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NEW: Appeals court rejects DOJ’s request for quick action in California voting case.
On a 2-1 vote, the Ninth Circuit held that it had no jurisdiction to hear the appeal now. Instead, a previously set TRO hearing at the district court should proceed on Tuesday.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
This isn’t in our “national interest.”
It doesn’t lower our prices or create opportunities for Americans —
It just actively emboldens Putin in his illegal and immoral war against Ukraine. Enough.
If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
Two extraordinary stories today alleging fresh corruption in Trump's ranks. On the very day Rubio, at the Acropolis, sought to kick-start his presidential campaign, the US Ambassador to Greece is in deep manure.... 1/2
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🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO.
Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus.
The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking.
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Trump: "We're gonna be signing a document today renaming artificial intelligence, because it's not artificial. We're gonna be naming it Super Intelligence. Officially renaming it."
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Why even show video at all? I don’t want to see him or hear his lies and screeds verbatim, anyway. Journalists should only quote legitimate sources they have vetted outside of the WH press office. Report on his *actions* but shun his entire BS media demands.
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There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.
I know there’s a savvy take that being attached to the east wing or the kennedy center is a sort of west wing lame-o attachment to the symbols of power and on the other hand
he fucking bulldozed our collective property
we have immigrant concentration camps, diarrhea lettuce, zillion dollar gas, suicidal soldiers, measles resurgence, national park land sold to the highest bidder and teachers crowdfunding school supplies, but the real problems facing our country are a muslim senate candidate and an influencer
Dr Oz: "If we could just get the average American to feel so healthy, so with it, so vibrant that they want to work just one extra year, that's worth $1 trillion to our GDP every year"
BREAKING: The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, is allowing Trump’s White House ballroom construction to continue.
The majority says the National Trust likely lacks standing to sue.
Chief Justice John Roberts broke with the Court’s conservatives, joining all three Democratic appointees in dissent.
Donald Trump "renamed" Lake Ontario "Lake America" while he sinks further in the polls. Hunter Walker says there's a "giant gulf between Sharpies on a map and affordability. The man doesn't care about anything real or anything that connects with human beings."
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These Canadian 🇨🇦 sandwich cookies are shaped like a maple leaf 🍁and have a maple-flavored cream filling. Made with real maple syrup, no artificial colors or flavors, and no preservatives. I love 💕 them!
For the first time since World War II, the country’s debt is actually larger than the economy itself. Driven by surging federal spending, the government has already borrowed almost $2 trillion in fiscal year 2026 and is on track to borrow even more before the year is over.
Tales of everyday corruption.
Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned.
Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
Any Senator who votes to confirm Todd Blanche is also siding with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell – and is actively participating in covering-up their numerous and heinous crimes.