Day 113: Unhinged

Warning: Do not read Trump's tweets from today. Each tweet will decrease your IQ by an average of 5 points.

• Trump was seriously unhinged this morning on twitter, threatening to cancel White house press conferences, and insinuating blackmail from recorded conversations with Comey. Spicer then had to defend him later on. The entire thing was bizarre. Some of the committees investigating Trump have now requested those recordings, because why not?
• Trump used a sneaky backdoor trick to bypass the senate confirmation proceedings for putting somebody in charge of the Office of the Comptroller. Expect oversight of Wall St to become nonexistent under this guy.
• Sessions continues ramping up his war on drugs, ordering prosecutors to seek the maximum possible charges, particularly in drug cases. The 90's want their failed policy back, Sessions.
• The changes in immigration policy have had a silencing effect on Hispanics reporting violent crime. Completely foreseeable, and utterly despicable.
• Trump's lawyers claim that his tax returns from the past ten years show no income from Russian sources, except for the exceptions. Of course, no tax returns were released, so independent scrutiny is impossible.
• The EPA has given permission for a mining company to seek permits to destroy Alaskan fisheries. The mining company wants a "fairer process" than the Obama administration was willing to give them. Grr.
• Update from yesterday: the voter fraud investigation was established through an executive order. It remains an atrocious enterprise.