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Michael VanDeMar
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Four legal setbacks for the Trump Administration from yesterday.
1. Voice of America: A federal judge issued a restraining order to stop further efforts to silence VOA journalists, pushing back on Trump’s attempts to control U.S.-funded international media.
March 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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On Monday, USAID's IG warned that Trump's agency cuts have made it harder to root out fraud and abuse — and that nearly $500M in food was about to spoil due to Trump's foreign aid freeze.

On Tuesday, Trump fired him.

So much for transparency.
USAID IG fired day after report critical of impacts of Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency | CNN Politics
The inspector general of the US Agency for International Development was fired on Tuesday, a day after his office released a report critical of the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
www.cnn.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
February 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington says she's concerned that the White House is still implementing the spending freeze that she and a Rhode Island judge have ordered temporarily halted.

Judge AliKhan is inclined to issue a restraining order.
February 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).
February 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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For all those asking, YES, there will be an episode of the @dailybeanspod.bsky.social tomorrow and NO, we won’t be covering the inauguration. We WILL be covering all the important news that corporate media ignores. link.chtbl.com/TheDailyBeans
The Daily Beans
The Daily Beans is a women-owned and operated progressive news podcast for your morning commute brought to you by the Webby award-winning host of Mueller, She Wrote, Allison Gill, and comedian/fund-ra...
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January 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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The white paper Hunter's attorneys released has a bit more detail on how the local state trooper worked with the gun shop to release the gun form in advance of the 2020 election.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
On top of the unprecedented felony charges against Hunter, law enforcement officials and prosecutors ignored a plethora of unrelated misconduct by others involved in this situation. The individual who took and threw away the gun was given immunity for that reckless conduct so long as she testified about Hunter’s drug use; the man who fished the gun out of the trash and took it home, where he had another gun he said he was holding for someone “in trouble,” was ignored; the shop owner from whom Hunter purchased the gun and who doctored the federal firearms form about the purchase (and later submitted it to ATF) was given a pass; and *the Delaware state trooper who colluded with the shop owner to leak the doctored form to make it a 2020 campaign issue was also left alone.* And yet three felony counts were brought against Hunter, despite the fact that law enforcement authorities in 2018 called Hunter the “victim” of a crime and declined to pursue any charges then. Notable among the anomalies and misconduct that went unaddressed by prosecutors, when the government produced discovery to Hunter as part of the Delaware trial, the Special Counsel produced two different versions of the federal gun form Hunter signed in October 2018—one that contained one version of identification (Hunter’s U.S. passport) and a second, different version that contained two forms of identification (the passport and a supplemental form of identification allegedly provided: a Delaware “vehicle registration” at line 18.b). As discovery would show, the ATF form that was the basis for two of the charges against Hunter had been altered after the fact by the gun shop owner who sold him the revolver, and the Special Counsel succeeded in keeping this fact from the jury in Hunter’s trial.
December 2, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Elon Musk’s pay package from Tesla, worth more than $50 billion, cannot be reinstated, a Delaware judge ordered. The judge said she would not reverse her decision to strike down the enormous compensation package, which helped make Musk the richest person in the world. nyti.ms/4gfDcGX
Elon Musk reaches into a pocket of his black suit jacket while walking outside. Headline reads: "Elon Musk’s $50 Billion Tesla Pay Can’t Be Reinstated, Delaware Judge Rules." Photo credit: Johnathan Ernst/Reuters.
December 3, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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Libs Of TikTok has been banned on Bluesky
December 2, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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“Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault as part of a nondisclosure agreement….”,

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Defense pick Hegseth paid accuser but denies sexual assault, attorney says
Documents obtained by The Post provide extensive detail about an allegation that Pete Hegseth sexually assaulted a woman in 2017.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2024 at 1:03 AM