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"Yet while Trump is losing in the places where politics normally happens in America, he is making gains in three places which have historically been considered out of bounds."

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Good news/bad news: The recently deleted Social Security history site is back up . . . with a note that says "SSA has discontinued the History Program." That's because the Trump Admin eliminated the historian's office. www.ssa.gov/history/

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The Department of Justice no longer represents the best interests of the American people. Under Bondi, it has been transformed into little more than a cog in the authoritarian machine doing Donald Trump’s bidding. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

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Trump has picked 2022 law school grad Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel. As of 9 days ago, Ingrassia’s Instagram included a pinned photo of himself w/ self-professed “misogynist” Andrew Tate (such “physical prowess”) who has since been charged w/ rape & trafficking in the UK. 1/

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The new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for years to spread fear about illegal voting and press election officials to tighten voting rules. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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A radical transformation of our way of life is underway. Don’t let anyone gaslight you into thinking this administration is normal.

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Now that Trump has blasted Leonard Leo, don't let the right wing sanitize the Federalist Society. Its members have been supporting voter suppression for years, its judges are among the hardest on voters. What will come from Trump now will be far worse, but do not judge democracy on a curve.

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If Joe Biden posted something like this Hannity would be roused from his sleep to anchor special coverage. But Trump posts apeshit conspiracy theories and the mainstream press yawns. His craziness has been completely normalized.

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Who decides what legal terms mean? If it is Donald Trump, God help America https://econ.trib.al/ULXHH9Z

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Welcome to the Handmaid's Tale: "Law enforcement used license-plate readers in several states to search for a woman who had an abortion." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Love seeing @nytimes.com swinging back at Elon Musk and defending our journalism against bad faith attacks.

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They don’t want someone who’ll say ‘We’re going to follow the law and do the originalistic thing, and whatever the result is, so may be it,’” said the consultant. “They want someone [who] can figure out how to get the result that they want.” The applicable rule of law is the Führerprinzip.

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No no no! These university leaders don’t get it. If you negotiate one on one you don’t buy peace; you just expose the whole sector and yourselves to more shakedowns. See law firms. The only response is to unite in collective action and fight the Admin’s illegality. www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...

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Trump on Joe Biden, who recently announced a cancer diagnosis: "If you feel sorry for him, don't feel so sorry, because he's vicious ... I really don't feel sorry for him."

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It’s fine, he’s just got all your personal data. 💊💉

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President Donald Trump announced he has fired the director of the National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet, whom he called “highly partisan.” It's unclear if Trump has the authority to fire Sajet.

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NEW: Megan Twohey and I went deep on Elon Musk’s intense drug use as he rose to political power alongside Trump last year. He was using so much ketamine that he told people it was affecting his bladder. At SpaceX, he is getting warnings ahead of drug tests www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

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There’s your empty shelf. US goods imports drop 19.8% in April — largest on record

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🚨BREAKING: The SEC just dropped its lawsuit against Binance—days after the crypto exchange listed the Trump-backed stablecoin USD1. me, for @forbes.com

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Interesting development, though not surprising. If you're a person or an entity with any sincere beliefs or ideas that transcend immediate political expediency, you'll eventually wind up on the bad side of Trump.

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The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

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As the FBI assigns hundreds of additional agents to focus on arresting people for deportation, agents "have been told by supervisors not to document moving resources away from high-priority cases toward immigration-related work." www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/p...

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The CBO director, Philip Swagel, is a former Bush political appointee and was reappointed in July 2023 by the leaders of both houses of Congress, including Speaker McCarthy. www.cbo.gov/about/organi...

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I think this points up some of the failures of coverage of Trump's lawlessness: You could've read dozens of articles on Trump's tariff policy with no inkling of how unprecedented & legally dubious was the legal authority he claimed to impose them. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

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🚨Everything Trump has said about the Qatar plane is a LIE. Amazing story in the Post. - Qatar did NOT offer it, Trump requested it - Qatar expected a sale, not a “gift” - US Air Force says it’s in poor condition - $1.5 billion to make it useable - $500 million ADDITIONAL cost for Trump to keep it.

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Jobs you aren't qualified for are hard.

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If you were wondering how DOJ civil rights investigations get started these days: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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#TACO Trump’s administration bulldozing federal counter-terror units and dumping the mess on states is grotesque cowardice. Abandoning hate-crime hotlines and training while cozying up to racists is proof this regime doesn’t give a damn about safety. www.propublica.org/a...

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NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

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RFK Jr’s Department of Health and Human Services has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract with the company to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.

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I smell 🌮🌮🌮

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Hoo boy he doesn't like his new TACO nickname. At all.

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Day 47 🇺🇸

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Trump gets visibly angry at "chickening out" question about tariffs. Says to the reporter, "You ask a nasty question like that" (animation from the archives)

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Old: Drain the swamp. New: Pardon the swamp.

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Stunning. May was brutal for Trump in federal court: 96% loss rate ⚖️. Even GOP-appointed judges have ruled against the admin 72% of the time. District courts are doing their job defending the Constitution. Soon the Supreme Court may be the only court unwilling to defend the rule of law.

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This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

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"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth... Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." -Caral Sagan

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Trump Media is building a Bitcoin reserve. So is the Trump White House. Two fronts, one crypto strategy. Here’s how Trump’s private company and public policy just aligned— me, for @forbes.com

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Tyler Hassen, a Texas oil executive from Elon Musk’s government efficiency team, has been given sweeping powers to overhaul the federal department that manages vast tracts of resource-rich public lands, but he hasn’t divested his energy investments ...

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Good going! Senior Judge Richard Leon, a George W.Bush appointee, rules for law firm WilmerHale, throws out Trump’s revenge order in its entirety. Permanent injunction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Donald Trump’s kind of policeman: www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

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It's also a misunderstanding of what the grants are for. It's not a billion dollar donation, Harvard won the grants to do specific research that it is in a relatively unique position to do. Trade schools aren't going to be able to take over, eg, Harvard's cancer immunotherapy research.

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Mexicans are preparing to elect the country’s judges by popular vote, in a unique experiment that legal groups warn threatens judicial independence, throws out 30 years of knowledge and opens the door to organised crime. www.ft.com/content/2b5c...

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Happy Memorial Day to federal judges applying settled law, against whom Trump is encouraging stochastic terrorism. In a functioning democracy this would produce an aggressive response, but Trump is right that neither a majority of Congress nor a majority of SCOTUS will do anything about it.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...

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