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This seems like a huge deal. F.B.I. Director Kash Patel said on Friday that agents had arrested a county judge in Milwaukee on charges of obstructing immigration enforcement.

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“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...

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#SCOOP We got the AG memo that’s the blueprint for law enforcement around the country to scoop up suspected Tren de Aragua members and deport them. Without due process. With no appeals. It’s pretty wild: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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200 trade deals no one knows about? time.com/7280114/dona...

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New: We analyzed Trump's meme coin - At least 27 crypto wallets have picked up $100 million worth of $TRUMP coins since his team said the top holders would join him for an "intimate private dinner." Huge profit for Trump; "the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done" wapo.st/4iAatO1

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yeah man you put it on google.com and forced it on users who cares

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A somewhat disorienting announcement just now from US Attorney for D.C. Trump-ally Ed Martin announces Tesla vandalism case (a priority of Pres. Trump) He uses phrase "domestic terror" .... but also acknowledges it is a "misdemeanor" and that defendant is released

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Someone just spent $8 million on $TRUMP memecoins after the president announced that the top holders would be invited to join him at a private dinner at his DC golf club. The purchases were funded by a Binance account, suggesting the wallet owner is not based in the US.

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NEW: A case of Sock Puppet-Mastery. Ed Martin secretly orchestrated an attack on a judge—in a case he was a party to. Now he’s one of the highest law officers in the land. @andykroll.bsky.social & @jeremykohler.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/ed-m...

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BREAKING: DOJ claims that the Trump administration did not violate a court order barring it from third-country removals without providing process when three people were sent to El Salvador b/c the Defense Department sent them to El Salvador on March 31, not DHS, and DOD isn't a defendant.

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The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.

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It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

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This is perhaps one of the more brutal Chotinerings of late www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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1. Jose Hermosillo is US citizen who was wrongly jailed in an immigration detention facility for 10 days The administration says he "turned himself in" to the Border Patrol and told them he was a Mexican who crossed the border illegally. I interviewed Hermosillo. He says the government is lying.

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SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me. This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

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The free speech website where the owner (who believes in free speech) will throttle your access if you criticize him - even if you support all the far-right conspiracy theories and bigotry he supports. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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[talking to the next cell] "what brings you to CECOT?" "i broke some university rules"

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NEWS: The New York Times has been cleared of wrongdoing in former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s defamation suit for the third time in as many years. Jurors found the newspaper NOT LIABLE for an error that briefly featured in a 2017 editorial less than 3 hours into deliberations.

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From @reuters.com: Three more federal prosecutors who worked on the now-torpedoed corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams have quit "after they said the Justice Department wrongfully pressured them to admit to wrongdoing." www.reuters.com/world/us/thr...

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Targeting university research grants for likes.

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Jesus, now when you do a simple hashtag search on instagram you get LLM output describing what you’re searching for

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Legit lol'd at the signature page to Harvard's lawsuit against the Trump administration, which features 17 lawyers from four different firms www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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... plus three of the nation's biggest law firms and the special counsel who investigated President Biden.

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More from this story: Nexstar CEO Perry Sook told employees that he recently met with Trump, who told him to put more conservatives on the air (a Nexstar spokesperson said Sook was joking). www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

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Ok so apparently now it’s illegal to text your wife about what you’re doing at work?

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“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.”

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> “603,000 El Paso residents, about 90 percent of the city’s population, are exposed to a cancer risk above 1 in 1 million just from Cardinal Health’s two warehouses.” Great work from @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social and Lylla Younes grist.org/health/ethyl...

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His student visa was suddenly revoked but he wasn’t notified—“they don’t want ICE to lose the advantage of surprise” (!!!)—and four days later he was arrested at the hospital where he works.

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while it might seem like a lot of turnover at the top of DoD, the way merit works is you just keep firing people until you find the best ones

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Shocked to learn about complete managerial chaos at the Pentagon. Was expecting Hegseth to run a tight ship.

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You guys Elon Musk appointed the head of the IRS and President Trump didn’t even know about it.

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An unnamed CFPB employee who participated in the agency's layoff decisions says in a sworn statement that its leaders were aware that their approach violated a court order and instructed them to proceed anyway. "All that mattered was the numbers."

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👀WSJ editor Emma Tucker ordered staff to pull all links and halt social posts to its profile on @status.news, with an editor writing in a message Emma wanted it "completely desurfaced," via @breakermedia.bsky.social

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NEW — Emails show Mohsen Mahdawi pleading for months to Columbia for help. He asked about an FBI visit to his home & a mysterious break-in. He also asked Columbia to publicly clarify a lie the Trump admin would later cite to justify detaining Mohsen. No response. He was detained a month later.

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DOGE dude made CFPB staffers work 36 hours straight so their colleagues would be fired quicker. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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We’re into fractional Scaramuccis now. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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WOW. The Trump administration's efforts to punish immigrants by abusing the Social Security database ended up leading to a U.S. citizen being kicked off of Social Security because they accused him of being undocumented!

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My latest for MSNBC: The makers of TurboTax gave Trump’s inauguration $1M. They just got their money’s worth. "The end of Direct File fits neatly in the predatory economy Donald Trump and his Republican enablers want." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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NEWS: Here is Mark Paoletta’s declaration about the CFPB RIF. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... It includes these pages showing the cumulative #s of positions the RIF is cutting.

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NBC News EXCLUSIVE: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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The CFPB is one of those things where like, virtually every single person in the United States would support its existence if they were told the truth about what it is/does. Or used to do, I guess.

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Our DOGE tracker is updated with a whole slew of new names, and now you can filter by agency to see which of the DOGErs have been where. Great work by @williamturton.bsky.social, @chrisbing.bsky.social, @kirstenberg.bsky.social and others! projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

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More fresh updates to the DOGE tracker by @propublica.org, along with an agency filter! projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do... We are endeavoring to more consistently update the tracker. Unsurprisingly, it is a lot of work!

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NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]

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NEW: A 167-year-old statute requires trans people to publish their old and new names in a newspaper. Families and advocates worry the requirement now poses a risk as President Donald Trump has attacked transgender rights. By @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social

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It happened to me: I bought a film camera on Ebay and was congratulating myself on beating the USD depreciation, but now it’s sitting in customs in Indiana, I owe tariffs on it, and FedEx hasn’t told me how to pay them.

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