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National Park Visitors Are Not Impressed With Trump's Revisionism

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Peterr
Trump wants to rewrite American history, and Doug Burgum wants the public to help. The National Park-going public is having none of it.
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Gavin Newsom's Troll Wars as a Check against "Usurpation or Wanton Tyranny"

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emptywheel
Gavin Newsom's legal challenge to Donald Trump's invasion of California has gotten most of the press attention. But he has also been waging a pretty funny trolling challenge as well.
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The Golden Teapot Dome: Mark Kelly Warns "This Is a Very Hard Physics Problem"

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emptywheel
The newest spectacular failure of SpaceX raises the stakes on an exchange between Mark Kelly and Pete Hegseth yesterday. Kelly described, first, that the physics that Trump's planned Golden Dome would require are nearly impossible to pull off. And then he observed that Hegseth just fired the people who would have demonstrated the physics were impossible.
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Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions

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Rayne
The Supreme Court's term ends this month; the court will release a number of key decisions between now and the end of the month. Here's an open thread to discuss decisions released today.
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Remember when Brad Lander Caught Kristi Noem Stealing $80 Million?

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emptywheel
Brad Lander's role in suing Kristi Noem for stealing $80 million from New York City means his arrest bears three similarities to that of Ras Baraka: both sued DHS, both were arrested before an election, and Noem's goons premeditated both arrests.
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Why Kristi Noem's Kidnapping of Brad Lander Failed ... Thus Far

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emptywheel
Yesterday, Kristi Noem's goons detained but did not charge New York Comptroller Brad Lander. They didn't succeed because of the law, solidarity, and independent media.
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Kristi Noem's Goons Engage in what Emil Bove Calls Election Interference

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emptywheel
By Emil Bove's standards, Kristi Noem's goons just engaged in election interference.
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Trump's Blank Page

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emptywheel
Blank page. Flubbed lines. Fumbled prop. Repeated assurances of deals that never come. The entire press conference was a testament to the way in which the aging reality star has become little but.
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Trump Chose to Hunt Law-Abiding Migrants Rather than Right Wing Terrorists Like Vance Boelter.

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emptywheel
Stephen Miller and Donald Trump have made a choice: To hunt law-abiding migrants rather than the Trump supporters gunning down Democrats in their homes. 
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WSJ Memory Holes Trump's Near-Assassination of His Vice President

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emptywheel
WSJ seems to have forgotten about January 6 and the WaPo and NYT have forgotten about Trump's role in it.
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"The Answer Is Zero:" When Fragile White Supremacists Discover ... They Aren't

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emptywheel
Because Pete Hegseth cannot admit who he is -- and more importantly, that he is not superior or even competent -- he is demanding that the men and women who serve under him be something they are not.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
Gavin Newsom is honing in on my beat calling out Stephen Miller's world class hatred.
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LaMonica McIver and Schrödinger's Baraka

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emptywheel
It is highly likely that Alina Habba's Special Prosecutions AUSA only succeeded in getting an indictment targeting LaMonica McIver by keeping crucial details -- such as who owns Delaney Hall or that McIver actually did inspect the facility, after she allegedly assaulted the guys who let her in to do that inspection -- from the grand jury.
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Three Data Points from the Padilla Assault

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emptywheel
The meaning of the assault, by Kristi Noem staffers, of Senator Padilla remains very much contested. But that contest is taking place amid a much bigger batter between Gavin Newsom and Donald Trump.
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Ahead of No Kings Day, the King's Nobles are Getting Nervous

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Peterr
MO Governor Kehoe has activated the state's National Guard, which sure sounds like he is really nervous about this weekend's protests. Not just in big blue areas like Kansas City and St. Louis, but also in deep red places like southwest Missouri.
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Snake Guys: Trump's Invasion of California Risks a Literal Firestorm in California [Updated]

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emptywheel
In January, Trump claimed that California has so many forest fires because they don't sweep their forests. By federalizing the California National Guard, Trump depleted a third of the teams that mitigate and fight wildfires full time, even as a wildfire grows in San Bernardino.
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Pam Bondi's Four Political Prosecutions

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emptywheel
Each time Pam Bondi's DOJ charges a prominent Democrat, they allegedly violate DOJ media guidelines.
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Banging on a Gate: Pam Bondi Found a Cyber Investigator Who Doesn't Check Phone Logs!

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emptywheel
Pam Bondi's DOJ first assaulted and injured, then charged, a very important labor leader, CA SEIU President David Huerta, with a conspiracy the evidence for which they didn't even bother to look for. Yet.
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