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If you were to extort someone, you could get 20 years in prison. When Donald Trump extorts multiple law firms for $600 million, he gets a headline that manufactures consent by calling them “deals.”

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‪HEY: who is going to let the seniors and disabled know that they need to create an X account and who is going to walk them through the how AND who is going to help them upload their most private information to give to ELON so they can prove their identity?!‬ ‪wtf. Seriously, WTAF!? ‬

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Another fatal plane crash today, this one in Boca Raton, Florida. I’m sure the complete evisceration of FAA air safety support staffing under Trump has nothing to do with all these crashes and it’s just a coincidence…again abcnews.go.com/US/small-pla...

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Here is an up to date list of Big Law collaborators along with how much in free legal services they have pledged to Trump's causes. Paul Weiss 40M Cadwalader 100M Milbank 100M Skadden Arps 100M Willkie Farr 100M A&O Shearman 125M Kirkland & Ellis 125M Latham & Watkins 125M Simpson Thacher 125M

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I will donate a good sum of money to a journalism non-profit in the name of the first reporter covering Mr. Rubio and State who directly asks him, to his face, what Christ teaches about the difficulty for the rich to enter heaven. If Mr. Rubio wants this conversation, let's actually have it.

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BREAKING: the heroes at Susman Godfrey sue the Trump administration over the illegal retaliation against them They have more integrity in their pinky finger than these other firms that have been capitulating have in their entire partnerships And kudos to the team at Munger for representing them

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The purpose is to spread disease and weaken the US population so they can be more easily controlled. It's why Kennedy was appointed.

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

Trump and Musk are eliminating 90% of Social Security’s regional staff—and, at the same time, will now only post public updates from Social Security on a platform owned by Musk, where more than 90% of seniors won’t see them. Corrupt, cruel, and wrong.

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In Nazi Germany, the targeted population was encouraged to self-deport and the state sought to impoverish them to force them to leave.

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JUST IN: President Trump is authorizing the military to occupy and take jurisdiction over public land along the southern border.

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STRAIGHT UP AUTHORITARIANISM!!! DOGE is secretly monitoring staff — scanning messages, watching for disloyalty— and using AI to do it. No one should have to work under these conditions.

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The Republican members of the North Carolina courts continue to try to steal an election Telling overseas military members-and others-that their votes may not count is a breathtaking affront to our democracy and their service - it’s cheating We will continue the fight for voters and for justice.

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“The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying ‘anti-Christian bias’ as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new order on supporting employees of Christian faith.”

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JUS TIN: Susman Godfrey becomes the latest firm to sue over Trump's retaliatory executive orders. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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New: Trump says he will comply with Supreme Court compelling the govt to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador — “If the Supreme Court said bring somebody back I would do that. I respect the Supreme Court,” Trump said per pool

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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

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ALERT: Big Firm Lawyers, I have a proposition for you. (Please read through, serious proposition). As noted in the previous post, I'm very very interested in getting copies of the "agreements" big firms are making with Trump. (My encrypted channels below.) Or at least what is circulated to ...

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"The President would look feckless if the administration tells a federal judge it can’t get its prisoner back, especially since the United States is reportedly footing the $6 million bill for the incarceration of the deportees." joycevance.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

submitted 3 days ago • 188 comments

The US dollar is crashing, stock futures are crashing, and bond markets are imploding. What is the plan here, exactly?

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At least half of the lawyers who argue for Trump at Supreme Court are quitting. Many are uncomfortable or turned off by directives from Justice Department leaders www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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It’s pretty clear to all the players that the US could bring Abrego Garcia home without much trouble if it wants to. So the Q in the first instance will be whether it will dishonestly claim just can’t do it w/o huge cost, and can’t say why. But Xinis has room then per SCt opinion to push back hard.

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Garcia: The man can't even go and play video games anymore because the people he's playing with are harassing him. And I think that he understands that he's the most unlikable person in this country

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Why I refuse to normalize this president: Appeasement is not workable strategy with a fascist. www.mlive.com/politics/202...

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I was a social security recipient from the age of 12 through 18. That’s not some weird thing or corruption. It’s called survivors’ benefits. You don’t have to know this. You’re blessed if you don’t. But if you’re going to speak publicly abt the program you need to know this.

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Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.

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The CDC's cruise ship inspectors have been laid off, as well as agency's head epidemiologist for investigating cruise ship outbreaks That baffled health officials since this program is paid for by cruise ship fees, not taxpayer dollars www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

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The nation’s top health agency will undertake a “massive testing and research effort” to determine the cause of autism, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says.

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Not one reporter asked about the Executive Orders targeting Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor during today’s Cabinet press conference. Not one. A president using DOJ to punish those who spoke out? That’s banana republic territory. I waited. The question never came. Why? Has the fear already taken hold?

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Supreme Court to Trump: Fix Your Screw-Up After illegally deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a Salvadoran prison, the Trump admin is now being forced by the Supreme Court to undo the damage. Because apparently “don’t kidnap citizens” needs a court order these days. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a father, a husband, a SMART Union apprentice — and it’s long past time for him to be reunited with his family in Maryland. He was wrongly deported by Donald Trump and left to rot in an El Salvador prison. Bring him home.

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WATCH: “As far as I'm concerned, if you could figure out how to get them down there, you can figure out how to get them back,” says Rep. Jasmine Crockett on the Supreme Court ordering Trump officials to begin the process of returning the man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison.

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Federal officials said they were doing wellness checks on children who arrived unaccompanied at the border. School administrators turned them away. (via @laist.com)

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“It is very, very striking there were no dissents here. The administration did not even get Clarence Thomas or Samuel Alito or Neil Gorsuch on their side,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the Supreme Court unanimously ordering the Trump admin to return the mistakenly deported man.

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HAPPENING NOW 📈 EURO AND YEN SURGING ⚠️ US DOLLAR FALLING ⚠️ STOCK FUTURES CRASHING ⚠️ BOND MARKETS IMPLODING ⚠️ 10YR TREASURY YIELD SOARING

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This is so fucking gross. This is a cult.👇

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After announcing social security recipients would be required to appear in-person at office locations, the Trump administration is now backtracking.

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Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don't match their birth certificates. Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.

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Elon Musk has proposed that Trump replace his complicated tariff plan with a simple 14.88% tariff on all non-reciprocal trading partners. But what is the significance of that number?

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Imagine that. Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind they were tipped off? They are laughing at us all. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

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I'm asking the questions we all want answers to. At 9:37 AM, Trump told his followers to buy stocks. The market was tanking. The Trade Rep was set to defend harmful tariffs.Mid-hearing—Trump flips. No warning. Not even to his top trade official. This isn’t leadership. It’s chaos.

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I suspect Trump is so pleased with the yield for insiders on this little escapade he won’t resist repeating the playbook, no matter how much damage it does to the country at large.

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I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price. Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.

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Trump tells his followers to buy stock in the morning, minutes after the market opens, then announces he is pausing tariffs 4 hours later. Nothing to see here.

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AEI: “.. If the Trump Administration wants to argue that essentially all economists are wrong and that its tariff formula makes sense, then whoever developed it should come forward and defend his work, rather than providing anonymous statements on background.” www.aei.org/economics/tr...

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Crimes in broad daylight. Trump and his friends are getting rich off this chaos. Market manipulation doesn’t even begin to describe this.

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The man called it for what it is , “ Market Manipulation .” Democrats should be saying it with every breath. This is a call for change, REFORM is coming. Thank you @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social !

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Exactly

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