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09/05/2025

Ailia Zehra in Friday's Chimp: "Lawyer Tristan Snell wrote: 'BREAKING: Trump to name Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as interim US Attorney for DC After Senate rejected his last pick, Ed Martin How many more TV hosts is Trump going to put in serious positions they’re unqualified for? THIS IS THE US GOVERNMENT — NOT THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE'"

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he is naming Fox News host and former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.

09/05/2025

Robert Reich in Friday's Chimp: "If Musk and Trump have their way, America as a whole could eventually be Starbase, Texas. Consider: Starbase is a company town. That company is Musk’s SpaceX. Its new mayor, Bobby Peden, is a SpaceX vice president. He was the only name on the ballot. Its two commissioners are also SpaceX employees. The local measure creating Starbase passed 212 to 6. Almost everyone who voted works for SpaceX or has a relative who does."

On Saturday, the town of Starbase, Texas, was born. The town includes Elon Musk’s SpaceX launch facility and company-owned land covering 1.6 square miles.

09/05/2025

Thom Hartmann in Friday's Chimp: "Good God. America stands at a moral precipice, and we’re about to tumble over the edge. The Trump administration is now planning to transport immigrants on U.S. military planes to detention centers in a warlord-controlled part of Libya, a decision that reveals how far we’ve strayed from our foundational values and basic human decency."

America stands at a moral precipice, and we’re about to tumble over the edge. The Trump administration is now planning to transport immigrants on U.S. military planes to detention centers in a warlord-controlled part of Libya, a decision that reveals how far we’ve strayed from our foundational v...

09/05/2025

Bill Blum in Friday's Chimp: "If you’re counting on the 2026 midterm elections to wrest control of Congress from the GOP, be forewarned. The party is taking no chances on the upcoming plebiscite and has hatched a plan to rig all future federal elections with the goal of transforming the United States into a one-party state. At the center of the plan is the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, passed on April 10 by the House and pending before the Senate, and an executive order issued by President Donald Trump on March 25 with the Orwellian title of 'Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.' And looming in the background, with the final word on either measure’s constitutionality, is the Supreme Court, packed with three Trump appointees and holding a long and sorry record of hostility to voting rights."

If you’re counting on the 2026 midterm elections to wrest control of Congress from the GOP, be forewarned. The party is taking no chances on the upcoming plebiscite and has hatched a plan to rig all future federal elections with the goal of transforming the United States into a one-party state.

09/05/2025

Edward Hunt in Friday's Chimp: "Among the Trump administration’s many disturbing shifts in foreign policy, one of its more shameful moves has been to use foreign aid as a tool for advancing U.S. national power. Rather than claiming that foreign aid stems from a genuine concern for the well-being of humanity, as previous administrations have done, the Trump administration has determined that U.S. assistance should be used to increase the power of the United States, if it is to be used at all."

Among the Trump administration’s many disturbing shifts in foreign policy, one of its more shameful moves has been to use foreign aid as a tool for advancing U.S. national power.

09/05/2025

The Daily Chimp for Friday, 9 May 2025: links to all of today's front page posts.

Ailia Zehra | ‘Ridiculous’: Experts Mock ‘Deeply Unserious’ Trump for Picking 23rd Former Fox Employee President Donald Trump announced Thursday he is naming Fox News host and former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. Pirro's appointment comes followin...

08/05/2025

Robert Reich in Thursday's Chimp: "More companies are warning consumers that they’ll be raising prices as a result of the tariffs. On Wednesday, Stanley Black & Decker said it had raised prices on its tools and outdoor products and will raise them again later this year. Executives at Procter & Gamble (which makes everything from Tide detergent to Bounty paper towels) say they’ll likely increase prices to compensate for the higher tariffs. Hasbro says the toymaker will 'have to raise prices.' (This hardly means that children will have to make do with two dolls instead of 30, as Trump says.)"

Today, the Federal Reserve decided to leave interest rates where they are, at 4.25 percent to 4.5 percent. Although the Fed acknowledged that the labor market was still “solid,” it also noted that “risks of higher unemployment and higher inflation have risen.”

08/05/2025

Ailia Zehra in Thursday's Chimp: "First Lady Melania Trump has been in the White House for fewer than 14 days at since President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, the New York Times reported Wednesday. According to some sources, 'even that is a generous estimate.' The report revealed that Melania does not live in Washington and 'vanishes from view for weeks at a time, holing up in Trump Tower in Manhattan or in Florida.'"

First Lady Melania Trump has been in the White House for fewer than 14 days at since President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, the New York Times reported Wednesday. According to some sources, "even that is a generous estimate."

08/05/2025

Amanda Marcotte in Thursday's Chimp: "A little over a month ago, Trump superfans on X started arguing that the tariffs were the key to restoring male dominance. They falsely claim that tariffs will drive women out of the workforce and force them to get married to survive. The argument wasn't made using customary tactics like reason or evidence, so much as incoherent rage at women with desk jobs. One silly video of some women dancing for a moment in their office drew special rage and claims that tariffs are needed to destroy this unsightly display of female joy."

The first time Donald Trump opined about how many dolls a little girl should have, it seemed he was speaking off the cuff, as he often does, about a subject he knows nothing about. During one of his fake "Cabinet meetings" — which are better described as mandatory praise provision from his underli...

08/05/2025

Thom Hartmann in Thursday's Chimp: "Here we are again. We have a president who thinks of himself as the king of America, issuing proclamations as if he has a divine right. He’s an oligarch himself, and has built a corrupt alliance with other oligarchs in America, Russia, and around the world to enhance his own wealth and power. And since the days of Reagan the GOP has embraced the religious right, who now are so in thrall to the Republican Party that they can reliably hand electoral victories to rightwing candidates."

The American Revolution wasn’t just a break from Britain — it was an uprising against three ancient tyrannies: warlord kings, the morbidly rich, and theocrats. Today, those same forces are clawing their way back into power, and if we don’t fight them now, everything the Founders built could co...

08/05/2025

C.J. Polychroniou in Thursday's Chimp: "The Trump team has been trying to boost Europe’s far right since day one. Elon Musk has openly supported the AfD and even held a livestreamed conversation on X with AfD co-leader Alice Weidel in which he encouraged Germans to vote for the party ahead of the federal elections. As for Trump himself, he is obsessed with strongmen and has gone out of his way to embolden far right and white supremacist groups, including by issuing pardons to all those convicted in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol."

Last week, Trump administration officials blasted Germany after a 1,100-page report from that country’s intelligence agency found that the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is a racist and anti-Muslim organization, labelling it “a proven right-wing extremist organization.”

08/05/2025

Omar Ocampo in Thursday's Chimp: "A common counter to raising taxes on the rich is that they will simply flee their home states to jurisdictions with friendlier tax codes. While some tax migration is inevitable, the wealthy that move to avoid taxes represent a tiny percentage of their own social class. The top one percent are incentivized not to move because of family, social networks and local business knowledge."

Increasing taxes on high income earners helped raise revenue without hampering the wealth of the millionaire class in Massachusetts and Washington, according to a new policy brief from the Institute for Policy Studies and State Revenue Alliance.

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