The passive voice. Like the tear gas just appeared, magically. It fired itself.

My favorite dog meme 🤣

"I'm Just A Girl (Because Gender Is An Immutable Biological Category)"

tl;dr:

I have long said that we cannot trust the government to have the power to kill as a punishment. Now, we have an administration that will undoubtedly be eager to prove my point.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

The media mostly takes for granted that some attacks are in bad faith, e.g. on judges and the media itself. In other cases (civil service and especially higher ed) they are more willing to adopt Trump's framing that he is responding to institutional failings, rather than using them as an excuse.