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NEW: Palantir is helping DOGE with a massive IRS data project. @makenakelly.bsky.social has the scoop:

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Eighteen months before the midterms, the Republican National Committee is litigating more than 40 cases aimed at making voting more difficult. In North Carolina, the GOP is literally trying to steal a state Supreme Court seat won by a Democrat last November.

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Here is an up to date list of Big Law collaborators along with how much in free legal services they have pledged to Trump's causes. Paul Weiss 40M Cadwalader 100M Milbank 100M Skadden Arps 100M Willkie Farr 100M A&O Shearman 125M Kirkland & Ellis 125M Latham & Watkins 125M Simpson Thacher 125M

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“Trust in the Dear Leader—that’s not an economic policy,” says CNBC's Steve Liesman on the White House trying to defend Trump's trade war.

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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

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Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

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Maddow: "You have to be truthful to a judge. You have to be truthful to the court as a lawyer who's standing there in front of the judge. But being truthful, in this administration, is seen as a betrayal of Donald Trump." Watch: youtu.be/jCU2DvaAkDg

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🚨BREAKING: North Carolina Supreme Court rejects Republican effort to disqualify more than 60,000 votes in close judicial election. However, GOP dominated court rules 4-2 that several thousand other ballots must be "cured" to be counted. Democratic candidate will continue legal fight in Fed court.

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WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?

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Donald Trump is not a king, and Congress is not powerless. Republicans have a choice to make. They can continue to bow down to Donald Trump while he sabotages our economy, or they can stand up for the American people who elected them and vote to end this tariff game.

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Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don't match their birth certificates. Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.

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Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.

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This isn't The Art of the Deal. It's insider trading with a bad comb-over. Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’ Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.

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Call me crazy, but I don't think insider trading is included in that "presidential immunity" bullshit.

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youtu.be/8g0XBkSJCtI #berniesanders MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Senator Bernie Sanders speaking at a CNN town hall where Sanders was electrifying and didn’t mince words.

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From Brian Beutler on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

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One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....

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??? "...the agreement, obtained by WIRED, calls for the DOL to reimburse the USDS up to $1.3 million for work done by four DOGE affiliates, or “a slightly different number,” over an 18-month period." www.wired.com/story/depart...

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When I started Democracy Docket in 2020 my theory was to obsessively focus on democracy and the courts. No games, no lifestyle features, no false neutrality. Now with 400,000 subscribers that has become a reality. I hope you check it out and sign-up. newsletters.democracydocket.com/all-newsletters

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Only a mentally ill person would think they can be a draft dodger, consistently insult veterans, active duty military, and dead heroes, and think they deserve to have a military parade in their own honor… Just sick!

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As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants. So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House. The hypocrisy is outrageous.

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$721m to help Louisiana protect itself from Natural Disaster, gone Red Rural Recession. www.fox8live.com/2025/04/10/l...

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The credibility of the US government is completely shot. Gone. Annihilated. Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration. Ever.

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💥 JPMorgan Chase rejects anti-DEI proposal A proposal called "Request to Cease DEI Efforts" asked JPM to present for shareholder vote in May: "consider abolishing its DEI program, policies, department and goals." JPM has excluded the proposal from its 2025 proxy statement for shareholder vote.

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Maddow: They cannot defend what they're doing, they cannot commit to what they're doing, but they also can't even reverse what they're doing when they try to reverse it because they are so incompetent, they can't even fail properly

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I'm so tired of our country being held hostage by fucking morons who are letting a billionaire asshole and a convicted felon take everybody's shit and burn it all down

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So has the WH actually formally, legally papered the tariff pause or…are they actually still operational?

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They are actively trying to kill people - wgntv.com/weather/nati...

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Sanders: We look to these law firms who have hundreds of well-paid lawyers to defend the constitution, to defend the rule of law. They were more interested in getting millions of dollars from their lobbying.. They should be ashamed of themselves.

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He just testified all morning about the reasons why the tariff policy was going to make America great. Then he checked his phone and realized everything he just said was canceled on Truth Social.

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No. You’ve been watching stock market fraud.

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Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

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Welp—from a hospital ER doctor: “I just saw a guy whose entire retirement plan is fucked and had a grand mal seizure today”. He was just terminated from his federal job and had his 30 year full pension blocked.

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You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

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Pronouns aren’t real?

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This is the action of a stupider version of Putin. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor are patriots who told the truth www.c-span.org/video/?c5160...

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"Trump’s market-moving Truth Social post this afternoon was spurred primarily by two factors: deep concern — bordering on panic — from his top economic officials about the bond markets..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

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Gotta say, I am not encouraged that SCOTUS has not yet resolved the El Salvador kidnapping case.

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“So, back to where it always was,” said one Indiana field office employee. “What a waste of our time.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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