Hegseth: (entering Pentagon) Yo check out what I found in the parking lot. Free USB stick!

Civil fines my man

Jesus

What is the federal government doing?

No wonder tech voted for Trump; this case is ridiculous

It's just very very hard to litigate against a party that is not acting in good faith and doesn't care about the penalties the courts have to offer.

there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words

It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers *how* lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem.

You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.

I know it's repulsive to the Texan ethos, but I like the formality

She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.

One of the pillars of American power is that the most ambitious and brilliant researchers on the planet come to our universities to learn and advance knowledge that drives our economy. Trump sent his goons after one who fled Russia's fascism. Many will leave.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

Jesus

The Many Ways Kennedy Is Already Undermining Vaccines The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public health good.

As health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the agencies he leads have taken far-reaching steps to undermine confidence in vaccine efficacy and safety.

Amen

Trump v. Anderson is going into my personal anti-canon, if not everyone else’s. What a terrible, terrible, mistake.

White House Takes Highly Unusual Step of Directly Firing Line Prosecutors (Gift Article) Two prosecutors were dismissed out of the blue, notified by a terse one-sentence email stating no reason for the move other than that it was on behalf of the president himself.

The White House has fired a *second* career prosecutor in addition to the one atop this thread.

Reagan Fondren was acting U.S. Attorney for the Western Dist. of Tenn. Instead of just removing her from that role (which is common) they fired her from her career job.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...

Trump went on 24-hour white-collar crime amnesty spree — in addition to the firing I posted above, he

💥pardoned major GOP donor Trevor Milton
www.axios.com/2025/03/28/t...

💥commuted sentence of OZY fraudster Carlos Watson
apnews.com/article/trum...

💥pardoned co-founders of BitMEX crypto exchange

The IRS unit that audits billionaires has lost 38% of its employees since January, new data shows - ICIJ As Donald Trump and Elon Musk take a chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy, the cuts at the IRS may be especially good news for America’s wealthiest taxpayers.

The IRS unit that audits billionaires lost 38 percent of its employees in DOGE cuts — a far higher loss rate than the IRS as a whole: icij.org/news/2025/03...
@icij.org

Trump Is Going After the Independence of the Entire Legal Profession, Not Just Big Law A new presidential memo is meant to instill fear in any firm that dares to represent his political adversaries

Just out: @theunpopulist.net has published my adapted and expanded piece on how the whole legal profession, not just BigLaw, is now under threat from what I call Trump’s spite orders. If he succeeds, more lawyers will be fearful of retaliation should they defend your rights against the government.

In wake of federal funding cuts, Johns Hopkins scales back USAID-supported work around the globe Recent cancellation of federally funded grants results in significant changes for the university's global health activities

For all the attention on Columbia rn, it feels like this story hasn’t gotten nearly the attention it deserves: Musk/Trump cutting $800 MM from Johns Hopkins — leafing to 2,000 layoffs and termination of programs to stop TB, malaria, diarrhea and other deadly diseases

hub.jhu.edu/2025/03/14/j...

The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that were being used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health services, addiction treatment, and other urgent health issues…

Brilliant writing by George Case for @quillette.bsky.social
quillette.com/2025/03/25/d...

Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.

"It’s not clear how or why Geier, who is not a physician and has an undergraduate degree from the Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore County, was chosen...

"He was disciplined by Maryland regulators over a decade ago for practicing medicine without a license...

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Yesterday, the Trump admin (legally) instituted a 9% cut to international narcotics control & law enforcement - and because of how far we are in the fiscal year, it operates like an immediate 16% cut.

Wild stuff from the man who says he wants to raise costs on Canadian goods “because of fentanyl.”

Yes, it was me.

We are talking about a level of ideological cocooning where me trying to help a frontline Democratic Party senator win elections is evidence that I am an evil rightwinger.

For Some Measles Patients, Vitamin A Remedy Supported by RFK Jr. Leaves Them More Ill After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection.

“Physicians at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they’ve now treated a handful of children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage.
Some of them had received unsafe doses of supplements for several weeks in an attempt to prevent a measles infection”

Ukraine Was Just Knifed In The Back And The Ukrainians Know It

phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/ukraine-wa...

Ukraine was just knifed in the back

Stuffing America’s retirement plans with illiquid levered shitcos that private equity firms can’t find exit liquidity for, what could go wrong

Social Security official ended program for Maine newborns because he was ‘ticked’ at Mills U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said the rationale given by Lee Dudek, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, is 'infuriating and absurd.'

This isn't how gov't is supposed to work: The acting commissioner of Social Security admitted “I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president,” so I ended a program in Maine. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/25/s...

Truly deranged to give your kids liver damage with toxic doses of vitamin A rather than simply give them a safe and time-tested vaccine against the disease they’re trying to avoid

Opinion | The real scandal: Those chatty Trump officials’ loathing of U.S. allies The Signal chat fiasco sends an alarming message about Trump officials’ stance toward Europe.

The Trump officials bemoaning European “free-loading” showed no awareness that European allies have joined in three separate operations to safeguard shipping in the Red Sea: Operations Prosperity Guardian, Poseidon Archer, and Aspides. The real free-loaders are Russia and China. wapo.st/3XvJGdY

This is just another example of how ridiculous trade dress claims can be.