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DOJ manufactures another lawsuit to block in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants A little-noted lawsuit in Oklahoma could block a state law with no actual adversarial litigation. Also: My Thursday reading, as I started catching up from vacation.

NEW: DOJ manufactures another lawsuit to block in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants. A little-noted lawsuit in Oklahoma could block a state law with no actual adversarial litigation.

Today, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/doj-manufa...

confused; is this why people did or didn't vote for Kamala?

Fort Dix to Hold Thousands as Trump Militarizes Detention System | ACLU Turning military bases into massive tent detention sites is not only unnecessary and costly; it’s another dehumanizing spectacle designed to harm our communities.

With billions in ICE funding approved by Congress, the Trump administration is pouring money into incarcerating our immigrant neighbors — and planning to use the military to help carry out their agenda.

Military bases should never be used for immigration detention, period.

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BREAKING: Trump administration asks #SCOTUS to lift federal judge's order barring "roving" immigration raids in Los Angeles area. Filing says 1 in 10 residents of the district are undocumented immigrants. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

nooooooo 😢

Economist and Professor Justin Wolfers tells Times Radio's Fergus Macphee what effect the end of Donald Trump's tariff pause will have on the global economy and why 'the r word' is being talked about… The R word ‘recession is back on people’s lips’ in Trump’s America | Justin Wolfers

This is what I look like when talking tariffs, recession risks, and all this madness, while trying to get through covid. It's a new quarantine background, with a new raspy voice, but the same tariff-y goodness.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWH3...

Trump’s Half-Assed Strategy To Kill The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Trump’s attempts to appease the public on the scandal around the Epstein files are coalescing into a strategy.

NEW: Trump's Half-Assed Strategy to Kill The Epstein Scandal

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I take a look at this massive thorn in Trump's side in my latest report for HuffPost. And why it may never go away.

(Many thanks to @glennkirschner.bsky.social for speaking with me for this report.)

www.huffpost.com/entry/why-ki...

This is an absolute betrayal to people who faithfully served their country. There is not a single Republican on earth who gets to utter the lie that they “care about our troops” now

FBI firing senior officials at odds with Trump administration | CNN Politics Two senior FBI officials, including one who initially resisted the Trump administration’s effort to gather the names of agents who worked on cases related to the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, ...

Today Patel removed two senior leaders who had resisted efforts to rewrite Jan 6 history and punish line agents who worked on it. It's a clear attempt to restrict FBI's independence. Whether the goal is Jan 6, or corroding the FBI for the Epstein case, or both, it's bad news. 3/

Thieves Target Tennessee National Guard Facilities, Stealing Night Vision Googles and More A string of US armory break-ins, kept quiet by authorities for months, points to a growing security crisis—and signs of an inside job.

NEW: Four National Guard armories were breached weeks apart in incidents previously undisclosed, with evidence pointing toward a possible inside job. Sensitive equipment was taken. We learned FBI took point, but it declined to confirm its involvement.

By me w/ records via @propertyofthepeople.org

Ellison not gonna politicize a company that was established with a bribe to a politician 🙄

YouTube video by emptywheel The Secrets Trump's Spies Share with Putin's Spies

With video!

youtu.be/zlSa3kZpltg

🙌 same-sies 😎

Education Department has a backlog of 27,000 complaints about student loans The department disclosed the pileup of complaints — an increase of about 11,000 since March — in a recent letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

SCOOP: A key office in the US Dept of Education has a backlog of 27,000 complaints about student loans, up from 16,000 in March

Nearly two-thirds of the staff in the office were terminated this spring as part of widespread layoffs in the department

www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

Fact check:

mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).

This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.

Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.

Bibi the Butcher reveals plans he’s had all along. An abominable, genocidal war criminal.

Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.)
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Monoclonal antibodies revolutionized biomedical science and health care The story of the discovery of these molecules 50 years ago shows how the free exchange of ideas can lead to life-changing treatments.

The story of the discovery of monoclonal antibodies 50 years ago shows how the free exchange of ideas can lead to life-changing treatments

go.nature.com/45GeSM0

nooooooooo

Thanks, @jackcocchiarella.bsky.social, for exploring the wilds of Maryland and Washington with me in Rock Creek Park near the Boundary Bridge which allows safe passage from Occupied Washington back to the Free State.

WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-SH...

That's right.

I see you #DirtySCOTUS

The 8 Biggest Headaches Facing New Paramount Its merger with Skydance is finally approved, but in some ways the drama is just beginning.

Paramount Global is now officially back to being….Paramount (a Skydance Corp. if you’re nasty.) Last week, I teamed up with my colleague Chris Lee to look at the new company’s most pressing issues. www.vulture.com/article/new-...

YouTube video by emptywheel The Secrets Trump's Spies Share with Putin's Spies

Here's the video @thefarce.org and I did explaining the secret Trump's top spies are keeping with Putin's spies.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlSa...

Silicon Valley Godzilla vs. Wall Street Mothra The only two sectors thriving in Trump’s economy are increasingly sparring with each other.

Only two industries in America are thriving: Big Banks and Big Tech. And they both appear to want only one industry in America to thrive. So they're taking each other on in a series of regulatory fights. From me:
prospect.org/power/2025-0...

friend died of this in the Miami area last December 😢

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Library of Congress explains how parts of US Constitution vanished from its website | TechCrunch The U.S. congressional agency confirmed to TechCrunch that the removal of key sections of the Constitution from its website were removed in error. The full text has now been reinstated.

NEW: The Library of Congress told us in a statement that it messed up and blamed the missing text from the constitution on a coding error. A Library of Congress spokesperson said it was due to a missing XML tag in the code when the site was being updated to include analysis.

I just finished my latest piece on the Trump administration’s next war on voting and why dictators love elections. It goes out in few hours to Democracy Dockets premium members.

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If you’re wondering why the federal courts continue to operate an insecure case management system, it’s because they claim building a new one will cost $2 billion, which is absurd nonsense. If they’d followed our advice in 2020, they’d have a secure system today.