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Let Us Pray: Dear God or Gods, Please Let Trump and Musk Keep Fighting with Each Other; We Need This

During an Oval Office photo op yesterday with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Donald Trump likened Russia's war in Ukraine to children "fighting in a park."

"Sometimes you're better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart," Trump said, relating a Tuesday conversation he had with Aspiring Tsar Vladimir Putin. "You see in hockey, you see it in sports. The referees let them go for a couple of seconds, let them go for a little while before you pull them apart."

Let's pause to consider how profoundly amoral, disturbing, and insulting Trump's view of this war is – a war that has left approximately 1.5 million people dead or wounded in the past three years, including tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians. And more Russian missiles and drones struck Kyiv last night. If anyone directly involved in this catastrophe exhibits a childlike grasp of the situation, it is Trump himself – although the comparison is unfair to children, most of whom are perfectly capable of reason and empathy.

But then, there are times when "let them fight" is an appropriate response. I'm talking of course about yesterday's rapidly escalating public spat between Trump and his campaign-donor-turned-co-president, the ghoulish fascist billionaire drug fiend Elon Musk. Their breakup was inevitable. It's been brewing for days, at least, as AM Quickie readers are aware. But the lid blew off in that same Oval Office meeting with Merz when Trump began grousing about Musk and claimed he would've won last year's election without the oligarch's money. Musk responded on his propaganda platform, X, saying Trump had displayed "Such ingratitude" for his having financed the Republican majority, and things escalated from there.

These two huge babies can do a lot of damage to one another. If Trump decides to cancel Musk's lucrative government contracts and revoke his security clearance? So much the better. And maybe deport him back to South Africa? Hey, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. And if Musk's tantrum kills the GOP's Big Bogus Bill, sparing millions from cuts to Medicaid and Medicare? Fantastic.

To be sure, there is a risk of collateral damage. At one point, Musk threatened to yank a SpaceX lifeline for NASA astronauts already in space. Not cool, man! You want to dish about Trump's relationship with the late serial sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein? Fine, but tell us something we don't already know. As for Musk poaching Stephen Miller's wife – it's none of my business.

Enjoy the Republican circular firing squad while it lasts. A truce may already be in the works.

But don't lose your head over all this: Politico reports that some Democrats want to court Musk as an ally now that he's burned bridges with Trump. It seems there really is a sucker born every minute, and that some of these newborn babes are actually grown-ups in suits who hold elected office. Besides, does the Democratic Party really want to put up a sign welcoming creepy, malevolent, government-gutting, Nazi-saluting oligarchs into the fold? Please. Be serious. No. Not for a billion dollars.

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• Trump Talks By Phone With Xi Jinping, Who Agrees to Meet on Trade "Trump also said that imports of rare earth minerals from China would resume shortly, although a readout from Chinese authorities did not mention rare earth minerals. ... Beijing also claimed that Trump told Xi that Chinese students are welcome to study in the United States." via the Washington Post.
• New US Travel Bans Spread Anger, Confusion, and Dread "Chad has no planes to offer, no billions of dollars to give but Chad has his dignity and pride," the country's president, Mahamat Idriss Deby, said by way of announcing a retaliatory ban on visas to US citizens, and referencing Qatar's $400 million Trump bribe in the form of a luxury jet. via NBC News, the Associated Press, and the Washington Post.
• Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Order Denying Visas to Harvard's International Students "'I would imagine would-be students all over the world are reconsidering whether the United States is as desirable a destination as they thought,' said Julia Gelatt, associate director of the Migration Policy Institute's US immigration policy program." via the Washington Post and the Harvard Crimson.
• Marco Rubio Sanctions Four International Criminal Court Judges in Retaliation for Having Investigated the US and Israel One sanctioned ICC Judge, Reine Alapini-Gansou, not only approved an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year, but "was also part of the panel of judges who issued the arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2023." via the AP and the Guardian.
• A Dozen ICE Agents Are Sick and Stranded Inside an Overheated Metal Shipping Container in Djbouti with Eight Deportees Meanwhile in California, residents are demanding answers about why immigration agents arrested 9-year-old Martir Garcia Lara, a fourth-grader at Torrance Elementary School, who was detained with his father on May 29 and may be deported to Honduras. via the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the AP.
• Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, and Dan Bongino Continue Wreaking Havoc on US Intelligence Agencies At the FBI, agents who've maintained social ties to critics of the Trump regime are being forced out; and at ODNI, Gabbard has installed a loyalist inside the office of inspector general, undermining its integrity. via the Washington Post and the New York Times.
• Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin Warns Pete Hegseth He Could Be Fined $400,005,000 if He Accepts Qatari Luxury Jet on Trump's Behalf Violators of the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act can face penalties equal to the value of the unlawful gift, plus $5,000. via the New York Times.
• The Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Earned the Lowest Health Inspection Score in Somerset County By Far: 32 Out of 100 A three-hour inspection uncovered expired milk, sinks without soap or towels, improperly stored raw meat, and below-grade appliances. via Forbes and the New York Times.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

• GOP's Big Bogus Bill Would Deny Child Tax Credit to Low-Income Families of 22 Million Kids "Those excluded from the maximum aid include 65 percent of children with single mothers, 51 percent of Black children, 44 percent of Latino children and 40 percent of children in rural areas." via the New York Times.
• Israel Arms Gaza Crime Gangs to Fight Hamas, Loot Aid Yasser Abu Shabab's so-called Popular Forces group, known locally as a crime family, claims its relationship with Israeli forces is limited to "humanitarian communication" and that when it raided aid trucks it "only took the minimum amount of food and water necessary." via the Associated Press, the Guardian and the New York Times.
• Supreme Court Unanimously Rules in Favor of Straight White Woman Who Claimed Job Discrimination "Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the only Black woman on the high court, wrote the opinion that sided with Marlean Ames, an Ohio state government employee who argued it was unconstitutional to have different standards for different groups of people." via the Washington Post.
• AOC Endorses Zohran Mamdani for NYC Mayor as Landlords Line Up Behind Andrew Cuomo New York's Squad Rep. "said she will rank Adrienne Adams, Brad Lander, Scott Stringer and Zellnor Myrie in that order after Mamdani." via Politico and the New York Times.

SOME NUMBER

81 percent

That's how many entries in the physician directories of five large health insurers contained errors in a recent medical journal review. As NBC News reports, "ghost networks" — healthcare provider directories "that are largely unreachable, out of network or don’t accept new patients" – are a persistent problem for Americans with private health insurance, despite state and federal laws intended to make sure people can actually access the care they need.

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PARTING WORDS

"It feels like every day, SpaceX is moving faster to colonize our region. Now that Trump is in office, just in the last few months, we’ve seen SpaceX become their own company town, increase launches. Now they're taking over control of our beach. They're pushing fast and hard to take over very quickly."

-- Bekah Hinojosa, co-founder of the South Texas Environmental Justice Network, speaking to the Washington Post about Elon Musk's corporate takeover of areas around the formerly unincorporated Boca Chica Village, now known as Starbase, Texas. Many longtime locals are at risk of losing their homes, and the local Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe says SpaceX is devastating an 8-mile stretch of beach that is the site of their creation story.

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