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  • Lefty Pundits Continue to Drown Out Democratic Actions with their Complaints about Democratic Inaction

    Lefty pundits have spent the week complaining about a comment Hakeem Jeffries made on Sunday, and in the process drowned out a bunch of things elected Dems are doing on immigration.

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  • ProPublica Explains How DOGE’s AI Cut Support for Veterans Care

    ProPublica reviewed that shoddy AI that led DOGE to cancel critical Veterans care.

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  • The Tax Elon Solution and Other Actual Reporting Not Included in the Frenzy

    If you need a list of ways that Trump could use the power of the presidency to retaliate against Elon Musk, you're better off reading Elizabeth Warren's list of 130 ways Elon exploited his access than NYT's naive list of four.

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  • Trump Muskmageddon Open Thread

    Trump and Elon Musk are having a catfight.

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  • Perhaps Stephen Miller (Also) Believes in the Efficacy of a Deportation Gulag as a Tool to Usher in Fascism

    Stephen Miller pursues his deportation gulag for more than just his uncontrolled racism. It's also a means for him, to chip away at due process enjoyed by all Americans.

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Lefty Pundits Continue to Drown Out Democratic Actions with their Complaints about Democratic Inaction

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June 6, 2025
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Lefty pundits have spent the week complaining about a comment Hakeem Jeffries made on Sunday, and in the process drowned out a bunch of things elected Dems are doing on immigration.
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ProPublica Explains How DOGE's AI Cut Support for Veterans Care

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June 6, 2025
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ProPublica reviewed that shoddy AI that led DOGE to cancel critical Veterans care.
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The Tax Elon Solution and Other Actual Reporting Not Included in the Frenzy

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June 6, 2025
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emptywheel
If you need a list of ways that Trump could use the power of the presidency to retaliate against Elon Musk, you're better off reading Elizabeth Warren's list of 130 ways Elon exploited his access than NYT's naive list of four.
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Trump Muskmageddon Open Thread

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June 5, 2025
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Trump and Elon Musk are having a catfight.
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Perhaps Stephen Miller (Also) Believes in the Efficacy of a Deportation Gulag as a Tool to Usher in Fascism

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June 5, 2025
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emptywheel
Stephen Miller pursues his deportation gulag for more than just his uncontrolled racism. It's also a means for him, to chip away at due process enjoyed by all Americans.
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Donald Trump Declares He Should Have Faced Trial

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June 5, 2025
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emptywheel
Donald Trump wants to criminalize lying about how fat he is.
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Could Elon's Disgusting Abomination Create Opportunities for Other Migrants?

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June 4, 2025
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emptywheel
The possibility that Elon Musk's complaints about the Big Ugly Bill will destabilize (and possibly even thwart) its passage provides an opportunity to make a much bigger stink about the draconian expansion of Stephen Miller's gulag approved by the bill.
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Foreign Policy, Russo-Ukrainian War

The Art of War, Ukraine Edition

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June 4, 2025
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Rayne
Details of Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb seem rather specific, as if they contained a message.
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Trump's Trade War with China Risks Sending Production To China

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June 4, 2025
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China's hardball with rare earth metals export licenses become a bigger issue may explain why Scott Bessent's description of negotiations with China sounded like a hostage video.
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Kristi Noem Combats Claimed Antisemitism by Trying to Deport 61 Israeli Students, and Other Tales of Harvard Derangement

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June 3, 2025
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emptywheel
Donald Trump is making American troops less safe from biohazards, attempting to deport 61 Israeli students in the name of combatting antisemitism, and shutting down research to find cancer cures that taxpayers have funded for years as part of his attempt to destroy Harvard University.
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Alina Habba Back in Trouble for (Allegedly) Lying While Lawyering

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June 3, 2025
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emptywheel
Ras Baraka has sued Alina Habba for false arrest.
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Hard Lines on Legal Capitulation

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June 2, 2025
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How the value proposition in hiring a law firm that will stand up to a bully may help save civil society.
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But Who Gets Sammy Alito in the Divorce?

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June 1, 2025
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emptywheel
In the long term, Trump's screed about Leonard Leo is probably an announcement that he seeks judges who are more reliable political hacks than the right wing judges Leo helped to install in his first term. But in the short term, I'm wondering who gets Sammy Alito in the divorce.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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May 30, 2025
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While we taped on Thursday, we hit most of the issues with the ruling against Trump's tariffs.
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Karoline Leavitt Says American Businesses Should Have No Recourse When Trump Mood Swings Destroy Their Businesses

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May 29, 2025
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Karoline Leavitt says that America's small business owners should have absolutely no recourse if Trump's violent mood swings and his unlawful usurpation of Congressional authority to levy tariffs destroys their businesses.
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Yarvin On Trump And His Henchmen

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May 29, 2025
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I"m done with Yarvin.
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One Explanation for Elon Musk's Claimed DOGE Departure that Gossip-Mongers Missed

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May 29, 2025
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emptywheel
There's a better explanation for Elon Musk's claimed departure from DOGE than the Trump-Musk drama some outlets are portraying. This looks like another attempt to retcon what DOGE did in an effort to defeat a lawsuit.
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As Trump Seeks New Ways to Defund Harvard, Elon Musk Continues to Blow Shit Up

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May 28, 2025
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emptywheel
Every complaint Trump makes about Harvard applies better to Elon Musk.
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The Law, Conspiracism, and Gravity

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May 27, 2025
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emptywheel
For now, the people Trump installed at DOJ and DHS to weaponize the justice system are struggling to maintain their conspiracy theories in the face of judges who check their work.
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This Day Wasn't for Fortunate Sons

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May 26, 2025
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Rayne
Reject this administration's erasure — this day belongs to ALL of us as Americans.
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