Big Baby might need Big Daddy’s help to rescue American astronauts.
The spat between Elon Musk and Donald Trump over the President’s “big, beautiful bill ” reached a public boiling point on Thursday with a flurry of furiously typed social media posts. In one post, the SpaceX CEO threatened to immediately decommission the company’s Dragon spacecraft. With the Boeing Starliner still struggling to be certified to fly, the threat poses a unique dilemma for NASA because the Crew Dragon is the agency’s only means of shuttling astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
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NASA’s emergency option isn’t a desirable one; Russia. In the nine-year gap between the Space Shuttle’s final mission in 2011 and the SpaceX Crew-1 flight, America’s space agency relied on Roscosmos to get astronauts to the ISS. NASA would have to cut a deal with Russia’s space program to schedule a Soyuz launch to complete the crew rotation.
The felon’s still gunning for the DoE.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow it to resume gutting the Education Department after a lower court judge blocked the efforts.
Trump campaigned on abolishing the department, and his administration since taking office has looked to gut its workforce and operations.
U.S. District Judge Myong Joun last month blocked the efforts , ordering the administration to reinstate nearly 1,400 laid off employees and take other actions to reverse the president’s directives.
“Each day this preliminary injunction remains in effect subjects the Executive Branch to judicial micromanagement of its day-to-day operations,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the new application.
It marks the Trump administration’s 19th emergency plea to the Supreme Court since taking office.
I should note that if in the space of five months, you need to request relief from court orders for your behavior, maybe, just maybe, your behavior is a problem.
Speaking of problematic behavior , let’s have the National Guard go on a hunt for unaccompanied children, round them up, and ship them to parts uknown.
A Department of Homeland Security request for 21,000 National Guard troops to support “expansive interior immigration enforcement operations” includes a call for troops to search for unaccompanied children in some cases and transport them between states, three sources briefed on the plan told NBC News.
Having National Guard troops perform such tasks, which are not explained in detail in the DHS request, has prompted concern among Democrats in Congress and some military and law enforcement officials.
The tasks are laid out in a May 9 request for assistance from the Department of Homeland Security to the Pentagon. The document states that “this represents the first formal request by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the deployment of National Guard personnel in support of interior immigration enforcement operations.”
Cadet Bonespurs sure does love throwing the military around, doesn’t he? And his flunky Pete wants to send in the Marines .
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to activate the U.S. Marine Corps if protests in L.A. persisted. On Saturday evening he tweeted : “Under President Trump, violence & destruction against federal agents & federal facilities will NOT be tolerated. It’s COMMON SENSE. The @DeptofDefense is mobilizing the National Guard IMMEDIATELY to support federal law enforcement in Los Angeles. And, if violence continues, active duty Marines at Camp Pendleton will also be mobilized — they are on high alert.”
Here’s a fun read about the legality of the felon federalizing the California National Guard.
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Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the nation’s leading constitutional law scholars, said “for the federal government to take over the California National Guard, without the request of the governor, to put down protests is truly chilling.”
“It is using the military domestically to stop dissent,” said Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. “It certainly sends a message as to how this administration is going to respond to protests. It is very frightening to see this done.”
Besides the illegality of this stunt, it also shows that the felon-in-chief very well could have called out the Washington DC National Guard at any damn time he wanted to way back on January 6, 2021.
Of course the driving force behind this executive order is Biden and Obama issued orders which this one modifies.
The Trump administration announced Friday it is amending “problematic elements” of two landmark cybersecurity executive orders — though the extent of the changes in many cases appears modest.
The modifications are part of a new executive order signed Friday by President Donald Trump. The full text of the EO was released Friday afternoon, and the Trump administration first outlined details of the order in a White House fact sheet.
The fact sheet says the new order takes aim at two previous EOs focused on cybersecurity — one signed by former President Joe Biden in January just before leaving office, and one by former President Barack Obama in 2015.
The order outlines a potentially weighty change: the new EO would change the Obama-era order — which allows for sanctions on individuals behind cyberattacks on U.S. critical infrastructure — by limiting it "only to foreign malicious actors” and clarifying “that sanctions do not apply to election-related activities.”
While the fact sheet on the EO points to limiting sanctions against those interfering in U.S. elections, the text does not mention this, clarifying that only “foreign persons” can be targeted by sanctions for attacking critical infrastructure.
