The DEA once touted body cameras for their “enhanced transparency.” Now the agency is abandoning them, citing a Trump executive order.

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Trump Administration Proposes More Drastic Election Security Cuts Read more here.

Trump's proposed budget seeks to cut nearly $500 million from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the main federal agency responsible for protecting U.S. elections from cyberattacks.
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

U.S. Has Spent $40 Million to Jail About 400 Migrants at Guantánamo The disclosure of the tab so far came after a visit by five senators to the offshore operation, who condemned it as a waste of resources.

The U.S. has spent $40 million to jail about 400 migrants at Guantanamo Bay

Early costs of the enterprise emerged over the weekend along with a statement from five senators who toured the base Friday and urged the Trump administration to “immediately cease this misguided mission.”

We Are Sleepwalking Into Autocracy Senator Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, describes how free and fair elections might end in America as soon as 2026.

“This is how democracy dies. Everybody just gets scared,” the Connecticut senator Chris Murphy tells David Remnick. “You make a few examples, and everyone else just decides to comply.”

42 Former North Carolina County Election Directors with 750 Years of Combined Experience Urge Appellate Court Not to Throw Out Election Results in State Supreme Court Race by Changing the Rules After ... This is quite a statement in this brief:  In their private lives, Amici are not united politically—some are registered Republicans, some registered Democrats, and some Unaffiliated. In the 2024 North ...

42 Former North Carolina County Election Directors with 750 Years of Combined Experience Urge Appellate Court Not to Throw Out Election Results in State Supreme Court Race by Changing the Rules After the Fact electionlawblog.org?p=148795

At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

Military families rocked by Trump’s federal government cuts | CNN Politics The Trump administration’s swift, sweeping cuts to the federal workforce is set to derail the livelihoods of potentially thousands of military families.

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It’s Time to Worry About DOGE’s AI Plans Welcome to the end of the human civil servant.

DOGE reportedly plans to integrate AI with federal-government systems while purging civil servants—potentially granting the president a level of power that hasn't previously been known, Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders write.

U.S. Democratic Representative Mark Pocan plans to introduce a bill designed to ban “special government employees” like Elon Musk from having federal contracts so they can’t steer spending towards their own self-interest.

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