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Rachel Maddow
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"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..." www.propublica.org/article/elon...

propublica.orgHow Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From ChinaAs a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is c...

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Laurence H. Tribe
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“If, during the Cold War, the government funded universities as a way of strengthening America, Mr. Trump’s second administration treats them as a threat to be dismantled.” We must resist this deadly attack on the very foundations of free thought and open inquiry. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

nytimes.comOpinion | The View Inside Trump’s Assault on UniversitiesThe Trump administration’s attacks on universities will lead to the permanent diminishment of vital American institutions.

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Chris Hayes
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They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.

Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social

If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.

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Laurence H. Tribe
@tribelaw.bsky.social

Elon Musk just shared a post that said public sector workers, not Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, murdered millions of people, marking the billionaire’s latest Nazi-related post as he and his electric vehicle company face continued backlash and boycotts. Ghastly, right? www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

forbes.comMusk Retweets ‘Hitler Didn’t Murder Millions’ Message Amid Ongoing Nazi ControversyMusk and Tesla have faced heightened criticism since the billionaire made a gesture likened to a Nazi salute during an inaugural event in January.

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Rachel Maddow
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Their job is to **identify American soldiers** killed in combat and Trump has told them to stand down and stop their work. "Forensic genealogists who help identify U.S. soldiers killed in combat were told to pause their efforts..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

washingtonpost.comDOGE’s $1 spending card limit touches everything from military research to trash pickupThe crackdown on routine expenses is part of a campaign by the president and Elon Musk to reset the scope and mission of America’s sprawling bureaucracy.

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Laurence H. Tribe
@tribelaw.bsky.social

Trump’s murderous freezing of aid that Congress enacted a law to send to Ukraine unconstitutionally usurps the power of the purse, violates the 1974 Impoundment Act, and is an impeachable “high crime and misdemeanor” akin to the extortion for which the Senate should have convicted Trump in 2020.

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Laurence H. Tribe
@tribelaw.bsky.social

Trump 45’s VP Pence posted: “Mr. President, Ukraine did not ‘start’ this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.”

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Elizabeth Warren
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are messing with your Medicare benefits. Democrats passed a law to finally let Medicare negotiate with Big Pharma for lower prices. Now Trump and Musk laid off the negotiators. That means higher drug costs for you. Nothing efficient about that.

huffpost.comHealth Workers Think DOGE Is About To Backfire, Big-TimeMass layoffs have hit departments whose literal purpose is to save money or improve health outcomes.

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Rachel Maddow
@maddow.bsky.social

"if Musk’s team has been granted security clearances, as the White House insists, it would most likely be with minimal to no vetting, a process that usually takes months..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

nytimes.comMusk Team’s Treasury Access Raises Security Fears, Despite Judge’s Ordered HaltA judge ruled Saturday that the activities of Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting effort risk “the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information” and render them “more vulnerable than before to...

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Rachel Maddow
@maddow.bsky.social

"A letter submitted to the Senate sent by 'physicians' in support of Kennedy's nomination includes names of doctors who have had their licenses revoked, suspended or faced other discipline, the AP has found..." www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

huffpost.comDoctors Whose Licenses Were Revoked, Suspended Named In Pro-RFK Jr. Letter To SenateThe letter was meant to lend credibility to Kennedy’s nomination, which has faced strenuous opposition from experts due to his decades of anti-vaccine activism.

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