This is absolutely incredible -- Kristi Noem repeatedly refuses to acknowledge that Trump brandished an doctored image of Abrego Garcia's tattoos, prompting Eric Swalwell to have a staffer of his brandish an image of them right in her face.
Totally dystopian.
HAPPENING NOW: Bail hearing for Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts PhD student who remains in detention in Louisiana after she was taken from her home in Massachusetts by masked immigration authorities.
The hearing is before a Vermont judge. Ozturk is appearing virtually from Louisiana.
So therefore the court finds that she does not pose danger to community or present risk of flight.
THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.
"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."
Kander: This is a trade war of choice to support Trump's ego, I guess.
Gupta: And his bank account. He's leveraging the pressure of tariffs to get favorable private deals for the Trump enterprise...
Kander: What an argument! You have to be able to afford less so that the President can get richer.
Sean Duffy says the Pentagon isn't responding to his questions about why helicopters are flying above DCA.
Martha MacCallum replies, "I don't why the Pentagon hasn't gotten back to you on this yet. But we hope they sure do soon."
"So do I," says Duffy.
There's a hearing today at 5 PM ET in Judge Boasberg's court for the comprehensive amended complaint to release everyone at CECOT citing that Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act is unlawful.
NEW: Sealed joint motion for a discovery conference. Reminder: Judge Xinis instructed the lawyers for Abrego Garcia to ask for a conference if the government failed to meet its discovery obligations. Both parties have agreed to the conference.
Still waiting for the day when any Republican calls out, loudly, and by name, Trump for warmongering in Greenland and Canada and Panama.
Same people that would tuck and run from Afghanistan, Russia, and Iran instead bully friends to look tough without consequence. Weak asses
* U.S. TREASURY'S BESSENT SAYS CHINA NEGOTIATIONS WILL BEGIN ON SATURDAY IN SWITZERLAND
* U.S. TREASURY'S BESSENT SATURDAY TALKS ARE A BEGINNING FOR TALKS, NOT 'ADVANCED' DISCUSSIONS
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New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...
TRUMPISM REJECTED IN AUSTRALIA
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been re-elected as his Labor Party surged to victory and is projected to form a majority government. In a historic first, opposition leader Peter Dutton—often likened to Donald Trump—lost his own seat of Dickson.
RFK Jr: "We found that there's a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure and low IQ in children. So the more you get, the stupider you are."
REPORTER: Trump has the lowest approval rating of any president in the last 80 years. How do you interpret those numbers?
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, in any new administration, it's a rollercoaster ... what the real polling is showing is that they understand that we're heading somewhere.
NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel said bureau agents arrested a county judge in Wisconsin Friday, alleging she obstructed an April 18 immigration enforcement operation. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.
If I really wanted people to have more babies I would simply make it less expensive, isolating, and professionally punishing to be a new parent but what do I know
In THIS administration we value WARFIGHTERS who WARFIGHT the enemy and if you’re not WARFIGHTING the enemy to DEATH we don’t want you in the DEPARTMENT OF WARFIGHTING, take your “logistics” and “intelligence” BULLSHIT somewhere else this place is for WARFIGHTING WARFIGHTERS WHO WARFIGHT. GRRR!
