baxter bean

This doesn’t really sound like how you conduct a criminal investigation. Which is what DOJ does.

FCC Approves Paramount-Skydance Deal After Skydance’s CBS Ombudsman, Anti-DEI Pledges The FCC approved the transfer of CBS licenses to Skydance's ownership group, paving the way to the merger of Skydance and Paramount.

Bribes work!

French President Macron sues right-wing podcaster Candace Owens The lawsuit alleges that the podcaster promoted “outlandish” claims, including that Brigitte Macron was born a man. An Owens spokesperson said she “is not shutting up.”

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife have sued Candace Owens for defamation over the far-right commentator’s repeated allegations that first lady Brigitte Macron was born a man.

great moments in GOP history…

I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.

Per Curiam: The Constitution assigns Congress the exclusive powers to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,” and to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations.” U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cls. 1, 3. The question in the two cases before the court is whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (“IEEPA”) delegates these powers to the President in the form of authority to impose unlimited tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world. The court does not read IEEPA to confer such unbounded authority and sets aside the challenged tariffs imposed thereunder.

BREAKING - A 3-judge panel of the US Court of International Trade has just INVALIDATED Trump's tariffs.

Says Trump CANNOT use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to unilaterally impose tariffs; that power belongs to Congress.

MORE TK

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Federal court says Trump exceeded his authority to impose tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.

The GOP’s Big, Beautiful Bind House Republicans fell in lockstep behind Trump and now own a bill that targets health care and food assistance. As Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries tells me, “They will be held accountable.”

I wrote about republicans horrible legislation in @vanityfair.com

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

How do famous right-wing influencers actually poll with young men in 2025?

Rogan: 27% favorable, 35% unfavorable, 45% don't know/never heard of
Theo Von: 21% fav, 16% unfav, 55% dk
Andrew Tate: 12% fav, 47% unfav, 36% dk

Source: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/5...

A letter — signed by 12 long-term institutional investors that together manage about $950bn in Tesla's assets — calls for corporate governance reforms to address a 'crisis' at the carmaker. www.ft.com/content/6b52...

Nancy Mace's Former Staff Claim She Had Them Create Burner Accounts to Promote Her According to former staffers and a deposition, Nancy Mace has allegedly used her tech background to deploy bots across social media—and asked staffers to surreptitiously post on her behalf.

Scoop: Nancy Mace's fmr staff tell me they were assigned to create burner accounts to bolster their boss online.

“We were congressional staff, and there were actual things we could be doing to help the constituents," one said. 1/
www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

Trump’s Latest Executive Order is a Sham—and a Warning From Marc | The greatest threat to Donald Trump’s authoritarian dream is not the courts — it is free and fair elections.

The greatest threat to Donald Trump’s authoritarian dream is not the courts — it is free and fair elections. While the courts can stand in the way of his twisted vision for America, they can never completely halt it. Trump knows this. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

oh noes! Elon’s having another Big Sad. boo fucking hoo ’nobody likes me, wah wah wah’

here's today's post: "oh noes! Elon’s having another Big Sad. boo fucking hoo" — ’nobody likes me, wah wah wah.’
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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt

🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

Remarkable resignation letter from the Justice Department's chief information officer in the immigration review division — a disabled veteran.

Obtained by @propublica.org's Brett Murphy:

Seriously: can I get my donation back?

These Trump Cabinet and Staff Picks Had a Hand in Anti-Voting Litigation Read more here.

While many of Trump’s picks represent a grave threat to democracy and the lives and freedoms of millions of Americans, a handful of his most important nominees could play a direct role in the future of voting rights and access to the ballot over the next four years.

First Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation dies Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, has died at age 104.

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, has died at age 104.

educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

My one wish for the inauguration is that there is a gift bag under the seats of Bezos, Zuck, Elon etc, with a single, embroidered , padded knee pad

Need to protect themselves when they are on bended knee, kissing the ring 🤷😆

Tapping the sign. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Congratulations, America. Great job of f'ing it up. Wonderful.

SEC sues Elon Musk, alleging failure to properly disclose Twitter ownership The SEC on Tuesday filed a suit against Elon Musk, alleging the billionaire violated securities law by acquiring Twitter shares at "artificially low prices."

SEC sues Elon Musk over failure to disclose his Twitter stake ahead of his buyout… www.cnbc.com/2025/01/14/s... with Ari Levy @cnbc.com

the House chairperson (a Republican) ruled Mace’s obvious threat was NOT a threat because it was ‘phrased as a question’

how functioning democracies work

This is so deeply pathetic