폴선생님

Lord, I know I am not perfect. I know I stray from Your will. I know I fail every day to earn Your grace.

But if You let Donald Trump sue Elon Musk for defamation I will clean up my act and do everything I can to glorify you.

No monkey’s paw stuff please; I want to be able to cover it too.

'Russian bombers are burning en masse' — Ukraine's SBU drones hit 'more than 40' aircraft in mass attack, source claims "Currently, more than 40 aircraft are known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3," a source told the Kyiv Independent.

If even a fraction of this is true, it’s a remarkable achievement & a mark of how far Ukr deep strike has come. ‘An operation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has hit ‘more than 40" Russian bombers at air bases “in the rear of the Russian Federation”…’ kyivindependent.com/enemy-bomber...

The geographic scale of these attacks are extraordinary. Irkutsk is 3,000 miles (4,900 km) from Kyiv, at the same longitude as central Mongolia.

Put it another way, that's like Anchorage successfully launching an attack on Indianapolis.

An interesting pattern: Two Trump-appointed judges have now declared that Trump does not have the power to simply invent emergencies by decree.

This is the real reason Stephen Miller and others are so furious. It's *that* power that they want for Trump.

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*Sector-based tariffs (lumber, steel, copper, and more tk including chips, pharmaceuticals etc) use a different authority, Section 232, which are unaffected by this ruling

All of those tariffs are vacated “and their operation permanently enjoined.” There isn’t a delay unless a higher court grants one on appeal by the administration. Trump loses, most* of his tariffs are removed

Supreme Court allows Trump to fire members of independent agency boards — for now At issue is President Trump's firing of NLRB member Gwen Wilcox, who still has three years left on her term, and Cathy Harris, who still has four years left on her term as a member of the MSPB.

The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision reverses a precedent set in a unanimous decision by the court in 1935 and now says the president can fire heads of independent agencies like the FTC or NLRB.

Except for the Fed. Why? Because tanking the stock market is where the conservative judges draw the line

House Republicans just passed a bill that will kick 14 million people off their health care, take away free school meals for 18 million kids, and raise our deficit.

Now it goes to the Senate but we need to keep fighting.

But this point is interesting to me. There are two things about my boss — and I never reveal private conversations — there are two things about the president of the United States that I am extremely fascinated by. One is he has better instincts about human beings than anybody that I’ve ever met. Just almost a bizarre level of intuition about people. Second, which I think is very underappreciated and it motivates the foreign policy in Ukraine and Russia, it motivates the things that he said about the Middle East, it motivates really a lot of them, is he has this sort of humanitarian impulse. And I’ve heard the president say: Maybe if we sent the very worst people to different places, then American prisons would be a little less violent. Because as you know, American prisons are not a good place. They’re not very good at rehabilitation. I think we overstate how much people go to prison for truly petty crime, but they go in there for something that should at least give them an opportunity for a second chance. They end up getting stabbed while they’re in prison. So the idea that there is just something fundamentally inhumane about sending a very violent person to another prison outside of the country, I don’t buy that. I don’t think that’s what motivates the president. And again, that’s a separate question from whether it’s legal, which the president’s been very clear he would follow the law.

like, this is just total horseshit. and people are impressed by this level of reasoning! they think vance is sophisticated and nuanced!

Opinion | JD Vance on His Faith and Trump’s Most Controversial Policies

fun interview where you can listen to an ostentatiously devout catholic justify sending innocent people to foreign gulags www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

SETBACK. The GOP's big sweeping bill just failed in the Budget Committee, 16-21. Five Republicans voted NO. "The NOs have it. The committee stands in recess, subject to the call of the chair," Jodey Arrington says.

US makes 'substantial progress' in China tariff talks, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says U.S. negotiators say “substantial progress” was made and “perhaps the differences weren’t so large,” following two days of negotiations with a high-ranking Chinese delegation on ways to ease a trade war sparked by President Donald Trump imposing steep tariffs.

U.S. negotiators said Sunday that “substantial progress” was made and “perhaps the differences weren’t so large” after two days of negotiations with a high-ranking Chinese delegation on ways to ease a trade war sparked by President Donald Trump’s steep tariffs.

Peter Navarro on CNBC reacts to the shrinking GDP number by insisting it's actually good news because if you strip out the effect of tariffs "you have 3 percent growth. So we really like where we're at now."

tl;dr —> ACA expanded Medicaid to 138% of the poverty level with a promise: feds pay 90% of the cost. That’s central to 40+ states adopting expansion and insuring ~20 million. If that 90% is cut, states must either raise taxes, slash programs or remove residents from Medicaid.

