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Remember when Trumpland denied softening the 2016 GOP platform position on Russia?

Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team when President Donald Trump elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner.

The (free-to-read) newsletter is out. This week’s compendium includes data from Ipsos evaluating the extent to which Americans know *and care* about new events. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

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lol once a cable news host, always a cable news host. leaning into something he actually has experience doing.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

Thanks!

He’s such an embarrassment.

Shared article. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/0...

German "Der Spiegel " cover: BETRAYED First Zelensky, soon us? the radical departure of the USA from its allies.

Heartbreaking

President Zelenskyy has banned DJT’s TS, let’s hope he does etwit’s x next. Wishful thinking…all of free, Democratic Europe should join him!

This includes us. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

Just as we warned, Brendan Carr is establishing himself as America's top censor, and he's not being shy about it. And a hearty "fuck you" to anyone who insisted Carr was a "free speech warrior."

Musk absolutely wants to make it to illegal to criticize his shit-box products in the U.S., too - this woman in China was forced to pay TESLA after faulty brakes almost killed her family. Stop the rabid dog. apnews.com/article/tesl...

Senate Republicans just *BLOCKED* Sen. Ossoff’s amendment to protect children’s and maternal health care through Medicaid.

DOGE By The Numbers theonion.com/doge-by...

FWIW: Here's the most recent "Supreme Court precedent" that included a constitutional challenge to "two layers of for-cause removal protections" for an ALJ. "We do not reach the remaining constitutional issues ...." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

He states that he cannot think of one more thing to destroy, except inner-racial marriages, but his wife says no.

More Zelensky,less Chump...

This is an excellent read.

Raise your hand if you believe her.

Thank you to the 10,000 new subscribers that I have gotten at Law Dork over this past tumultuous month. I am truly humbled that so many of you are trusting me to be a part of how you are keeping up with and understanding this moment. Thanks.

Estimating current and future impacts of global mariculture production on marine biodiversity, Ma et al. show that it is possible to increase finfish and bivalve production to meet global demand while also achieving decreases in cumulative impacts to marine #biodiversity by up to 30.5% in 2050.

BREAKING: Donald Trump issued an executive order tonight aimed at ending several decades-old and highly successful government programs. Among the programs Trump says he's ending: The Federal Executive Boards and the Presidential Management Fellows Program. What do they do, you ask? Key things!

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Ms. Ghasemzadeh described a sweltering encampment, overrun with cats and dogs. Then, she sent a text message saying that the authorities were confiscating all phones. Her last words: “Please try to help us.” Don't look away. This is happening. Read ⬇️. And, this is why a free press is essential.

Two Ukrainian oppositional leaders: Petro Poroshenko and Yulia Tymoshenko (both hate Zelensky and hate each other) have publicly supported Zelensky, said his term prolongation is legit until the end of the war, and said elections are impossible now. Listen to Ukrainian opposition.

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Dark Pence is back.

I have remained fairly silent over the past few weeks, largely because I have been processing the reality of an organization dedicated to improving government services being repurposed into the vector of destruction of those very same services. I wrote up some thoughts. Quick tl;dr🧵

“Re-establishes the longstanding norm that only the president or the Attorney General can speak for the United States when stating what the law is.” That was NEVER a longstanding norm. EVER. Don’t let them rewrite history and civics like that.