Jacob Rosenberg

TLDR: Judge Immergut GRANTS a 2nd TRO blocking the Trump admin from sending ANY federalized troops from ANY state into Oregon/Portland. (Full hearing thread below)

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent." The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.

Russ Vought's neighbors have strong feelings about him:

"You asked what it is like living near such a man. Frankly, I'd rather not, but this is a wonderful neighborhood and, unlike Mr. Vought himself, we do not want our neighbors (even Mr. Vought) to be traumatized. So we just live with it."

‘Our Goal Is to Get Their Money’: Inside a Firm Charged With Scamming Writers for Millions Author services company PageTurner used promises of mainstream success and Netflix deals to prey on more than 800 aspiring authors, according to DOJ.

This is the most surprising ending to a story I've read in a long time. Completely wild stuff www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent." The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.

“He takes food and health care from the neediest and tries to, in his words, traumatize people—then he calls himself a Christian,” a neighbor told Mother Jones. “Pretty despicable.”

The New York Times buying Audm, and then putting into the Audio app, just to kill it... is a total tragedy. It really is infuriating.

Being able to listen to magazine articles was a total joy—and a great thing.

It died even as audio becomes more important...

He Drops Trump Jr.’s Name in Pursuit of Billion-Dollar Deals. It’s Getting Awkward. Gentry Beach, a college friend of the president’s firstborn, has left a trail of confusion abroad as he courts foreign officials and business leaders to lock up investments in mining, oil pipelines an...

the world is flat, but in an even dumber way now.

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Lol www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump apparently so pleased with Hamas's response he reposts the militant group's entire response verbatim

For more on the purge of TPS holders, read this beautiful and important story from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social on the largest de-legalization campaign in modern US history

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Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent." The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent."

“He takes food and health care from the neediest and tries to, in his words, traumatize people—then he calls himself a Christian,” a neighbor told @isabelaalhadeff. “Pretty despicable.”

The bureaucrat who could make Trump's authoritarian dreams real Russ Vought has a plan to take presidential power to new heights.

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Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent." The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.

Russell Vought, Trump's shutdown hero, lives in a neighborhood where "everyone knows someone who lost their jobs."

. @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social talked with a few of them about the shutdown

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Miller has long been against pro-Palestine protest and has connections to Canary Mission

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More confirmation:

DHS used Canary Mission to find pro-Palestine students to arrest—as Stephen Miller monitored the process from the White House

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Sitting beside a guy at a bar who just goes between sports gambling to looking at Instagram stories and sliding into DMs... it happens more than I'd like

For more on the Trump official who's been dreaming about this shutdown "since puberty," read @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social's excellent deep-dive into Russell Vought.

He's one of the "key figures leading us into a new and violently authoritarian future.”

"Only about 13 percent of the personnel carrying out Trump’s deportation agenda are employed by ICE’s primary deportation unit; the rest are pulled from other jobs" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How the two-state solution became a “big, expedient lie” In a new book, Robert Malley, a veteran US peace negotiator, argues it is well past time to think beyond an idea he spent much of his career pursuing.

“Over time, [the two state solution] did become something that people greeted with a yawn—and then as a joke, or a lie.”

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A Reagan-appointed judge just wrote a blistering anti-Trump decision Federal judge William G. Young attacked the president's crackdown on civil liberties as un-American.

Pretty remarkable to see a Reagan-appointed judge write this in a decision calling Trump's crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech unconstitutional

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Isn't this her huge play in the bid against the primary challenger? If she can't get the person she appointed to vote against it, and she wants to run on her opponent being in the pocket of Cohen... that's going to be an extremely hard argument to make

Good luck with that!

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It'd be nice if there were a better way to rent print magazines on your phone from the library—like Libby. (There's an app Flipster that kinda does it but doesn't work.) Thanks for coming to my blog, as always

‘A real tragedy’: Trump’s policies create sea of uncertainty for New Bedford’s offshore wind ambitions - The Boston Globe In New Bedford, one of the poorest cities in the state, offshore wind has offered a new source of jobs and investment.

“It’d be nice to tell Mr. Trump to finish playing with wars and start creating more jobs.”

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The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge How the idea of “able-bodied” is abused

The Trump Administration wants to add a work requirement for "able-bodied" Medicaid recipients. But medical professionals don't use that term. @juliametraux.bsky.social explains the history of a political term

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The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge How the idea of “able-bodied” is abused

For the November/December issue of @motherjones.com, I dove into the history of the word "able-bodied"—including how it's been harmful to disabled Americans since the 1930s and it most certainly will be when Medicaid work reqs come into play again. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is very concerning. For all the talk of standing up to Trump, here's what Adams et al have done.

Until recently, the New York City Department of Correction had not done any training on how to stand by the sanctuary city rules!

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