Day 35: Private Prison Lobbyists Earn Their Paycheck

Another day at work, another half-dozen ways the administration is trying to kill us. Where to even begin?

• Obama's order ending the federal use of private prisons (because let's face it, those companies are incredibly shitty companies) was just rescinded by the administration (Jeff Sessions in particular). Well fuck.
• CBP, working with ICE, checked ID documents from everybody on a domestic flight as it landed in JFK. This should not be happening. It reeks of a surveillance state.
• Trump has upped the ante yet again, claiming his deportation force is a military operation. This is disturbing. His press secretary tried to say the President didn't mean that, but just gave his usual meaningless word salad.
• Republicans continue to cover Trump's ass, just so they can get his signature on their legislative agenda. This time, they're burying a resolution of inquiry in committee. If Republicans believed in any form of accountability, they would be supporting this.
• Ivanka Trump is pushing for increased child care benefits for the wealthy. Because the poor don't need childcare?
• The White house asked the FBI to publicly denounce reports of communications between Trump's team and Russia. Oh? I wonder, what are they trying to hide?
• Trump wants more nukes. Having enough firepower to destroy the world a few hundred times over is insufficient, apparently.