The FBI: It Beats Working for a Living

Hello it’s weekend. It’s the weekend ☕️

One of the characteristics of Maga’s authoritarian planning is its ineptus. Think about January 6: Yes, it was an attempted coup – the violent outcome of a campaign of several months to reverse the election result. But, it was also strangely Maladesque: it is not yet clear if there was a plan for what to do; Trump fell after it became clear that the rioters were dispersed.

This does not want to decrease as serious as to note that it is a feature, not a bug. Dan Bongino, deputy director of the FBI, is an example.

Bongino had spent years as a podcaster and conservative influencer before Trump appointed him to the FBI this year. It was a relatively easy work, and which had a substantial influence: he resumed the place of Rush Limbaugh after the death of the host of the radio, and was able to earn money by selling the Merch and by having a participation in the conservative video platform Rumble, via his business.

The problem is that Bongino, a former secret service agent, doesn’t like it.

“I abandoned everything for that,” complains Bongino to Fox News earlier this year, adding that he had to go to work at 7:30 am.

“I look at these four walls all day in DC, by myself, divorced from my wife. Not divorced, but I mean separate, divorced. And it is difficult. I mean, we love each other, and it is difficult to be separated,” he added.

It has become more difficult to be in Dan. He would have reprimanded when leaving the office in July, on Epstein files (of course); Finally, Trump appointed Missouri’s Attorney General, Andrew Bailey, to help him co-drive the FBI.

Since then, it has been strangely decreased, even if the Trump administration has tried to build the FBI in an era of manifest politicization that we do not see during the decades. He complained about certain reports on the murder of Charlie Kirk and made a disjointed remark on the murderer influenced by leftist ideologies, but really? It was low energy. Other parts of his pre-freed empire continue to collapse.

A company now controlled by his wife, Bongino Inc., still sells merch. The Gulf of America and the Alcatraz Algatraz t-shirts cost $ 30 each.

– Josh Kovensky

Here is what other TPM has to pressure this weekend:

• The Trump White House has presented many threats to the way it claims the Democrats and the Americans who vote for them.
• The Democratic Governor of North Carolina expresses his interest in trying to oppose the efforts of state republicans to redraw some of the Congress of the North Carolina Congress to help their party keep the chamber mid-term. This occurs after the Republicans of the State Legislative Assembly managed to eliminate Governor Josh Stein from some of his authorities on the elections before even embarking on.
• The Trump administration has chosen to use the closure to obscure the numbers that suggest that the president’s policies paralyze the American economy. But the end of operations of the Bureau of Labor Statistics when closing the government is not necessarily unique to the second Trump administration.

The numerous threats of Trump’s administrator’s administrator

We are only a few days after the government’s closure. And already, Trump’s White House and the Director of Management and Director of the Russ Budget Vought have disseminated their not so secret plan for ransacking the federal government and making this closure as “painful” as possible for Democrats – and people who vote for them.

President Donald Trump and Vought threatened mass and permanent layoffs in federal agencies – instead of the usual holidays that we would see when the government is closed.

In addition, the duo uses closure as an excuse to cancel billions of dollars in federal funding for energy and infrastructure projects in the Blue States. Vought also announced that the administration has suspended $ 2.1 billion in federal funding for Chicago infrastructure projects and $ 18 billion for two major infrastructure projects in New York since the start of closing on Wednesday.

“The longer it goes, the more pain there will be,” Mike Johnson (R-La) chamber (R-La) told journalists on the first day of closure.

Part of this is simply threatened; Some are real. But all this – because he was explicitly articulated by the White House, President Trump, Vought and certain Republicans of Congress – is designed to punish Democrats for not having voted with the Republicans on the CR -Go and in place of asking for certain health care measures be restored and extended in exchange for their votes. Democrats also put pressure for measures to be implemented so that the Trump White House ceases to seize the funds approved by the Congress. But, as evidenced by the deployment of national guard troops in blue cities under the guise of a repression against crime and various decrees threatening to withdraw the federal funds from the blue cities which have sanctuary policies in place, the closure is only an excuse to compensate for continuous threats.

“If [Democrats] I do not want additional wrongs on their voters at their home, so they have to reopen the government, “said the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday as if the President of the United States only serves the people who voted for him.

If you still have any questions about how all this is useful … Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) was on Fox News this week putting all this.

“They do it deliberately,” said Lee. “Russ Vought, the director of the OMB, dreamed of this moment, preparing for this moment, since puberty.”

But not all Republicans are as dizzy on the Russian Mountains of Removers Vought and the White House is lit.

“I am a little worried that they could be counterproductive for us politically in the long term, because other things will require 60 votes,” Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) said on Wednesday when he was worried about the threats of Vought.

– Emine Yücel

North Carolina DEM GOV fights Trump’s redistribution pressure campaign

The Democratic Governor of Northern Carolina, Josh Stein, called the redistribution efforts led by the Republicans in his state – which was part of the broader pressure campaign of the Trump administration on the legislatures of the republican controlled states, seeking to arrange them in the redistribution of the cycle of the cycle to help the American party outside.

In the current state of things, the map of the Congress of North Carolina includes four seats represented by the Democrats and ten by the Republicans. A redesigned map could help the Republicans win in the 1st Congress district, which is currently held by the Democratic Representative Don Davis.

According to reports from NC Newsline, Stein described the republican campaign to redraw the map of North Caroline as “ridiculous”.

“We have just redirected the last cycle for the second time. So, every two years, the theory is that we will redirect, so that we can maximize the political advantage to stick it to one party and improve another party? ” He said, according to NC Newsline. “We cannot enter this vision of the maximalist political world because it will destroy this country.”

“We must be able to recognize, sometimes you earn an election, sometimes you lose an election. When you lose, you bring your strength, you work hard, you try to convince the voters the next time,” added Stein.

It is not the first time, even in recent memory, that the North Carolina Republicans have been trying to play with the state elections for political reasons. The Republicans of this same state legislature tried to overcome Stein from his authority before even embarking on.

In the last days of his supermajure to the TOF test, the state legislature controlled by the GOP implemented the legislation last year who gave the verifier of the republican state of the time, Dave Boliek, the power on the electoral council of the five members of the State. It is a responsibility that is historically given to the governor, not to the state auditor.

– Khaya Himmelman

BLS does not publish data during closing

It is surprising that, in the midst of a culture within the Trump administration to manipulate data even when the government operates, the judgment has stopped the collection and publication of federal data. At the Bureau of Labor Statistics, for example, Friday’s monthly crucial report was not published. The Trump administration has chosen to use the closure to obscure the numbers that suggest that its economic policies paralyze the American economy. But putting an end to BLS operations when closing the government is not necessarily unique to the second Trump administration and the break in job reports may not be as a sinister as some of the other ways in which Trump’s white house weapons weapons.

In 2013, when Obama’s BLS Commissioner Erica Groshen was in charge, the office stopped working, but “left the possibility of publishing certain data,” said a Bloomberg report. In the end, however, the data was selected. Michael Pugliese, principal economist of Wells Fargo, wrote in a recent analysis that the monthly job report and inflation reports were delayed by about two weeks. “”[D]The quality of the ATA for the period reflecting the closure was not largely assigned, “wrote Pugliese, but less price were used to calculate the IPC immediately after the stop.

The 2019 judgment was different. The office of the commissioner of Trump BLS, William Beach, was able to publish data because the congress had already financed the Ministry of Labor with one of the 12 bills of credit law.

– Layla A. Jones