TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS
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Not to put too fine a point on this, but on scientific matters, the president is about as reliable a source as a Magic 8 ball.
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Peter Navarro said the White House will “put a little heat” on Jordan, but the temperature isn’t the problem. Reality is.
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Peter Navarro said the White House will “put a little heat” on Jordan, but the temperature isn’t the problem. Reality is.
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Truth Social is rapidly losing monthly visitors, but the news is not all bad for the president’s troubled venture.
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Truth Social is rapidly losing monthly visitors, but the news is not all bad for the president’s troubled venture.
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As one lawyer put it, choosing Emil Bove was “a deliberate middle finger” to those worried the DOJ has become “a tool of the president’s wrath.”
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As one lawyer put it, choosing Emil Bove was “a deliberate middle finger” to those worried the DOJ has become “a tool of the president’s wrath.”
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WHAT'S ON RACHEL'S BLUESKY RADAR?
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- "The report did not contain a section on Trump’s personal ties to Russia and whether he was compromised or represented a counterintelligence threat.
"He acknowledged that he had not examined whether Russian oligarchs had laundered money through Trump’s businesses..."
(New York Times)
- "As word spread that a U.S. citizen had been detained, demonstrators gathered outside the federal building calling for her release..."
(WAVY)
- Protesters speak out against Delaney Hall ICE ‘dungeon’ a week after detainee death
(NJ.com)
- "Judge Biery's courthouse typically gets 1500 civil lawsuits a year. This year, they hit 4000 by May — a deluge driven by the thousands of people locked up under a novel legal theory that even Trump’s first administration declined to adopt..."
‘We’ve never seen anything like this’: ICE’s detention crackdown swamps the courts
(Politico)
- “'Prepare yourself to speak on your behalf,' the judge told 7-year old Moises in a soft but stern tone...”
The Trump administration is making it harder for children to secure pro bono lawyers to represent them in deportation proceedings.
(Politico)
- "A Justice Department memo published this week says President Donald Trump’s private advisers may claim executive privilege when asked to hand over their communications, a move that would greatly expand the historical protections upheld by the Supreme Court in multiple rulings."
(NOTUS)
- DOGE said it saved $1.7 billion by terminating a military health IT contract. GAO found the contract was never terminated.
(Military Times)
- New Evidence Shows Agents Using Slurs, Bolstering Profiling Claims — Body-camera video and other court evidence capture federal agents using slurs and targeting Latinos while bypassing white bystanders during immigration sweeps in Chicago and Los Angeles
(New York Times)
- The U.S. Spent $2.2 Billion on Immigration Detention Centers, With More to Go — CoreCivic and the Geo Group are finding it more lucrative to let the federal government be the landlord.
(NOTUS)
- "America's two largest private prison companies, CoreCivic and GEO Group, are reporting a combined $1.4 billion in quarterly revenue over the spring as immigration detention closes in on record levels."
(NPR)
- "An anti-sex-trafficking nonprofit in Utah whose founder resigned after multiple women accused him of trafficking and sexual abuse has won a federal contract to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children in government custody."
(The American Prospect)
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