■ … for its “willful disregard” of his orders directing the halt of a flight of Venezuelan migrants to an El Salvador prison.
■ Read the order here.
■ Law professor Joyce Vance: “This uncertain process … is certain to make him even more of a target than his initial ruling against the Trump administration did.”
■ PolitiFact debunks Trump’s misleading statements about Boasberg.
■ A retired federal judge appointed by George W. Bush says the Trump administration’s disdain for judicial authority is “breathtaking in its audacity and lack of decorum.”
■ Author and tech watchdog Cory Doctorow: “Trump II is a lawless administration, prepared to violate laws, procedures, norms and the U.S. Constitution.”
■ Indivisible Chicago’s launched an online petition demanding that “nobody be disappeared from our country.”
A Chicago speech ticked Trump off. The president took to social media this morning to complain that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s “termination cannot come fast enough” …
■ … after Powell told an Economic Club of Chicago lunch that “unemployment is likely to go up as the economy slows, in all likelihood, and inflation is likely to go up” as a consequence of Trump’s tariffs.
■ See Powell’s speech here.
■ Contrarian editor-in-chief Jennifer Rubin: “Tariffs are not the only regressive, economically insane move” the administration’s advancing.
■ Unions and other groups have launched a network to provide legal help to laid-off federal workers.
‘We need to … stand up to this president.’ Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who last month called Trump Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “a f*cking liar,” joined The Daily Show last night.
■ Chicago-born John Mulaney’s Netflix talk show delivered what LateNighter’s Dennis Perkins dubs a “pitch-perfect tribute” to David Letterman.
Trump sees crimson. Denied complicity by Harvard in his demand for changes in its hiring and educational policies, Trump’s team is considering stripping the university of its tax-exempt status.
■ City Cast Chicago surveys the ways in which Trump’s putting the squeeze on Chicago’s universities.
■ Stephen Colbert on Trump’s push to defund public broadcasting: “They’re already operating on a shoestring budget! Daniel Tiger can’t even afford to wear pants!”
‘It is troubling that the City Council would consider giving one person … the ability to enforce a curfew at any point, at any time without warning.’ Axios: The American Civil Liberties Union, among others, is sounding a warning about a plan—endorsed by a majority of council members—giving the cops power to activate “anytime, anywhere” curfews for teens.
■ Columnist Eric Zorn: “It’s worth a try.”
■ The City Council’s voted overwhelmingly to block those who joined the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot from being hired for city jobs.
CTA shootout. An exchange of gunfire by two masked men on a Red Line train last night left a 13-year-old wounded.
■ A 39-year-old man was due in court today, accused in the robbery of a custom-made violin Friday night on the CTA.
Blues news. Here’s the lineup for this summer’s Chicago Blues Festival …
■ … including a centennial tribute to the late B.B. King.
‘I’m not screaming Aliens! But I … reserve my right to scream Aliens!’ An exobiologist shares with The New York Times (gift link, courtesy of Chicago Public Square supporters) her excitement about the discovery of the “strongest evidence yet” for life on a distant planet.
■ It’s not E.T., though: It’s just signs of two chemicals long considered producible only by living things.
■ The Washington Post in another gift link: Trump’s purge of National Institutes of Health review boards has disproportionately hit female, Black and Hispanic scientists.
■ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts put the lie to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims about a rise in autism cases.
■ Wonkette’s Evan Hurst wants you to know “what Seth Rogen said right to Bezos’s and Zuck’s little fascist Trump-sucking faces” at an “Oscars of Science” ceremony—remarks that “cowards … edited out.”
‘No paywall, ever. You are as good as anyone else.’ That financial appeal from Wonkette earlier this week brought to mind Chicago Public Square’s similar commitment.
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