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Dan Bongino has a nice cry on Fox & Friends: "I gave up everything for this. I mean, my wife is struggling... I stare at these 4 walls all day in DC, you know, by myself, divorced from my wife. Not divorced, but I mean, separated. And it's hard." (Note that Brian Kilmeade has to encourage him lol)

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HHS, led by anti-vaxxer RFK Jr., just canceled a $766 million contract with Moderna to fight potential pandemic flu viruses, including the H5N1 bird flu. Moderna had just announced positive interim results from an early-stage trial of the vaccine. www.huffpost.com/entry/flu-va...

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It pissed me off so much I wrote my first book about it: www.siupress.com/978080932525...

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John Tyler became US president in 1841. His youngest grandson just died this past weekend. www.richmonder.org/harrison-ruf...

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Federal trade court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under emergency powers law www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-tru...

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In a new letter, Senate Dems give the Trump admin one week to provide salary details for all Schedule C appointees (political appointees) to see if the admin is maxing out their taxpayer salaries to $195K + skipping the normal HR process to hire them. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

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😂

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NEW: @nbcnews.com reports that an immigration judge dismissed the asylum case of Andry Hernandez, the innocent man currently imprisoned without trial in El Salvador pursuant to a deal between the Trump admin and Nayib Bukele. His lawyers argue that this is an attempt to "complete the disappearance."

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Trump says he's looking into potentially pardoning the men convicted in their failed 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Two of Trump’s judicial nominees co-authored the suit challenging the FDA's regulations of the abortion pill. In the revived complaint, Joshua Divine & Maria Lanahan argue that the abortion pill "starves the baby to death" in the womb.

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Town hall erupts after GOP congressman admits he didn't know that when he voted for the GOP tax bill, he also voted to restrict the ability of federal courts to hold Trump and his admin in contempt of court. www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-f... via @delaneyrules.bsky.social

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RFK's decision to no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women is gonna make it harder for everyone to get vaccines + could to lead to scary health problems for babies, kids and pregnant people, warned a key public health expert. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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I put much work into this. DOJ is trying to block courts' access to info in #AbregoGarcia and Alien Enemies Act cases by asserting it is a "state secret." I walk through the clear case law on this topic. I provide a Table of senior officials' statements that preclude the state secret privilege.

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Oh good, I see Ted Cruz will be chairing a Senate subcommittee hearing to talk about how "dangerous" it is that district courts routinely reject Trump's lawlessness.

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LOL. Thanks for the memories, ya $200 million free ride for three blocks! www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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So I have some friends angling to spend a night in a haunted house in Maryland. I'm all in, but my wife says she doesn't believe in ghosts -- but also is too scared to stay there. You can't have it both ways! 😂

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In a new letter, Senate Dems give the Trump admin one week to provide salary details for all Schedule C appointees (political appointees) to see if the admin is maxing out their taxpayer salaries to $195K + skipping the normal HR process to hire them. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

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We are like six months from them outlawing seatbelts.

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ICYMI: Trump's court nominee Josh Divine once called for bringing back literacy tests for voting. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned literacy tests for being racially discriminatory, but such tests “are not a bad thing,” Divine argued in a 2010 college op/ed. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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NEW: Trump's court pick Josh Divine once called for bringing back literacy tests in elections Literacy tests were banned in the 1960s for being racially discriminatory, but such tests “are not a bad thing,” Divine argued in a 2010 college op/ed. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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"The cornerstone of the American system of justice is an independent judiciary and an independent bar willing to tackle unpopular cases, however daunting," Judge Leon wrote in a 73-page opinion. "The Founding Fathers knew this!"

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Historian here it’s Jim Crow Part 2

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Canada, Germany, England, Denmark, Netherlands, and France all have travel advisory warnings for visiting America. US will lose 12.5 billion in tourism by end of 2025 www.cntraveler.com/story/which-...

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A federal judge blocked the Trump admin's attempt to end New York City's congestion tolling. U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman is a Trump appointee. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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"Literacy" tests in practice often consisted of ridiculous questions deliberately framed as barriers to voting. Examples: how many windows are in the White House? Recite the Constitution. And so on.

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