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The US Joint Chiefs of Staff says there will be "no modifications" in the military's policy of admitting and keeping transgender members, after Donald Trump tweeted that trans people can't be in the military anymore.  Marine General Joe Dunford wrote the armed services would continue to "treat all of our personnel with respect", until Trump issues "implementation guidance" to top generals.  In other words, they go through official channels and don't respond to tweets.  The Army chief of staff General Mark Milley said, "We grow up and learn to obey the chain of command, and my chain of command is secretary of the Army, secretary of Defense and the president."  

Influential US Senate Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says there will be "holy hell" to pay if Trump tries to fire his Attorney General Jeff Sessions and it "could be the beginning of the end" of Trump's presidency if he makes moves to fire special counsel Robert Mueller.  Trump is mad as a cut snake at Sessions for failing to put a halt into Mueller's Justice Department investigation into Russian influence over Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.  Democrats wouldn't mind seeing Sessions go for actively trying to punish US cities that offer help to undocumented immigrants, misleading the Senate about the depth of his Russian contacts, and for having a history of racism - but Republicans generally respect Sessions as a former Senate colleague who is their "guy" inside the insanity of the administration.

Anthony Scaramucci was brought on as White House communications director less than a week ago and he's already in a very public and very messy blood feud with Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.  Scaramucci seems to blame Priebus for the rampant leaks coming out of the Trump White House, particularly the latest one that showed Scaramucci is set to profit from his investment firm while serving in the West Wing.  Problem is, the story is gleaned from public records, something that Scaramucci clearly doesn't understand.  Republican observers openly wonder if drug abuse isn't playing a role in the insanity.

Earlier this week, Trump appeared at the National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America and gave an unhinged, profane, and bitter speech that aired his current political grievances instead of inspiring the pre-teen and teen boys to live a life of bravery and honor.  Parents were alarmed as the orange piggy elicited the boys to boo the names of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  Finally on Thursday in America, the leader of the Boy Scouts of America apologized:  "I want to extend my sincere apologies to those in our Scouting family who were offended by the political rhetoric that was inserted into the jamboree," wrote Scouting chief executive Michael Surbaugh, who lamented that the community service activities of thousands of Scouts were overshadowed by Trump bragging to young boys about having sex on a yacht.

What a moron.  Anyway, how about another government in crisis?

Japan's Defense Minister Tomomi Inada is expected to resign today in a scandal that appears to violate the pacifist constitution.  Ms. Inami is blamed for the destruction of military logs that showed Japanese troops were serving in combat zones in last year's South Sudan peacekeeping mission in violation of Article 9 - which ultra-conservative nationalists like Inada and Abe want to do away with.  The paperwork was destroyed, but it turned out that digital copies remained.  Ground Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff General Toshiya Okabe is also resigning.  It's a major blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose government is mired in scandal after scandal.

Despite his approval ratings being in the toilet and some consider him being a "dead man walking", Abe has little to fear from his opposition.  The head of the center-Left Democratic Party of Japan is stepping down after trounced in the Tokyo metropolitan election.  The DPJ is down to an all-time low of five seats in the megalopolis' assembly.  Renho - a former model and TV news anchor who goes by one name - has stood down, as has her second-in-command former prime minister Yoshihiko Noda. 

Moving along..

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has stripped the citizenship of Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president who served as governor of Ukraine's Odessa region in 2015 and 2016.  The current government of the Republic of Georgia accuses Saakashvili of abusing his power as president from 2004 to 2013 - charges that he describes as politically motivated.  Saakashvili is currently in the US, but he could be a man without a country, having lost his Georgian nationality earlier when he took Ukrainian citizenship for the Odessa gig.

Palestinians returned to a Jerusalem holy site for the first time in two weeks now that Israel has taken out metal detectors and security cameras.  Seven people were killed in violence over the Old City complex known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as the Temple Mount.  Palestinians accused Israel of trying to exert control over a shared site; Israel said it was just trying to bolster security after two of its cops were killed.