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Security Theater Meets Checkpoint Stripper. www.justice.gov/usao-sdin/pr...

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This is the Not Like Us of legal scholarship.

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Give an AI platform real world data. Add plausible political actions based on past precedents and existing legal authorities. Finish by asking it whether we're on the path to civil war. My thoughts on my "conversation" with Anthropic's Claude AI, out now.

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Or, "Great Replacement Theory, Lite Version."

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This, right here. 👇

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it would be helpful for any reporters to find the people expressing their anger at these town halls and tell them trump claims they were paid protestors and get their reaction

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Give an AI platform real world data. Add plausible political actions based on past precedents and existing legal authorities. Finish by asking it whether we're on the path to civil war. My thoughts on my "conversation" with Anthropic's Claude AI, out now.

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Deputy Fuhrer and entourage arriving at the Reich Chancellery.

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Coming March 3. www.therepublicsentinel.com/p/39b15b22-0...

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Spotted today, at Joshua Tree.

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The Mail on Sunday going anti-Trump is wild to me.

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If the Founders had just run away somewhere, America wouldn't exist. This is just pure political and moral cowardice on Cameron's part. thehill.com/blogs/in-the...

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They'll deny it & Sec. 552(c) of FOIA allows them to literally lie to requesters about the existence of records if the subject of the request so long as the investigation is ongoing. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

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If a hostile power decades ago recruited a U.S. businessman as a source & that source made it to the WH, what would it want that asset to do? Slash & burn the government, alienate all allies, stoke fear & resentment at home--all to make the US weaker & more isolated. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

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Seems like something @amyklobuchar.com @klobuchar.senate.gov should maybe say something about?

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Last week, four House GOP members asked AG Pam Bondi to investigate three civil society organizations for....informing other human beings about their constitutional and legal rights. My discussion with @cob.bsky.social is out now: www.cato.org/multimedia/c...

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Trump & the House/Senate GOP should remember that political legitimacy is a fragile thing. Destroy it and you run the very real risk of unleashing forces you cannot contain, much less control. They ignore that fact at their own peril.

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What he is saying here, and they already doing in ways big and small, is spend money Congress has not appropriated. Not refusing to spend money as directed, bad as that is, but spend without authorization. Which is, in plainer terms and by absolute constitutional command, stealing from the treasury.

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JUST IN: In response to a FOIA request from CREW, the Trump administration indicates that its decision to relocate DOGE (USDS) into the White House makes it "not subject to FOIA."

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"Trump will say, we're gonna build beautiful new steel plants, fabulous, the best you've ever seen. Takes 8-to-10 years. Good luck with the permitting. This whole tariff thing is anthrax for the economy." Mike Murphy joins Tim Miller: www.thebulwark.com/p/mike-murph...

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Some really cool talks coming up at @cato.org with @pgeddington.com

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What will happen if the Trump Administration starts defying court orders? The answers aren't easy, I write in my new Cato post, in part because we must be prepared for a range of possibilities in between sincere compliance and frank defiance. @cato.org /1

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A proposed bill in Maryland would make it easier for the state to ignore FOIA requests and sue requesters. It shouldn't become law. @laurenleharper.bsky.social explains why to FOX Baltimore:

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"Let this be a lesson: if you try to silence one voice in America, a hundred more will take up the call." Great work by @thefireorg.bsky.social responding to this assault on the First Amendment and helping to get it dropped. And thanks to every news outlet that covered it.

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Red and blue states alike recognize the need for journalist-source confidentiality. Let's hope Idaho's shield bill gets across the finish line.

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Trump & the House/Senate GOP should remember that political legitimacy is a fragile thing. Destroy it and you run the very real risk of unleashing forces you cannot contain, much less control. They ignore that fact at their own peril.

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"If the job is not essential...obviously they should not be on the public payroll." What does this mean? Trump's EO calls for focusing reductions in force for employees deemed "non-essential" during a shutdown. That is 800,000 employees. The want a permanent government shutdown.

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NEW: Career DOJ spokesman — a Marine Corps vet — is resigning, saying “basic decency” has come to an end and there’s a “hostile and toxic work environment” inside DOJ. Reporting from NBC News:

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The “how dare you name DOGE employees” thing reminds me of the way the turds running The Federalist would respond when you asked who funded them. YOU JUST WANT TO VICTIMIZE OUR BACKERS, they’d shriek.

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The fact that Byron York, out of the loudest shouters about the dangers of a “deep state,” can suggest it’s illegitimate to identify the people who have been given unprecedented power to change the government shows how utterly lost to nonsensical fascist propaganda some “conservatives” are.

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If they're afraid for their safety from a Trump-induced mob, the way to meet that threat is via the exercise of their Second Amendment rights--rights they claim to care so deeply about. Well, House/Senate GOP, put up or shut up. #MolonLabe www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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As someone who reads statutes and their amendments for a living, the “no use for strikethrough” is a very hot and … very wrong … take.

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If you're looking for historical examples of federal government surveillance & political repression as a baseline to compare what Trump is up to, this is the book and the event for you. Coming in April. www.cato.org/events/trium...

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Following my reporting in @texasobserver.org linking an ICE prosecutor to a racist X account that posted apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, three Congressmen have demanded accountability, while the ICE prosecutor still appeared on an ICE court schedule this week. www.texasobserver.org/investigatio...

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Just under a month away. Join us in person in DC if you can or online for a discussion about the impact of racism in policing. Featuring yours truly with author @rethinkintel.bsky.social and my colleague @foxmike90.bsky.social www.cato.org/events/polic...

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If your representative is dodging in-person town halls, call them out! Tag them and demand they face their constituents.

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Today's @usatoday.com front page First US death from measles in 10 years First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US All of this fully preventable

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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

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For all the talk about how bad Bondi & Patel are--and they are atrocious--the man with the most power to kill people at scale is RFK at HHS.

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This could make this interesting once it's public. www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

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A more accurate chyron would read, "Deputy Fuhrer Addresses Cabinet."

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