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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d
"Bovino wants the community he is embedded in to see him not as a law enforcement officer but as an occupying military commander. He has not tried to establish a working relationship with the city; he has tried to dominate it."
This Man Is the Face of the Future
Greg Bovino is next.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23h
“The Committee is particularly alarmed by compelling evidence that the Bureau of Prisons has granted Ms. Maxwell preferential treatment while simultaneously stonewalling congressional oversight into her transfer and her ongoing conditions of confinement.“
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Ranking Member Robert Garcia Demands Answers on Ghislaine Maxwell Prison Transfer, Trump Admin Cover-Up, from Camp Bryan Prison Warden
Washington, D.C. — Today, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, wrote to Dr. Tanisha Hall, Warden of the Federal Prison Camp Bryan, where Ghislaine Ma...
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Allan @allan1.bsky.social · 1d
This is how he makes America great! So disgusting and disturbing!
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thebulwark.com
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d
Kristi Noem says “There's no American citizens that have been arrested or detained."

Tell that to George Retes. This U.S. Army veteran and American citizen was wrongfully arrested and brutalized by ICE while simply trying to get to work.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 1d
The pace of boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific--aka extra-judicial killings--seems to have accelerated since Adm. Alvin Holsey, commander of US Southern Command, announced he was retiring after reported disagreements with Hegseth. Coincidence? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Top military officer central to Trump’s drug war will step down early
Adm. Alvin Holsey has served as the head of U.S. Southern Command for less than a year. The position typically rotates every three years.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d
Who could have foreseen Trump taking maximum advantage of the Supreme Court granting full immunity to presidents who sell pardons to the highest bidder and commit crimes?

Now the only remedy is impeachment, which he knows Republicans will never do no matter what he does.
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Gary Schwall Sr. @glschwall.bsky.social · 2d
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d
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mikepm.bsky.social @mikepm.bsky.social · 1d
If you don't bend the knee . . .
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 2d
DHS deceptively spliced images from different cities and times in videos sowing fear about "chaos" in Chicago and Washington, D.C., a WaPo investigation found.

DHS used footage from years ago, half the country away, or even in international waters, the Post found.

🎁 🔗 wapo.st/4nuDGwf
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 3d
🔥Trump Team Takes Aim at State Laws Shielding Consumers’ Credit Scores From Medical Debt. This administration is really unbelievable. First they take away your healthcare and then they take away your healthcare protections. Not only is this corrupt it’s extortion.🔥

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Trump Team Takes Aim at State Laws Shielding Consumers' Credit Scores From Medical Debt - KFF Health News
Reversing guidance from the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau concludes that states cannot bar medical debt from their residents’ credit reports.
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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 3d
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 3d
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mikepm.bsky.social @mikepm.bsky.social · 3d
I don't think so. When I was in law school over 30 years ago, the Federalist society was already cultivating students to believe in their philosophy, and wealthy donors (Koch's) were funding research to invent and sell their threories. There has never been such an organized effort by Dems.
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mikepm.bsky.social @mikepm.bsky.social · 3d
To increase R votes by gerrymander, the states will have to further reduce their margins in current districts. This may turn safe R districts to winnable lean R districts--say from R +10 to R +5. If there is a wave election, this could backfire on Republicans.
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mikepm.bsky.social @mikepm.bsky.social · 3d
Yes. D's let McConnell steal a seat and Biden completely dropped the issue when he had a chance. May not have had legislative backing to make it happen, but he could have offered a plan to constrain the court, e.g., get rid of permanent positions and rotate assignments from the 13 Crt's of Appeals.
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mikepm.bsky.social @mikepm.bsky.social · 3d
Dems ignored the court since Reagan. Republicans have understood they needed the courts to destroy the acheivements of the 20th century--Labor rights, anti-trust laws, regulation of corporate cheating and polution, civil rights laws, womens rights, and LGBTQ rights, are all in this court's sights.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 3d
Speaking to U.S. troops stationed in Japan this morning, Trump brazenly tried to politicize the military and target a bedrock principle of the United States — again.

This can’t become our new normal. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Trump’s brazen efforts to politicize the U.S. military go from bad to worse
The more the president delivers highly partisan messages to active-duty troops, the more he targets a bedrock principle of the United States.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d
No president has ever summoned active-duty troops in order to attack his political opponents with partisan political messages. It is gross and constant. Trump, Hegseth and Vance are politicizing the military and trying to turn troops against Democrats for a reason.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 4d
The White House’s campaign against elections isn’t exactly subtle:
- DOJ election monitors in blue states
- gerrymandering schemes
- fighting to acquire voter registration lists & election data in several states
- election deniers in key federal election posts www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
The White House’s campaign against elections takes a radical turn with midterms on horizon
As Trump’s Justice Department intends to send election monitors to California and New Jersey, the developments are more unsettling in the broader context.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 5d
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mikepm.bsky.social @mikepm.bsky.social · 7d
All levels of government used to live by the rules and laws it passed, including preservation laws. If an agency passed a rule, the agency followed it until it went through the process to change it. Same with executive orders. Then S.Crt gave POTUS immunity.
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mikepm.bsky.social @mikepm.bsky.social · 7d
Hasn't there been recent outbreaks in Colorado? Those alphabet agencies such as the FDA, really were created for a reason.
charles.littlegreenfootballs.com Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 7d
Good thing Trump gutted the FDA, otherwise we might have been able to detect hoof and mouth disease.

Trump admin warns Argentina beef might be diseased but US may still import

Trump admin warns Argentina beef might be diseased but US may still import
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said issues with foot-and-mouth disease could limit how much beef the U.S. imports.
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 7d
Guess who Hegseth's Pentagon awards its biggest drone contract to....? Naturally one in which Don Trump Jr has a stake and sits on its board. Every goddam conflict of interest law is being vandalised daily by Trump's administration. www.ft.com/content/4ced...
Trump Jr-linked drone company wins Pentagon contract
Unusual Machines secures deal as US military accelerates domestic production of unmanned aircraft
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stevebenen.com
Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 7d
As Trump kills more civilians in international waters, and deploys an aircraft carrier group to Latin America amid rising tensions with Venezuela and Colombia, I have some bad news for voters who saw Trump as the candidate of isolationism and foreign policy “restraint.” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
In a major escalation, Trump admin. deploys aircraft carrier group to Latin America
Amid rising tensions with Venezuela and Colombia, among others, the Republican administration has sent an aircraft carrier group to the region.
www.msnbc.com
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