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“Democracy is under assault right before our eyes,” #Newsom said. “This moment we have feared has arrived. He’s taking a wrecking ball…to our founding fathers’ historic project: three coequal branches of independent government.”
June 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“Democracy is under assault right before our eyes,” #Newsom said. “This moment we have feared has arrived. He’s taking a wrecking ball…to our founding fathers’ historic project: three coequal branches of independent government.”
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The Supreme Court today allowed Trump to temporarily remove the leaders of two independent agencies, setting up a direct challenge to the legal principle that limits a president’s power to fire officials at will.
May 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Supreme Court today allowed Trump to temporarily remove the leaders of two independent agencies, setting up a direct challenge to the legal principle that limits a president’s power to fire officials at will.
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Federal law protects the heads of these agencies from political interference by requiring presidents to show cause for their removal. But Trump claims those limits are unconstitutional and insists the president must be free to fire officials for any reason, or none at all.
May 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Federal law protects the heads of these agencies from political interference by requiring presidents to show cause for their removal. But Trump claims those limits are unconstitutional and insists the president must be free to fire officials for any reason, or none at all.
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Here's a picture that a @kuow.org photographer took in Seattle yesterday, showing the ICE officers masked up in the hallways as they waited to arrest people coming out of their hearings.
May 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Here's a picture that a @kuow.org photographer took in Seattle yesterday, showing the ICE officers masked up in the hallways as they waited to arrest people coming out of their hearings.
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AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse. www.wired.com/story/new-re...
AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse. www.wired.com/story/new-re...
AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse
A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.
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May 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse. www.wired.com/story/new-re...
AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse. www.wired.com/story/new-re...
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Some folks just thought it was trite when people warned if they come for the most marginalized, sooner or later they are coming for you.
gotta say I did not anticipate ICE goons going after the whitest possible immigrants with American families, jobs, and in good standing legally. a freaking Danish-born welder in Mississippi with four blonde kids and a pregnant wife. just omnidirectional hate
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
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May 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Some folks just thought it was trite when people warned if they come for the most marginalized, sooner or later they are coming for you.
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Bottom line:
This isn’t budget policy, it’s a power grab. It strips judges of their ability to enforce the law and gives government officials a green light to ignore court orders. It’s authoritarian by design and it’s buried in the fine print.
This isn’t budget policy, it’s a power grab. It strips judges of their ability to enforce the law and gives government officials a green light to ignore court orders. It’s authoritarian by design and it’s buried in the fine print.
May 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Bottom line:
This isn’t budget policy, it’s a power grab. It strips judges of their ability to enforce the law and gives government officials a green light to ignore court orders. It’s authoritarian by design and it’s buried in the fine print.
This isn’t budget policy, it’s a power grab. It strips judges of their ability to enforce the law and gives government officials a green light to ignore court orders. It’s authoritarian by design and it’s buried in the fine print.
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New, from me:
Quick explainer on why the Supreme Court (likely) decision to overturn Humphrey's Executor and move toward unitary executive theory will undermine any future efforts to rebuild state capacity.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-the-su...
Quick explainer on why the Supreme Court (likely) decision to overturn Humphrey's Executor and move toward unitary executive theory will undermine any future efforts to rebuild state capacity.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-the-su...
Why the Supreme Court decision on firing independent agency heads is a big deal
The demise of Humphrey's Executor and the rise of unitary executive theory
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
New, from me:
Quick explainer on why the Supreme Court (likely) decision to overturn Humphrey's Executor and move toward unitary executive theory will undermine any future efforts to rebuild state capacity.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-the-su...
Quick explainer on why the Supreme Court (likely) decision to overturn Humphrey's Executor and move toward unitary executive theory will undermine any future efforts to rebuild state capacity.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-the-su...
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🇺🇸🇰🇷 The Trump administration is weighing a withdrawal of 4,500 American troops from South Korea and move them to other locations in the Indo-Pacific region, - WSJ
🇺🇦 U.S. officials say a decision on troop levels won’t come until there is more clarity about the direction of the war in Ukraine.
🇺🇦 U.S. officials say a decision on troop levels won’t come until there is more clarity about the direction of the war in Ukraine.
May 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🇺🇸🇰🇷 The Trump administration is weighing a withdrawal of 4,500 American troops from South Korea and move them to other locations in the Indo-Pacific region, - WSJ
🇺🇦 U.S. officials say a decision on troop levels won’t come until there is more clarity about the direction of the war in Ukraine.
🇺🇦 U.S. officials say a decision on troop levels won’t come until there is more clarity about the direction of the war in Ukraine.
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Pretending people are MS13/TDA, shipping them to a gulag without any process, and it’s all part of a cover up of actual MS13 gang members. My god.
Per Jose Olivares on X, here is a likely quid for the CECOT pro quo. Trump is dropping criminal charges against multiple serious MS-13 leaders we are currently trying to prosecute.
Many of them are “inconvenient” to Bukele, as they previously admitted to working with him before the truce broke.
Many of them are “inconvenient” to Bukele, as they previously admitted to working with him before the truce broke.
May 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Pretending people are MS13/TDA, shipping them to a gulag without any process, and it’s all part of a cover up of actual MS13 gang members. My god.
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Buried in the tax bill: "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."
May 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Buried in the tax bill: "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."
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Really important (and awful) pro-Trump decision that isn't getting enough attention: Trump can fire members of govt boards that Congress said he can't.
The conservative justices are giving the logic of Bush v. Gore another shot
The Supreme Court Really Expects You to Take This Craven Horseshit Seriously
The conservative justices looked at the most embarrassing line in Bush v. Gore and thought, "Yeah, let’s do that again."
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Really important (and awful) pro-Trump decision that isn't getting enough attention: Trump can fire members of govt boards that Congress said he can't.
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Ten Sneaky Sleeper Provisions in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
Today on TAP: Yet more horrors are hidden in the fine print.
prospect.org
May 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Even worse than you thought prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
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History Matters: Memorial Day originally honored the Civil War dead, and now honors all service members and veterans who died while in service to the United States during peace and war. www.military.com/memorial-day
Memorial Day
Celebrate Memorial Day. Honor the fallen.
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May 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
History Matters: Memorial Day originally honored the Civil War dead, and now honors all service members and veterans who died while in service to the United States during peace and war. www.military.com/memorial-day
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Trump is taking a $400 million luxury jet bribe from Qatar while denying North Carolina $200 million in disaster relief funding.
May 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Trump is taking a $400 million luxury jet bribe from Qatar while denying North Carolina $200 million in disaster relief funding.
The House Judiciary Committee just voted to allow the President to deport U.S. citizens!!!!
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Republicans just voted to let Trump deport American citizens.
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May 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The House Judiciary Committee just voted to allow the President to deport U.S. citizens!!!!
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May 1, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation
Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation"
Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company
Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation"
Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company
Fortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant family
On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.
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April 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation
Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation"
Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company
Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation"
Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company
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I have waited my whole life, for this moment....
April 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I have waited my whole life, for this moment....
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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker
April 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker
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yo, protect this little
sister at ALL costs ✊🏽✨
sister at ALL costs ✊🏽✨
April 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
yo, protect this little
sister at ALL costs ✊🏽✨
sister at ALL costs ✊🏽✨