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Trump Begs Supreme Court to Rescue His Illegal Tariffs - The Friday AM Quickie 5/30/25

By Corey Pein —

After reading this, I don't think paragliding is for me. But good luck surviving to all who participate! Whitney's back Monday. - Corey

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THE BIG NEWS

Trumpocalypse: Appeals Court Allows Trump's Tariffs to Stay in Place for Now as Regime Seeks Supreme Court Relief

  • Harvard Wins Initial Court Fight with Trump Regime to Keep Its Foreign Students Enrolled Meanwhile, State Department sources say it's clear that Secretary of State Marco Rubio's announcement that students from China would have their visas revoked did not come with a plan to actually implement the racist decree, which in addition to needlessly ruining people's lives also threatens the stability of universities across the country as well as the US economic and scientific edge. via the New York Times, Politico, the Associated Press, and HuffPost.
  • After Biden Nixed Japanese Takeover of US Steel, Trump Reverses Campaign Promise and Vows to Push the Deal Through "Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who is seen as a potential presidential candidate, had largely refrained from publicly endorsing a deal but said at a news conference this week that he was “cautiously optimistic” about the arrangement." via the AP.
  • Trump Nominates Former Fascist Podcaster Paul Ingrassia, an Ally of Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate, to Head Office of Special Counsel The watchdog agency "has oversight over preventing federal government employers from engaging in nepotism or hiring individuals because of their political connection or influence, coercing employees into participating in political activities and other illegal labor practices." via the Washington Post and the New York Times.
  • White House Says It Will 'Update' MAHA Report Composed Using AI That Cited Studies That Don't Exist "The idea that they would envelop themselves in the shroud of scientific excellence while producing a report that relies heavily on AI is just shockingly hypocritical," says Peter Lurie, president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, who served as a top Food and Drug Administration official in the Obama administration. via the Washington Post, the AP, and NOTUS.
  • Feds: Someone Is Impersonating White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Making Demands of Republican Officials and Businessmen "It became clear to some of the lawmakers that the requests were suspicious when the impersonator began asking questions about Trump that Wiles should have known the answers to — and in one case, when the impersonator asked for a cash transfer." via the Wall Street Journal.
  • After Palling Around with Trump, Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Surprised By His Possible Pardon of the Men Who Plotted to Kidnap Her "When I talked to him before, we had a thoughtful conversation about [pardoning my attempted abductors] and he said he'd drop it. So, I'm not sure what to make of this new revelation, but I will be reaching out over the weekend," Whitmer said yesterday. via Michigan Public Radio, ProPublica, and the Washington Post.
  • Trump Suffered 'Mental Anguish' When Watching 60 Minutes Interview with Kamala Harris Last Fall, His Lawyer Claims The Freedom of the Press Foundation plans to sue CBS News owner Paramount if the company settles Trump's "meritless" lawsuit, which "may well be a thinly veiled effort to launder bribes through the court system." via the AP.
  • Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin Opens Investigation Into Trump's Crazy Corrupt Crypto Dinner "Just this week, Vice President JD Vance headlined a bitcoin conference in Las Vegas, while Trump Media said it would raise $2.5 billion to invest in bitcoin. ... 'There's a new sheriff in town,' Vance said at the conference." via the Washington Post and Politico.

Planet Is Warming Faster Than Expected, UN Report Warns

The World Meteorological Organization, a United Nations climate body, yesterday released a new report warning that human-caused climate change is on track to increase global temperatures by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, the danger threshold established in the Paris Agreement, within two years. As the Washington Post reports, that's an unwelcome update to UN expert forecasts from just two years ago, which predicted that threshold wouldn't be reached for another decade. "It's pretty bleak," Canadian fire scientist Mike Flannigan tells the Los Angeles Times. "My fear is that [the coming years] will be even warmer than they suggest, and the impacts will continue to catch us by surprise and be more severe than we expect across the world. ... It's scary. It really is." Except more collapsing glaciers. And speaking of Canadian fires, see the Quicker Quickies below.

