Dreamers Choose Fight Over Flight, Trump Wants Death Penalty For Drug Traffickers, And CDC Researcher Vanishes

February 26th, 2018 Top Stories --------------------------------------------------------------- [As Trump’s DACA Deadline Bears Down, Dreamers Choose Fight Over Flight]( The Gist: After years of feeling increasingly protected in their activism, young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers have been presented with a stark choice in the hostile Trump era: Fight or flight. They’ve chosen the former. [Axios: Trump Rants To Friends That Drug Traffickers Should Get Death Penalty]( The Gist: President Donald Trump is a big fan of Singapore’s use of the death penalty for drug trafficking offenses, and often tells confidants that drug dealers should be punished with the death penalty, Axios reported Sunday evening. [Reports: Trump’s Personal Pilot Under Consideration To Lead The FAA]( The Gist: President Donald Trump’s personal pilot, John Dunkin, is being considered to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, according to reports from Axios and the Washington Post. From The Reporter's Notebook --------------------------------------------------------------- [TPM's Matt Shuham]( reported Sunday that President Donald Trump's lawyers were considering ways the President could answer Special Counsel Robert Mueller's questions, including written responses or by providing "limited verbal testimony," in the Wall Street Journal's words. Trump's lawyers seek to avoid questions that probe Trump for specific details, like dates and times. Such tests of his memory, sources familiar with the situation told the Journal, could constitute a perjury trap. Agree Or Disagree? --------------------------------------------------------------- Josh Marshall: "If a factory makes tons of money in part by pouring toxic waste into the local river, the society is actually subsidizing that private enterprise. They are privatizing the profit and socializing the risk – or in this case, having society pick up the tab for the negative consequence of the commercial activity. Because the factory gets the profit and the society picks up a lot of the costs tied to clean up, medical bills and everything else that follows in the wake of toxic waste in the local river. In other cases, you’re attempting to shape behavior. Usually it’s both. [Let’s try to apply this to guns](. Guns are inherently dangerous. That’s obvious. That’s the point. A key problem in our society is that the people who own guns or are in the gun business have very little liability for the negative externalities of gun ownership." Say What?! --------------------------------------------------------------- "I think it’s a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he’s affirmatively stated that there’s no truth to it." - Ivanka Trump, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, [criticizing]( NBC reporter Peter Alexander for asking her if she believes the women who accused Trump of sexual misconduct. BUZZING: Today in the Hive --------------------------------------------------------------- From a TPM Prime member: "Confused has nothing to do with it. These people will just not let facts get in the way of their ignorance, hatred, fear and prejudices. I mean if support for Donald Trump by Evangelicals proved anything it is that "Values" in front of the word voter is and has always been code for race." Related: [Data Clashes With Emotion As CPAC Immigration Panel Goes Off The Rails]( Have something to add? Become a [Prime]( member and join the discussion [here](. What We're Reading --------------------------------------------------------------- A CDC Researcher Left Work Sick Two Weeks Ago — Then Vanished ([The Washington Post]( My First Year Sober ([Medium]( [unsubscribe from this list]( | [update subscription preferences]( | [view email in browser](