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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Between this and the Venezuelan TPS ruling, #SCOTUS has now cleared the way for removing more than one million non-citizens who, until now, were *legally protected* against removal. This also ratchets up the stakes in the "third-country" removal case, since many of these folks *can't* be sent home.

the people here probably already know this but really spread this far and wide: tell your normal offline friends and family to stop using ChatGPT for legal advice. it's happening constantly now. I'm always explaining to people why the advice this silly thing gave them is not real legal advice.

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

Is it just the ones who are inside someone’s womb? Asking for a friend. FFS.

🔴 If, like me, you heard Farage's comments on abortion this week and wondered 'who is funding the anti-abortion push in Britain' I'd *really* recommend reading Democracy for Sale tomorrow.... 🧐 Sign up here (it's free!) democracyforsale.substack.com

An appeals court stopped a railroad project built for oil extraction and shipping because the environmental review only considered the rail stuff, not the oil stuff it enables. The Supreme Court just overruled the appeals court and sharply limited US environmental review in the process.

Robert Jenrick tried to cut a billionaires taxes by £45m in return for receiving a personal donation. That's a lot more serious than dodging train fares.

“Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy & psychedelic mushrooms. He traveled with a daily medication box that held 20 pills, including Adderall.”

The USA is barely recognizable after 4 months; if you think you can sit on the sidelines and it will be handed back to you in four years you are out of your mind.

Great – looks as if the White House used AI to draft a health report and wound up inserting citations for articles that don’t exist. They put cheating high schoolers to shame. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

Last year, a handful of Democrats tanked Joe Biden's impressive judicial nominee Adeel Mangi out of cowardice. Now Trump is ready to fill this U.S. appeals court seat with his pick: his own criminal defense attorney and "hatchet man" at DOJ. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I don’t usually weigh in for primaries, but this one is really important to me. secure.actblue.com/donate/polit...

i actually think the “taco” thing could be incredibly effective bc it goes right after the mystique hes cultivated as a “tough guy” and comes straight from the wall street assholes that are among his biggest supporters…real “emperor has no clothes” stuff imo

Another pandemic fail incoming all because folks refused to vote for Kamala Harris the sane and qualified candidate. 😪 #Moderna

A recent report found that Elon Musk faced at least $2.37B in potential legal liability from 11 fed agencies as of Inauguration Day. As he exits, these agencies are still on DOGE's chopping block or have dropped investigations into his corporations. See what this was about?

More Americans in this country are scared that at any other time in my life....which dates back to 1966. I grew up during the Cold War. Not even the potential for being vaporized by a nuclear blast was as scary as having the POTUS wiping his ass on the Constitution.

Here’s the thing, if they are picking up folks working in the country illegally, I’m going to need to see some white guys also being arrested for employing people working illegally in the country. Otherwise, it’s just racism.

Yep! That’s The Guy! Reeks Of Hypocrisy….

"Let's start a club for evil, corrupt men willing to ruin innocent people's lives for our own political ambitions!" "Great!"

You just know the asshole hates being called TACO which means it must never ever stop.

People mistake Trump’s God complex for Jesus. Not understanding it’s in line with Roman Emperors who thought themselves divine and demanding their image on coins and everything else. Then threw the people stale bread and distracted them with gladiator shows.

Whoever made this deserves a medal.

It will take a generation for America to heal after Trump. America will first have to suffer. Lose its standing in the world. Be demoted to a lesser world global power. It will lose its unilateralism and will not be trusted for decades.

A HEADS UP: Someone I know just submitted her lease to ChatGPT and asked it a question. Fortunately, she showed the exchange to me, because ChatGPT had misread her lease and its response to her question was 100% incorrect. Keep that in mind when using often useful, but flawed AI tools.

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

Foxx: This is the American Dream story they all claim to support. I’m a first-generation American, raised by a single mom in Section 8 housing. SNAP benefits—food stamps—put food on our table. Those social safety nets—they are not handouts, they are hand-ups.

If they are actually going to enforce deportations in FL at job sites then the construction industry in FL will grind to a halt. Until they can replace those employees with US-born workers willing to work outside in the summer in 100 degree heat & humidity. Should be no problem.

They attacked, traumatized and fired the competent public servants, and now want your sympathy for being out of their depth.

Remember when Trump claimed the Biden administration wasn’t doing enough to help North Carolina recover from Hurricane Helene? Well, his administration just denied the state’s request for continued FEMA relief assistance. This hypocrisy isn’t just staggering. It’s cruel.

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When do we start all the winning? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Seeing as Emil Bove personally fired me from DOJ in retaliation for prosecuting January 6 rioters, I don’t think he should be confirmed to a lifetime seat as a federal judge. But that’s just me.

Elon fired the IGs and gutted the federal agencies investigating and regulating his companies including the SEC, NLRB, DoD, NHTSA, FDA, DoA and FAA. DOGE could only verify $5 billion in savings for this year, while potentially costing taxpayers $135 billion. There’s your fraud.

Ursula von der Leyen, "The diary of Anne Frank." "A painful reminder to Europe to be vigilant and unyielding towards all those who see hatred and want to divide our society" "Europe knows this path all too well. And never, never again must we embark on this path"

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

I wouldnt be too quick to buy this. Musk got what he came for all along—our personal information. The world’s richest guy doesn’t walk away from a $250 mil investment empty handed. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

This happened because of you. You protested at TeslaTakedowns and made his name and his company’s product reviled. You protested outside federal agencies slated for DOGE cuts. You barred doors, protected data. You sued and won. You WORE HIM OUT. Don’t let them spin it any other way.