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The problems that will be created by shifting some functions to other agencies are going to much worse than originally expected.
And they were originally expected to be very bad.
Also ED knows this. www.govexec.com/management/2...
And they were originally expected to be very bad.
Also ED knows this. www.govexec.com/management/2...
Trump admin acknowledges difficulties in transferring Education programs to other agencies, internal documents show
The work Education has done so far is "minuscule" compared to what's to come, department says.
www.govexec.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The problems that will be created by shifting some functions to other agencies are going to much worse than originally expected.
And they were originally expected to be very bad.
Also ED knows this. www.govexec.com/management/2...
And they were originally expected to be very bad.
Also ED knows this. www.govexec.com/management/2...
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
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Hundreds of Louisiana public officials and their family members will soon be able to remove their home/work addresses from campaign finance reports.
This will make it harder to figure out who is making political campaign contributions. #lalege
lailluminator.com/2025/11/07/l...
This will make it harder to figure out who is making political campaign contributions. #lalege
lailluminator.com/2025/11/07/l...
Louisiana ethics board raises questions about judges’ campaign transparency • Louisiana Illuminator
Three elected judges in Louisiana are leveraging a new privacy law to remove their home addresses and spouse’s work addresses from the state’s public campaign finance database that tracks political do...
lailluminator.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Hundreds of Louisiana public officials and their family members will soon be able to remove their home/work addresses from campaign finance reports.
This will make it harder to figure out who is making political campaign contributions. #lalege
lailluminator.com/2025/11/07/l...
This will make it harder to figure out who is making political campaign contributions. #lalege
lailluminator.com/2025/11/07/l...
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"Beyond being the 24th consecutive grant of emergency relief to the Trump administration, the cryptic ruling in Orr is a reminder of just how bankrupt the Court’s proffered justifications are in these cases—both legally and in other ways, too."
Me on today's ugly #SCOTUS ruling in Trump v. Orr:
Me on today's ugly #SCOTUS ruling in Trump v. Orr:
189. The Breezy Inequity of Trump v. Orr
The Supreme Court's latest grant of emergency relief to the Trump administration illustrates in technicolor the direct (and ugly) consequences of the two different ways it keeps messing up "equity."
www.stevevladeck.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
"Beyond being the 24th consecutive grant of emergency relief to the Trump administration, the cryptic ruling in Orr is a reminder of just how bankrupt the Court’s proffered justifications are in these cases—both legally and in other ways, too."
Me on today's ugly #SCOTUS ruling in Trump v. Orr:
Me on today's ugly #SCOTUS ruling in Trump v. Orr:
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Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
October 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
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Wrote for @thenation.com about how we're all gonna drown in hot oceans because we are air conditioning slop bots 💫
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
AI Is Going to Kill Everyone You Love. The Surprise Is How.
It’s not hostile super robots you should worry about—it’s the heat they’ll generate.
www.thenation.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Wrote for @thenation.com about how we're all gonna drown in hot oceans because we are air conditioning slop bots 💫
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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Peafowl are some of the largest birds that can fly.
In fact, the chicks have all of their feathers when they emerge and are capable of flight roughly one week after hatching.
They are also known for their aggressive disposition, so we'd be careful with the insults.
In fact, the chicks have all of their feathers when they emerge and are capable of flight roughly one week after hatching.
They are also known for their aggressive disposition, so we'd be careful with the insults.
October 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Peafowl are some of the largest birds that can fly.
In fact, the chicks have all of their feathers when they emerge and are capable of flight roughly one week after hatching.
They are also known for their aggressive disposition, so we'd be careful with the insults.
In fact, the chicks have all of their feathers when they emerge and are capable of flight roughly one week after hatching.
They are also known for their aggressive disposition, so we'd be careful with the insults.
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At @VisionandJustice NOW, @EJI founder Bryan Stevenson explained how 15 years ago he came to understand that civil rights litigation would not be enough. “We couldn’t win Brown v Board of Education today.” Stevenson created the @legacysites.eji.org in Montgomery, spurred by this realization.
October 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
At @VisionandJustice NOW, @EJI founder Bryan Stevenson explained how 15 years ago he came to understand that civil rights litigation would not be enough. “We couldn’t win Brown v Board of Education today.” Stevenson created the @legacysites.eji.org in Montgomery, spurred by this realization.
