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"Behind the seemingly scatter-shot opening acts of his second administration, legal analysts see a common goal: to test a once-fringe legal theory which asserts that the president has unlimited power to control the actions of the four million people who make up the executive branch." --Jacob Knutson

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"Key congressional Republicans have powers they’re choosing not to use... "Senator Susan Collins, for example, believes the White House and DOGE may be breaking the law. She doesn’t, however, seem eager to use her considerable influence..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Read Oliver Darcy newsletter today for an astonishing expression of partisan malice by Trump FCC chair Brendan Carr. Americans are not used to public officials who behave in such demeaning and menacing ways ... but better to know the truth. www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...

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What the corporate media aren’t telling you.

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"working to swiftly rectify the situation..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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“The list of public officials who have debased themselves to demonstrate fealty to Donald Trump is a long one — and grows longer by the day.” radleybalko.substack.com/p/profiles-i...

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Oh boy

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Thinking about Elon, Trump and the rest of them, you want leaders who can look back on the newsreels of the 1930s and 1940s and viscerally know that the Allies were the good guys. Elon, Trump and they're big cronies don't see it that way.

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Thus far DOGE operatives have have full read access to govt payments system at Treasury (yr tax refunds, bank info, etc); full access to all CMS data (anything tied to your Medicare or Medicaid); and now they are seeking full access to everyone's tax returns. Feeling safer?

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Not to worry folks, DOGE operatives are now asking for access to your individual tax returns ... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/w...

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Thomas Jefferson Disagrees with John Roberts About Presidential Immunity talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thoma...

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"they're drinking vodka straight out of the bottle tonight..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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This is corruption on a scale unseen before in American history. www.dropsitenews.com/p/elon-musk-...

submitted 10 days ago • 123 comments

Donald Trump is Now the Mayor of New York talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/donal...

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Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit on behalf of the city of Baltimore, Maryland and the economic justice organization Economic Action Maryland Fund on Wednesday to block President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — the nation’s financial watchdog agency.

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NEW: Democracy Docket announced that on Friday it's launching a new Trump Accountability Scoreboard that will track lawsuits against Trump's executive orders and where those actions currently stand. Become a member now to receive this and other premium content. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

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The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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"The Path to American Authoritarianism: What Comes After Democratic Breakdown" by Profs Levitsky and Way. Answer: Electoral Autocracy coupled, I would add, with rule of law breakdown aka systemic lawlessness whenever the ruling regime feels it is warranted www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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Modular, decentralized, scalable. This is the end of institutional checks and balances, not through force, but through financial strangulation and regulatory optimization.

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Any article about Susan Collins expressing concern owes readers a graf like this. That such grafs virtually never appear outside of places like MaddowBlog (tinyurl.com/w5x55t73) underscores that most politics reporters/outlets don't see their central task as explaining what's going on. #MEpolitics

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Once you've proven that you can manipulate financial flows at this level without immediate institutional pushback, you’re not just winning a battle, you’re rewriting the rules of the game itself. This is laying the groundwork for permanent structural control.

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