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The President’s Power to Call Out the National Guard Is Not a Blank Check Domestic deployment under Section 502(f) has its limits, and for good reason.

Posting for no reason.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Slashing CISA Is a Gift to Our Adversaries Trump is making America more vulnerable to cyberattack.

"In this new battlespace, it’s not just about who has the most tanks, planes, or drones. It’s about who can protect their people, their institutions, and their way of life in a world where war is already being waged with ones and zeroes." CISA matters:

Thou Shalt Not Be Apathetic U.S. Christians must be willing to condemn political corruption.

"Christians cannot succumb to the temptation to normalize political corruption as an inevitable and therefore acceptable outgrowth of organized civic life." (2020)

Fox News host: “The Epstein file thing was way over the top. It's just crazy to say that Trump was in the Epstein files. What are you doing? Sometimes when people get drunk they do crazy things. This is a total escalation.”🍿

For the First Time, a Judge Declares Trump's Use of the Alien Enemies Act Unlawful And as an added kick in the teeth to the government, the judge is a Trump appointee in Southern Texas

NEW: The moment we've been waiting for! For the first time, a judge has declared Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act unlawful. Bonus: it's a Trump appointed judge in Southern Texas. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/for-the-fi...

Trump to take away Harvard’s tax exempt status U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration will strip Harvard University of its tax exempt status.

Trump to take away Harvard’s tax exempt status reut.rs/4k5skxv

MAGA Influencers Should Have Some Self-Respect The new White House influencer briefing is a parade of softballs and sycophancy.

MAGA influencers are being offered access to “the White House—the perfect backdrop for any viral video—and the heady sense of being insiders. In return, all they have to do is ask questions that would make a Soviet propagandist blush,” Helen Lewis writes:

A former IRS chief on Trump’s attempts to gut—and weaponize—his agency "This is an administration priding itself on revenge," says John Koskinen.

Trump just appointed Scott Bessent's deputy, Michael Faulkender, as acting commissioner of the IRS—the third acting commissioner in ONE WEEK. So now let's hear from a competent, Senate-confirmed former IRS commissioner, who has lots to say about this lawless clown car of an administration.

Today Christians celebrate the resurrection of a brown, middle eastern immigrant crucified for preaching love for the powerless.

They celebrate by cheering the persecution of immigrants, people of color, & people who care for the powerless.

This hypocrisy is why
American Christianity died.

Reminder to All Conservative Christians:

Today you celebrate a man for being woke.

Mic drop

Senator Van Hollen cannot be any more clear as to what this is all about.

It’s about the rule of law. Period. Not the whims of an authoritarian or our feelings toward any individual.

If you allow it to be dismissed for even one person. Any person. You risk suffering the same fate.

i’m getting van hollen pilled

misogynists

amen

Sen. Cory Booker putting his hand over his heart as he beats Strom Thurmond's floor address record

It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful.

Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.

Between @booker.senate.gov's magnificent, soaring oratory and stamina plus
the volunteers' effort up to the last hours in Wisconsin I have renewed faith in our fellow Americans' devotion to democracy. We can do this. But it takes all of us. Remember April 5 is coming up.

YouTube video by MeidasTouch Cory Booker DROPS THE MIC with HISTORY-MAKING Speech

NEW: Cory Booker Sets Record with History-Making Speech

Watch the highlights 👇

Courts willing to follow the Constitution and the law are the only things standing between us and Stephen Miller’s dystopia right now. And he isn’t happy about it.

I think there is going to be a Red Rural Recession and soon if all the cuts continue as is

All the firings, cancelling of grants and contracts with companies , the closing of offices, disproportionately impact small towns, cities and states.

Their finances will be turned upside

Rumeysa Ozturk must not be deported. You can't kidnap someone off the street for their political views — this isn't Moscow.

She has every right to speak her mind. I've contacted the Administration. I want answers.

JUST IN: The FDA's top vaccine official has resigned, accusing anti-vaxxer HHS Secretary RFK Jr. of wanting nothing more than a "subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."

Efficiency!

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China’s retaliatory tariffs will hurt Trump-voting counties most While the China clash will play out globally and strategically, its potential impacts will be localized and varied, since different regions have different local industry mixes and structures.

China’s retaliatory tariffs will hurt Trump-voting counties the most.

In our new piece, @markmuro1.bsky.social @shriyared.bsky.social and I look at which places in the U.S. have the most workers in industries likely to be affected by Chinese tariffs.
www.brookings.edu/articles/chi...

Does DOGE Pose a National Security Risk? Uncertainty about access and authority will worry allies and tempt adversaries.

Lots being written on the dangers Musk and his teams are posing; here @profsaunders.bsky.social and I discuss some of the threats to national security www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

An inconvenient truth?