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JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the administration from enforcing President Trumpā€˜s executive order aimed at gutting federal sector employee unions.

It’s time to pull the plug substack.com/@jimacosta/n...

Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me ... they are deranged ... we are sending a very strong message today ... we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."

All people are entitled to due process in any functional democracy. That the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan was announced by FBI Director Kash Patel's on social media is indicative of the true goal of this action - to intimidate other judges into complying with this admin’s authoritarian goals.

In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

Breaking News: A federal judge expressed deep concern that the Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras ā€œwith no meaningful process.ā€ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Trump administration has deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with no meaningful process and against the wishes of her father.

NEW: Statement from attorney for Judge Dugan. "Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge. Judge Dugan will defend herself vigorously, and looks forward to being exonerated."

No shit, Sherlock.

The political arrest of a judge signals the collapse of judicial independence, erodes public trust in US institutions, and accelerates the rise of authoritarianism, where law becomes a tool for personal power rather than a shield for the people.

President Trump on Wednesday pardoned a Florida health care executive whose mother played a role in trying to expose the contents of Ashley Biden’s diary. The executive, Paul Walczak, had been convicted of tax crimes.

Nancy Mace is an abhorrent human being. South Carolinians deserve better. Let’s take out the trash. šŸ‘ŠšŸ»šŸš® 202-225-7103. #TwofacedMace #ultabeauty

I don't even know what to say. What do you say to something like this? So deeply cruel and inhumane and enraging. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Here's how Town Meeting member Richard Nangle responded when I asked him follow-up questions about his possible connection to an anonymous neighborhood group that sent mailings apparently in violation of campaign finance laws.

ā€œHe is one of the top five, probably, most targeted people in the world for espionage.ā€ That seems accurate!

It's pretty hilarious to me that Sen. Slotkin is awkwardly trying to kinda-sorta rebrand herself and the Democratic Party in just about the least committal and vague way she can, and meanwhile, there's Buttigieg effortlessly gliding through conservative media spaces with common sense messaging.

Our groups have come up with lots of creative ways to get Congress’ attention during this recess. Senators and representatives are back home for a few more days, and events are scheduled across the country. Let’s get to work: indivisible.org/muskorus

Today in Politics, Bulletin 117. This is a big one packed with lots of news from all over the place. Here is everything that happened today. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

Jessica: Baier had a beautiful graphic, I might frame it on my wall, that had approval ratings for the last six presidents for the first hundred days, Donald Trump is now the lowest. He beat himself.

More than 50 House Democrats demand answers after whistleblower report on DOGE search.app/YZR6c

"The most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done. Not close.ā€ www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

NEW: The Trump administration admitted in a court filing that ICE lied about having an arrest warrant when they detained our client Mahmoud Khalil in retaliation for his protected speech. This confirms what we already knew: The government is intent on punishing Mahmoud by any means necessary.

Or, and hear me out, we reform our immigration laws to attract and keep top young people coming here.

Hegseth set up an unsecured internet line in the Pentagon to use Signal, then leaked military strike details to his wife and brother. A national security threat hiding behind encrypted emojis.

He’s so good at this.

I want a president who is tougher on Putin than he is on Harvard.

Your Defense Department Just Quit Everyone who actually knew what they were doing at the Pentagon is gone. Hegseth replaced them with his wife and lawyer. The Pentagon Has No Pilot Sleep tight, America. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Vladimir, stop? Has the U.S. ever looked weaker?

BREAKING: The Interior Dept just used a fake ā€œenergy emergencyā€ to greenlight gas and mining projects on public lands. It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

Newsom: In 2023, Californians contributed $83.1 billion more to the federal government than we received back. And for your viewers: that other state—Texas—took $71.1 billion more than it contributed to the federal government. California: $83 billion, contributor. Texas: taker.

RATTLED

An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse. It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.

Resistence is NOT futile

Baier: If you look at our new Fox News poll at 100 days job approval compared to other presidents, there you see the president at 44% and you see his first term at 45% at this mark the 100 day mark

is he gonna teach the warfighters how to draw a cat eye sharp enough to kill a man? www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

Walz: An hour by hour day by day basis, the President has chosen, chosen to throw our economy into turmoil. We are talking about a guy that slapped a 10% tariff on an island populated only by penguins. It would be funny as hell if it wasn't true and stupid.

Robert Wolf on Fox News: "I've been in finance for 40 years. This is probably the biggest manufactured crisis I've seen with a bunch of unforced errors. The execution of 'liberation day' was pathetic."

OMG! I've been asked to be a part of the Not The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Sat, Apr 26 @ 9 PM ET, presented by Political Voices Network! Join us for fearless comedy that rips into media spin. Tickets are $20.26, live or on demand, at meethook.live/not. #FreeSpeech #NotTheWHCD

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

NEW: Read the resignation letter of three federal prosecutors who'd worked on the Eric Adams case: "Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

I guess the HIPAA Privacy Act is no longer a thing. They are coming after your personal health information to create a "Disease Registry" to track Americans with autism www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

Leaders with sociopathic traits—marked by manipulativeness, lack of empathy, and pursuit of dominance—often shape economic policy to serve personal power, not collective welfare. These patterns are well-documented in clinical and political psychology.

Such figures may boost markets for optics, dismiss institutional checks, and promote loyalists over experts. The result: superficial gains, deep structural risk. These tendencies reflect behavioral norms tied to antisocial personality disorder.

Reading Obama’s tribute to Pope Francis is a stark reminder of how far presidential dignity has fallen. Where there was once eloquence, compassion, and moral clarity, we now endure a swaggering caricature—petty, reckless, and painfully unworthy of the office.