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Media Matters Sues F.T.C. Over Advertising Investigation

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/t...

YouTube video by Democracy Docket BREAKING: DOJ Files Anti-Voter Lawsuit in North Carolina

The Dept. of Justice has filed its first voter suppression lawsuit aimed at disenfranchising voters. This is a critical juncture for democracy.

Paige and I discuss the implications and how it echoes claims made by failed state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin. youtu.be/8XEW-Ga428M

Trump Tariffs Ruled Illegal by Federal Judicial Panel

Grateful that the courts are mostly calling Trump on his illegal power grabs...

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

Judge Finds Government Acted Illegally in Russian Scientist Case

Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.

Even after all this, the @nytimes continues to normalize it

Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over Move to Bar International Students

Thank you, Harvard for standing up against Trump and thugs.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

Here’s What the Government Tried to Keep Hidden in the IRS-ICE Data-Sharing Agreement - American Oversight The unsealing of key documents, including the agreement itself, reveals not only what taxpayer data ICE is seeking from the IRS, but also the highly questionable justifications the government used to ...

With redactions lifted, we can see what the government was trying to keep secret:

ICE is seeking the addresses of people it is investigating — information that taxpayers entrust the IRS to keep confidential, and that the IRS is bound by law to keep safe.
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Over a Dozen Officials Dumped Stocks Just as Trump Crashed the Market Quite a few Trump officials knew exactly when to sell their stocks ahead of major Trump announcements.

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Trump company strikes Qatari golf resort deal in a sign it's not holding back from foreign business The Trump family company has struck a deal for a luxury golf resort in Qatar. It's a sign that the company has no plans to hold back from foreign dealmaking during a second Trump administration.

The plane is small potatoes compared to this Trump resort and golf course deal the Trump family just signed with a company run by the Qatari government -- which violates Trump's own (weak ethically) promise not to do business with foreign governments while in office.
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Judge strikes down Trump order punishing law firm Perkins Coie President Donald Trump has targeted several law firms with penalties, four of which sued to challenge his actions.

So grateful we have judges with integrity and backbone.

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Sweep of Homeless Camp in Oregon Said to Be ‘Largest in Recent History’ Federal officials began clearing a forest where dozens of homeless people live in derelict R.V.s and cars.

The layoff U.S. Forest employees who help tourists and protect the land, but they prioritize destroying the homes of people who don't have one...

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/r...

Fearing deportation, a beloved music teacher gives a final lesson Jesús Rodríguez, a Venezuelan national whose U.S. humanitarian parole status is set to expire soon, decided to voluntarily leave the United States out of worry of being detained.

“Mr. Rodríguez, we’re going to miss you,” a girl told the teacher after singing.

“I’m going to miss you, too,” he said, fighting back tears of his own.
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Trump Threatens Chicago School Funding Over Black Student Success Plan The Education Department’s civil rights office is investigating whether the program, which helps Black students do better academically, is racially discriminatory.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...

‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.

Federal prosecutors are threatening medical journals...

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/h...

NEW from us: The IRS inspector general is probing whether Trump and his office improperly accessed taxpayer data.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

University of Minnesota Senate approves resolution to unify Big Ten schools against Trump actions The “mutual defense compact” would allow Big Ten schools to pool their resources to help any university under “political or legal infringement” from the Trump administration.

UMN faculty, staff and student reps voted 139-6 to join other Big 10 schools in a “mutual academic defense compact” against Trump administration attacks. Your move President Cunningham.

An Immigrant Held in U.S. Custody ‘Simply Disappeared’ The Venezuelan man did not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends had no idea of his whereabouts.

Another young man disappeared to the torture prison in El Salvador...

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

On Earth Day, We Finally Have a President Who Follows Science Under President Donald J. Trump, America is back — leveraging environmental policies rooted in reality to promote economic growth while maintaining the

On Earth Day, the Trump Administration released the wackiest, reality-busting, we-are-living-Idiocracy statement that indeed could have been written by The Onion.

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Trump Administration Reverses Course on Student Visa Cancellations

Who's taking bets that one of Trump's rich buddies from Saudi Arabia or Russia or El Salvador called him to complain their child's student visa was cancelled?

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

No one is above the law except Drunken Pete who thinks keeping top secret military attack plans secret is for losers.

No one is above the law expect for the Orange Bloviator she makes love to in her dreams.

Terrifying

Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me ... they are deranged ... we are sending a very strong message today ... we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."

USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.

The story of Trump’s secret plan to make everyone a vegan.

Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of a collective bargaining unit. The Employer is Johns Hopkins University located in Baltimore, Maryland. There are 1,600 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of all postdoctoral researchers who provide services to Johns Hopkins University including: Postdoctoral Fellows, Postdoctoral Research Fellows, Postdoctoral Research Associates, Assistant Research Scientists, and Associate Research Scientists.

BREAKING: 1,600 post docs at Johns Hopkins University are unionizing with @UAW.

Justice Department Fails to Address Central Point in VOA Case A federal judge halted the shutdown of VOA, citing violations of administrative law and congressional authority, not press freedom.

A federal judge granted plaintiffs a preliminary injunction in the VOA case.

@paulthedogman.bsky.social writes on the DOJ’s curious failure to address the central point in the case, or offer any reasonable justifications for shuttering VOA whatsoever.

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BREAKING: The Interior Dept just used a fake “energy emergency” to greenlight gas and mining projects on public lands.

It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.

Our cover this week.

Wtf