To review what we from @washingtonpost.com are reporting out of the IRS today:

- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats

- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations

So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

If they’re sharing highly classified military plans over Signal while some of the folks on the thread are overseas, what *else* are they doing?

Witkoff was a fool for joining that chat from Moscow. But the entire charlatan national security team also chose to put him on that chat when they knew (or should have known) that he was in Moscow. A spy novel based on this level of cretinous behavior would be unbelievable.

🚨 NEW: We just launched a one-click email tool to contact all Democratic Senators who are still undecided on the CR.

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maybe he means boom as in he is blowing it to pieces

Ukraine is now debunking Trump's post from this morning in which he spread Russian propaganda straight from Putin

Sen. Klobuchar is a NO

Ah the party of free speech is at it again

Ocasio-Cortez mobilizes Democrats against Schumer plan as colleagues privately urge her to consider primary challenge | CNN Politics Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that she plans to mobilize her massive base of followers to oppose what she described as an “acquiesce” by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to accept th...

"Privately, House Democrats are so infuriated with Schumer’s decision that some have begun encouraging [AOC] to run against Schumer in a primary."

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

“But if you want to smear your feces on the Capitol walls, come on in!“

Trump now talking about how great judge aileen cannon is and now he’s back to Bobby knight

Trump says he thinks it's illegal to call Aileen Cannon "slow" and not smart

my big takeaway from this Trump speech at the DOJ is that he's totally gonna put Aileen Cannon on the Supreme Court

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled that Trump’s firing of a member of the board that handles federal employee labor disputes was unlawful, the latest rejection of his claim to have total power to remake independent boards — likely headed for SCOTUS. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

NEW: A judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing Trump’s order to punish Perkins Coie, saying it likely violates the constitution.

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NEWS: Judge Chutkan has granted a request by several state attorneys general for discovery on DOGE — namely the identities of DOGE personnel and the “parameter’s of DOGE’s and Musk’s authority.”

NEWS: Judge Chutkan has granted a request by several state attorneys general for discovery on DOGE — namely the identities of DOGE personnel and the “parameter’s of DOGE’s and Musk’s authority.”

NEW: A federal judge dealt Donald Trump his latest defeat in an effort to fire members of independent boards and agencies that oversee federal labor and employee disputes.

These cases are at the DC circuit but likely to rocket to SCOTUS.

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Judge orders DOGE and Elon Musk to turn over documents, answer written questions The demands for information are designed to clarify the “parameters of DOGE’s and Musk’s authority.”

NEW: A federal judge, for the first time, has ordered discovery on Elon Musk’s role in DOGE and his authority over the massive overhaul of the federal bureaucracy.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

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👀 The DOGE team at the Social Security Administration is one of the largest I've seen to date with the most extensive access to sensitive systems. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JUST IN: Lawsuit brought by states over dismantling of Department of Education goes to Myong Joun, appointee of President Joe Biden.

ALSUP: “It is sad, a sad day, when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that’s a lie.”

Judge Alsup says he's feeling "misled by the U.S. government" over a representation that fired employees had recourse via MSPB, but now notes that President Trump fired the special counsel and attempted to remove a board member of MSPB, depriving it of quorum.

HAPPENING NOW: A judge is sounding off on the Trump administration over effort to mass fire probationary employees, says decision not to submit OPM director Chad Ezell to questioning hide the truth about it.

"That’s a sham," he says, suggesting he might order mass rehiring.

NEWS: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to offer reinstatement to thousands of fired probationary employees at the Departments of Defense, Treasury, Agriculture, Energy, Interior and Veterans Affairs.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

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Judge orders sweeping rehiring of fired workers at 18 federal agencies The order by U.S. District Judge James Bredar was even more broad than a ruling earlier in the day from a different federal judge.

NEW: A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of thousands of federal workers across a huge swath of the federal government, the second judge to order sweeping relief today and reject the mass firings as illegal.

w/ @joshgerstein@bsky.social

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