US Politics, June 2018: This is a total goat rodeo.

Well don't worry there's still one adult in the roo-

Over the past 24 hours I've heard from several sources that Defense Secretary Mattis has been iced out by POTUS and has increasingly become isolated.

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) June 19, 2018

xxxp

i don't know the economic situation in the rio grande valley as well (they've got spacex now though lol), but over in west texas the big bend CBP is literally the only big employer south of the 10, so i think at least in part it's a case of no other options and CBP making people worse, rather than preexisting cruelty/stupidity.

Mattis should do the right thing and cut Trump's throat tbh. Then Miller's.

We need news -- we just got it.. Un-fucking-believable.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson on Monday ruled a Kansas law that requires new voters to prove citizenship is unconstitutional and ordered Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to return to school as punishment for repeated violations of court rules.

Her 118-page ruling sides with the American Civil Liberties Union in a two-year legal battle over the law’s burden and effect on elections. She provided a damning assessment of Kobach’s witnesses, calling their evidence flawed, invalid, biased, irrelevant, unreliable and untrustworthy.

Robinson also takes aim at Kobach for “repeated and flagrant violations” of court procedures during the March trial. His repeated last-minute efforts to introduce new evidence showed a pattern of “flaunting disclosure and discovery rules that are designed to prevent prejudice and surprise at trial,” she said.

As a sanction, Kobach must take six hours of continuing law education in addition to any hours required for his law license.

From yesterday but yeah, that's both great and hilarious.

Trump: "When you are prosecute the parents for coming in illegally — which should happen — you have to take the children away." pic.twitter.com/uv5oF2eeJd

— Meg Wagner (@megwagner) June 19, 2018

Video of quote embedded in tweet ^^^^

Such politics

STATE OF PLAY—Variety of GOP ideas, no clear consensus for fixing family separation. Trump supports some (overturning Flores), not others (more judges). Democrats believe Trump broke this, can fix it, don’t see a viable legislative path. POTUS gets briefed soon on House GOP plan.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 19, 2018

"POTUS gets briefed soon on House GOP plan."

of which he said, earlier today:

“We have a House that’s getting ready to finalize an immigration package that they are going to brief me on later, and I’m going to make changes,” Mr. Trump vowed, without providing details about what he plans to change.

FYI the Medium post of ICE workers from LinekdIn was taken down.

Author shared out the raw data on Twitter.

ah i see it now

Ah how sweet

Trump tells House Republicans now that Ivanka talked to him about family separation at the border and that the images are not good.

— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) June 19, 2018

well, he wasn't watching TV before, see

How heartwarming.

(Word yesterday was he was thinking they were all fakes.)

ivanka/melania is how he will find a way to save face, per

Confused about what's happening here? Don't be. A medievalist can explain. + pic.twitter.com/6SEvjBrniW

— Sonja (@Sonja_Drimmer) June 17, 2018

LIVE: Activists are outside a Trump Hotel fundraiser blasting leaked audio of children crying at a detention center. https://t.co/NWilIiWezz

— Alejandro Alvarez (@aletweetsnews) June 19, 2018

Since the president is lying about this, I'll reiterate that we obtained internal CBP documents that show that ****91%**** of parents whose kids are taken away are being prosecuted for misdemeanor FIRST TIME entry.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 19, 2018

this NPR interview with a border patrol official is chilling:

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621578853/border-patrol-official-discusses-family-separation-policy

he repeatedly argues that the media is getting the story wrong, that it's all overblown, "when people hear zero tolerance you'd think we're prosecuting 100% that cross the border - in fact we're prosecuting between 10 and 20 percent of the people crossing the border", etc. upon repeated questioning, admits that he's only talking about Border Patrol, that he can't speak to what happens when these people go to ICE, and that "we don't know what happens when they go to ICE". he then shifts to arguing that nothing has changed on the border since 2014, and then after repeated questioning clarifies that he means "from the Border Patrol's perspective". His message boils down to nothing to see here, this is the media's fault, and also:

"what happens with ICE, after that - I don't know...they have to go to ICE first, and what happens after that, I don't see it"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/members-of-sessions-church-accuse-him-of-child-abuse-for-border-policies/

The skillful touch of our leader.

WOW!

Trump: “Is Mark Sanford here? I just want to congratulate him on running a great race.”

Room goes silent. Trump then called him a nasty guy and the room booed, a bit.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 19, 2018

Such focus

Trump appears to be more interesting in talking about anything BUT immigration at this conference. He is re-living the past, going through GOP successes from rebuilding the military to opioids to tax cuts to NK to fighter jets and lots and lots of winning, per sources in the room

— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) June 19, 2018

XPS Literal Holy Shit!

Trump to House Republicans tonight: "We gotta take care of separation. It's too nasty."

This is amazing considering the Trump administration both executed the policy and has the power to stop it.

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) June 19, 2018

Hooray uh er

At the end of the day, gop leaders got what they wanted out of that meeting: a statement they could position as a full-throated endorsement of the immigration bills.

And the president got to insult Mark Sanford — a popular man who has been in the House for more than a decade.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 19, 2018

Shot...

“It made me mad as hell,” Rep. Walter Jones says about a Trump comment regarding Mark Sanford. Said Trump talked for 45 minutes straight and no one had a chance to say anything.

— Lissandra Villa (@LissandraVilla) June 19, 2018

...chaser.

Oh. The Walter Jones who wanted to impeach Obama? https://t.co/KXzXyTvIQP

— I'll ride with you📎 (@mrshellwinger) June 19, 2018

Is nasty the new sad?

Tracer, you're an immigrant. What country are you infesting again? I am infesting one in SA.

― Yerac, Tuesday, June 19, 2018 8:17 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wait, you're in Lesotho?

Is nasty the new sad?

Nasty woman. It's such an old dad word to use.

xpost I'm in south america.

Nasty is a sexy word more than an offputting one, imo.

I guess it depends on who is saying it.

Whatever could prompt such concern.

Trump made clear on a few occasions in the meeting that he’s with the house republicans all the way. A big concern in gop circles is that trump frequently abandons them or gets wobbly on policies they back.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 19, 2018

THIS time he really means it u guys, honest

Hmm at this last detail:

Hagin on his way out, via @peterbakernyt. Among other people who are rumored to be leaving this - Dan Scavino >>> https://t.co/YwKpZjvKJx

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 19, 2018

Scavino leaving would be...interesting.

he's going to the private sector to write tweets for bigger, richer morons

Can't wait for the Musk tweets

Oo-er missus

trump asks staffers whether “others are leaking, and he recently told one person that ‘the Bushies in the White House are out to get me,’ according to someone with direct knowledge of the discussion.” https://t.co/YwKpZjvKJx

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 19, 2018

"Are you a hu-man?"

"Mr. Trump has grown isolated within the West Wing, according to advisers, and is eager for human contact..." https://t.co/hxeiALIJp8

— Joel Siegel (@joelmsiegel) June 19, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SWsiFVxpbA

I suspect I've been reading that Haberman tweet since April 2017.

Freshly washed, each time.

lol

heh

DHS Secretary Nielsen just got driven out of a Mexican restaurant here on 14th Street by activists. DSA, I believe. pic.twitter.com/lTKutryXBO

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) June 20, 2018

hahaha!

https://www.facebook.com/MetroDCDSA/posts/803611493171511

FB live video of them heckling her here

love it

at a mexican restaurant ffs

and you just know she and her dining companion snickered when mexican was suggested for dinner