This got me- Ben Terris' NY Mag profile of "Top Goon" Kristi Noem quotes the 28-year-old Noem made Deputy Director of ICE saying:

“I absolutely think I’m qualified for the job,” she told me. “Because at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job?”
nymag.com/intelligence...

Just checking back in to see where we stand on this @bostonglobe.com fake front page from pre-election 2016

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

Direct File, a prime example of making government more efficient, gave Americans an easy and free option to file their taxes.

But Donald Trump cares more about his wealthy friends than working Americans so he wants to kill the program and make filing taxes harder.
apnews.com/article/irs-...

Mohsen Mahdawi, legal US resident, was just arrested during a citizenship interview. He had been publicly targeted by far-right pro-Israel groups for months.

*A federal judge quickly issued a temporary restraining order preventing Mahdawi's removal from Vermont.*

www.huffpost.com/entry/mohsen...

In this post, I commend universities that filed amicus brief in AAUP case challenging speech-based deportations of foreign students, but also explain why this isn't adequate substitute for universities bringing a case of their own: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Twitter/X has just about 7.3 million users over 50 years old. There are 122 million Americans over 50.
bsky.app/profile/wire...

We can upload 3 minute videos now.

YOU KNOW THE RULE

@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling.

It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.

Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

This is wild
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4y...

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