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An exiled Chinese businessman who once had close ties to former White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon was convicted of defrauding his online followers of more than $1 billion, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Executive with ties to Bannon convicted in billion-dollar fraud schemewww.washingtonpost.com Guo Wengui, an exiled Chinese billionaire, was convicted Tuesday on nine counts, including wire fraud and money laundering.

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I can't stop thinking about how Trump would eliminate our free, public weather service, NOAA. It's an institution that goes back 53 years and protects Americans everyday with warnings for tornados, thunderstorms and more. That's the Project 2025 plan. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Tom Cotton just said Biden created the CBP One app for migrants. Remind me who was president in 2020…

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I want to hear from a Baldwin/Trump split-ticket Wisconsin voter. Who are the folks who want Tammy Baldwin in the Senate and also a President and Supreme Court who would jail her for existing as a lesbian?https://bsky.app/profile/paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com/post/3kxgfavjack2d

According to Project 2025, which is the heart of Trump's campaign and platform, if you teach or talk about the existence of LGBTQ people then you are a sex offender and should be imprisoned.

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Just a reminder: Trump inherited the lowest homicide rate of any president in 50 years. He was the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher homicide rate than when he entered. And the rate has dropped every year since he left. www.foxnews.com/video/635815...

RNC day 2 to focus on crime and safety as victims' families speak out | Fox News Videowww.foxnews.com Erin Rachwal, who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning and Sheri and Aaron Sparks, who lost their son in the Waukesha parade attack, on the need to hold criminals accountable and stop the influx of illi...

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This is what the culture war wanted. Not better Marvel or Star Wars content. An entire group erased from society.

According to Project 2025, which is the heart of Trump's campaign and platform, if you teach or talk about the existence of LGBTQ people then you are a sex offender and should be imprisoned.

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White guy shoots another white guy, and it's a woman's fault?

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JD Vance sits on the board of a Project 2025 group that wants to turn America into a Christian theocracy. Uh oh. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-americ...

The American Momentwww.bugeyedandshameless.com A JD Vance-backed project wants to smash the institutions of liberal democracy. That's not good.

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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz to every woman, LGBTQ+ person and immigrant who works in tech: you’re disposable if doing this makes us even more money

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This is the move

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump does not erase the crimes that Trump himself has committed against American democracy, or the crimes he would commit if given the chance, and no one is obligated to pretend otherwise www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Nothing About the Attempted Assassination Redeems Trumpwww.theatlantic.com This crime does not erase what the former president has done, or what he has promised to do.

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This seems like a grim natural experiment to show that access to mental health services isn't going to neutralize access to guns when it comes to controlling violence

Jesus, both of Thomas Matthew Crooks' parents are licensed professional counselors. "The AR-15 rifle Crooks used was one of more than a dozen registered to and legally purchased by his father, with whom he often went to the shooting range, officials said." www.wsj.com/us-news/myst...

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“The Republicans' concern about violent and extreme rhetoric is a new phenomenon. This is a party that nominated Trump, who has spent his political career advocating and encouraging violence." popular.info/p/these-repu...

These Republicans use violent rhetoric. They are featured speakers at the RNC.popular.info In the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, his top political aides and allies are blaming Democrats for inciting the horrific attack. The co-manager of Trump's campaign, Chris LaCivit...

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MAGA gonna MAGA.

GOP Rep. Ripped For Claiming Trump Shooting Happened Due To Female Secret Service Directorbit.ly Tim Burchett claimed a "DEI hire" was responsible for the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

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Canon‘s opinion is the first Project 2025 decision: law displaced for a first principle of loyalty to Donald Trump. Harry Litman esq.

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Free idea for a Dem ad: a series of brief somber interviews with people who worked with classified documents explaining what the consequences would be for the most minor infraction. Then just show these photos

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Really struggling to understand why both the mainstream media and Democratic leadership are finding it so hard right now to express what I think is a fairly basic point. Political violence is bad and a second Trump presidency means more of it. www.garbageday.email/p/yet-anothe...

