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Smile if you're ready for the weekend! 😁 #WolfConservation #TGIF

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Exactly:

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🚨BREAKING: Mississippi is asking the Supreme Court to uphold its mail-in ballot grace period. Mississippi is fighting back against a challenge from the RNC to strike down the law. Depending on how SCOTUS rules, it could change how over a dozen states conduct elections. Paige and I discuss.

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One thread of a creepy campaign.

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Billionaire Bromance Breakup week in DC 💔

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5m UK adults in financial, health, housing insecurity. 15 yrs of real wage cuts, austerity, unchecked profiteering, declining public services, poor housing take toll. 37% of universal credit claimants are in work. 1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined. Need people-centred politics.

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AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they

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Dean: When did we have a trade surplus? Lutnick: About 100 years ago Dean: It was the Great Depression.

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(1/2)Exciting news! Mexican gray wolf Asha, the intrepid explorer who reminded us that wolves deserve to roam without borders, has welcomed 5 pups! Asha was placed in captivity in 2023 after exploring north of I-40, the arbitrary northern boundary of the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area.

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You can't trade stocks on insider information. The same rules that apply to every American should apply to government officials. I introduced the Stock Act 2.0 to ban Congress, the Trump admin, and the Judiciary from individual stock trading. It's time we bring ethics and transparency to government.

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The Trump administration sued Texas yesterday in a single-judge division in a suit that took just over six hours to produce a final judgment blocking a Texas state law. If that sounds fishy (and beneath the dignity of the federal courts) to you, it’s because it is. Me in today’s bonus “One First”:

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Keir Starmer facing scrutiny over failure to establish new ethics watchdog. Feather-duster rules won't stop sale of parties/legislators to corporations/rich, cash for questions/access. Public scepticism will grow until political donations, freebies, sham consultancies are outlawed.

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Reeves given £27,000 donation from lobbying firm linked to Thames Water bidder KKR. Companies don't donate, they buy access to policymakers to advance their interests. No matter what politicians say, people see this as corruption. Must ban all political donations. archive.ph/BMaQ9

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Trump got played.

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UK MPs call for ban on bottom trawling in protected marine areas. Much needed regulation. Left to themselves capitalists devour everything in sight in pursuit of short-term profits; with little/no regard for the long-term. Govts indulge them.

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The U.S. Department of Justice issued a formal warning to the Wisconsin Elections Commission, accusing it of violating federal law by failing to provide voters with a required complaint process under the Help America Vote Act.

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New Brennan Center research shows voters whose mail applications or ballots were rejected in the primary were considerably less likely to vote in the 2022 general election and the 2024 primary.

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Bernie: "What that is all about is that if you're rich in America, you can make campaign contributions, you are entitled to massive tax breaks because you're superhuman beings. But if you're a poor working stiff, working at McDonald's, struggling to put food on the table, you're entitled to nothing"

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Happy Wednesday! Here’s your midweek moment of zen. 😴 #wolfconservation #ambassadorwolf

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We joined with @free.law in May to ask Sen. Grassley to include judicial nominees' financial disclosures & statements of net worth in their public SJQs fixthecourt.com/wp-content/u.... The first SJQs came out today, & that hasn't happened. Shouldn't stop the press from asking SJC for them, though.

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Congress must close the disturbing legal loophole that currently allows judges to step down to evade accountability for misconduct, @alizashatzman.bsky.social argues in @bloomberglaw.com . 👇

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This is outrageous. A federal worker at our DC town hall talks about how employees are being asked to write letters stating their support for Trump. Our loyalty is to country not any particular president. As the woman said, “what the literal fuck.” open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

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107 years ago today in the Hammer case the Supreme Court invalidated Congress’ law to end child labor which at the time was an absolutely necessary law. A bunch of old white guys protecting industry and hurting innocent kids. Could have been yesterday the way we are going.

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This week’s group of nominees shared one unique attribute: None had received what has long been a traditional pre-hearing vetting by the American Bar Association. @benjaminweiss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/aba-sideline...

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Natural England says an EIR request asking for a copy of a report written a year ago is 'complex/voluminous' and therefore it needs 40 working days to send it. Looks like an abuse of process & that NE has something to hide. raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/06/04/n...

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Ahead of the Westminster debate on 30 June 2025, @bobelliot.bsky.social from Wild Justice in conversation with @judders.bsky.social from League Against Cruel Sports. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/06/04/p...

