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Maybe CNN can take a minute from promoting their anchor's own book and do some reporting on the currently cognitively impaired president.

The president is using the power of his office to line his own pockets, and doing it in broad daylight too. This is a five-alarm fire.

Just catching up on the news

This is a good thread but I will say it was encouraging to hear Sauer bring up the Trumbull letter and not a single conservative justice asked a follow-up. Almost like you could hear their eyes rolling.

The fact that even the conservative justices (thinking of Alito here) really do not want to get to the merits of this case should show how lopsided the issue is, and that just seems like a sticking point for them.

Gorsuch asks Feigenbaum the same question he asked Sauer: How do you get the merits of this case to us quickly? Gorsuch seems to want to resolve the issue.

This was a fun moment.

Sauer lets it slip that it isn’t clear the Admin will win on the merits. Going pretty poorly for Trump.

Kavanaugh also hammering Sauer a little but sounds a little more open to the injunction argument than the liberals. Gorsuch and ACB seem the most skeptical of the conservatives on the Court.

Gorsuch says that Kagan asked his questions better than he could have.

Kagan asks a good question: What happens if you never take a question to us on the merits of birthright citizenship? Do you still to enforce this without an injunction? Scenario: Trump’s EO is put out but no court can stop it, and DOJ never argues the merits of it at SCOTUS.

Ooof ACB just dropped a hammer on Sauer. Things are not going well for him.

ACB is also skewering Sauer.

Roberts seems to be allergic to discussions about the merits of the case, which is probably (?) a good sign for birthright citizenship.

Sotomayor is clearly not on board with Trump’s arguments regarding birthright citizenship, which is not a surprise, but she is tearing Sauer apart.

Fifth Circuit takes another L.

This is probably the biggest structural challenge the Democratic Party has:

Donald Trump is Jonah Ryan. youtu.be/embMAtagQiU?...

I still don't understand the point of VAR. They only step in during serious errors but a serious error could happen when the referee is right next to the play? So he needs to re-see the same play he just watched in slow motion? 10 times?

Excellent NYT graphic. In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China: -- doubled; -- went up ≈ 2.5X from there; -- roughly doubled again; -- went up ≈ 40% from there; -- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February. www.nytimes.com/article/trum...

Eric is great but I disagree. According to this logic, Steve Coogan's character isn't corrupt in this scene because Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg didn't play ball. youtu.be/xZSpBZxjGW0?...

It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

There are legitimate issues with the pharmaceutical industry and how it's regulated; the wellness industry is even more predatory, like it's not even close. Woo woo bullshit on par with leeches and humors

The body and blood of Christ

He is just cosmically stupid on a level most people are unfamiliar with.

Fetterman should resign and get the help he needs. This is sad. buckscountybeacon.com/2025/05/penn...

These headlines related to U.S. military aviation have all appeared in the last 11 days. There is a major problem at the Defense Department.

Inter vs Barcelona is the best Champions League tie I have ever seen. Been watching soccer for like 20 years and this is just insane. On another level.

What Ranieri did with Leicester is obviously really special but I'd love to see a documentary on what he did with Roma this season.

I am going to be paying money to her Mom because she wasn't a good enough parent to her daughter.

During a cabinet meeting, former National Security Advisor and UN Ambassador designate Mike Waltz reveals his signal chats. Communications with JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, and Tulsi Gabbard are visible.

Dems should be criticizing Trump's phone call with Bezos as him trying to get price increases to be permanent.

Judges very famously love it when you play word games.

To everyone that said Democrats like Van Hollen were making a political mistake in defending due process, you were wrong, and we shouldn’t even need a poll to tell us that.

Meyer Lansky, Arnold Rothstein, I mean when have we ever seen these guys in films or TV?

MAGA

NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Wow it’s almost as if this was an entirely predictable outcome, you fools

MAJOR SCOOP: The local detective who first accused Mr. Abrego Garcia of being a member of MS-31 was suspended from the police force and indicted merely WEEKS LATER for providing confidential information to a sex worker who he was paying in exchange for sexual acts.