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Vance is not a true believer in the cult of personality, he's faking that part (as are most of them). But he's something worse: a true believer, and a relatively intelligent one, in authoritarian ideology. He doesn't believe in Donald Trump, he believes in Carl Schmitt.

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If you care about women's rights, protecting Medicare and Social Security, or safeguarding democracy on the whole, you should be concerned about Project 2025. Last week, writer Jay Kuo broke down this radical agenda for a second Trump term in a piece of essential reading from The Big Picture.

Breaking Down Project 2025thinkbigpicture.substack.com We took on Project 2025 issue by issue so you don't have to.

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Haven't read yet but props to Jonathan D. Colan for having the foresight to write this in 2018

There's a paper about 11th Cir reassigning cases on remand after reversal It's rare (this paper says it's happened 28 times from 1958–2012) and usually, but not always, related to failure to recuse. There's also a "you really screwed this one" rationale👇 repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcont...

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This conversation is now live! Tune in here: youtube.com/live/eiSt2DA...

At 3pm ET today, @benjaminwittes.bsky.social, @nkorpett.bsky.social, @annabower.bsky.social, @arozenshtein.bsky.social, @qjurecic.bsky.social, and Michel Paradis will discuss Judge Cannon's order dismissing the classified documents case against Trump, what Jack Smith might do next, and more.

Lawfare Live: Judge Cannon Dismisses Classified Documents Case Against former President Trumpwww.lawfaremedia.org Watch a live podcast recording on Judge Cannon's order.

Lawfare Live: Judge Cannon Dismisses Classified Documents Case Against former President Trumpyoutube.com On July 15, Judge Cannon granted former President Trump's motion to dismiss the classified documents indictment based on appointments clause violations.At 3 ...

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Vance pick seems to cast the “unity” message in doubt, at least in an across-the-aisle way. “Unity” as in “our party is united to fuck you up,” sure.

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Radley Balko

But sure. Let’s hear more about how Trump is going to be a “unifier,” and how both sides need to “turn down the rhetoric.”

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MSNBC REPORTER: I covered the family separation crisis closely. Will we continue to see policies like separating 5,000 children deliberately from their parents? DON JR: You mean the Obama administration? R: You know they didn't do that, sir DON JR: Just get out of here

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threadswww.threads.net MSNBC REPORTER: I covered the family separation crisis closely. Will we continue to see policies like separating 5,000 children deliberately from their parents? DON JR: You mean the Obama...

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Here’s the letter to which Radley alludes demanding investigation of a journalist for an op-ed. Trump never had much of a mask, if any, but a Vance pick is a mask-off moment, in the sense that it’s saying “you’re goddamned right we want fascism.” www.vance.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Trump’s VP pick … — demanded the DOJ open a criminal investigation of a journalist for “insurrection” over an op-ed critical of Trump — spouted replacement theory garbage — called for criminal prosecutions of other Trump critics — blamed Biden for Trump shooting — called for Biden’s prosecution

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J.D. Vance literally sat on the board of a Project 2025 unbrella group. I've been working on a breakdown of it, should be up by tomorrow: www.bugeyedandshameless.com

Bug-eyed and Shameless | Justin Ling | Substackwww.bugeyedandshameless.com Dispatches from the fringes of the information war. Click to read Bug-eyed and Shameless, by Justin Ling, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Here’s the thing about the Vance pick: it’s probably unhelpful in electoral terms. But, in terms of governance, it’s further evidence that they’re Going For It. Trump 1 was hobbled in his authoritarian attempt by the admin and GOP. Trump 2 will be aided by both. They’re gonna go for it.

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Milwaukee Protesters to Trump: ‘Get the F-ck Out of Here’www.rollingstone.com Undeterred by the attempt on Trump’s life, demonstrators greet the opening of the GOP convention with protest.

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Vance was Heritage's pick so don't forget about Project 2025, which proceeds apace

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The fact that you cannot imagine Vance hesitating for a second to throw an election to Trump gives a sense of how far we have descended

Among the many reasons a second Trump term poses a serious threat to American democracy: Vance is not a Pence-type VP www.vox.com/politics/360...