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Flashback [Spoiler: special prosecutor recommended charges for gross negligence in mishandling national defense information]

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You can’t say he doesn’t rep the White House’s point of view? Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight to End Apartheid talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...

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President Donald Trump is gutting “Housing First,” America’s plan of attack on homelessness since 2004. The policy aims to stabilize people in long-term housing with social services, without forcing treatment. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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DER SPIEGEL reporters were able to find mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to the top officials such as, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

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"Loose lips sink ships." It was a slogan during World War II, used in propaganda posters by the United States Office of War Information (OWI) to warn against careless talk that could aid the enemy.

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Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

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This is a critical point everybody in the media should be amplifying:

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I've litigated multiple State Secrets cases & I'm one of select few attorneys in 75 years who defeated govt invocation. SCOTUS made it clear when creating privilege that invocation does not require judges to abdicate their responsibility to question Executive Branch assertion.

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White House announces plan for coup. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Well isn't that special. www.propublica.org/article/mike...

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MAGA has made Measles great again. Wonderful. www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/h...

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Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the names of individuals to be killed. That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF. I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.

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Horrifying

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So, we all agree the new Boeing name is F*** 47, right? (It's Ramadan and I'm fasting, so no expletives right now.) I mean...the name fits.

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Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.

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Judge REYES on a tear, telling DOJ she won't be "gaslit" by effort to say their ban on transgender people in the military isn't actually a "ban." She notes SecDef Hegseth literally called it a ban on X. "You're saying one thing in public. You're saying a different thing in court," Reyes said.

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People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

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A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

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So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...

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N.Y. Times, June 8, 1939.

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With all of the new people here, I am reposting my pro-democracy Starter Pack. I will do a more complete overhaul sometime soon, but this should help get people going! Enjoy. go.bsky.app/JSLScTv

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In the flurry of first-day executive orders, President Trump revoked a 2022 police accountability package, including a system to flag misconduct.

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This is evil. Pure evil.

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Dear Elon, Here’s my list of what I saw YOU do in the last week or so: - Reap the spoils of your corrupt campaign contributions; - Exaggerate your accomplishments; - Destroy or hobble branches of government it took elected officials years to conceive of, create consensus for, and build; 1/3

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GET BIG MONEY OUT OF POLITICS. S.E.C. Drops Crypto Lawsuit "The crypto industry also sought to influence Congress: Coinbase was one of the top funders of Fairshake, a crypto super PAC that donated more than $130 million to legislative candidates."

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Repeat after me: GET BIG MONEY OUT OF POLITICS. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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