■ He set the clock ticking with a Day One executive order.
■ The Los Angeles Times: “Concerns about Trump’s intimidation tactics have exploded alongside his growing list of perceived enemies and political targets.”
■ Know your totalitarian laws: Insurrection, Alien Enemies, Posse Comitatus.
■ The Supreme Court is letting Trump use Alien Enemies to deport Venezuelan migrants—after they get court hearings.
■ Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissents: “For lovers of liberty, this should be quite concerning.”
■ Public Notice columnist Noah Berlatsky warns that a separate Supreme Court decision suggests “Trump could simply disappear any Democratic leader or political opponent who defies him.”
■ Law professor Joyce Vance on the administration’s decision to place its lawyer in the case on leave after he honestly answered the district court’s questions: “Shocking, even in this era.”
Your tax dollars at work. The New York Times (gift link): “Trump administration aims to spend $45 billion to expand immigrant detention.”
■ Mother Jones: “Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.”
■ A lawyer representing a pro-Palestinian University of Michigan student was detained at Detroit Metro Airport as he and his family returned from a vacation in the Dominican Republic.
■ The Associated Press: Colleges around the country report international students’ visas getting revoked.
■ Any wonder that foreign tourism to the U.S. is down?
■ That includes Canadians canceling trips to Chicago.
■ WBEZ’s Chip Mitchell: A Cook County Circuit Court judge was set today to consider whether to let a former Guantánamo detainee testify that he was tortured under the supervision of an ex-Chicago cop who was on leave from the city at the time.
■ The Onion: “Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death.”
Your tax dollars not at work. The New York Times (another gift link): “Drug-resistant gonorrhea … is considered an urgent health threat worldwide. The United States has just lost its ability to detect it.”
■ The father of an unvaccinated 8-year-old girl who died with measles says anti-vax Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said not a word about the importance of vaccines as he paid a much-publicized visit to the funeral: “I had supper with the guy … and he never said anything about that.”
■ Kennedy’s department has closed its regional Chicago office—including Head Start, serving 28,000 low-income families and their kids.
■ Inside Medicine reviews “HHS ‘reductions to absurdity,’ one week on.”
■ The Onion: “RFK Jr. Orders Removal Of Sinks From HHS Bathrooms.”
The ‘acceptance’ stage of grief? Updating coverage: Wall Street bounced back a bit in early trading today.
■ Poynter: A social media post Monday may have made things worse.
■ In a scattered, schtick-filled interview with Jon Stewart on last night’s Daily Show, ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel condemned Trump’s tariff scheme: “Nobody will ever trust us. In eight weeks, he’s destroyed 80 years of reputation that America built.”
NBC Chicago reconsiders. Criticized for parroting the Illinois Republican Party’s lie attributing Saturday’s anti-Trump protests to “paid far-left actors,” the station removed that passage and the corresponding video report from its website.
■ News media critic Mark Jacob: “A note at the bottom says they’re reaching out ‘to the organizers of the protest for a response to that claim.’ But barring proof from the GOP, they ought to just skip spreading the lie.”
■ New from Jacob: “20 ‘rude’ questions the media should ask.”
‘Print media to mass protests: Please turn to Page 18.’ Columnist Parker Molloy says mainstream journalism flubbed coverage of Saturday’s demonstrations.
■ Filmmaker and author Michael Moore estimates the protests drew millions nationwide, “but, according to CNN, it was ‘scores of people’ and USA Today said it was ‘tens of thousands.’”
■ Columnist Eric Zorn, after his first protest as a participant: “Drone technology along with AI interpretation of time-stamped photographs ought to be able to give an approximate and objective nose count, but there’s evidently little political will to do so.”
■ A Dallas Morning News editor ’fesses up, embarrassingly: “We didn’t have coverage of Saturday’s ‘Hands Off!’ protest at Dealey Plaza [because] we didn’t realize the protest was going on.”
Got Comcast email? Maybe not for long. TidBITS’ Adam Engst advises not letting what looks like spam slip by: Your account may soon disappear if you haven’t used it lately.
■ Here’s the official new policy.
It was the most-tapped item in yesterday’s Chicago Public Square. The answer is: What was the link to Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings’ Bluesky jab at Trump?
■ Jennings didn’t stop there.
■ At least one report says the show’s producers are looking to replace Jennings.
■ Wired: Bluesky has a problem with jokes.
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