Today’s edition of quick hits.
* The latest school shooting: “A 16-year-old student is dead and another was hospitalized with a gunshot wound following a shooting Wednesday at a Nashville high school cafeteria. The shooter, a 17-year-old student, fatally shot himself after firing multiple shots at Antioch High School just after 11 a.m. CT, police said at a news conference. The shooter was armed with a pistol, authorities said.”
* Indefensible: “Refugees who had been approved to travel to the United States before a deadline next week suspending America’s refugee resettlement program have had their travel plans canceled by the Trump administration. Thousands of refugees who fled war and persecution and had gone through a sometimes yearslong process to start new lives in America are now stranded at various locations worldwide. That includes more than 1,600 Afghans who assisted America’s war effort, as well as relatives of active-duty U.S. military personnel.”
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* Given the intensifying bird-flu threat, this seems like a spectacularly bad idea: “President Donald Trump’s acting secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Dorothy Fink, instructed heads of all federal health agencies in a memo Tuesday to temporarily stop public communications, pending a review.”
* This will be the first new law of Trump’s second term: “The Republican-led House voted Wednesday to give final passage to the Laken Riley Act, a strict immigration detention measure named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student who was murdered last year by an undocumented immigrant. … The House vote was 263-156, with 46 Democrats joining all Republicans in support of the measure.”
* It’s a 2,000-mile-long border, so this deployment seems more performative than meaningful: “The Pentagon will begin deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border in the coming days, the White House confirmed on Wednesday, putting in motion plans President Donald Trump laid out in executive orders shortly after he took office to crack down on immigration.”
* It seems Trump hates DEI about as much as he hates windmills: “The Trump administration is ordering all federal employees in diversity, equity and inclusion roles placed on paid leave by Wednesday evening, according to a new memo from the Office of Personnel Management.”
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* An interesting prosecution: “A Jan. 6 defendant whose felony assault charges were dismissed a day earlier was arrested Wednesday on federal gun charges that have been pending for nearly two years in Florida. Daniel Ball, one of the hundreds charged with violence on Jan. 6, 2021, aimed at police, was among the members of the mob whose charges were dismissed at the behest of President Donald Trump.”
* One of Trump’s many international incidents: “Panama submitted a formal letter to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres and the U.N. Security Council on Monday, rejecting comments that President Trump made about reclaiming the Panama Canal during his inauguration speech.”
* Democrats were unanimous on this one: “Senate Democrats blocked a Republican-written bill on Wednesday that could subject some doctors who perform abortions to criminal penalties, thwarting the G.O.P.’s first attempt to restrict reproductive rights since the party has secured its governing trifecta.”
* Who doesn’t love a good metaphor? “The Constitution page on President Trump’s White House website is showing a 404 error. ‘Page not found,’ the site reads.”
See you tomorrow.
This article was originally published on MSNBC.com
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