The Long, Hot Summer of Trump II Depredations
Many things have happened. Here are some of the things. This is the morning memo of TPM. Register For the e-mail version.
An instantaneous from America in the summer of 2025
I came back last night from a week -long trip by paddling on the Colorado river through the Grand Canyon. No telephone signal. No news. No real contact with the outside world.
While I was going home yesterday and I was starting to try to make up for what I had missed, I was quickly overwhelmed – as we all spent all year round – not only by the volume of news, but by the particular dynamics (I am still not sure to understand the thing of Sydney Sweeney) and the deformed information ecosystem of the Trump era.
So, if you make me happy this morning, I will offer some snapshots of the current moment who caught the attention of someone who managed to completely escape the news cycle for a week. The distance from this restored to me in some respects, but not necessarily the way I expected.
I had hoped that a week of wonder of geological time scales would make me more inclined to see Donald Trump as a temporary fashion in the wider scanning of our political history. But I came back instead a little more sensitive to the way we fell in such a short time.
WTF Is it?
Bring back the confederate commemorative monuments
Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, ordered the resettlement of a Confederate Memorial to the National Cemetery of Arlington which had been withdrawn in 2023.
‘Defend your culture’
The new recruitment push of the Ministry of Internal Security – nicknamed “Defend the Homeland” – includes the nationalist call for blood and soil to “defend your culture!”
Day quote
“It is difficult to overestimate how dangerous this moment is. Using criminal justice machinery to pursue manufactured accusations against political predecessors is the fabric of strong men and the collapse of democracies.Harry Litman, Prosecutor General Pam Bondi ordered an investigation into the great jury on former president Obama and the officials of his administration
EXCLUSIVE
National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard has replaced the concerns of CIA officials to publish a GOP report classified who challenged the assessment of the Intel Community of Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections, WAPO reports.
Question of citizenship of the Redux census
Much to unpack here, but for the moment, it is enough to say that President Trump makes another attempt to exclude the non-citizens of the census to distribute the seats of the House and the votes of the electoral colleges, after the courts blocked the effort by hand of his first mandate:
Good reading
Thomas Zimmer tries to answer the difficult question to know why the right -wing ascendant in America occurs NOW.
Trump’s attack on Higher Ed: UC Edition
The University of California system is in talks with the Trump administration to try to restore half a billion dollars of federal research funding for UCLA which was suspended on allegations of Trump-Up according to which it favored anti-Semitism on the campus in pro-Palestinian protests last year.
Trump strips federal unions protection workers
The veterans department has become the first federal agency to claim to start to terminate union contracts, which affect some 400,000 workers, despite the fact that the court refrains from doing so.
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Speaking of paddle …
The body of American army engineers increased the normal water versions of a dam on the Little Miami river in the southwest of Ohio this month to welcome a canoe trip by vice-president JD Vance which coincided with its 41st anniversary, reports The Guardian. In the Guardian room, there is a tension as to whether the additional water has been used to make the river more navigable for the details of the secret vance services or to create a more ideal level of water for the personal leisure of the vice-president.
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