This will be a political post, even though I've been trying to avoid politics for mental health reasons and even though you probably already know everything I'm going to say.
The International Criminal Court today issued an arrest warrant for war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for atrocities committed in Gaza against Palestinians. The ICC also issued a warrant for Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif, although Israel claims he's already been killed.
Disgraced congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration as the new Attorney General in the next administration, claiming he didn't want to be a "distraction." I'm sure he already secured a guarantee for a future presidential pardon before he resigned. Trump will replace his nominee with Florida AG Pam Bondi, who strangely is not a television personality, which seems to be a prerequisite for the Trump cabinet.
During the campaign, Trump tried to distance himself from the reviled and toxic Project 2025, claiming he had nothing to do with it and hadn't even read it (the latter part of that I could agree with). Well, sources close to the Trump transition team now say that they expect Trump to name Russell Vought, one of the key architects of Project 2025,to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Vought wrote the section of the plan that calls for “aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch” to “bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will” and identified the OMB as the means of enforcing the president’s agenda. So the plan seems to be in progress despite Trump's feigned ignorance.
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