The Political Thread

[Chris]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/business/media/shari-redstone-paramount-trump-cbs.html

Shari Redstone, the chair and controlling shareholder of Paramount Global, is confronting a personal health crisis as she navigates a high-profile battle over the future of her media empire and a lawsuit filed by President Trump against her news division at CBS.

Ms. Redstone, 71, was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer and underwent surgery last month, she acknowledged in an interview after The New York Times asked about her condition.

“Shari Redstone was diagnosed with thyroid cancer earlier this spring,” said Molly Morse, a spokeswoman for Ms. Redstone.

The diagnosis adds a new layer of complexity to the legal and political quagmire that Ms. Redstone and her company, which controls television stations, streaming platforms and a movie studio, have been struggling to navigate.

 

[Chris]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/economy/us-jobs-report-may-final

The long-resilient US labor market slowed down a little in May, adding 139,000 jobs, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday.

Last month’s job gains, which came in slightly more than expected, marked a retreat from April, which was downwardly revised to 147,000.

The unemployment rate held steady at 4.2%.

Economists were expecting the economy to have added 130,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate held at 4.2%, according to FactSet consensus estimates.

 

[Barry Poppins]

So the Proud Boys are planning in suing the federal government for daring to be convicted for their involvement in raiding the capital building.

 

[Barry Poppins]

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported to El Salvador, brought back to U.S. to face human smuggling charges

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador in March, has been indicted and brought back to the U.S.

www.cbsnews.com

Literal nazi shit. They illegally deport him to an El Salvadoran prison without due process, keep him there for weeks, and then bring him back for sham indictments of human trafficking.

 

[Chris]

Supreme Court allows DOGE to access Social Security data

The dispute concerns efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency, largely led by Elon Musk, to access sensitive data, including Social Security numbers.

www.nbcnews.com

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed members of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security Administration data.

The conservative-majority court, with its three liberal justices objecting, granted an emergency application filed by the Trump administration asking the justices to lift an injunction issued by a federal judge in Maryland.

The unsigned order said that members of the DOGE team assigned to the Social Security Administration should have "access to the agency records in question in order for those members to do their work."

 

[Loochblade]

The timing is peculiar, isn't it...

The whole world has their eyes completely on the "implosion" of this Musk/Trump partnership, be it that they're celebrating it, or whining about it, with a lot of big name celebrities/influencers helping with it... all while important shit like this goes down.

Trump wants to nix Musk's contracts, but he's not backpaddling about the DOGE shit seems odd too. Almost out of character, I would even say, because usually Trump would take a dump on everything his newest enemy is (or was) responsible for.

Feels almost like a try of an elaborate work. (...and it would work perfectly, since so many people thought from the beginning it would implode between those two)

 

[Comrade Khan]

The timing is peculiar, isn't it...

The whole world has their eyes completely on the "implosion" of this Musk/Trump partnership, be it that they're celebrating it, or whining about it, with a lot of big name celebrities/influencers helping with it... all while important shit like this goes down.

Trump wants to nix Musk's contracts, but he's not backpaddling about the DOGE shit seems odd too. Almost out of character, I would even say, because usually Trump would take a dump on everything his newest enemy is (or was) responsible for.

Feels almost like a try of an elaborate work. (...and it would work perfectly, since so many people thought from the beginning it would implode between those two)

just another distraction indeed

 

[Barry Poppins]

Between that, him petitioning the SC to gut the Department of Education, and Trump's government indicting civilians that they previously deported without due process, the Trump/Musk is small potatoes.

 

[O-Blaze]

A former federal inmate who was pardoned by President Donald Trump in his first term for drug trafficking crimes more than two decades ago has been tapped as deputy director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, according to bureau spokesperson Kristie Breshears.

Joshua J. Smith, a Tennessee businessman who founded an inmate advocacy and rehabilitation nonprofit foundation, the Fourth Purpose, will be second in command in the bureau.

The BOP has never had a formerly incarcerated inmate work as an employee at any level, according to a senior bureau official.

More: nbcnews.app.link/SXnaI0Ro0Tb

 

[Barry Poppins]

Greta Thunberg 'kidnapped by Israeli forces' in international waters while carrying aid for Gaza

Greta Thunberg 'kidnapped by Israeli forces' in international waters while carrying aid for GazaFreedom Flotilla Coalition

www.yahoo.com

 

[Barry Poppins]

Baby Formula is just too dangerous to be allowed in Gaza, folks.

 

[Loochblade]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/trump-los-angeles-immigration-protests-rcna211695

Anyone now in downtown L.A. subject to arrest

Police tonight expanded their unlawful assembly declaration to include all of downtown Los Angeles, generally the area inside a loop created by the 110, 101, 5 and 10 freeways.
The declaration means nobody, with a few exceptions, including members of the news media, should be in the area and will be subject to arrest.

 

[Chris]

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5339718-california-lawsuit-trump-national-guard/

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said California will sue the Trump administration Monday over its deployment of the National Guard to quell Los Angeles protests against federal immigration raids.

In an interview Sunday evening on MSNBC, Newsom said the lawsuit would challenge Trump’s federalizing of the California National Guard without the state’s consent, a move with little precedent in U.S. history.

“Donald Trump has created the conditions you see on your TV tonight. He’s exacerbated the conditions. He’s, you know, lit the proverbial match. He’s putting fuel on this fire, ever since he announced he was taking over the National Guard — an illegal act, an immoral act, an unconstitutional act,” Newsom said on MSNBC.

“And we’re going to test that theory with a lawsuit tomorrow,” he added..

Asked to elaborate on the lawsuit, Newsom said that under Trump’s executive order, “it specifically notes — and under what the [Department of Defense] did — is they had to coordinate with the governor of the state. They never coordinated with the governor of the state.”

 

[Barry Poppins]

Hey LAPD, surely with all the protests going on you won't commit some heinous shit while you think no-one's looking right?

Right?

 

[Loochblade]

Well... they are doing what they are (really) paid for