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Many lawyers who argue for Trump at Supreme Court are heading for the exit At least half of the front-line attorneys in the solicitor general’s office plan to leave as Trump’s emergency requests pile up at the high court, people familiar with the situation said.

"Many are uncomfortable or turned off by directives from Justice Department leaders, including Attorney General Pam Bondi’s demand for “zealous advocacy” of President Donald Trump’s agenda, these people said."
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The Resistance is strong!
#Resist

Trump freed a Jan. 6 defendant charged with assaulting police. DOJ had him arrested again on a gun charge. The charges against Daniel Ball, unrelated to Jan. 6, had been pending since 2023.

Jan 6 defendant pardoned by Trump had previous charges for domestic battery by strangulation, battery of a police officer. Now, arrested again: www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

And let’s add in the fact that 17 million voters supposedly stayed home and didn’t vote? I always said, they were probably deleted from the computer voting system systematically somehow!

"Tater Tot Ron"— Trump FBI Nominee Kash Patel Wants to Cancel Pastors, Others Who Supported DeSantis Kash Patel’s alarming partisan rhetoric proves him unfit for FBI director

In footage unearthed by MeidasTouch from 2023, Trump FBI Nominee Kash Patel called Ron DeSantis “Tater Tot Ron” and said every Republican who supported him in the primary should be excluded from the Trump Admin.

Black Republicans feel left out of Trump’s 2nd-term picks As President-elect Donald Trump fills out his Cabinet and closest advisers, African American Republicans ask why more Black people haven’t been selected.

From the Department of How Can You Be Surprised by This?

We are going to fight these Trump appointments. Every one of them.

What dark wizardry is this

This is how much the minimum wage looks like in the United States

If we couldn’t do it for the country we can at least try to do it here

Santa Paws 🎅🎄

No matter how demoralized we are in today's America, I'll always have this selfie of me meeting Jane Goodall.

Joe's pardon of Hunter makes me think POTUS is aware of the coming danger. Hopefully, this is the beginning of the pardons and not the end.

Trump's IQ discovered

Seriously.

tbh I don’t know why anyone would go on Fox News sober

Oh, wait. Trump lied? Say it isn’t so!

The New Yorker: Pete Hegseth forced out of veterans’ advocacy groups over misconduct allegations | CNN Politics Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, was pushed out as the head of two veterans’ advocacy organizations amid internal allegations of mismanagement and p...

Hegseth was booted from 2 veterans advocacy groups for sexual misconduct including taking his team to a LA. strip club & making sexual advances at the dancers. A member of his team called his behavior "despicable" and that it "embarrassed the entire organization."

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Trump's pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is in peril in the Senate As many as six GOP senators are not currently comfortable supporting Hegseth, following allegations concerning drinking and his treatment of women, sources told NBC News.

🔺️ BREAKING:

NBC reports that as many as six Senate Republicans are uncomfortable with the Hegseth nomination.

It's time to light up the Capitol Switchboard and urge your Senators not to confirm Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense.

☎️ 202-224-3121

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When Trump tariffs crater the economy, when grocery prices skyrocket, when your home value plummets, I hope you still remember how mad you were at Joe for pardoning Hunter.

Aspen, Colorado ❄️

I think DeSantis would probably be okay as SecDef. He’s a jerk, but he’s not crazy. He’s a conventional guy; his problem as a GOP presidential candidate was that he couldn’t convincingly play a nut job on TV.

But it’s sad that the best we can hope for these days is “not crazy.”

Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification At WIRED's The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success.

NEW: Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. There are 24 million users on the social media platform.

With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.