"It should not need to be said, but to say it anyway: if foundational constitutional rights can be unilaterally suspended by the government, with no trial or even formal documentation of so-called wrongdoing, those rights do not actually exist for anyone."

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Link: www.commondreams.org/opinion/khal...

UPDATE: Bird flu continues to spread among animals, especially poultry. Over 1,800 additional cases were confirmed by the CDC in the past week

UPDATE: 18 states are now suffering from measles after Michigan, Kansas, and Ohio confirmed their first cases last week

ICE is not accounting for the whereabouts of dozens of detainees from New Mexico

What does the Clean Air Act actually do?

In short, it keeps car companies, power plants, and other polluters from poisoning your communities, families, homes, and kids.

Polluters and their Republican allies want to change that.

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Our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social detail all the ways that Trump and the Republicans are going after the Clean Air Act, which makes it so our cities are covered in smog and we don't choke from merely walking outside our houses.
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If you want to understand what the Trump administration is doing, look to Texas and its pay-to-pollute system put in by rich oil and gas execs. From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:
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“This is the Texas playbook working as designed; give corporations free rein—protected by their bought political allies—to hurt the public, and then make the public pay for the privilege of the pain.” NEW: our
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Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it.

It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.

I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

Who bought the presidency?

Frackers, for one. With confirmation hearings next week for the energy nominees set to enact one of Trump's major priorities—polluting the planet—our newsletter takes a look at some billionaire CEOs behind this agenda.
revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/who-bought...

The VA has been failing to protect veterans from the abuses of contractors for years, with little, or no accountability

Nothing is more exemplary of this failure than the long-standing dialysis disaster at the department. Vets deserve better @toni-v-aguilar.bsky.social for @theprospect.bsky.social

FOIA documents reviewed by @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social find dozens of allegations of over-frequency of treatment, and retribution from staff in the VA's program for dialysis treatment, which is almost entirely contracted out to two companies, Fresenius and DaVita.
prospect.org/health/2024-...

Who might staff Trump Justice 2.0? The same people who did before

Trump DOJ alum have spent the last 4 years endeavoring to make your life harder&worse and may soon have federal platform to do so...again

A who’s who of what might be to come from
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Meet the terrifying line of shock troops likely to make up the new Trump DOJ. slate.com/news-and-pol... via my colleague @toni-v-aguilar.bsky.social