Year: 2025
Record Number in Immigrant Detention
60,000
“The number of people in immigration detention reached a new high of more than 60,000 on Monday, breaking a modern record set during the first Trump administration,” the New York Times reports.
Trump’s Law Will Push Millions Off Food Assistance
2.4 million
“Republican-led cuts to public assistance programs – carried out at the behest of Donald Trump’s administration – will lead to 2.4 million fewer Americans receiving food stamps, among them families with children,” The Guardian reports.
Hades in the Everglades
Alligator Alcatraz has found some loopholes to latch onto.
Florida built it, but can’t enforce immigration;
Feds run it, but shirk environmental regulation.
Meanwhile, prisoners live in cages sans the legal process they’re due.
Trump Has Made at Least $3.4 Billion Off Presidency in First Six Months
$3.4 billion
David Kirkpatrick attempts an honest accounting of the Trump family’s profits from two presidencies — and conservatively estimates the sum to be $3.4 billion. “By the time I finished adding up the Trump family’s profits, I was almost inured to it all.”
Firing BLS Chief ‘Worst of the Worst’
“This is the sort of thing only the worst populists do in the worst emerging economies.”
— Economist Phil Suttle, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, on President Trump’s dismissal of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Trump’s Chatbot Is Woke
But it’s new, so chalk it up to the application’s youth.
It says Trump lost the 2020 election,
And that January 6 was a violent insurrection.
Truth Search AI is a woke MAGA renegade that consistently tells the truth.
To Trap Academe
The Trumpian questions run from unseemly to impolite,
Drawing universities into a war they don’t want to fight.
The boorish queries take the tack
Of that familiar linguistic trap:
“Have you already stopped being an antisemite?”
