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The long term impacts of the Trump administration’s interference in the private sector, from bullying CEOs, taking a cut of chip sales to China, to the U.S. Steel “golden share”

Season 3 is good again! Just skip Season 2 altogether

Can confirm this email is authentic — and about nothing in it is true.

Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that.

It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.

Exactly. Few know Collins’ MO better.

Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.

A permanent injunction for Wilmer, Cutler.

The score is now:

Law Firms That Didn’t Cave 3
Trump 0

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In what is shaping up to be a huge day for democracy in the lower federal courts, at least, Judge Chutkan rules that the case against DOGE can proceed.

Fuck you, Skadden.

@kevinroose.com what the hell man? Your blase attitude towards our national security interests during today’s podcast was… disturbing, to say the least.

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

Stand with Ukrainians as Trump prepares to sell them out
(Location: Russian embassy, London, Feb ‘23)

Screenshot of a list of elected reps in competitive districts and high Medicaid use. The list is: AZ-06: Juan Ciscomani CA-03: Kevin Kiley CA-22: David Valadao CA-41: Ken Calvert CO-08: Gabe Evans FL-04: Aaron Bean FL-15: Laurel Lee FL-27: Maria Elvira Salazar FL-28: Carlos A. Gimenez IA-01: Mariannette Miller-Meeks IA-03: Ashley Hinson IA-04: Zach Nunn MI-04: Bill Huizenga MI-07: Tom Barrett MI-10: John James NC-06: Addison McDowell NC-09: Richard Hudson NC-13: Brad Knott

Screenshot of the Continuation of the list and some guidance as well. It reads: NJ-02: Jefferson Van Drew NY-01: Nick LaLota NY-02: Andrew Garbarino NY-17: Michael Lawler OH-10: Mike Turner OH-15: Mike Carey PA-01: Brian Fitzpatrick PA-07: Ryan Mackenzie PA-08: Robert Bresnahan PA-10: Scott Perry TX-15: Monica De La Cruz VA -02: Jennifer Kiggans WI-01: Bryan Steil WI-03: Derrick Van Orden You may call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with the appropriate member. We also encourage you to write to them. To be maximally effective, it is important that you contact YOUR member.

To emphasize the importance of preserving Medicaid, we request that people in high-priority districts call and write their members of Congress who are in areas that have high Medicaid usage and whose reps have competitive seats. A handy list is below; the Capitol Switchboard is (202) 224-3121.

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Bravo Governor Mills! Thank you for showing the other governors what courage and principle look like.

New:

DOGE's spending has been secret.

No longer.

My colleagues have uncovered it.

www.propublica.org/article/doge...

🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

We are with you, Ukraine 🇺🇦

Well that’s just idiotic. All AUSAs are incredibly well credentialed and can get a cushy law firm job any day of the week. To say “I took one for the team” is meaningless when the entire team knows they’ll land a 7-figure salary once they get fired.

This is FIRE. This cadre of AUSAs are definitely future Profiles in Courage. 🙏✊👏

BREAKING:

NEW resignations over Trump's DOJ moving to drop the Eric Adams case.

John Keller, acting head of the Public Integrity Section, refused to drop the case and resigned. Three others resigned.

Kevin Driscoll, acting head of the Criminal Division, refused to drop the charges and resigned.

So… considering the federal workforce has about a 4% turnover rate, we’re basically paying federal employees who would have resigned anyway and paying them to not work for 6 months. 🤷‍♂️

I see a twelve-step program in Elon’s future… hopefully sooner rather than later.

YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer Don Beyer Speaks About Trump's NSF Censorship on the House Floor

The Trump Administration's list of censored scientific terms that get NSF grant proposals flagged contains "women” and “female”, but no mention of “men” or “male.” There is “black” and “indigenous” on this list, but no “white.” The only identity not censored is mine.
youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU

Trump just inadvertently admitted that Elon Musk is directing DOGE employees to access private US citizen data outside of government interests.

In other words, Musk is abusing US governmental power to serve his own private needs.

Brazen oligarch illegality & corruption at the heart of the US govt.

There’s your “tariff effect”.

Highest 1-year inflation expectations since Nov 2023.

#UMich

@mikezaccardi.bsky.social

This is the worst classification scandal in 20 years. According to someone who knows: Trump has done more for China in a couple of weeks than Xi could have dreamed.

The Senate's Dilemma: Kash Patel and the Purging of the FBI On Kash Patel's nomination for FBI director in light of DOJ purge of FBI personnel and Patel's new answers to questions for record.

One of most important pieces I have written in a while:

The Senate’s Dilemma: Kash Patel and the Purging of the FBI

"Most significantly of all, in the questions for the record, Patel switched his line of answers away from the reassuring ones that he has 'no plans in going backwards' ..."

I’ve got the morning shift. This guy is dangerous and unfit to serve and I’m about to explain why. Tune in: www.senate.gov/legislative/...

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse accuses Kash Patel of lying to the Judiciary Committee ahead of his FBI director confirmation vote:

"He wouldn't tell this committee what he said. He pretended there was a seal order. There is no record or any evidence of any seal order."

When I asked veteran strategist David Axelrod whether Democrats were “walking into a trap” on defending foreign aid, he literally finished my sentence. “My heart is with the people out on the street outside USAID, but my head tells me: ‘Man, Trump will be well satisfied to have this fight,’” he said. “When you talk about cuts, the first thing people say is: Cut foreign aid.” Rahm Emanuel — the former House leader, Chicago mayor and diplomat — told me much the same: “You don’t fight every fight. You don’t swing at every pitch. And my view is — while I care about the USAID as a former ambassador — that’s not the hill I’m going to die on,” he said.

Very serious Democratic strategists advise the party to allow Trump to illegally dismantle USAID -- a decision that will result in the unnecessary deaths of people around the world.

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