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Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government’s website
Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website | TechCrunch
Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention.
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August 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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UPDATE: California Gov. Gavin Newsom is filing a lawsuit this morning challenging Trump’s National Guard deployment to L.A., calling it “illegal and unconstitutional.”

“Tom, arrest me,” Newsom told @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social. “Let’s go.”

www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...
June 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Excellent analysis here, hope the English version is forthcoming.
decorrespondent.nl/16109/dit-is...
Dit is fascisme
Fascisme begint met taal, niet met tanks. Met democratische verkiezingen, niet met een staatsgreep. En het krijgt vrij baan, dankzij mensen die denken dat het allemaal niet zo’n vaart zal lopen – tot ...
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May 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
April 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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SCOOP: Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.
HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say
The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency’s staff and the safety of critical health data.
www.wired.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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"Our country is being run by a small group of people who have an enormous amount of money — and they dominate our politics. It's almost as if bribery has become utterly legalized," says director @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social.

His latest project, "The Dark Money Game," debuts on HBO and Max this week.
April 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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If Brussels does not take urgent action against the illiberal member states that are allied with Moscow, Europe will end up being taken over by the Russians from within - just like the United States
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ gatherings
Amendment also enshrines recognition of only two sexes, providing basis for denying gender identities
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Circle up
MIT following Harvard's lead here
April 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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We just filed our opposition to the Trump administration’s grossly inadequate declarations regarding its preservation of Signal messages.

We’re asking the court to compel the government to provide more details or to allow for limited discovery.
americanoversight.org/following-re...
Following Reports of New Signal Chats, American Oversight Blasts ‘Grossly Inadequate’ Court-Ordered Declarations in Trump Administration's Signal Use - American Oversight
American Oversight filed its opposition to the Trump administration’s declarations concerning the preservation of Signal messages for being grossly inadequate in addressing the unlawful destruction of...
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April 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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This is so great and well-deserved. Nice work, Wikipedians. and go @mmasnick.bsky.social for getting the money quote. Paul, Weiss brought this all on themselves with their craven cowardice. Ugh.
An excellent emendation to Paul, Weiss’s Wikipedia page.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul,_W...
March 31, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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JPM calls it “the fastest Momentum unwind in 40 years .. erased 2 years’ worth of gains and accelerated investors’ late-cycle positioning into Defensive / Low Vol ..”
March 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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“None of this is normal”
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado — Ars Technica
Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.
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March 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Breaking News: Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, was convicted of embezzlement, jeopardizing her plan to run for president in 2027.
Marine Le Pen Found Guilty of Embezzlement by French Court
The ruling immediately bars her from running for public office for five years, jeopardizing the far-right leader’s plans to run for president in 2027.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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‘Entirely unsurprising’: Jen Psaki on Pete Hegseth bringing his wife to military meetings and selecting his brother for Pentagon job

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hx9...
‘Entirely unsurprising’: Hegseth brings wife to military meetings, selects brother for Pentagon job
YouTube video by MSNBC
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March 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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“F___ing liar”: Illinois senator rips Pete Hegseth, calls for his resignation after military plans leak

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgqy...
'F---ing liar': Sen. Duckworth rips Pete Hegseth; calls for his resignation over group chat scandal
YouTube video by MSNBC
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March 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA"

"in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..."

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
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March 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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This administration is incompetent and endangering our troops. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared war plans in an encrypted chat—including a journalist—two hours before strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, the White House confirmed.
March 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.
March 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Reports are coming in that Trump-era ICE agents have arrested even American-born citizens during raids. If you’re just heading to work or the grocery store, how would you prove you’re an American? This is getting out of hand—Americans have a right to privacy.
March 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick explains that elderly people who would complain about not receiving their Social Security checks are fraudsters.
March 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.
If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
March 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I don’t want to exaggerate my powers of prediction but I posted this ten years ago:
March 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM