So according to LAPD, these cops trespassed onto Lauren's property looking for a hit-and-run driver. Despite no involvement in the hit-and-run, Lauren then saw the cops, grabbed a gun, and knowingly tried to kill them for no particular reason. So they shot her and arrested her. Sounds ... unlikely! [Weezer bassist’s wife shot by ...](
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Weezer bassist’s wife shot by LA police and charged with attempted murder
Jillian Lauren treated for non-life-threatening wound after incident where officers searched for hit-and-run suspects
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Everything is bad, but this one is a five-alarm fire. There's now nothing preventing the DOJ from manufacturing charges against these two from whole cloth. Worst case for Trump is he upends two lives until a judge tosses the cases -- while sending a clear message about loyalty. Thank John Roberts. [Trump orders probes of two for...](
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Trump orders probes of two former officials who defied him
Christopher Krebs and Miles Taylor both served in Trump's first term. Krebs questioned Trump's claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Taylor crit...
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One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months. I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
Upon learning that your own mistake sent an innocent father to a brutal prison where he’s likely to be tortured, anyone with a shred of decency would be overcome with shame and fight like hell to get him back. They think it’s funny. [www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...](
Trump Admin Dismisses Order to Bring Back Man Accidentally Deported
After the government admitted that it deported an innocent man to a Salvadoran prison, a Trump admin brushed off a judge's order to bring him ...
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On vaccines, immigration, trade, race, gay rights, crime — name your issue — the entire country is now trapped by the bigotries and delusions of a sunsetting old man whose worldview is stuck in 1986.
NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like. [‘Climate of fear’: Montreal do...](
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‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Dona...
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A surreal exchange. Boasberg gives the government every benefit of the doubt over what are clearly multiple acts of contempt. Meanwhile, the DOJ attorney sounds like Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer. [bsky.app/profile/josh...](
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Kash Patel wants to criminally charge groups who received EPA grants for climate change projects. You know, like those greedy bastards at Habitat for Humanity. He thinks climate change isn't real, so he thinks these groups have committed fraud. Which of course is fucking crazy. [Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminall...](
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups | The New Republic
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The Trump administration spent $250K to fly 9 immigrants to Gitmo on an enormous military plane so Laura Ingraham would have some cool footage for her show. [www.happyscribe.com/public/the-r...](
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Transcript and discussion of Trump power grab tripped up by distinctly American resistance from The Rachel Maddow Show podcast
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New from me: I tried to capture and summarize just five days of the madness this administration is unleashing on the world. [radleybalko.substack.com/p/trump-roun...](
Trump roundup: Five days
A snapshot of the administration's full-frontal assault on democracy
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Trump roundup: Five days
A snapshot of the administration's full-frontal assault on democracy
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