Republicans consider unraveling a key part of Obamacare in Trump agenda bill The chair of the House committee overseeing health care policy said they're looking at unwinding the federal promise to cover 90% of the 2010 law's Medicaid expansion.

NEW: Republicans consider unraveling a key part of Obamacare in Trump agenda bill

House chairman overseeing health policy says they're looking at unwinding the federal promise to cover 90% of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion (ie FMAP).

BFD, if it happens 👇

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Wow. George Santos sentenced to 87 months in prison for fraud.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fell victim to a thief while eating dinner at a downtown Washington, DC, restaurant Sunday night, two sources familiar with the incident, including a law enforcement source, told CNN. The Secret Service, which provides security for Noem, reviewed security camera footage at the restaurant and saw an unknown white male wearing a medical mask steal her bag and leave the restaurant. The thief got away with Noem’s driver’s license, medication, apartment keys, passport, DHS access badge, makeup bag, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash, the law enforcement source said.

The Secret Service *and* the Secretary of Homeland Security both come off looking pretty unimpressive.

I hope the thief then broke into her apartment to rescue her dog from getting shot.

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BREAKING: SCOTUS orders the government not to remove from the country, for the time being, any of the individuals slated for possible deportation to El Salvador. The vote is apparently 7-2, with Justices Thomas and Alito in dissent

JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

FEMA will stop 100% cost-share in Helene recovery • NC Newsline "I am extremely disappointed and urge the President to reconsider FEMA’s bad decision, even for 90 days," Gov. Josh Stein said.

Trump just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene, calling it “unwarranted.”

The Defendants ask this Court to extend the deadline to respond to its Order at ECF No. 51, arguing that the Defendants require several days to “meaningful[ly] review the Supreme Court’s decision,” issued last night at 7:00 PM, and that it is “impracticable for Defendants to comply with the Court’s 9:30 AM deadline only a few hours after the Supreme Court issued an order in this case.” ECF No. 55. This, Defendants say, supports extension of the filing deadline until April 15, 2025. The Court largely rejects the Defendants’ request. First, the Defendants’ act of sending Abrego Garcia to El Salvador was wholly illegal from the moment it happened, and Defendants have been on notice of the same. Indeed, as the Supreme Court credits, “the United States acknowledges that Abrego Garcia was subject to a withholding order forbidding his removal to El Salvador, and that the removal to El Salvador was therefore illegal.” Noem v. Abrego Garcia, 604 U.S. ____ (2025), Slip Op. at 1. Second, the Defendants’ suggestion that they need time to meaningfully review a four-page Order that reaffirms this basic principle blinks at reality. Third, the Defendants misconstrue the Supreme Court’s Order stating that the original deadline at ECF No. 21 is “no longer effective,” as

somehow suggesting that the Court’s amended Order requiring prompt attention to this matter is “inconsistent” with the Supreme Court’s directive. Nothing could be further from the truth. As the Supreme Court plainly stated, “the Government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps,” Slip Op. at 2—all against the backdrop of this Court’s needing to “ensure that the Government lives up to its obligations to follow the law.” Id. at 4 (Sotomayor, J., concurring). Accordingly, the Court GRANTS in part the request and will extend the filing deadline until 11:30 AM today. The hearing date and time will remain unchanged. April 11, 2025 /S/ Date Paula Xinis United States District Judge

OMG the written order is even better
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ORDER granting in part 55 Motion for Extension of Time; filing deadline extended to 11:30 AM today; the hearing date and time remain unchanged. Signed by Judge Paula Xinis on 4/11/2025. (kns, Deputy Clerk) (Entered: 04/11/2025)

This is now a Judge Paula Xinis fan account

This is driving me crazy too. Not long ago 10% universal tariffs were considered the worst-case scenario, something even Trump wasn’t crazy enough to impose. Now have those PLUS 125% tariffs on China. Together, these raise raise inflation by about as much as original “Liberation Day” tariffs did!

The U.S. "has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government’s contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable."

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

Judge Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, says the Trump administration's position on Abrego Garcia amounts to a "path of perfect lawlessness." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Judge Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan nominee to the 4th Circuit who for years has been one of the most reliable feeders of clerks to SCOTUS conservatives, calls out the absolute craziness of what the Trump administration wants here.

NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts.  @msnbc.com

Powell on price stability: "I think we were getting closer and closer to that ... I do think with the arrival of the tariff inflation, further progress may be delayed. The SEP doesn't really show further downward progress on inflation this year and that's really due to the tariffs coming in."