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I love this cover. I watch it every so often and tell people about it. 😍

Before anyone gets too excited about this, see below. Elon is not on our side. He’s on Elon’s side. Which means they’re going to get back together. & what important developments will we have missed in the meantime? Ukraine? ICE detaining kids? The budget passing?

DOJ as we have known it, as a place where prosecutors from the AG on down do the right thing, for the right reason, in the right way, is over.

The president says D-Day was “not a great day”

Germany’s Chancellor Merz presented Trump the birth certificate of his German grandfather, Friedrich Trump.

It was a clever jab to remind Trump he’s a German immigrant.

We need details on this.

#BigBillionaireBailout

Phang: It’s time for federal judges to acknowledge that they have lifetime appointments—and that should give them the courage to uphold the rule of law, but also to put some damn teeth into the court orders they’re issuing.

it’s time that we start seeing action from the judiciary.

Grow some balls

Map of the U.S. showing voter support for cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food assistance) by congressional district. Support for SNAP cuts ranges from 5% to 14%. Created by Data for Progress.

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.

They're not being subtle about their -isms and news organizations should not be subtle about identifying it as such.

New Hampshire Senate halts cryptocurrency deregulation bill, hoping to return to it next year • New Hampshire Bulletin A bill aiming to deregulate cryptocurrency mining in New Hampshire and forbid local officials and state agencies from placing limits on the practice was set for a final vote Thursday before state…

"The bill was written using model legislation created by a crypto industry group called Satoshi Action Fund." From @willskipworth.bsky.social #NHPolitics

Georgia mother says she is being forced to keep brain-dead pregnant daughter alive under abortion ban law “It’s torture for me,” April Newkirk said. “I see my daughter breathing, but she’s not there.”

A Georgia mother is being forced to keep her brain-dead daughter alive because she’s pregnant and Georgia’s abortion laws are archaic.

They’re forcing the family to pay to keep this woman alive — with an unviable baby — against their will.

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Welp.

In case you missed it, these are all the cuts Kennedy has made to HHS.

A striking thing in my con law class was the Bush terror detention cases. They start out very permissive, but over time the court limits Bush more. My con law prof asked what we thought was happening. People guessed at a lot of legal theories. “No!” he said. “The court stopped trusting him.”

Senate Democrats want investigation into whether Trump administration helping Musk make Starlink deals Democratic senators are calling for an investigation into whether the Trump administration is clearing hurdles for Starlink, led by Elon Musk, to strike foreign deals.

Musk's Starlink was having a hard time getting permits abroad.

Then Trump slapped tariffs on basically everything we buy from overseas—and suddenly countries negotiating trade deals started giving Starlink sweet deals!

Looks like textbook corruption—and we're all paying for it.

Everyone needs to understand what Elon and DOGE are building, an AI driven panopticon that will know everything about you and will be used to ensure compliance with their fascist agenda. They are creating a unified database of everything the federal government has on every single American.

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Supreme Court extends block on Trump’s deportation bid under Alien Enemies Act The justices faulted the administration for its attempt last month to carry out swift deportations just one day after providing a bare-bones deportation notice to the detainees.

NEW: For the *fourth* time the Supreme Court has brushed back the Trump administration’s effort to shortcut due process for deportees it claims are dangerous.

w/ @joshgerstein

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The executive branch doesn’t get to tell Congress how to do its work. It’s in the Constitution. Katy bar the door.

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EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Dan Goldman demands AG Pam Bondi come clean on if she is covering up the release of the Epstein Files to protect Donald Trump. In a blistering letter, Goldman demands answers on the unexplained delay.

you want to know one reason people are losing trust in the media? it’s the total inability to call things what they are

some guy on YouTube: “wow this is the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen”

the Times: “critics say it raises appearance of impropriety”

who are people going to take seriously?

So American children should make do with "two dolls" while Donald Trump gets a free "sky palace" from the Qatari government? Okay.

Why do people in the news media act like a president's executive order is a magic wand? Don't they understand how things really work?

I'm increasingly struggling with the fact that right wing members of Congress keep going to a concentration camp run by their favorite dictator, as if it's some kind of amusement park or sex club, and there's almost no backlash.

Sen. John Barrasso leaves the door open to patriotic Americans tarring and feathering him

"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.

Liberals flip Terrebonne riding back by a single vote after judicial recount Multiple sources have told CTV News the Liberals have regained the riding of Terrebonne by a single vote.

Holy crap. One, one single vote. Yes, your vote matters. Liberals now have 170 seats. A majority is 172.

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