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This is the real game: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is the real game: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
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The left should be making Russ Vought own this 24/7 in very simple language: Vought is making it easier for scammers to target you and your grandma.
Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
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May 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The left should be making Russ Vought own this 24/7 in very simple language: Vought is making it easier for scammers to target you and your grandma.
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Amazing on-the-ground reporting from Gambia.
Trump State Dept. Leaned on African Nations to Help Musk’s Starlink. “Maximum pressure” @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @justinelliott.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social and Brett Murphy
Trump State Dept. Leaned on African Nations to Help Musk’s Starlink. “Maximum pressure” @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @justinelliott.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social and Brett Murphy
The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...
www.propublica.org
May 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Amazing on-the-ground reporting from Gambia.
Trump State Dept. Leaned on African Nations to Help Musk’s Starlink. “Maximum pressure” @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @justinelliott.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social and Brett Murphy
Trump State Dept. Leaned on African Nations to Help Musk’s Starlink. “Maximum pressure” @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @justinelliott.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social and Brett Murphy
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It was never about birthright citizenship, this is about limiting the power of the courts
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...
May 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
It was never about birthright citizenship, this is about limiting the power of the courts
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...
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I don't know what this means, but I'm the one who wrote a fully updated, 624-page hurricane response plan at FEMA that took over 2 years of work and careful coordination among state and federal agencies. He could start by studying that.
Breaking WSJ:
The newly appointed head of FEMA acknowledged in private meetings that with two weeks to go until hurricane season, the agency doesn't yet have a fully formed disaster-response plan. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The newly appointed head of FEMA acknowledged in private meetings that with two weeks to go until hurricane season, the agency doesn't yet have a fully formed disaster-response plan. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I don't know what this means, but I'm the one who wrote a fully updated, 624-page hurricane response plan at FEMA that took over 2 years of work and careful coordination among state and federal agencies. He could start by studying that.
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from @propublica.org: State Department officials campaigned to force Gambia to license Starlink, even threatening to cancel development projects.
US diplomats now work on behalf of Elon Musk?
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
US diplomats now work on behalf of Elon Musk?
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...
www.propublica.org
May 16, 2025 at 4:32 AM
from @propublica.org: State Department officials campaigned to force Gambia to license Starlink, even threatening to cancel development projects.
US diplomats now work on behalf of Elon Musk?
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
US diplomats now work on behalf of Elon Musk?
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Is it too soon to begin discussing all the members of the Trump regime who should be held criminally liable once the Republicans have been removed from power?
May 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Is it too soon to begin discussing all the members of the Trump regime who should be held criminally liable once the Republicans have been removed from power?
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"Under the annual appropriations act, lawmakers are permitted to enter 'any facility operated by or for DHS used to detain or otherwise house aliens.'
The law is clear that members of Congress are not required 'to provide prior notice of intent to enter a facility'..."
www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...
The law is clear that members of Congress are not required 'to provide prior notice of intent to enter a facility'..."
www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...
Homeland Security Dept. accuses lawmakers of ‘storming’ an ICE facility despite oversight laws saying they could be there | CNN Politics
The battle over immigration came to a dramatic head Friday afternoon when Democratic lawmakers faced off with Homeland Security Department officers as they tried to visit a Newark, New Jersey Immigrat...
www.cnn.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"Under the annual appropriations act, lawmakers are permitted to enter 'any facility operated by or for DHS used to detain or otherwise house aliens.'
The law is clear that members of Congress are not required 'to provide prior notice of intent to enter a facility'..."
www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...
The law is clear that members of Congress are not required 'to provide prior notice of intent to enter a facility'..."
www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...
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I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.
May 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.
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Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.
May 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS the Trump administration’s unlawful reorganization of the federal government. Congratulations to @democracyforward.org, their co-counsel and clients on their amazing work in securing this victory.
May 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS the Trump administration’s unlawful reorganization of the federal government. Congratulations to @democracyforward.org, their co-counsel and clients on their amazing work in securing this victory.
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BREAKING: Federal judge issues a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from implementing widespread RIFs and other efforts to dismantle wide swaths of the federal government for the next two weeks, during which time a preliminary injunction motion can be briefed and argued.
![UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
V.
DONALD J. TRUMP, et al.,
Defendants.
Case No. 25-cv-03698-SI
ORDER GRANTING TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND COMPELLING CERTAIN
DISCOVERY PRODUCTION
Re: Dkt. No. 37
The new presidential administration has made clear that it intends to change the way the federal government operates.
An Executive Order issued on February 11, 2025 seeks to
"commence[] a critical transformation of the Federal bureaucracy" by "eliminating waste, bloat, and insularityLl Exec. Order No. 14210, 90 Fed. Reg. 9,669 (Feb. 11, 2025). It is the prerogative of presidents to pursue new policy priorities and to imprint their stamp on the federal government. But
to make large-scale overhauls of federal agencies, any president must enlist the help of his co-equal branch and partner, the Congress. Federal courts should not micromanage the vast federal workforce, but courts must sometimes act to preserve the proper checks and balances between the
three branches of government. As a group of conservative former government officials and advisors have written to the Court, "Unchecked presidential power is not what the Framers had in mind." Dkt. No. 69-1 at 1.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreigrp7xgivvh7aatvnkentbh56gczjxkd57cpghqb64xhtp2bqfgbq@jpeg)
May 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
BREAKING: Federal judge issues a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from implementing widespread RIFs and other efforts to dismantle wide swaths of the federal government for the next two weeks, during which time a preliminary injunction motion can be briefed and argued.
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Judge says Trump can’t dismantle federal government without Congress. This is what our system of checks and balances is all about.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Plans for Mass Layoffs and Program Closures
An emergency ruling by a federal judge in California amounted to the broadest effort yet to halt the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal government.
www.nytimes.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Judge says Trump can’t dismantle federal government without Congress. This is what our system of checks and balances is all about.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
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He just doesn’t care…
Trump has sat for only 12 ‘daily’ intelligence briefings since taking office
The scarcity of the President’s Daily Briefings comes as he pursues high-stakes diplomacy with America’s friends and foes.
www.politico.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:41 AM
He just doesn’t care…
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My uncle Dude shot down by Nazis over the English Channel December 1942. He was antifa
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
My uncle Dude shot down by Nazis over the English Channel December 1942. He was antifa
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I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.
An international trucking logistics firm is buying as much as *** $20 MILLION *** worth of President Donald Trump’s crypto coins to influence the administration’s trade policy.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Company Boasts Spending Up To $20 Million On Trump Crypto Coin To Buy Influence
The arrangement puts money in Trump’s pocket in return for the opportunity to change policy — exactly the sort of pay-to-play scheme critics warned about.
www.huffpost.com
May 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.
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