Unlike, say, the people who write for Politico….
Trump’s administration fills with Fox News personalities (Dominick Mastrangelo/The Hill) They say that like it was a bad thing.
Politico’s “Hit Piece” on Me (Roy Spencer) and Energy Secretary Wright