Law & Order Roundup: FBI Will Release Video Proving Jeffrey Epstein Killed Himself, Claims Crank Podcaster Turned Whiny Fed Dan Bongino

  • Trump's Latest Pardons Reveal How He's Legalizing Corruption While Criminalizing Dissent The 25 people who received clemency from Trump on Wednesday include a violent "gang leader who built a powerful criminal enterprise, an ex-congressman from New York who underreported earnings from his Manhattan restaurant and a Connecticut governor toppled in a corruption scandal." via the Washington Post and the New York Times.
  • NYPD Investigating Detective on Eric Adams' Security Detail for Alleged Involvement in Abduction and Torture of Italian Crytpo Millionaire The victim, "a 28-year-old Italian national who has not been named by officials, said he was then held captive for 17 days, as the two [crypto investors who employed the NYPD cop] tormented him with electrical wires, forced him to smoke from a crack pipe and at one point dangled him from a staircase five stories high." via the Associated Press and NBC News.
  • Fugitive Former Police Chief Dubbed the 'Devil in the Ozarks' May Be Hiding in Caves After Escaping Arkansas Prison Grant Hardin, 56, was serving sentences for murder and rape when he disguised himself in a mock law enforcement uniform and walked out through an open gate. via the AP and CNN.
  • He Was a Crook: Disgraced Former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik Dies The late Rudy Giuliani associate's 2010 guilty plea on federal tax fraud charges "stemmed partially from over $250,000 in apartment renovations he received from a construction firm that authorities say counted on Kerik to convince New York officials it had no organized crime links." via NBC News and the New York Times.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

  • Out-of-Control Wildfires Force 17,000 Canadians in Two Provinces to Evacuate Meanwhile in the US, forecasters expect "an above normal" hurricane season this year, which is bad news, considering Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has proclaimed that "we are eliminating FEMA." via the Washington Post and NBC News.
  • Israel Touts Plans to Establish 22 New Illegal Settlements in the West Bank A Hamas official, meanwhile, said a ceasefire plan for Gaza approved by Israel and promoted by the Trump regime "does not meet any of our people’s demands, foremost among them, halting the war." via the Guardian, Al Jazeera, and the Associated Press.
  • Meta Pitches Augmented Reality AI Helmets to US Military The company is once again partnering up with former executive Palmer Lucky, who was fired during Trump's first term for being too much of a MAGA loon. via the Washington Post.
  • Californians Wage a Campaign of Sabotage on Driverless Waymo Taxis to Stop Their Incessant Beeping Santa Monica officials weren't even aware that the company had launched a sizable facility in their city until residents started to complain about the noise, because it effectively snuck in through a sublease. via the Los Angeles Times.

SOME NUMBER

$34 billion

That's how much Donald Trump's trade war has already cost companies in lost sales and higher costs, according to a Reuters analysis. Regime officials are concocting alternate plans to impose tariffs after a federal court this week found ruled his "yo-yo" import tax regime illegal. Trump, meanwhile, flipped out when a reporter asked him about the new Wall Street acronym "TACO", which refers to how Trump Always Chickens Out on sticking to his insane and illegal trade policies.

ON THE SHOW TODAY

5/16: Happy Friday! David Dayen from The American Prospect will join the show for a wrapup of the week's news!

DON'T MISS MR CLIPS‌

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PARTING WORDS

"I feel like an animal in a cage, eating, sleeping and relieving myself in the same place. But I will persist if this is what it takes to let society know the reality workers like me face."

-- Kim Hyoung-su, a South Korean shipyard worker who has been protesting poor conditions for subcontractors like himself since March 14, when he climbed a 98-foot-tall tower in Seoul and set up camp, speaking to the New York Times. Meanwhile, the Financial Times reports that Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung, a leftist who has pitched himself as a "successful Bernie Sanders," could win the presidency in Tuesday's election.

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