Cordelia Gilligan

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In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law ProPublica’s reporting provides new details about what legal risk officials were prepared to take and what laws they may have violated on their way to creating a “constitutional crisis.”

Trump and Elon Musk all but dismantled USAID. It took them less than a month.

It's an unprecedented test of the checks and balances at the heart of the American system of government.

The must-read inside story, from @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

NEW: 22 leading NYS and national organizations oppose 17 bills seeking to exempt special interests from congestion tolls​ or delay the program.

Basic Fairness Means Keeping Tolls Lower for the Many, No Handouts for the Few

Read the memo ⬇️

https://buff.ly/4hf4z4Z

Unfortunately the stuff that most people are consuming online to distract themselves from politics (or because they don’t care about politics at all or think politics are going swimmingly) is also a covert pipeline designed to make them more conservative. Lifestyle, entertainment, pop culture, etc

NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.

A North Carolina Supreme Court Candidate’s Bid to Overturn His Loss Is Based on Theory Election Deniers Deemed Extreme Republican Jefferson Griffin narrowly lost his race for a seat on the state Supreme Court. Now he’s asking that 60,000 ballots be thrown out based on a theory that an election denier said amounted to…

NEW: Republican Jefferson Griffin narrowly lost his race for a seat on the state Supreme Court. Now he’s asking that 60,000 ballots be thrown out based on a theory that an election denier said amounted to “voter suppression.”

By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

Among the bills Gov. Hochul vetoed today: A bill that would have let people who were convicted of felonies serve on juries after they complete their sentence.

Bronx Subway Station Saga Shows Long Winding Road to Accessibility Work to bring elevators to the No. 6’s Middletown Road stop is set to begin in February, nearly a decade after a federal lawsuit said it had to be done.

“There’s no police for the ADA. The only thing that we can do is demand and then sue.”

Big subway accessibility news in The Bronx:

Meddling for MAGA Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, has dismayed staffers as he curtails critical coverage of Donald Trump.

Scoop: Patrick Soon-Shiong's meddling at the LA Times has grown more pervasive than previously realized.

He has taken a number of previously unreported steps to curtail pieces critical of Trump, per a memo to top editor Terry Tang that I obtained.

Details in Status: www.status.news/p/patrick-so...

Elon Musk’s Stunning $250 Million Favor to Trump Should Wake Up Dems Musk and others helped the GOP run rings around Democrats in the info-wars. I asked three leading contenders for party chair how they’d fix this.

Trump's win confirmed once again that our information ecosystem is a total dumpster fire, and that Dems need a real answer to it.

I asked three leading candidates for DNC chair how they'd fix this.

Here's what they said. 1/

(new piece from me)
newrepublic.com/article/1891...

In news deserts, Trump won in a landslide

New: Trump won the popular vote narrowly. But in news deserts—counties where there are no local news sources or reporters —he won in a landslide. Latest by me and @volk_maps for Medill School’s Local News Initiative. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/1...

An AI “bias meter” that would flag anything but the most anodyne, status quo-affirming “civility” discourse as “biased,” make meaningful critique of power impossible, and leave the powerful unbothered by public oversight to do as they please.

We are accelerating towards a very dark place.

So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists.
If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.