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Abbott Threatens to Add Even More GOP Seats in Texas If Dems Don’t Return Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is threatening to expand Republicans’ power grab...

Paxton’s Latest Escalation: Attempt to Get State Supreme Court to Remove 13 Dems From Office

Abbott Threatens to Add Even More GOP Seats in Texas If Dems Don’t Return Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is threatening to expand Republicans’ power grab...

Texas Dems Plan to Avoid Texas for Two More Weeks

HHS Has Revived a Failed Program to Scrape Americans’ Data and Track Autism, Senate Suggests Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released a report on the country’s...

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Brutal Day On The Investigate The Investigators Front An onslaught of bad news for the rule of law over the...

An onslaught of bad news for the rule of law over the past few hours as President Trump’s retribution scheme comes into ever-sharper focus: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bruta...

Brutal Day On The Investigate The Investigators Front An onslaught of bad news for the rule of law over the...

An onslaught of bad news for the rule of law over the past few hours as President Trump’s retribution scheme comes into ever-sharper focus.
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BREAKING: Appeals Court Clears Trump Admin of Contempt of Court in Alien Enemies Act Case After sitting on the case for months, a federal appeals court Friday...

After sitting on the case for months, a federal appeals court Friday shut down the contempt of court proceeding against the Trump administration in the original Alien Enemies Act case.

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BREAKING: Appeals Court Clears Trump Admin of Contempt of Court in Alien Enemies Act Case After sitting on the case for months, a federal appeals court Friday...

After sitting on the case for months, a federal appeals court Friday shut down the contempt of court proceeding against the Trump administration in the original Alien Enemies Act case.
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A New Round Of Unlawful Purges Hits FBI A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

President Trump continues to decimate the senior ranks of the FBI with the unlawful firings of career agents, all of whom hold non-political career positions with civil service protections.
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Trump Promised to Eliminate Funding to Schools That Don’t Nix DEI Work—But Half of States Aren’t Complying This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

The Education Department threatened schools' federal funding over DEI practices. But about half of states say they won't comply with the administration's terms.
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Vance Brings White House Backup to Indiana This is your TPM evening briefing.

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As things currently stand, Democrats would have to pick up just three seats in order to take back the House, which would not just end Trump’s trifecta in Washington, but also open the Trump administration up to a wave of investigations as Democrats would then hold subpoena power.

They’re doing this because they are worried that Democrats are going to take back the House in the 2026 midterms, presumably due to polling on the unpopularity of Trump’s mass deportation agenda, Medicaid cuts and constitutional norm shattering, among other things.

The pilgrimage to Indiana on Thursday was, of course, one prong of a broader Trump administration effort to try to force red states to engage in midcycle redistricting and redraw congressional maps to flip seats from Democrat to Republican.

Vance Brings White House Backup to Indiana Vice President JD Vance brought an entourage of White House officials with...

Reports from Indiana about the meeting did not exactly describe a ringing endorsement of the Trump administration’s ratfuckery.

HHS Has Revived a Failed Program to Scrape Americans’ Data and Track Autism, Senate Suggests Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released a report on the country’s...

Exclusive: Trump Admin is Reviving a Failed Program to Scrape Americans’ Data and Track Autism
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HHS Has Revived a Failed Program to Scrape Americans’ Data and Track Autism, Senate Suggests Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released a report on the country’s...

RFK Jr. brought back a failed mass data collection program to track autism. The Senate wants him to stop.

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HHS Has Revived a Failed Program to Scrape Americans’ Data and Track Autism, Senate Suggests Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released a report on the country’s...

Documents TPM obtained suggest that NIH is using a Palantir-built tool to push toward a program that sounds a lot like the one Congress is worried about.

Full story here from @joshkovensky.bsky.social:

HHS Has Revived a Failed Program to Scrape Americans’ Data and Track Autism, Senate Suggests Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released a report on the country’s...

In 2024, Congress urged NIH to shut down a massive data collection program, fearing it had gotten in deep over its head. Now, Congress alleges, NIH has revived that program as part of RFK Jr.'s search for an autism "cure."

HHS Has Revived a Failed Program to Scrape Americans’ Data and Track Autism, Senate Suggests Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released a report on the country’s...

Exclusive: HHS Has Revived a Failed Program to Scrape Americans’ Data and Track Autism, Senate Suggests

HHS Has Revived a Failed Program to Scrape Americans’ Data and Track Autism, Senate Suggests Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released a report on the country’s...

RFK Jr. brought back a failed mass data collection program to search for autism. The Senate wants him to stop.
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Trump’s Attack on Data Has ‘Dangerous Trickle-Down Effect’ for America’s Most Vulnerable President Donald Trump is going after the census again. In a Thursday...

Experts tell TPM that Trump’s data drain puts the most vulnerable Americans at risk, as changes in demographic data collection and reporting could mean less efficient public policy.
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The Long, Hot Summer of Trump II Depredations A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

I returned last night from a weeklong trip paddling down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. No phone signal. No news. No real contact with the outside world.
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The Long, Hot Summer of Trump II Depredations A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

A snapshot of America in the summer of 2025 shows how far we’ve fallen in such a short time.
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The Sydney Sweeney News Cycle Proves That Democrats Simply Can’t Win If you’re lucky enough to have missed it, here’s the skinny on...

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The hellish Sweeney news cycle is a helpful microcosm of how Dems simply can't win culture war fights - even if they see that the 'liberal' take is dumb & opt out. Or as I call it: “The left and the right are clashing over x. The left is an Oberlin sophomore and the right is the governor of Texas.”

Russ Vought Is Talking A Big Game—But Even This Supreme Court Might Not Back It Up A hallmark of the second Trump presidency is the White House’s insatiable,...

Vought is projecting cockiness about a farfetched legal theory that would give Trump “more power than the English kings had prior to the Revolution.”
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The Trump Administration is Promoting Its Anti-Trans Agenda Globally at the United Nations This story first appeared at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign...

The U.S. keeps derailing UN work by complaining about the use of the word "gender" in documents and resolutions. (from @lisalsong.bsky.social, @propublica.org)

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Trump Admin Takes Its Desperate Midcycle Redistricting Scheme to Indiana This is your TPM evening briefing.

On some level, the tactic is revealing, speaking to Republicans’ high degree of concern about holding the House in the upcoming midterms. And what the Trump administration is now doing in Indiana serves as another datapoint for that argument.

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Its tiny majority in the House is not just its main point of vulnerability, but the slim margins for passing legislation have made it more difficult for Trump to ram all his legislative initiatives through Congress without pushback.