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Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.

A federal appeals court ruled that teams linked to the DOGE can access sensitive information on millions of Americans. The 2–1 decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturns a lower court’s February order blocking that access.

Alarms sounded in the cockpit of a Southwest Airlines jet shortly after taking off from Hollywood Burbank airport near Los Angeles, prompting evasive maneuvers, the airline said in a statement. Read more: cnn.it/3H0RCyT

Birds of a feather always flock together

We’ve uncovered fraud, waste, and abuse! ICE has now exceeded its congressionally approved budget. ICE is violating the Antideficiency Act by spending beyond Congressional authorization.

Inside Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”: Judicial Silencing (Sec. 80121(h)). This might be the most authoritarian section in the entire 1,100+ page bill.

Trumpty-Dumpty is defunding PBS. What he calls "bias" some of us call "facts Trumpty-Dumpty doesn't like."

BREAKING: A Haitian woman has died in ICE custody, the Federal Election Commission has been rendered effectively inoperable, the United States pushed El Salvador to return Abrego Garcia, and more. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

BREAKING: ICE raided the home of U.S. citizens leaving them traumatized, Amazon caved to Donald Trump after Trump called Bezos, Adidas is raising prices because of tariffs, and the markets continue to fall. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

According to Kash Patel’s own financial disclosure statement, he pocketed $25,000 from a production company operated by a filmmaker associated with a Kremlin-subsidized propaganda project, a pro-Putin oligarch, and a pro-Kremlin disinformation agent. @davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio believes it is “too late” to combat the economic fallout of Trump’s tariffs and says the world economic order, with the US at the center, is breaking down.

The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products.

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.

Keep your cards close to your chest.

This is illegal: Musk announced in an overnight post on X that he’ll hand out million-dollar checks at a Sunday night event in Wisconsin—but only to those who voted in the state’s Supreme Court election. Why is Elon so invested in this race? Tesla is facing legal challenges in Wisconsin.

Lawmakers from both parties teamed up to force a House vote on a measure allowing new parents to vote by proxy for 12 weeks, but House Speaker Mike Johnson opposes it on Constitutional grounds.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

This one will always make me laugh...

My friend is running for Congress because we need a new generation of leaders. You should support him.

That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history! Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.

"We are paralyzed": Current and former IRS officials describe an atmosphere of intimidation inside DOGE's takeover of America's tax collection agency cnn.it/4kwHWLy

The Trump administration replaced the top lawyer at the IRS in a shake-up that coincided with efforts by officials to access taxpayer data for immigration enforcement. The chief counsel position is one of the highest-ranking roles at the IRS and one of only two that require Senate confirmation.

Trump just asked the Supreme Court to curb “nationwide injunctions” — a key tool that lower-court judges have used to block many aspects of his agenda.

Column: The likelihood of a government shutdown hasn’t abated — it might actually have increased. And this time, it’s Democrats who are itching for a fight, writes our Capitol Hill bureau chief Rachael Bade.

Warren Buffett, the famed investor who runs the sprawling conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, described tariffs as “an act of war” in an interview with CBS.

People are saying that Russia is winning, and Putin is now on the inside.

Within the span of 90 minutes on Tuesday morning, two airplanes, at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport and at Chicago’s Midway International Airport, were forced to abort landings to avoid collisions, federal aviation officials said.

Trump threatened to sue journalists, authors, and book publishers who use anonymous sources. Granting certain sources anonymity is a common journalistic practice, especially when sources fear retribution.

BREAKING: Elon Musk Causes Panic For Federal Employees. I need your help to spread this everywhere because if people don't read Elon's Twitter, they may not be aware. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

Do this. Say this. 👇🏻

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

Staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were instructed by email to cease much of their work. Bessent, a wealthy Wall Street investor, replaces Rohit Chopra, who was fired on Saturday.

An Elon Musk staffer misused the U.S. Marshals Service by falsely invoking their authority to intimidate. USAID security personnel were threatened with action by the federal Marshals Service.

There's no such thing as a typical arsonist; anybody and everybody commits arson for a slew of different reasons, a former arson investigator said. Psychologists point to some common characteristics. Yet motives are often multiple and can be slippery to pin down.

One of President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders has reignited a debate over the future of Alaska’s vast wilderness and resources, sparking deep concern among some environmental groups and Indigenous communities.

Many seniors who left their homes in the Pacific Palisades area evacuated to emergency shelters. Now they're trying to navigate life without their belongings.

Questions to ask yourself … to be healthier this year

U.S. wildlife officials proposed on Tuesday that monarch butterflies receive protection as a threatened species.

I have finally mastered meditation – with the help of my tiny new puppy | Joel Snape

Dick Van Dyke is the focus of Coldplay’s latest music video, “All My Love.” In a clip, Van Dyke sings, dances barefoot and offers meditations on aging, family and love. A shorter version of the video will be released Dec. 13 on Van Dyke’s 99th birthday.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “As the drama played out in South Korea, my phone lit up with a question,” writes columnist David French, “can this happen here? Can an American president — or any other American leader — create a similar political emergency?” nyti.ms/3OEXPk3

Pantone is anticipating a 💩 2025…no shit!

Eating at least five tiny servings of dark chocolate each week may lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 21%, according to a new observational study. In fact, as dark chocolate consumption increased from none to five servings, so did the benefits, the study found.

Happy Thursday!

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