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Trump and Cabinet members are back in the makeshift “situation room” at Mar-a-Lago for the Iran attack.

White House photo via @reuters.com.

Trump’s last attempt at regime change was also run out of a makeshift SCIF at Mar-a-Lago.

Cobb is a clear contender. I love Sweeney. Balsam’s little monologue talking about the prep football team is so idiosyncratic and wonderful. Klugman is so subtle and direct.

I can’t decide my favorite scene!

Fonda’s walk through the “apartment”?

Reenacting the stabbing?

When the jurors turn away from the racist rant?

The farewell on the courthouse steps?

Everything about is perfect.

If you turn your TV on now, you can catch the end of “12 Angry Men” on Turner Classic Movies.

I can’t decide who gives the best performance in the picture (other than Henry Fonda). Gosh, it’s so good.

Neil Sedaka, singer, songwriter and pop hitmaker in two eras, dies at 86 He rose to stardom with hits like “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” then made a roaring comeback with “Laughter in the Rain” and “Love Will Keep Us Together.”

Lovely WaPo obit that’s worth your time:

How a ’70s British pop dud — about Texas! — became a European soccer anthem One of the soundtracks of international soccer is a Neil Sedaka tale of a cowboy on the road in northwest Texas.

I was 23 and pitched a story about how his hit “Is This The Way to Amarillo” became a European football stadium classic.

For some reason he agreed to an interview, and then had to gently explain to me that he was kind of a big deal.

We got past the awkwardness. Such a fun conversation.

YouTube video by Mercury Studios Neil Sedaka - Is This The The Way To Amarillo (From Live At the Royal Albert Hall)

Zichronam l’bracha, Neil Sedaka — a national treasure, irrepressibly charming, and a generous entertainer and interview.

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The IRS on thin ICE A federal judge calls scolds the Trump administration after our scoop.

👀 The IRS may have broken the law 42,695 times — once for every person whose tax data it gave away to ICE.

A judge ruled today she’d consider discovery to probe how the IRS and DHS constructed their data-sharing agreement and how it’s been implemented.

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This is far from the most important thing, but the “Congressional Medal of Honor” does not exist.

It is simply the “Medal of Honor.”

In fact, since it is awarded by the president as commander-in-chief, Congress has *nothing* to do with it!

Most Americans say Trump is growing erratic with age, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Six in ten Americans, including a significant slice of Republicans, think the 79-year-old president has become erratic as he ages. The six-day poll concluded the day before Trump's expected State of t...

📈 REUTERS poll: More than 60% of Americans say Trump has "become erratic with age."

That includes 30% of Republicans and a whopping 64% of *independents.*

President Trump will turn 80 years old on June 14, with more than two years left in his second term.

60% disapprove of Trump ahead of State of the Union, Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds But Democrats have made little headway in persuading Americans that they have better ideas or policies to offer.

📉 NEW WaPo poll: Mass disapproval of Trump ahead of state of the union

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After leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate it HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the WHO at a fraction of the cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.

🚨 WaPo scoop: You've heard of Trump's "board of peace."

Now HHS wants to build its own World Health Organization that will cost exponentially more than the U.S.'s contribution to the WHO.

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The stories weren’t played together on A1, but they probably should’ve been.
We’ve come a long way as a planet from the Arab spring days when tech bros touted themselves as harbingers of freedom.

The IRS slips on ICE The tax agency just shared thousands of unsuspecting people's private tax data with immigration enforcement.

On the newsletter -- How the IRS managed to spill thousands of the "wrong" people's confidential tax data to ICE.

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*readers' time

Ugh. Sometimes my writing is not so great on Bsky.

Good writing is delightful wherever you can find it.

There's a very dorky trade group newsletter I read every week. The author is simply fantastic. The writing is fun, spritely, nuanced, yet considerate of readers' team.

Writing is wonderful. Find stuff you like, wherever it is, and talk about it.

So the first part is correct. But so far as we know, the overwhelming majority of the people sought do not have criminal cases pending.

The second part is unfortunately entirely incorrect.

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BREAKING: The IRS files a declaration in federal court confirming our reporting.

I asked the Treasury Dept. specifically if it would tell people whose privacy the IRS violated.

It gave me a no comment.

To say this is a big deal is an understatement. It’s a massive deal.

The IRS just gave ICE info on thousands of people that it has no business seeing.

And it’s unclear if IRS will even notify the taxpayers it’s victimized.

IRS and DHS in April agreed to share info to help detail suspected undocumented immigrants.

That data sharing began in Aug.

In Nov, a judge said the whole process was illegal.

Now in recent weeks, IRS discovered that it violated its own internal process (that a judge already said was illegal).

IRS improperly disclosed confidential immigrant tax data to DHS The tax agency only recently discovered it improperly disclosed tax information on thousands of the wrong people to immigration enforcement.

🚨 SCOOP: The IRS improperly disclosed confidential immigrant tax information to DHS, per sources.

It opens up HUGE liability for the US government.

Trump is suing the IRS over substantially the same disclosures -- for $10 billion.

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