RFK Jr. Tries to Make Polio Great Again, Musk Is Cowed, & the Feds Tackle Sen. Padilla | The Lincoln Logue
The authoritarian clown car keeps rolling, now with fewer civil rights heroes and a rapidly deorbited billionaire.
This week in Trump’s America, we got rubber bullets on the West Coast, misinformation at the CDC, a good old-fashioned Senate ejection, and more fallout from the MAGA-Musk divorce. The president's allies continue testing how far they can push their agenda, from shutting down protests to rewriting vaccine policy in the image of RFK Jr.’s fever dreams.
Meanwhile, Democrats were forcibly removed from press conferences, and the Pentagon quietly reshuffled a $175 billion missile defense contract because Musk dared speak out of turn. But don’t worry — as one Trump official put it, “We’re prioritizing the best deal for America.” And by America, they mean loyalty oaths.
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Monday, June 9th — LAPD Targets Protesters in New Crackdown
▌Turns out when Trump promised law and order, he mostly meant the "order" part — and only for his people.
In Los Angeles, thousands of protesters flooded the streets this week in response to Trump’s escalating immigration raids and the latest wave of deportations. The city, already simmering from increased ICE activity and police aggression, became a flashpoint Monday night as LAPD officers deployed tear gas, rubber bullets, and mass arrests to clear largely peaceful crowds.
According to civil rights groups, the police crackdown was both premeditated and excessive, with reports of unlawful detentions, injured medics, and children caught in the crossfire. Trump praised the response as a “model for the nation,” while California officials scrambled to distance themselves from federal pressure driving the crackdown.
In MAGA world, protest is provocation, and dissent is disloyalty. But the resistance is growing louder — and this week, it made clear that the streets aren’t going quiet anytime soon.
Source: The Guardian