Kagro in the Morning - June 6, 2025

It’s D-Day! Trump actually sort-of marked the occasion yesterday, with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Though I don’t think Merz was fully convinced that Trump understood the significance of the day for him.   Anyhoo… Trump and Musk are still fighting. But you betas just can’t understand. How serious is it? Nobody knows. But the Russian trolls are happy to pretend it’s life-and-death.   Hey, I don’t know if you’ve heard*, but Trump’s One Big Bad Bippety-Boppity Boo Bill Act Dot Com purports to revoke federal courts’ authority to impose sanctions against the government for contempt of court   Hey, I don’t know if you’ve heard*, but DOGE fired all the wrong people, and has had to scramble to hire a bunch of them back.   Hey, I don’t know if you’ve heard*, but Trump’s second/third attempt at a travel ban makes no more sense that the first attempt ever did.   Hey, I don’t know if you’ve heard*, but there’s no logical basis whatsoever to Trump’s crazy tariffs scheme.   (* I do know that you’ve heard.)   And finally, something to chew on for the weekend, perhaps: The various iterations of the “No Fly List” have always been secretive and baffling. Equally secretive and baffling has been the process (if there is one) for getting off the list. Here’s a story that describes a little bit of how one Senator’s spouse landed on the list during the Biden administration, was successfully removed, and now faces… possible relisting by the Trump administration! As an added bonus, you’ll learn that another person who was on the list during the Biden administration is now… the Director of National Intelligence.