By Michael Woyton
Another fine upstanding nominee from the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist was announced Wednesday.
Peter Navarro, fresh out of prison for refusing to comply with a subpoena from Congress about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, was tagged Wednesday by Donald Trump to be a senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.
That job should be fun considering tariffs will affect trade and manufacturing and not in a good way.
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Olivia Troye, who served under Trump as a White House Homeland Security and counterterrorism official, posted on Bluesky that Kash Patel, who Trump wants to install as head of the FBI, has threatened to sue her over comments made about Patel on MSNBC.
Troye, who stands by her comments, is not a fan of Patel and doesn’t think he is qualified run the premier law enforcement agency of the United States.
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Her comments, according to Patel’s lawyers, included that he would lie about intelligence and has made things up about operations, to the point that the lives of Navy Seals were put at risk.
“This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed,” Troye posted on social media.
Patel has said publicly that he wants to shut down the FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., on his first day and plans to target media members and federal employees who leak to reporters.
Christopher Wray, who Trump appointed during his first term, still has three years in his term and would have to resign or be fired before Patel could take the job.
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The always informative and knowledgable Elie Mystal live skeeted the hearing Wednesday at the U.S. Supreme Court involving a Tennessee law that bans gender affirming care transgender children.
U.S. vs. Skrmetti is the case, and in his opinion, it will likely be decided 6-3 against the rights of transgender youth.
Basically the court’s right wing majority implied that the Equal Protection Clause does not apply to all Americans.
“This is MAGA’s America now,” Mystal skeeted. “Unless you’re a cishetero white guy, things will be worse for you from here on out. 😦 “
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And a little something from Mike Luckovich via Bluesky:
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