It was a week in which events looked to be spinning out of control on multiple fronts. Talking Feds Substack breaks it down. The bromance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump hit the rocks and broke to smithereens, with Musk by week's end calling for Trump's impeachment. The Big Beautiful Bill looked likewise to be at rough shoals, w/ several R's threatening to leave the fold. More courts ruled against the gov, especially in alien cases, and the gov reversed ground and brought Abrego Garcia home, only to charge him with federal crimes.
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Robert Reich nailed it in his comments. In their search for unlimited power, they started taking big money from special interests in order to turn their backs on the people who elected them. How ironic.
People are disposable to Trump, too bad he included the richest man in the world, he knows no loyalty.