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Failed COVID PPE contracts during the pandemic cost UK public purse £1.4bn. £762m lost - PPE over ordered and defective, delays in checking quality. Govt trying to recover £468m. But some got richer. Would govt snoop on their bank accounts, like it will on benefit claimants?

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The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries. Now she's running for state house. eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

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Who saw that coming birminghamunison.co.uk/2025/06/03/r...

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VAN HOLLEN: I'm simply asking you to provide the committee with a reorganization plan, and your response is 'maybe yes, maybe no.' Am I getting that right? LUTNICK: We're going to follow the law VAN HOLLEN: The law requires to you to submit these major changes to the Senate

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1/ New in the Abrego Garcia case, the Judge has just granted his lawyers' request for permission to file sanctions against the government, which is very unusual.

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Kit Beyer argues that the Supreme Court’s refusal to livestream opinion announcements limits timely public access to such announcements and hampers judicial transparency.

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HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

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As Trump rips Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society, the Senate will consider Trump's first slate of Trump 2.0 judicial nominees tomorrow. Here's one of the worst of the bunch: Josh Divine, an anti-abortion extremist who sure seems like a Leo judge courtaccountability.substack.com/p/judicial-n...

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The outburst about Leonard Leo may signal a dawning realization by Trump: that he actually might not have truly chosen his own Supreme Court appointees.

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Trump asks Congress to wipe out funding for public broadcasting www.npr.org/2025/06/03/n...

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Sen. Booker (D-NJ): “I am sick and tired of hearing this kind of heated partisan rhetoric, which is one of the reasons we have divisions in this country. The attacks we see from POTUS, trolling and dragging judges is what we should be talking about that puts people in danger.”

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I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee. These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment. Read my full letter to my colleagues here: crockett.house.gov/media/press-...

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The Supreme Court just echoed the Abundance book in its new ruling advancing a fossil fuel industry plan to run oil trains right next to the Colorado River. One derailment could permanently destroy 40 million Americans' drinking water source. Abundance! www.levernews.com/an-oil-giant...

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Considering how few misconduct complaints law clerks are emboldened to file against federal judges each year—typically only 1-3—the judiciary should make every effort to investigate them, rather than sweeping misconduct under the rug + pushing judges out quietly, I argue in @bloomberglaw.com

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More than 135,000 cleaner fish have died at a Highland salmon farm run by Norwegian-owned Mowi, prompting welfare concerns and a formal complaint. Read the full story: theferret.scot/13500...

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UK Govt AI copyright plan suffers fourth House of Lords defeat, 242 to 116 votes. Copyright holders must be able to see when their work has been used and by whom. Tech firms need to be licensed to use the work and pay. Govt disagrees. I voted against the govt.

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IGs fired by Trump had saved the govt more than $50 billion in 2024. Betcha that’s better than DOGE, when the dust settles.

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Leonard Leo: “I’m very grateful for President Trump transforming the Federal Courts.… The Federal Judiciary is better than it’s ever been in modern history, and that will be President Trump’s most important legacy.” Leo picked them Leo picked them Fed Soc picked them. Next.

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This nominee is clearly being set up as the next Matthew Kacsmaryk, a guy who’ll hand out endless nationwide injunctions for the religious right, except he may be even MORE extreme and unstable. What a lunatic. ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...

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More than 1/3 of the recusals this term at #SCOTUS have been due to J. Alito's stock ownership. He & Martha Ann inherited nearly all of them when her father passed away in 2012, & they've refused to sell in the years since. Justices shouldn't own individual stocks docs.google.com/spreadsheets....

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🎂 3 years ago TODAY, I had an audacious idea 💡 - nationwide clerkship transparency + real judicial accountability - and I launched a nationwide nonprofit, @thelap.bsky.social , to correct injustices I personally experienced as a law student 👩‍🎓 + law clerk. 💪 We’ve upended the clerkship system…

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Trumpsters want to let banks become less sound and more risky, just as the Financial Stability Board (and others) warn of climate risk cascading through insurance markets into mortgages and real estate, jeopardizing international banking system. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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Leonard Leo was always open about whose agenda matters. His. Trump got played. He said this in 2019. 2019. There was zero follow on the WaPo report by other media. “I was here long before this president and I’ll be here long after, doing what I’m doing, God willing.” youtu.be/e1fKkoASTRw?...

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