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This is insane.
October 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This is insane.
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New Orleans has had the fewest murders this year since 1970. Carjackings are down 80% relative to 2022, vehicle burglaries are down 70%, shootings are down 63%. This is a wholly unnecessary stunt that will hurt local businesses.
#BREAKING
Governor Jeff Landry submits request to send in 1,000 Louisiana National Guard troops to cities like New Orleans.
The governor cites a rise in crime despite New Orleans reporting a massive declines in crime since 2023.
Governor Jeff Landry submits request to send in 1,000 Louisiana National Guard troops to cities like New Orleans.
The governor cites a rise in crime despite New Orleans reporting a massive declines in crime since 2023.
September 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
New Orleans has had the fewest murders this year since 1970. Carjackings are down 80% relative to 2022, vehicle burglaries are down 70%, shootings are down 63%. This is a wholly unnecessary stunt that will hurt local businesses.
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Hegseth has doubled down on honoring these “heroes,” who participated in the slaughter of over 100 women and children, plus unarmed men, the elderly, and infirm. Many were shot while fleeing and left for dead on the snow-covered prairie. I’ll spare you the graphic images of the mass grave.
The Department of Defense says it will not revoke the Medals of Honor awarded to 20 soldiers involved in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre. A review panel concluded last year the medals should remain in place, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Sept. 25.
Wounded Knee Massacre Medals will not be revoked - ICT
Amelia SchaferICT Rapid City, S.D. – Medals of Honor granted to 20 soldiers who participated in the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 will not be revoked, Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth anno...
ictnews.org
September 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Hegseth has doubled down on honoring these “heroes,” who participated in the slaughter of over 100 women and children, plus unarmed men, the elderly, and infirm. Many were shot while fleeing and left for dead on the snow-covered prairie. I’ll spare you the graphic images of the mass grave.
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Police and prosecutors say "listen to victims" except when they don't like what the victims have to say.
“It’s like his voice doesn’t matter.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
“It’s like his voice doesn’t matter.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
With Hours to Go, He’s Fighting the Execution of His Mother’s Killer
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Police and prosecutors say "listen to victims" except when they don't like what the victims have to say.
“It’s like his voice doesn’t matter.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
“It’s like his voice doesn’t matter.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
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Trees in New Orleans often carry memories of hurricane damage. But as @sam-karlin.bsky.social explores in his series on rising summer temps and heat deaths in Louisiana, trees can make a huge difference in cooling down cities. Still, our canopy is sparse
www.nola.com/news/new-orl...
www.nola.com/news/new-orl...
Hurricane-prone New Orleans is lacking trees. They could help with rising heat.
A contractor cut down 107 trees in New Orleans that were planted by a nonprofit. Here's why it's emblematic of larger challenges in the fight against extreme heat.
www.nola.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Trees in New Orleans often carry memories of hurricane damage. But as @sam-karlin.bsky.social explores in his series on rising summer temps and heat deaths in Louisiana, trees can make a huge difference in cooling down cities. Still, our canopy is sparse
www.nola.com/news/new-orl...
www.nola.com/news/new-orl...
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cyberpunk. is. a. warning. not. a. manual. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | The N.Y.P.D. Is Teaching America How to Track Everyone Every Day Forever (Gift Article)
New tools allow law enforcement agencies to track us at an unimaginable scale.
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
cyberpunk. is. a. warning. not. a. manual. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Kirk is not a modern day St. Paul, despite what Cardinal Dolan says. The only thing that such myth-making achieves is fomenting resentment, curtailing dialogue, and stifling action to otherwise prevent this tragedy from happening again, says John Grosso.
Cardinal Dolan calls the late Charlie Kirk 'a modern day St. Paul.' I'm not making this up.
Cardinal Dolan joins the Catholic right's ever growing quest to lionize the late Charlie Kirk as a Christian martyr.
bit.ly
September 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Kirk is not a modern day St. Paul, despite what Cardinal Dolan says. The only thing that such myth-making achieves is fomenting resentment, curtailing dialogue, and stifling action to otherwise prevent this tragedy from happening again, says John Grosso.
