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Anyone discounting a 3d Trump term per the 22d am + the 12th am is thinking magically: The 22d dsn’t bar serving a 3d term, only being elected 3 times. The 12th dsn’t bar running for VP unless “ineligible” to serve as Pres, but Trump isn’t ineligible. QED! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...

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Billionaire Elon Musk handed out million dollar checks to two Wisconsin voters Sunday — a blatant bribery scheme to “help conservatives” take control of the swing state’s top court in a highly consequential election this week. Musk has invested in excess of $20 million dollars…

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As we all suspected: "Two U.S. officials also said that Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members, including separate threads on how to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine as well as military operations."

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“DOGE won’t just fall short of Musk’s deficit-reduction goals. It will, in all probability, increase the deficit,” Jonathan Chait writes. Are the deficit-reduction efforts just a pretext for ideological warfare? theatln.tc/0zdiT2Hb

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Supreme Court in Kendall v. U.S. ex rel. Stokes (1838): federal courts can order the Executive to make payments for which Congress has appropriated funds; the contrary "would be clothing the President with a power to control the legislation of Congress and paralyze the administration of justice."

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1. BREAKING A career federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, Adam Schleifer, was abruptly fired—reportedly at the direction of the White House—after leading the prosecution of Andrew Wiederhorn, a wealthy Trump donor and former CEO of the company behind Fatburger. (Link at end of thread)

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Cry more

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SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

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Wait, WHAT? www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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NEW: A federal judge has entered an order temporarily blocking Sections 3 and 5 of Trump’s Executive Order against Wilmer Hale. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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BREAKING: a bipartisan mostly conservative coalition is demanding a criminal investigation of the Musk election related lottery in WI Here’s our letter to the authorities 👇 & here’s an AP article with more:   statedemocracydefenders.org/wp-content/u...

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Same

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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: When we see people being pulled off the streets, when we see students at universities being grabbed, detained, and kidnapped, and when we see Kristi Noem filming this disgusting video, we’re looking at a nation we no longer recognize. We don’t want to be like that nation.

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Now that’s how to keep it real. A true American hero with more courage than the entire gang in the administration

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🔥🔥🔥 Beto has the fire. This is the fight Democrats want to see in their leaders-it’s what we NEED in this moment. Not the sleepy haze of Chuck Schumer, who’s still waiting for the conflict to present itself. Democracy is on the line. LFG!!! Step down, Chuck. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2vXwNbn/

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bring woke back www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/u...

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The top vaccine official at FDA was told to resign or be fired. He resigned today. “It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary [RFK Jr.], but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

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NEW: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is pushing back on Trump's attacks on judges and suggestions from lawyer-allies that he should perhaps defy the courts, all without naming him www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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This

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BREAKING: While major news outlets and law firms fall all over themselves to bend the knee to Trump and Musk, I am standing up and suing DOGE for transparency. www.muellershewrote.com/p/im-suing-d...

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NC State is understandably daring Aneesah Morrow to shoot the 3 in pick-and-pop situations. Morrow entered tonight 8-of-32 from 3-point range this season, but she's knocked down a pair in the first seven minutes as LSU has opened up a 21-10 lead.

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So the $15 million Disney “donated” to our criminal president’s library fund didn’t stop him from coming after them again. If you think you can appease an autocrat…

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It would disenfranchise millions. It seeks to restrict what ballots states can count. It purports to give DOGE unspecified powers to review state run voter rolls. No wonder vote suppressors and election deniers from coast to coast lavished it with praise. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

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A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle Voice of America, the federally funded nonprofit state media network, after its international news broadcasting was targeted as a purported cost-saving measure. @jrussjruss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/judge-tempor...

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Let’s GO Pack!

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5 turnovers in the last 2 minutes is a brutal way to lose any game, but a Sweet Sixteen game? That’s rough. Especially because MD played with so much heart.

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This Maryland vs South Carolina game is a great watch. I want both teams to win, lollllll. #MarchMadness

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Utah bans pride flags on government property, including schools https://twp.ai/1VcMec

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JUST IN: Judge Boasberg has extended his restraining order against Alien Enemies Act removals through April 12. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Pulling Stefanik nom is a sign of GOP panic. If they think her R+20 district would be in play were she to leave, they realize they are in deep political peril re: 2026. As they are.

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1/2 WSJ: "Barriers to open trade are rising across the world at a pace unseen in decades, a cascade of protectionism that harks back to the isolationist fervor that swept the globe in the 1930s and worsened the Great Depression." www.wsj.com/economy/trad... via @WSJ

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Trump Signs Executive Order Directing JD Vance to Remove ‘Improper Ideology’ from the National Zoo, Other Institutions https://twp.ai/1VULde

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This is how it's done. A strong and principled response by WilmerHale to the illegal Executive Order attack - a form of attempted government intimidation declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. This is how to guard the rule of law.

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BREAKING: A second federal judge has barred the military from enforcing its ban on transgender service members. Details TK storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Proud of my law school. But also, it’s amazing that every law school didn’t speak out.

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#CoupDaily ☕️ America is NAZI Germany when Turkish, Iranian and Palestinian PhD students are kidnapped by masked people #ICE in unmarked cars and hauled off of campuses to detention center locations with no due process. Trump Turd Reich strikes again.

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Breaking: RFK Jr. just announced that he's cutting 10,000 jobs from the Department of Health and Human Services. Combined with other cuts, HHS will have lost 20,000 total jobs.

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Elon is now vaguely threatening congresswomen online

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A Michigan couple is currently imprisoned in Cancun after Mexican authorities issued a warrant for their arrest over a years-old dispute with an all-inclusive luxury timeshare company.

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JUST IN: The 9th circuit court of appeals won’t clear the way for the mass firing of probationary employees at six key federal departments, leaving in place a lower court’s order reinstating thousands of terminated workers.

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News — A veteran died by suicide yesterday outside Seattle Veterans Affairs Medical Center, a rep from VA Puget Sound Health Care System confirmed to me. Employees received an email alerting them earlier today. The veteran was not being treated at the facility. Police are investigating.

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It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.

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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

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NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence." The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."

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JUST IN: Judge James Boasberg has been assigned to the Signalgate lawsuit.

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It turns out Jeffrey Goldberg wasn't the only unauthorized individual in the Signal group chat. Trump nominee Joe Kent, who has yet to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, was also in the group as they discussed top secret war plans.

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Honored to join veterans in calling for accountability and investigations into Secretary Hegseth’s FUBAR situation where he texted secret war plans on Signal to a journalist. We all wore the uniform. If we had texted secret war plans to a journalist, we likely would have been court-martialed.

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