Lisa McCoy

If Joe Biden had an MRI a month ago and we had no idea why it was done or on what body part and he claimed he had no idea about either of those things it would literally be all you heard about in the press but Trump just gets a huge pass b/c reporters treat him differently.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 judges who ruled against him A comprehensive analysis of lawsuits against Trump policies shows dozens of examples of defiance, delay and dishonesty, a serious test for the court system.

A Washington Post analysis found President Trump and his appointees allegedly defied court orders in a third of over 160 lawsuits with substantive rulings, which experts say pose an unprecedented threat to the U.S. legal system.

What is a nation supposed to do when its leader is publicly committing impeachable offenses on a daily basis and the impeachment process is utterly broken due to slightly more than half of the nation's Congress being members of a cult dedicated to destroying rule of law

Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects.

It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.

The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

If you were looking to combat transnational crime, especially drug cartels, this is the exact office you would NOT shut down. This move by Trump's DOJ undermines any argument they want to prosecute international cartels, human traffickers, and gang members such as MS-13.

Maine fought the law, and Maine won The Trump administration can't defend the indefensible.

New in PN: Maine fought the law, and Maine won

"After weeks of public fulminating, the administration quietly folded and quit trying to steal kids’ lunch money for the grievous sin of letting a couple of trans girls play sports. It’s a reminder that Trump, like any bully, can be fought and beaten."

Yet again, the MAGA rubes got fleeced by Trump and the grifters in his orbit. When will they ever learn?

I love my job as the guy who adds a fake “keep me signed in” checkbox to every website that does nothing

YouTube video by Governor Tony Evers Gov. Evers Releases Message to Wisconsinites Regarding Apparent Trump Administration Arrest Threats

Yesterday, a top Trump Administration official made an apparent threat to arrest me.

Here’s my message to Wisconsinites. I encourage you to take a few minutes to watch. ⬇️

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

This isn't hypothetical.

The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

Mike Waltz has left the chat.

Congressional Republicans Might Set Off the Debt Bomb Their new budget framework is the most irresponsible in modern history—and will put the American economy on a very dangerous trajectory.

"Congressional Republicans have approved the most fiscally irresponsible budget resolution since the modern budget process began five decades ago."

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Hegseth has to go.

This actually shows why tariffs are a bad way to rebuild manufacturing: they spark trade wars that close markets to products made in the USA. FDR made free trade a centerpiece of the New Deal for exactly this reason. Biden’s approach was working well.

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.

A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

6 Things You Can Do to Secure Your Phone as You Reenter the Country After Traveling In some instances, government agents can search your digital devices legally after an international trip

Dystopia is the AARP advising older Americans about how to live in a police state
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Trump Touts Seemingly Doctored Photo of Abrego Garcia’s Hand in Attempt To Prove Maryland Man Is Gang Member President Donald Trump posted a photo of himself holding a seemingly digitally altered image of the left hand of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month.

Trump fabricates a photo of Mr. Garcia with MS-13 tattoo on his hand. This is NOT a real image. Trump and his regime fabricated it. Please understand that Trump regime would fabricate evidence to put you or your family in jail. This is what FASCISM regimes do. www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...

The media demanded Biden personally solve a shortage of baby food formula and kept after him for weeks about it while Trump's FDA isn't even bothering to warn people about E. coli outbreaks and it won't even be a story by tomorrow.

Alright, looks like some traders are getting news of tariff pauses, insider deals, and penalties beforehand.

$SMH had $1.13 MILLION!! in the 175 puts, ask side, 14% OTM. THIS WAS THE TOP CHAIN

$NVDA China news came out, -7%, $SMH -4%.

$NVDA had its net premiums drop in final 15 min.

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'...

"Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..."

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

DOOCY: Deporting American citizens to Central American prisons -- is it legal?

LEAVITT: Well, it's another question that the president has raised. It's a legal question that the president is looking into.

He keeps saying this; I'm no a snob about what "normal people" don't know but I do wonder if his target audience knows that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid did not exist before income taxes and wouldn't have been possible.

DOJ ends a key racial discrimination case, signaling an end to the Civil Rights Division as it existed The lawsuit alleged a brazen pattern of racial discrimination against a Black woman, but AAG Harmeet Dhillon ended the case. Also: A look at the bigger picture at DOJ.

BREAKING: DOJ ends a key racial discrimination case, signaling an end to the Civil Rights Division as it existed.

The lawsuit against the Mississippi state Senate alleged a brazen pattern of racial discrimination against a Black woman, but AAG Harmeet Dhillon ended the case.

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Trump Grows Increasingly Combative in Showdowns With the Courts (Gift Article) Scholars say that the Trump administration is now flirting with lawless defiance of court orders, a path with an uncertain end.

This NYT story ably details Trump's authoritarian attacks on the rule of law. But it avoids words like “authoritarian” and “anti-democratic.” Instead, it tiptoes. It’s the equivalent of a story about enormous winds and rain in a swirling storm off the gulf that avoids the word “hurricane.” 1/2 🧵

A paragraph of a declaration from CIA's Chief Data Officer, Hurley Blankenship, describing that a screenshot of what was available when CIA tried to preserve the messages, "reflects the information available at the time the screenshot was captured, which I characterized as 'residual administrative content' in my initial declaration. I used that terminology because the screenshot does not include substantive messages from the Signal chat; rather, it captures the name of the chat, "Houthi PC small group", and reflects administrative notifications from 26 March and 28 March relating to changes in participants' administrative settings in this group chat, such as profile names and message settings."

@kyledcheney.bsky.social posted this yesterday but seeing people who're unaware of it.

CIA revealed yesterday that John Ratcliffe had deleted his Signal messages.

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