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Lil Marco is learning that diplomacy is difficult, despite the fact that his boss promised to end this war in 24 hours with one phone call & said it “wouldn’t even be that hard to do.” What he won’t say is this isn’t getting done because Putin WANTS war.

Judge Wilkinson's opinion for a 3-0 panel in the Abrego Garcia case is written for the parties, but also for the public & perhaps a nod at SCOTUS. I go through it in this piece, which I think provides a much-needed boost for all of us. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-fourth-c...

A Fourth Circuit Judge Warns Against Reducing The Rule Of Law To Lawlessness

Thursday afternoon, the Fourth Circuit issued a decision, its second, in the Abrego Garcia case.

joycevance.substack.com

Republican Congressman Mark Alford is hearing from his constituents in Missouri loud and clear today: Hey-hey! Ho-ho! Elon Musk has got to go! (via Brian Johnson / KMBC)

The goal of our nation-leading Child Tax Credit is simple: lift kids out of poverty and get money back to working families.   Last year, nearly 225,000 families claimed the Child Tax Credit and saw an average total credit of $2,500.

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Reading Breaking Twitter by Ben Mezrich and it seems like what totally broke Elon was his Twitter poll doing whether he should step down as CEO (the majority of users voted yes), and then getting booed on stage at Dave Chapelle’s show. So he decided to take over our country, as one does

The Proud Boys organization no longer controls the trademark, “Proud Boys”, and is now “barred from selling any merchandise with either its name or its symbols without the consent of a Black church in Washington that its members vandalized.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized

A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

nytimes.com