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Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...

Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.

(Published April 2023)

Last weekend.
This weekend.

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TN bill would allow death penalty for women who have an abortion SBC President Clint Pressley endorsed the effort saying it would “provide preborn children with equal protection of the laws.”

Sickening.

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I ran the numbers in my newsletter two weeks ago. The $100 mill the Post lost in 2024 was equal to about two days of the increase in his net worth since he bought the paper.
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Reading the story is intense. Watching this TV report, which interviews his son... is beyond heartbreaking. Paulino's death is a national disgrace, among so many others. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlIF...

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Why did ICE shackle a British tourist, a grandmother with no criminal record, who had all the correct papers, and lock her in a cell for SIX WEEKS??

Because ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone.

Eliminate this agency now.

Did you know that Texas Tech recently canceled an abortion provider’s speech because of a TPUSA campaign? Medical students in the state say this censorship harms not only their education, but their patients’ health:

"RFK Jr.’s ‘concern’ about vaccines was... always alluding to a logic familiar to those within eugenics movements: that strong, healthy, naturally resilient bodies don’t need pharmaceutical intervention, and that those who do are, in some fundamental sense, weaker."

Judge who allowed FBI to search Washington Post reporter’s home rips into Justice Department | CNN Politics A federal judge ripped into the Justice Department on Friday for failing to inform him of the applicability of a law intended to protect journalists from government searches and seizures when it asked...

Judge who allowed FBI to search Washington Post reporter’s home rips into Justice Department

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Been hoping to see something like this. Even putting aside my political views, legally, I cannot square (1) basic principles of self-defense, amplified by 2nd Amend law and some state statutes with (2) complying with armed people who can't be identified as genuine law enforcement.

(2) cannot stand.

The end of the Vos Era, finally The longest serving Assembly Speaker in state history represented the worst in our politics.

I wrote about my least favorite Wisconsin politician finally retiring. 🔒 www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/the-end-of...

The Heritage Foundation's Plan to Keep Women Uneducated, Pregnant and Subservient The Heritage Foundation published "Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years." Goodbye women's rights.

Contemporary US pronatalism, of which the Heritage Foundation is the most powerful player, is blatantly sexist and racist and fueled by Christian Nationalism.

This isn’t an exaggeration - it’s explicitly spelled out in their plan to “save America by saving the family.”

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.

The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

Bridge Owner Donated $1 Million to MAGA Inc. PAC Before Trump Blasted New Span

SCOOP: Less than 1 month before Trump came out against a new bridge connecting Michigan with Canada, the billionaire owner of an existing bridge donated $1M to the Trump-backed super PAC, MAGA Inc.

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Beyond the horrifying, lawless nature of this — which I have written about repeatedly — this is one of those things that we are just stuck with — not for the future, but, to the extent it has happened, as reality — and we are all less safe for it.

Of course, that’s not tariff policy. It’s not good. And it’s a shitty way to run a country.

But, that is the problem those tariffs are meant to solve: Trump’s loss, a domestic political problem.

FBI Denies That Kash Patel’s Olympics Trip Using Agency Jet Is For Personal Reasons A report from CBS News said Patel flew on a Justice Department plane to Italy, with plans to watch Olympic hockey.

A report from CBS News said Patel flew on a Justice Department plane to Italy, with plans to watch Olympic hockey.

New Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study's Unusual Path to CDC Approval A new investigation has found irregularities in the ethics review of a grant to study effects of a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.

New from @katherineeban.bsky.social in @rollingstone.com: CDC appointees bypassed the agency’s scientists to rush-fund a study questioning the hep B birth dose. The ethics committee president says his name was used on the approval without his knowledge.

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Federal CIO tapped for dual-hatted role at GSA Greg Barbaccia will serve as the acting Technology Transformation Services director and senior advisor to the administrator at GSA, while its previous lead, Thomas Shedd, will remain with the agency i...

"During his time at GSA, [outgoing director Thomas Shedd] has overseen layoffs across TTS, including shuttering 18F ... . ... experts raised questions about ethics and conflicts of interest regarding his employment setup, as he’s on a leave of absence from Tesla while working for the government."

now liberals please gather round, so we can walk you through the alternatives to “just voting.”

this here is called Direct Action.

they’re radicalizing guys name colt shelby who work in the oil and gas industry

Note, NYT assumes that DHS told the truth about what happened, which would be crazy because they literally Never Have when they shot someone, especially an American.

Utah Supreme Court upholds fairer map for midterm elections, rejects GOP appeal That fairer map creates a district where Democratic voters can meaningfully compete.

🚨BREAKING: In a decisive win for voters, the Utah Supreme Court dismissed the GOP legislature’s appeal in the state’s landmark redistricting case — clearing the way for a fairer congressional map to be used in the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

If I were any of the victims that survived or the families of the ones that didn't? I would take Sam Altman & company to the fucking cleaners.

I'm talking suing the company for so much money that his great-grandchildren would be paying my family line in installments.

The Supreme Court, like every time they've bucked Trump before, will quickly fall back in line with a massive decision in his favor.

Anyone writing a take this naive must not have mastered object permanence.

And RAGA is at it again. After successfully getting a federal agency to remove the climate science chapter from a reference manual for judges, now they're demanding the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine take it off their website.

‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy Gives the Interview He Couldn’t During Its Release While promoting his cautionary tale about fascism, Disney asked Gilroy to refrain from using the word. Nine months after it aired its finale, the 'Star Wars' series feels scarily prescient.

“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

It has been obvious for the 10 years we’ve had to listen to him ramble on about this that he literally believes a tariff is a bill the US sends another country and then that country has to send the US money.

That is what he has been talking about this whole time, to this very moment.