More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

That alone makes him a powerful senator.

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It would be cool if the mainstream media pointed out that this is fucking illegal

Please stop acting like anything constrains him. The law has shown itself to be useless in holding him accountable.

As a non lawyer I’m trying to square the Chevron decision with their opinion today where it states

"On the contrary, as this Court has stressed, courts should and 'must defer to 'the informed discretion of the responsible federal agencies.'"

Huh???

"White House officials point to an NSC structure that's filled with committees and meetings that they say slow down decision-making and produce lots of jargon and acronyms."

They are completely clueless what the NSC does, and apparently they can't be bothered to learn what the acronyms mean.

The White House just dropped an executive order significantly shaking up operations at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the government’s nuclear safety regulator widely regarded as the “gold standard” for global nuclear power safety operations.

I used to cover NRC closely. Here are some notes🧵

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.

We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.

Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

They estimate this operation has cost the U.S. over $16M which is low because it doesn't count the photo op flights in and out by Kristi Noem and Pete Hegseth. They built 1600 tents that ICE can't use because they are inhumane.
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But this news may not have been the Justice Department's only rationale. Among those who had urged the Trump administration to drop the lawsuit, according to reporting from Bloomberg Law, is the famed Supreme Court lawyer Lisa Blatt, a Williams & Connolly partner representing Southwest Key. In a February Il email viewed by Bloomberg, Blatt warned the Justice Department about the potential consequences of its legal theory: If the government's lawsuit were successful, she said, the resulting protections for detainees would be strong enough to "actually incentivize illegal crossings at the southern border." In other words, if it is serious about about cracking down on immigration, protecting children from the threat of taxpayer-funded sexual violence may not be in the Trump administration's best interests.

Lisa Blatt—a Big Law attorney who bills herself as a feminist—argued that protecting migrant children from sexual abuse in detention is BAD because it will “actually incentivize illegal crossings” if they know they’re protected from rape.

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#SchumerMustGo doesn’t represent the majority of Democrats. Time for new blood. Step down now.

Here is a list of town halls taking place next week that you should show up at. I am sorry, I mean Chuck Schumer’s book parties. If there are any missing, please add in the responses. Schumer begins a book tour this week. Mon 3/17 7pm Central Library, Baltimore Wed 3/19 Politics & Prose, DC 7pm Thursday 3/20 at the Weizman, DC 12:30PM Sunday 3/23 · 3pm Moss Theatre Santa Monica, CA Mon 4/21 MJCCA Atlanta 7:30PM Line the sidewalks. (List may not be complete)

Here is a list of town halls taking place next week that you should show up at. I am sorry, I mean Chuck Schumer’s book parties. If there are any missing, please add in the replies. The only thing he should be doing today is cleaning out his office.

Many concessions have been made to Putin. Yet he still won't agree to a ceasefire.
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Need a new leader ASAP. Schumer doesn’t represent the majority of Dems.

Who’s going to primary Durbin?? Need a candidate ASAP

Oh we are sufficiently pissed off. Pissed off enough to primary Durbin. Pissed off enough to protest Peters office weekly asking him to leave early. I’m sure he has a nice corporate gig awaiting him so he should just go now so we can have new blood that can read a damn room. What’s your excuse???

She needs constant demonstrations outside her offices so she leaves early. That’s what we need to do here at Gary Peters’ office so he retires early for whatever corporate gig awaits him.

No backbone from Senate Dems. Should have demanded a clean CR instead of giving cover. If they’re going to dismantle things, let them do it without one D vote. Y’all don’t seem to understand the times we’re in or you & Shaheen want a cushy corporate gig when you retire. Need new blood-please go now

He voted Yes 😡

He just voted Yes. I’m ready to protest outside his office

He just voted Yes 😡

When a federal judge explains the Constitution to the President like he’s a slow 2nd grader who never heard of it before, using his own Truth Social posts to give him a judicial atomic wedgie, something has gone amiss.

Beryl Howell from the top rope.
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Trump: “I think Russia has been acting very well.”

Russia:

Well you really have to take the 60 seconds to listen so you can understand the people Trump has selected for leadership. This the director of Trump’s National Economic Council.

WATCH, then READ @jonathanvlast.bsky.social’s brilliant backstory on Hassett.
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Never. He’s shown himself to be the partisan we suspected.

It’s an official act. His SCOTUS said he could.

Is it moral? No. Is it legal today? Seems like it is 🤷‍♀️. What am I missing?

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