Marcus and Madeline open on two stories sitting side by side that tell you everything about what this administration believes. The DHS official X account tweeted at Haitian doctors, lawyers, scholars, and engineers suggesting they'd be better off taking $3,000 and a flight back to Haiti — this, while the same administration is fast-tracking refugee status and government benefits for white South Africans, some of whom left because the benefits weren't generous enough. Marcus connects it to the physician shortage crisis. Madeline says she's writing the article.
Then: the Pentagon quietly rewriting its military history curricula to replace accurate accounts with Lost Cause mythology and more \"sympathetic language\" about Confederate soldiers. Marcus knows exactly what that's about. So does Madeline.
And then Trump's 9/11 story — which keeps changing. The version circulating this week has firefighters physically lifting him off the ground and carrying him from the rubble before a building came down on him. Marcus was in Germany on September 11th, on an airbase ramp, and heard Trump on the radio that same week talking about how the towers coming down meant he now had the tallest building in Manhattan. He remembers exactly what kind of man was in front of that microphone.
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