Alysa Youngson

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How Changes in Turnout and Vote Choice Powered Trump’s Victory in 2024 In this interactive feature, explore how changes between the 2020 and 2024 elections in how – and whether – people voted helped to return President Trump to office.

Every American who cares about democracy will want to spend some disconcerting moments with this.

Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts

A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️

Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13.

I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.

Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.

Just thinking about how indignant Hegseth was with the media a few weeks ago when it was first revealed he shared secret war plans in a Signal chat -- knowing at the time he'd done the same thing in a separate group chat with his wife, brother and personal lawyer.

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That an alcoholic weekend talk show host cosplaying the SecDef colossally screwed up, isn’t all that stunning.

What’s stunning is how republicans will ignore this dangerous breach of security because they’re too afraid to tell Donald Trump he was wrong about Pete Hegseth.

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

The Signal leak is a prime moment for Democrats to get caught trying. Call for resignations or impeachment hearings or both. Be omnipresent in the media demanding and explaining accountability measures. Don’t let this fade away. Treat this the way the GOP treated Hillary’s emails. Make it a thing.

NOTICE INVOKING STATE SECRETS PRIVILEGE The Executive Branch hereby notifies the Court that no further information will be provided in response to the Court's March 18, 2025 Minute Order based on the state secrets privilege and the concurrently filed declarations of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security. This is a case about the President's plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate, and reinforced by longstanding statute, to remove from the homeland designated terrorists participating in a state-sponsored invasion of, and predatory incursion into, the United States. The Court has all of the facts it needs to address the compliance issues before it. Further intrusions on the Executive Branch would present dangerous and wholly unwarranted separation-of-powers harms with respect to diplomatic and national security concerns that the Court lacks competence to address. Accordingly, the states secrets privilege forecloses further demands for details that have no place in this matter, and the government will address the Court's order to show cause tomorrow by demonstrating that there is no basis for the suggestion of non- compliance with any binding order.

NEW: The Trump administration invokes the state-secrets privilege, saying it will give Judge Boasberg no more information about deportation flights to inform his decision about whether the gov't defied his orders storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT: Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court Lawyers and law firms that engage in actions that violate the laws of the United States or rules governing attorney conduct must be efficiently and effectively held accountable. Accountability is especially important when misconduct by lawyers and law firms threatens our national security, homeland security, public safety, or election integrity.

Unfortunately, far too many attorneys and law firms have long ignored these requirements when litigating against the Federal Government or in pursuing baseless partisan attacks. To address these concerns, I hereby direct the Attorney General to seek sanctions against attorneys and law firms who engage in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation against the United States or in matters before executive departments and agencies of the United States.

I further direct the Attorney General to take all appropriate action to refer for disciplinary action any attorney whose conduct in Federal court or before any component of the Federal Government appears to violate professional conduct rules, including rules governing meritorious claims and contentions, and particularly in cases that implicate national security, homeland security, public safety, or election integrity. In complying with this directive, the Attorney General shall consider the ethical duties that law partners have when supervising junior attorneys, including imputing the ethical misconduct of junior attorneys to partners or the law firm when appropriate.

I further direct that, when the Attorney General determines that conduct by an attorney or law firm in litigation against the Federal Government warrants seeking sanctions or other disciplinary action, the Attorney General shall, in consultation with any relevant senior executive official, recommend to the President, through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, additional steps that may be taken, including reassessment of security clearances held by the attorney or termination of any Federal contract for which the relevant attorney or law firm has been hired to perform services.

It’s a long “memorandum,” but it’s essentially telling Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem to go after lawyers who challenge the federal government — which is many lawyer’s jobs.

It’s basically a catch-all “let’s Paul Weiss whoever pisses us off” memo.

Detentions of European tourists at US borders spark fears of traveling to America U.S. authorities have arrested and detained Canadian and European travelers at U.S. borders in recent weeks.

The US no longer allows European tourists to travel across its borders. This is some USSR era police state BS. apnews.com/article/bord...

JUST IN: Judge Hollander has issued a *second* letter today warning Social Security acting commissioner Dudek not to shut down all operations over her order barring DOGE's access to sensitive systems. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Please join @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social, @KimberlyEAtkins, and me on 3/26 at 7 pm for a conversation about how authoritarians use disinformation to seize power. More here.
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We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

congratulations to john roberts who is as responsible for the current state of affairs as any single person in the country

Agreed! Warner is not the man for the moment. Very disappointing ☹️

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Are you voting NO on cloture? I’m your constituent & have voted for you at every Election. But if you vote YES on cloture, I’ll bust my ass to find a trustworthy Democrat to replace you. And I’m confident that I won’t be alone in that endeavor

NEW: Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...

i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution

Just as everything is coming down to the wire on Capitol Hill getting fresh round of reports, most of which still trying to confirm, of big new permanent and unilateral shutdowns of whole swathes of the federal government.

DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION:

My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then,

"Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."

If you're a journalist calling this in any form or manner a "clean CR", even semi-clean, you're lying to your readers.

One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?

They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.

That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.

The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

Alright, I got Mahmoud Khalil's full habeas corpus petition now. The whole thing is linked below. ⬇️

Donald Trump Has Already Spent $10.7 Million Of Taxpayer Money Playing Golf Somehow, the expense has flown under the radar of the waste, fraud and abuse experts at DOGE.

We have some quick and easy advice for those attempting to cut wasteful government spending:

Stop letting Donald Trump make the government pay his own resorts so he can golf.

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This article sums up how I have been feeling since the day the oligarchs won. Each day just keeps coming and going doing and experiencing the normal things while the cracks in the system slowly grow bigger to eventually suck us down the hole.

Table on page 5 from https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf

DC claims up but MD and VA look okay. This is for week of 2/22. Week of 2/15 notes large manufacturing layoffs in KY and TN driving spikes there, no other special notes on state level claims moving.

MORGAN STANLEY: “.. Immigration averaged about 3mn per year in 2022-24 ..

“We think immigration falls to 1mn this year and only 500,000 next year. .. Slower immigration could pull short-run potential GDP growth down from 2.5-3.0% in 2022-24 to 2.0% this year and 1-1.5% next.”