WTF Just Happened Today? Day 1604

This is a newsletter I subscribe to and I share parts of it here.
I think it's a good summary of the day that is fairly well sourced.
One can subscribe here: http://wtfjht.com

Welcome to Day 1604.

Today in one sentence: California Gov. Gavin Newsom called Trump’s deployment of 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines to Los Angeles “a brazen abuse of power" and an “assault on democracy”; Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will deploy National Guard troops ahead of planned anti-ICE protests; the EPA will repeal federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and weaken mercury pollution rules; Trump plans to begin dismantling FEMA after the 2025 hurricane season; the Justice Department said Trump can revoke national monuments created by past presidents; consumer prices rose 0.1% in May; the U.S. ordered nonessential staff to leave the Baghdad embassy and approved voluntary departures for military families across the Middle East; Trump will restore the Confederate-era names of seven Army bases, reversing changes Congress mandated in 2021; and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she used artificial intelligence to decide which JFK assassination documents to keep classified.

-Matt, current mood: ??

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/national-guard-texas-deploy-abbott.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-gov-deploy-national-guard-state-due-protests-rcna212275

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/texas-governor-to-deploy-national-guard-as-anti-ice-protests-spread-6347648f

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/11/texas-immigration-protests-national-guard-greg-abbott/84146626007/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-11/texas-governor-readies-national-guard-troops-ahead-of-protests

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/trump-administration-epa-pollution

https://apnews.com/article/epa-power-plants-trump-coal-natural-gas-climate-b6421bf170e69b54a3ded2e575f1bc10

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/climate/epa-mercury-power-plants-greenhouse-gases.html

https://heatmap.news/climate/power-plant-emissions-epa-fervo

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/10/epa-to-repeal-climate-rule-power-plants-wednesday-00398136

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-10/trump-poised-to-repeal-biden-s-curbs-on-power-plant-pollution

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/politics/fema-hurricane-season-phase-out-trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/06/10/trump-fema-states-hurricane-season/

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/06/fema-states-disasters/683103/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-11/why-fema-keeps-keeps-denying-disaster-preparedness-aid-to-states

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-says-fema-wound-hurricane-season-rcna212307

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/06/10/trump-abolish-national-monuments/

https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-monuments-california-3e90d2eb00364e4184acfd101a2bb7b6

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/politics/national-monuments-trump-justice-department

One can read the expanded version of each topic and its sources here: http://wtfjht.com