Heather Cox Richardson
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🔮 According to officials who spoke with the reporters, the deal could mean moving as much as $2 billion from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—roughly one-third the budget of the agency Dr. Anthony Fauci used to run—to the Pentagon.
🔮 Their goal was to emphasize the importance of workers in the industrializing economy and to warn politicians that they could not be ignored.
🔮 Plans to extend that alert made the Navy’s top admiral, along with leaders of the U.S. European Command, the U.S. Pacific Command and the U.S. Southern Command, register that they did not concur with those plans, although their disagreement does not mean they will not execute the order.
🔮 To stop voters from turning Republicans out of office and handing Democrats control of the House of Representatives, the Senate, or both, the Trump administration is trying to implement a new rule for the United States Postal Service that would enable it to act as a gatekeeper for who can vote by mail.
🔮 Nonetheless, as Josh Gerstein of Politico reported, the project will likely be completed before the question of its legality is resolved.
🔮 Judge Luttig is sickened at the prospect that The Speaker of the house will fire the Clerk of the House and replace him with a Trump loyalist.
🔮 Still, after the 2024 election, hopeful Republicans set out to redistrict states like Texas to try to guarantee they would hold on to control of Congress after the 2026 election.
🔮 “The nonviolent revolution is saying, ‘We will not wait for the courts to act, for we have been waiting for hundreds of years.
🔮 The push has come in the wake of the rise of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and other naturalized U.S. citizens whose policy positions those like South Carolina representative Nancy Mace consider un-American.
🔮 She is one of the youngest mayors in the city’s history and is the first woman and the first Asian American to be elected to the office.
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