Another Day, More Trump Shit You Never Thought Would Happen. Like:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on the matter. The aircraft also carried its munitions inside the fuselage, rather than visibly under its wings, they said.
The nonmilitary appearance is significant, according to legal specialists, because the administration has argued its lethal boat attacks are lawful — not murders — because President Trump “determined” the United States is in an armed conflict with drug cartels.
But the laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called “perfidy.”
Retired Maj. Gen. Steven J. Lepper, a former deputy judge advocate general for the United States Air Force, said that if the aircraft had been painted in a way that disguised its military nature and got close enough for the people on the boat to see it — tricking them into failing to realize they should take evasive action or surrender to survive — that was a war crime under armed-conflict standards.
EPA Will No Longer Consider People’s Health. Which, of course, was why the EPA was created:
The Trump administration plans to stop calculating the monetary value of the public health benefits from reducing air pollution and instead focus exclusively on the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, the New York Times reported Monday.
Intragency emails and other documents reviewed by the Times revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to stop tallying the financial value of health benefits caused by limiting fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone when regulating polluting industries.
“This policy will cause more deaths of vulnerable Americans, like infants and the elderly,” American University School of Public Affairs professor Claudia Persico said on X Monday. “Also, it appears to be a violation of the Clean Air Act. This is incredibly foolish.”
The EPA proposal would mark a stark reversal of decades of policy under which the agency cited the estimated cost of avoided asthma attacks and premature deaths to support stronger clean air rules. The change is likely to make it easier to roll back limits on PM2.5 and ozone from coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills, and other polluting facilities.
FBI Digs Deep To ‘Blame The Victim’. Or, more accurately, Kash Patel does:
Federal investigators assigned to the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman are looking into her possible connections to activist groups protesting the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement, in addition to the actions of the federal agent who killed her, people familiar with the situation said.
It seems increasingly unlikely that the agent who fired three times at the unarmed woman, Renee Nicole Good, will face criminal charges, although that could change as investigators collect new evidence, the people added.
On Sunday, President Trump described Ms. Good and her wife, Becca Good, as being “professional agitators,” adding that the authorities would “find out who’s paying for it.” He offered no evidence to support his claims.
The decision by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department to scrutinize Ms. Good’s activities and her potential connections to local activists is in line with the White House’s strategy of deflecting blame for the shooting away from federal law enforcement and toward opponents they have described as domestic terrorists, often without providing evidence.
Justice Department officials under Mr. Trump have long maintained that investigating and punishing protesters who organized efforts to physically obstruct or disrupt immigration enforcement is a legitimate subject of federal inquiries. But casting a broad net over the activist community in Minneapolis, former department officials and critics of the administration said, raises the specter that forms of political protest traditionally protected by the First Amendment could be criminalized.
Finally, Minneapolis is under siege by ICE and the Feds:
“I’m at a complete loss for the lack of mainstream media coverage of what is going on right now in Minneapolis. The entire city is being invaded and terrorized by a badgeless police force. Who is going to do literally anything about it?? Horrifying.
They’re literally ramming their cars into people and then arresting them all over the Twin Cities. No one is safe. And, they won’t stop here, your city is next.”
A Marine vet responds to her arrest at the hands of ICE:
My hands are fucked up….
So first off, I’m a United States Marine veteran. They —
We were following them from a safe distance…following ICE agents. They tried — they stopped in the middle of the road and reversed, on 62. They tried to ram our car. They tried to get us into a bottleneck. Once I saw a police officer from Minota Heights. I tried to wave them down, and they funneled us straight into ICE’S hands.
(deep breath)
Once in ICE’s hands, they broke my window, they yanked me out by my neck, they threw me to the ground, they stomped on me, they pushed my face into the ground. They put the cuffs on as tight as possible, to the point where it took six agents to try to get them off…
REPORTER: As they’re doing this are they saying anything?
Yeah, they’re calling me a bunch of derogatory names, calling me “it.”
They tried to break my ankle. When he turned my ankle all the way around, I screamed, and he said, “Yeah, I bet you fucking like that, don’t you?
(snip)
They’re enjoying it. They’re 100% absolutely enjoying it.
They literally said in there [Whipple], they said, “Have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch.” You think they feel sorry about that at all?
I know. It’s all that I can take for one day as well.
What do you want to talk about?