Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
1st July 2025
‘Unacceptable’; Leavitt Blasts CNN for Hailing App ‘Encouraging Violence’ on ICE
Is an ‘Orgasm Cult’ Tycoon Looking for a Trump Pardon? (Will Sommer/The Bulwark) The best of American High School ‘journalism’.
Bush, Obama and a tearful Bono fault Trump’s gutting of USAID on agency’s last day (Ellen Knickmeyer/Associated Press) In which George W. Bush is revealed as just another Deep State tool. Finally, the truth comes out.
Team Trump Is Serious About Unleashing the Espionage Act on the Media (Rolling Stone) And about time, too.
Supreme Court Rules Some Americans Have a Constitutional Right to Insist on Theocracy (Heidi Li Feldman/Slate) Which they do, and which the Organs of the Left hate.
Trump Insults America–Again (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic) The Atlantic insults Trump–again.
The Lawyer Who Became the Face of Trump’s Deportation Agenda (Michael Linhorst/Politico)
Young Men Who Elected Trump Just Realized They Scr*wed Up (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)
Don’t Applaud Supreme Court Conservatives For Doing Trump Special Favors (Sam Bagenstos/Off Message)
The Supreme Court’s Pro-Trump Opportunism Is Now Undeniable (Kate Shaw/New York Times)
Media Forced To Admit Trump’s Tariffs Are Working As Revenues Spike
A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lows (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)
Fascism in the USA Enters the Fifth & Final Phase (Greg Olear/PREVAIL) This guy is about 100 years to late.
This Is a Shameful Way to Make Law (William Kristol/The Bulwark) This guy is about 150 years too late.
Elon Musk Wants to Blow Up the U.S. Political System (Luc Olinga/Gizmodo) Something that only the mind-readers from Gizmodo can know, so they have to explain it to you.
Donald Trump’s big, beautiful act of self-harm (Edward Luce/Financial Times)
Trump administration shuts down U.S. website on climate change (Los Angeles Times) Good.
Republican Bill Puts Nation on New, More Perilous Fiscal Path (Andrew Duehren/New York Times) OH NOES THE SKY IS FALLING!
Samuel Alito Takes Pride in Gay-Bashing (Elie Mystal/The Nation) As if anybody at The Nation had a clue as to what Alito is feeling; this is just name-calling.
J.D. Vance Dismisses Kicking Millions Off Medicaid: ‘Minutiae’ (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone) Because, as we all know, anyone who has even gotten money from the Federal government–and the Federal taxpaywe–is entitled to receive that (or more) forever.
Inside Trump’s $75B ICE gulag nightmare (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch loses his shit.
HHS layoffs were likely unlawful and must be halted, US judge says (Associated Press)
Senate Passes Megabill as Murkowski Stays Bought (David Dayen/American Prospect) At least she held out for top dollar.
I Fought To Keep VOA Independent. Now It’s Gone. (Steve Herman/The Fulcrum) And to keep the Deep State gravy train running. Now it’s stopped. Boohoo….