Tom Cotton Does Nothing as OPM Hack Equivalent Happens in Plain Sight

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emptywheel
It's time members of Congress tasked with overseeing national security, starting with Tom Cotton, start to show some interest in the databases impacting the entire country being accessed in insecure fashion.
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Stephen Miller Makes a Case to Defund or Deport Elon Musk

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emptywheel
Compared to Columbia, Elon Musk has been downright solicitous of antisemitism. As a government contractor and platform for government speech, that should make Xitter and Musk himself liable for action under Trump's Executive Orders purporting to combat antisemitism.
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Breathing Room: Giving and Giving Up

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Rayne
What are you doing this spring to reject and repel fascism? This is an open thread.
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Emil Bove Calls Resignation in Face of Unethical Order "Misconduct"

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emptywheel
In his response to Judge Dale Ho's questions about the scope of a judge's authority on a Rule 48(a) dismissal, Emil Bove engages in his own little Twitter Files game, presenting quotes from Danielle Sassoon and Hagan Scotten and making transparently false claims about what those quotes mean. And he does so while claiming their ethical decision to resign rather than do something unethical amounted to misconduct.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
We're making progress on DOGE! And 100 other things that happened this week.
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Attention Deficit and Defiance Division of Labor: There's Stuff Happening Where You're Not Looking

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emptywheel
Rather than a dearth of pushback against Trump's fascism, as many overly focused on the State of the Union complained, there was instead a flood of it this week. You just had to know where to look.
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DOGE: Department of Gawdawful Errors

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Rayne
What will it take before the spineless GOP congressional caucus, in thrall to the current administration, snaps out of its sleepwalking submission to Musk's Department of Gawdawful Errors?
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NOAA: The Biggest Little Agency in America

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Quinn Norton
What We are Quietly Losing in All the Tumult Last week the ghouls of DOGE came to gut NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) by firing all the probationary employees, because they were the easiest to fire. It was terrible, but…
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Trump's Article I Management

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emptywheel
Thus far, Trump is making a sustained attack on the United States and Republican Members of Congress are still easily bought off with tailored exemptions rather than policies that serve the common good. That may change, but thus far, Article I remains solidly and easily co-opted. 
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Sammy Alito Says Trump Doesn't Have to Pay Lockheed's Bills

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emptywheel
Predictably, Sammy Alito misrepresented the posture of the Global Health challenge when dissenting from the mere lifting of a stay of a Temporary Restraining order. While he oozed contempt, he didn't mention the government's own contempt.
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Conclusion To Series On Individuality

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Ed Walker
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
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Judge Dale Ho Had Emil Bove Authenticate His Letter to Danielle Sassoon

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emptywheel
When Judge Dale Ho first asked Emil Bove to address amicus briefs submitted in Mayor Adams' case, he wasn't asking about the amicus briefs themselves. Rather, he was getting Bove to authenticate the letter he sent Danielle Sassoon.
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The Erasure of January 6th Continues, US Mint Edition

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Peterr
While Trump and Vance went after Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office last Friday, reports emerged that the US Mint is the latest office to assist Trump in erasing Jan 6.
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Pete Marocco Keeps Trying to Prevent Bill Cassidy from Learning the Truth about USAID

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emptywheel
A memo written by an Acting Assistant Administrator of Global Health at USAID puts Senators who were placated by Rubio's past public reassurances about life-saving aide on notice: They were lying to you. And while they were lying to you, food and medicine was spoiling and people were dying.
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Russia Russia Russia

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emptywheel
Those expressing bewilderment about why Trump might be rushing to deliver Ukraine to Russia have somehow missed that Trump picked up right where such coordination halted in 2017 when the FBI caught wind.
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Five Ways Trump Is Sabotaging the United States

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emptywheel
Given all the other ways Trump has capitulated to Vladimir Putin, we can't rule out that the damage DOGE is doing to the US government is intentional sabotage.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
This was an odd podcast, because Nicole and I went back and opened live to talk about Trump's ambush of Zelenskyy. I'll say more in coming days. One thing I think is super important is that the SEC is moving to settle with Justin Sun,…
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Four Years and Five Weeks

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Peterr
First it was Macron, then Starmer, and now Zelenskyy. Yes, today's Oval Office meeting was about Ukraine, but it was much more than that.
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Russ Vought Got His Trauma -- But Not the Villains He Imagined

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emptywheel
Russ Vought set out to make people like Ryleigh Cooper villains. Thus far, firings of government workers around the country have instead made the functions of government visible, and cherished.
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