Maybe now is a good time for Congress to provide for damages for so-called government “jawboning.”
SEN. CRUZ: “.. If the government gets in the business of saying, ‘We don’t like what you, the media, have said; we’re going to ban you from the airwaves if you don’t say what we like’ — that will end up bad for conservatives.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/live-updates...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/live-updates...
September 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Maybe now is a good time for Congress to provide for damages for so-called government “jawboning.”
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When we get to pleading in my first-year Civil Procedure class, my students often ask me just how over the top a complaint would have to be for a judge to strike it without even being *asked* to do so.
Thanks to President Trump, we have an answer:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Thanks to President Trump, we have an answer:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
When we get to pleading in my first-year Civil Procedure class, my students often ask me just how over the top a complaint would have to be for a judge to strike it without even being *asked* to do so.
Thanks to President Trump, we have an answer:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Thanks to President Trump, we have an answer:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I’m at the Broadview ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs, where a group of protesters are attempting to block agents from transferring detainees held inside.
Several law enforcement armed with rifles have just arrested one protester and earlier fired pepper balls at the crowd:
Several law enforcement armed with rifles have just arrested one protester and earlier fired pepper balls at the crowd:
September 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I’m at the Broadview ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs, where a group of protesters are attempting to block agents from transferring detainees held inside.
Several law enforcement armed with rifles have just arrested one protester and earlier fired pepper balls at the crowd:
Several law enforcement armed with rifles have just arrested one protester and earlier fired pepper balls at the crowd:
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Oh look.
By the head of the Federal Communications Commission, in 2022:
September 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Oh look.
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Exclusive: The Trump administration has drafted a proposal to activate 1,000 Louisiana National Guard troops to serve in a law enforcement mission in the state’s “urban centers.”
Pentagon plan envisions 1,000 troops for Louisiana policing mission
Documents reviewed by The Post illustrate the Trump administration’s evolving strategy for sending the military into cities with Democratic majorities.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Exclusive: The Trump administration has drafted a proposal to activate 1,000 Louisiana National Guard troops to serve in a law enforcement mission in the state’s “urban centers.”
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NEW: We’ve spent the past 4 months investigating a detention center on the tarmac of a rural airport in Alexandria - a legal “black hole” & Trump’s deportation hub
We uncovered a pattern of alleged due process violations, poor medical treatment, overcrowding, health emergencies, abuse & long stays:
We uncovered a pattern of alleged due process violations, poor medical treatment, overcrowding, health emergencies, abuse & long stays:
Trump’s deportation hub: inside the ‘black hole’ where immigrants disappear
A Guardian investigation into the Alexandria facility reveals a pattern of alleged due process violations, previously unreported accounts of neglect and abuse, documented health emergencies and long s...
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
NEW: We’ve spent the past 4 months investigating a detention center on the tarmac of a rural airport in Alexandria - a legal “black hole” & Trump’s deportation hub
We uncovered a pattern of alleged due process violations, poor medical treatment, overcrowding, health emergencies, abuse & long stays:
We uncovered a pattern of alleged due process violations, poor medical treatment, overcrowding, health emergencies, abuse & long stays:
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In his Oval Office address on political violence, Trump lists the attempt on his life, the Scalise shooting, and attacks on ICE agents.
He does not mention Jan 6th, the attack on the Pelosi family, the Hortman murders, the kidnapping attempt on Gretchen Whitmer, or the fire at Gov Shapiro’s house.
He does not mention Jan 6th, the attack on the Pelosi family, the Hortman murders, the kidnapping attempt on Gretchen Whitmer, or the fire at Gov Shapiro’s house.
Trump: "For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism we're seeing in our country & it must stop right now. My admin will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity"
September 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
In his Oval Office address on political violence, Trump lists the attempt on his life, the Scalise shooting, and attacks on ICE agents.
He does not mention Jan 6th, the attack on the Pelosi family, the Hortman murders, the kidnapping attempt on Gretchen Whitmer, or the fire at Gov Shapiro’s house.
He does not mention Jan 6th, the attack on the Pelosi family, the Hortman murders, the kidnapping attempt on Gretchen Whitmer, or the fire at Gov Shapiro’s house.