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Thinking About, Timothy Synder: “Yesterday the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has …
Grist: “The Trump administration is poised to begin offloading public land, achieving a long-held conservative goal of reducing the government’s footprint in the West. Federal agencies manage around 640 million acres, or about 28 percent of the nation’s land, an invaluable resource Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has called “America’s balance sheet.” His membership in a …
Democracy Docket: “One of the most alarming developments in the second Trump administration is agencies’ apparent defiance of court orders barring them from implementing illegal executive orders. As agencies including the State Department have ignored, evaded or slow-walked judicial decrees, courts have issued increasingly stronger warnings that compliance with their orders is not optional, and …
The New York Times – [no paywall] “Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in deportations…The use of Geo Group’s technology has made the company one of the Trump administration’s big business winners so …
Update via Just Security – “This public resource tracks legal challenges to Trump administration actions. The Tracker is part of the Collection: Just Security’s Coverage of the Trump Administration’s Executive Actions. Readers may also be interested in signing up for our free Early Edition roundup of news and our end-of-day newsletter with Just Security articles …
Follow up to Trump Using Another Executive Order to Take Revenge on Law Firms – The Daily Beast [unpaywalled]: “..Epshteyn has worked for Trump since 2016 and is a polarizing figure—even by the standards of Trumpland. He worked briefly for the firm Milbank LLP after graduating from law school but has never tried a case, according …
“The European Commission is giving some of its US-bound staff burner phones and basic laptops to avoid cybersecurity risks, the Financial Times reported. Brussels typically reserves such measures for trips to Ukraine and China over fears of Russian or Chinese government espionage. Worries about American spying are the latest sign of worsening transatlantic ties in …
Abby André, Director of the Impact Project | Doctoral Fellow, Lawyer, Professor, Data Visualization Expert – “I wanted to share this 91.7 WVXU/Cincinnati Public Radio story about The Impact Map, a tool I created to help visualize how federal employment, funding, and policy decisions affect our communities. With more than 5,300 data points—and growing—the map is …
Christina Pagel – “Mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information. Thomas Jefferson probably never said “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”, but that doesn’t make it less true. Since President Trump’s second …
Wired [no paywall] “The SSA’s shift to Elon Musk’s X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned. The Social Security Administration will no longer be communicating with the media and the public through press releases and “dear colleague” letters, as it shifts its public …
ProPublica – Meet the Tent Company Making a Fortune Off Trump’s Deportation Plans. “The privately held company Deployed Resources has made billions running tent detention facilities to hold immigrants entering the U.S. at the border. Now it is cashing in again on Trump’s plan to hold immigrants before deportation. Update, April 11, 2025: After this …
Wired: “Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel [rump supporter], is part of an effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service records, IRS sources tell WIRED. For the last three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with …
