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President Trump has slashed funding for medical research, threatening a longstanding alliance between the federal government and universities that helped make the U.S. the world leader in medical science. Here are the nearly 2,500 grants that have been canceled or delayed. https://trib.al/iBstU2B

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

CONFIRMED: The budget bill includes a $3.8 trillion deficit increase, $698 billion less for Medicaid, and $267 billion less for SNAP.

submitted 15 days ago • 94 comments

Seems like, given his social media history, that the new pope might have some problems at immigration if he tries to visit the US.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

There's another felony for the Donald. Five years in prison for an "applicable person" (specifically defined in the statute to include the president) who requests an audit or investigation of any taxpayer's liability.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

1. Next school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. The lesson will not be part of a course on conspiracy theories, but an official component of the new social studies curriculum.

submitted 35 days ago • 134 comments

This is not enough to prove obstruction. "ICE agents arrived in the judge’s courtroom last Friday ... Dugan asked the agents to leave and speak to the circuit court’s chief judge, the Journal Sentinel reported. By the time they returned, Flores Ruiz had left." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Attorney general Pam Bondi authored a memo instructing ICE to utterly ignore the fourth amendment in conducting Alien Enemies Act arrests and “deportations” to foreign prisons.

submitted 41 days ago • 39 comments

This has to be the most brazenly corrupt act in the history of the American presidency. Trump is holding a contest to see who can pay him the most money and the prize is direct access to the president It is literal pay-to-play

submitted 43 days ago • 310 comments

When you're reading the new story from the White House abt what happened here, not that both general counsel's who signed the letter are 'actings', and the lead guy Josh Josh Gruenbaum is a private equity brought in by Trump and Elon who is now the head of ... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

submitted 48 days ago • 22 comments

Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue: "Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT." She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”

submitted 51 days ago • 315 comments

Good way to see the current tariffs, as of literally today, is no tariffs on high value add manufactured goods marketed to middle and upper middle classes. Massive tariffs for cheap consumer items which amount to the biggest economic privilege of working class/middle class life in US.

submitted 54 days ago • 122 comments

This is high art

submitted 60 days ago • 545 comments

Breaking News: The Supreme Court instructed the government to take steps to return a Salvadoran migrant it had wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador. nyti.ms/42j7cxP

submitted 56 days ago • 83 comments

I don't know if any other reporters were in the room of if only @jerodmacevoy.com decided to write it up, but what a scoop on this outrageous and despicable quote

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking: McALLEN, Texas (AP) - Judge in Texas temporarily bars US from invoking Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans held at facility there.

submitted 57 days ago • 56 comments

I don’t have a lot of substantive disagreement with the analysis here. But make no mistake about it: these are narrow rulings that will likely have broad implications for whether people can actually vindicate their constitutional rights. They distribute power to the executive branch. Q is how much.

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

submitted 59 days ago • 708 comments

I’m confused as to how the design and execution of this tariff policy wasn’t flawless. 🇺🇸

submitted 60 days ago • 259 comments

I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?

submitted 59 days ago • 419 comments

Attention White House: Thou shalt not joke about how you sent an innocent father of 3 to a gulag while his autistic son smells his shirts to remember him.

submitted 61 days ago • 542 comments

The whole world knows that Trump's idiot team did not calculate "reciprocal tariffs" from any actual tariff rates or costs of non-tariff barriers. But, even if you accept their "theory," they got rates wrong by 4x because they used elasticity of retail not import prices. www.aei.org/economics/pr...

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

ICYMI: “Today's hearing is not just about financial figures. It is about the families who rely on Arizona's developmental disabilities program,” the GOP chairman said before not allowing those families to testify story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

Okay. Fess up. Which one of us was randomly added to these chats?

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

Canadians have more respect for themselves than, say, America’s big law firms

submitted 64 days ago • 16 comments

NEW: The story of a woman beaten and tortured and granted permission to stay in the United States—but ICE tried to dump her in Mexico anyway, where she doesn't know anybody. Warning: This may make your blood boil. Reporting by our @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/how-ice-tr...

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

This fucking idiot is talking about slapping a tariff on Russian oil. The U.S. Energy Information Administration records that we have zero imports of Russian oil & petroleum products since April 2022.

submitted 67 days ago • 3 comments

Senior partners at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, a firm of 115 lawyers, write: "partners at big firms — who often earn millions a year — must be willing to take financial risks when the fate of our nation, the future of our profession & the rule of law itself is at stake. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...

submitted 67 days ago • 180 comments

Read Jenner & Block's lawsuit challenging Trump's unconstitutional assault on their firm.👇 Very glad to see Jenner fighting back. They're represented by Cooley, which is taking a risk here too. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 69 days ago • 67 comments

The Jenner & Block case has been reassigned to Judge John D. Bates. Judge Howell decided it wasn't related enough within the meaning of the local rules.

submitted 69 days ago • 9 comments

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

submitted 73 days ago • 582 comments