Sep 8
2025
The Good (Tish James), the Bad (Trump) and the Ugly (Musk’s trillion dollar pay package)
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I’ve long thought Attorney General Letitia James should be doing more to prosecute political corruption in New York. But I’ve got to hand it to her: She’s no slouch when it comes to Donald Trump, as detailed in a profile in the current edition of The Nation.
“No attorney general in the country is battling President Donald Trump more proficiently—and drawing more of his fire—than James,” wrote The Nation. “James and her partner AGs have hit the president with a barrage of lawsuits that have temporarily halted some of his worst orders in the past seven months.”
“In their quest to hold Trump accountable, James and her fellow Democratic AGs have become arguably even more important today than they were during Trump’s first term, when they boasted an 83 percent win rate in cases challenging the administration’s agenda. Since January, they have become the main actors holding the line against the administration’s unprecedented lawlessness.”
A profile well worth a read.
Trump invited the titans of technology to the White House last week and they took turns slobbering over each other to praise the president. Here’s a list of quislings who attended.
Watch this short video at the risk of losing your lunch — or breakfast.
Make no mistake, the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook are lockstep with Trump in his authoritarian actions. Even Bill Gates bent the knee, praising Trump for his “incredible leadership.”
Here’s what the editor of Wired said in a recent interview prior to last week’s lovefest:
We’re witnessing, in real-time, a profound consolidation of power and collusion among political and tech elites—the ruling class of this country, and the world – wherein the tools and technologies that this industry has built, and continues to build, can now be deployed in service of an authoritarian regime.
Trump keeps losing court cases. Little wonder, as his administration is a lawless one.
Of late, judges have ruled against the administration’s imposition of tariffs, deployment of federal troops in Los Angeles and efforts to strong-arm Harvard University.
Trump is counting on the Supreme Court to overturn these decisions, and John Roberts and Company often side with the president. Their compliance and frequent refusal to explain their decisions drew criticism last week from a dozen lower-court judges who spoke to NBC News. The court’s standing with the public is dropping, as well, and approaching the lowest it has been in three decades.
There has been an avalanche of litigation, which you can follow here and here.
Nexstar’s purchase of Tegna might be only the beginning of the consolidation of the television industry. Fox and CBS might also want in on the action. No good can come of it.
States, including New York, are considering setting their own vaccine policies in light of RFK Jr.’s assault on public health. The Gothamist reports on the effort in Albany, while NPR reports on initiatives elsewhere. Meanwhile, down in Florida, officials are doing away with vaccine mandates, even for children, a step even Trump has reservations about.
Donate to support our nonprofit newsroomHouse Republicans have created a new panel to investigate the January 6 insurrection, presumably in hopes of overwriting the findings of the report created primarily by Democrats. Meanwhile, some of the pardoned rioters want to be compensated for being prosecuted.
Dictators are obsessed with living longer. Witness the conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, both 72.
Gordon Gekko, the “greed is good” film character, has nothing on Elon Musk, who is angling for a compensation package that could be worth a trillion dollars.
