{"id":15393,"date":"2025-05-15T18:52:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T01:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15393"},"modified":"2025-08-13T05:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:22:05","slug":"mad-world-bradcast-5152025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=15393","title":{"rendered":"Mad World: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 5\/15\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BradCast_SCOTUS-Johnson-Noem-FEMA-Souter_051525.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Today on <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>The BradCast<\/i><\/a>: A whole lotta madness. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among our <i>many<\/i>, mad stories today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Trump Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/immigration-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-nationwide-injunctions-2c495cddc1436e21a9fa976d295dc292\">challenged<\/a> the constitutionality of lower court judges issuing nationwide injunctions at the <b>U.S. Supreme Court<\/b> today, as part of Donald Trump&#8217;s wildly unconstitutional Executive Order declaring an end to Constitutional <b>Birthright Citizenship<\/b>. He&#8217;s lost in every lower court, so far, even if the merits of that Order, largely, were not heard by the High Court today.  The Administration did, however, appear to be on track to lose their maximalist argument against nationwide injunctions as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <b>House GOP<\/b>&#8216;s effort to ram Trump&#8217;s &#8220;big, beautiful&#8221; agenda through the House before the Memorial Day recess <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/republicans-advance-trumps-tax-cut-plan-after-all-night-debate-2025-05-14\/\">continues apace<\/a>, after several all-nighter mark-up sessions in major House committees. The bill is meant to encompass the entire Trump\/GOP agenda to give enormous tax cuts to rich people and corporations, while taking health care (and much more ) from millions of the neediest Americans, in one single bill. But many Republicans can&#8217;t agree on how many Americans should have their health care taken away from them to pay for a bill that will add nearly $4 trillion to the national debt. And some Republicans appear to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/05\/14\/first-time-we-were-hearing-of-them-the-gop-megabill-is-packed-with-surprises-for-some-republicans-00350398?cid=apn\">have no idea about<\/a> major provisions in the legislation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>As Congress is gutting health care and nutrition assistance for the nation&#8217;s neediest, the Trump Administration continues to work toward &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/5220996-noem-trump-fema-elimination-concerns\/\">&#8220;eliminating&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; the <b>Federal Emergency Management Agency<\/b> (FEMA) just weeks before hurricane and wildfire season kick into gear. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/05\/08\/politics\/fema-administrator-acting-fired-cameron-hamilton\">fired<\/a> FEMA&#8217;s acting Director last week after he dared testify, in contradiction to Trump, that he didn&#8217;t think it a good idea to eliminate the agency. His replacement is promising to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fema-acting-administrator-david-richardson-staff-meeting\/\">&#8220;run right over&#8221;<\/a> anyone who gets in his way, even as an internal review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/05\/15\/politics\/fema-review-concerns-hurricane-season\">obtained by CNN<\/a> warns that FEMA &#8220;is not ready&#8221; for hurricane season. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And hurricanes this year could be more deadly than ever. That, thanks to both climate change and, more immediately, drastic Trump cuts to the <b>National Weather Service<\/b> (NWS) and the <b>National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/b> (NOAA) which houses it. Last week, five former NWS directors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/former-national-weather-service-leaders-letter-noaa-cuts\/\">penned an open letter<\/a>, warning of great danger to the public in the wake of recent draconian cuts at the Service. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-trumps-national-weather-service-cuts-could-cost-lives\/\"><i>Scientific American<\/i> details<\/a> their chilling concerns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It has now been two months since Maryland father and Venezuelan migrant <b>Kilmar Abrego Garcia<\/b> was &#8220;accidentally&#8221; disappeared to a gulag in El Salvador by the Trump Administration in violation of a court order. But Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GBwCUPttprw\">ridiculous contention<\/a> about Abrego Garcia having &#8220;MS-13&#8221; tattooed onto his knuckles continues. That, as the Administration continues to defy a Supreme Court order to facilitate the man&#8217;s return. But because Trump was obviously and transparently wrong about &#8220;MS-13&#8221; on the man&#8217;s knuckles (it clearly Photoshopped onto a photo shown to him), everybody else in his Administration must pretend he wasn&#8217;t wrong about it. That led to an <i>absurd<\/i> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/atrupar.com\/post\/3lp5c4uv7l22l\">surreal colloquy<\/a> between DHS Sec. <b>Kristi Noem<\/b> and Rep. <b>Eric Swalwell<\/b> (D-CA) in a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes, it&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6\/post\/3lp6n4vzjb22j?ref_src=embed&#038;ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Ftalkingpointsmemo.com%252Fmorning-memo%252Ftrump-exacts-new-retribution-against-his-prosecutors\">mad world<\/a> right now in these United States, though one that we should have seen coming. (Some of us did.) Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice <b>David Souter<\/b> &#8212; who died last week in New Hampshire at the age of 85 &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ok-sYRpLsrc\">tried to warn us<\/a> about pretty much everything we&#8217;re seeing now&#8230;back in 2012, <i>before<\/i> the Trump-era.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, we close with Desi Doyen and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15392\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, as <b>Republicans<\/b> in Congress work to end <b>Joe Biden<\/b>&#8216;s landmark clean, renewable energy initiatives; the Trump <b>EPA<\/b> rolls back limits on <b>toxic chemicals<\/b> in drinking water; and some recent good news for the climate out of <b>Australia<\/b>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-HouseGOPTrumpBill-DismantlingFEMA-NWS-SwalwellNoemGarciaTattoos-SouterRIP_051525.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/256-the-bradcast-w-brad-friedm-30973643\/\">iHeart<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/i><\/center><center><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr style=\"background: blue; color:white;\">\n<td width=\"50%\"><center><span class=\"footnote\"><b>MONTHLY BRAD BLOG SUBSCRIPTION<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\"><center><span class=\"footnote\"><b>ONE-TIME DONATION<\/b><\/span><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid blue;\"><center><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\" style=\"margin-top:-3em; margin-bottom:2em;text-align:center;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"9PMSTMCJK9B3E\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Choose monthly amount...\">Choose monthly amount&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><select name=\"os0\"><option value=\"$10\">$10 : $10.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$20\">$20 : $20.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$50\">$50 : $50.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$100\">$100 : $100.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><\/select> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\"><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_subscribe_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/form>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid blue;\"><center><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\" style=\"margin-top:0em; margin-bottom:2em;text-align:center;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"K5A5LX7J6WTHQ\"><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"footnote\">(Snail mail support to <b>&#8220;Brad Friedman, 7095 Hollywood Blvd., #594 Los Angeles, CA 90028<\/b>&#8221; always welcome too!)<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on The BradCast: A whole lotta madness. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Among our many, mad stories today&#8230; The Trump Administration challenged the constitutionality of lower court judges issuing nationwide injunctions at the U.S. Supreme Court today, as part of Donald Trump&#8217;s wildly unconstitutional Executive Order declaring an end to Constitutional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[675,543,513,479,1326,548,883,1950,613,477,2037,2016,947,736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bradcast","category-climate-change","category-dhs","category-donald-trump","category-eric-swalwell","category-extreme-weather","category-fascism","category-inflation-reduction-act","category-irs","category-kpfk","category-kristi-noem","category-medicaremedicaid","category-noaa","category-water"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96175,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15393\/revisions\/96175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}