Note also the fact sheet is not factual.
The felonials are feuding with the mayor of Los Angeles now (again? still?)
Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass faced backlash on social media Friday, including from members of the Trump administration, for pushing back on Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids targeting illegal immigrants in her city.
“This morning, we received reports of federal immigration enforcement actions in multiple locations in Los Angeles,” Bass said in a statement on Friday.
“As Mayor of a proud city of immigrants, who contribute to our city in so many ways, I am deeply angered by what has taken place. These tactics sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city. My Office is in close coordination with immigrant rights community organizations. We will not stand for this.”
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“You have no say in this at all,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller posted on X. “Federal law is supreme and federal law will be enforced.”
“It’s amazing the number of elected officials who don’t grasp the basics of federalism, or federal sovereignty over immigration issues, or the First Amendment,” Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice Harmeet Dhillon posted on X.
“They’re Illegals,” Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka posted on X . “Not ‘immigrants.’ One just tried to burn Americans alive in Boulder. If you’re aiding and abetting them you’re a criminal too. Are you ready to be treated as a criminal? Because we are ready to treat you as one if you commit a crime.”
Gorka’s main boss is a criminal. I wonder why he doesn’t remember that.
Harvard vs Trump, Harvard in the lead
A federal judge has halted President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to block international students from coming to Harvard University.
The temporary restraining order issued late Thursday by US District Judge Allison Burroughs came hours after the university urged the judge to step in on an emergency basis to block a proclamation Trump signed a day earlier that suspends international visas for new students. Foreign students make up roughly a quarter of the student body.
The brief order from Burroughs said if she didn’t intervene now, the school would “sustain immediate and irreparable injury before there is an opportunity to hear from all parties” over the challenge to Trump’s edict. The judge said her order “shall remain in effect until further order of this Court.”
“But her emails!” Yeah, right. (The bolding is mine.)
Elon Musk’s goons at the Department of Government Efficiency transmitted a large amount of data—all of it undetected—using a Starlink Wi-Fi terminal they installed on top of the White House, according to a new report.
Starlink is a satellite Wi-Fi service owned and operated by Musk’s SpaceX. The DOGE goons installed it in mid-March with the sign-off of Donald Trump’s administration, but against concerns raised by security officials, according to The Washington Post .
The officials in charge of protecting the White House’s communications were not informed of the installation ahead of time, insiders told the Post .
At the time, DOGE said installing Starlink was intended to address connection “dead zones” on the White House compound.
However, the insiders suggested that the move was intended to bypass White House systems that track the transmission of data—with names and time stamps—and secure it from spies.
“Starlink doesn’t require anything. It allows you to transmit data without any kind of record or tracking,” one insider told the Post . “White House IT systems had very strong controls on network access. You had to be on a full-tunnel VPN at all times. If you are not on the VPN, White House-issued devices can’t connect to the outside.”
I don’t know how I missed this one. The felon’s sending Navy ships into the southern border mission.
A fourth US Navy destroyer that participated in the Red Sea conflict is on its way to support President Donald Trump’s southern border mission, bringing a range of advanced naval combat capabilities to a very different operating environment.
The Navy announced Friday that the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Cole had left its homeport in Florida to support US Northern Command’s “border security objectives.”
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Cole, like the other warships, is set to be accompanied by a US Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment. They specialize in military operations at sea , such as counterterrorism, counterpiracy, and anti-immigration missions.
These vessels are not designed for the job they’re sent to do. This is just throwing the miltiary around to show bonespurs can.
The felon still has a stiff mushroom against Abrego Garcia.
President Trump on Saturday said the Justice Department’s (DOJ) latest case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year amid Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration — should be “very easy” for prosecutors.
The comment comes after news broke Friday that Abrego Garcia would return to the U.S. to face smuggling charges stemming from a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee. Asked about the administration’s seeming reversal in bringing the man home, the president gave full credit to DOJ.
“The Department of Justice decided to do it that way, and that’s fine,” Trump told NBC News in a phone call Saturday, adding, “that wasn’t my decision.”
Wow. This is a whole litany of problematic issues.
Improper influence.
Screw it, I don’t have time to type it all.