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🚨BREAKING: The US Postal Service announced late Friday night that it intends to move forward with its final rule on changing how mail voting is administered. The new rule was created to enact Donald Trump’s executive order, which seeks to restrict mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

USPS pushes final rule on restricting mail voting forward

The federal postal service acknowledges the new rule will impose burdens on states, but says its necessary to help law enforcement hunt for voter fraud.

democracydocket.com

We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.

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Robot arms kept catching on fire. Machines kept ruining artillery shells. A $533 million General Dynamics project failed to produce a single usable shell. “It was a waste of government money, and it was a waste of our time,” one former technician said.

Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing

General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...

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NEW: Full Fifth Circuit says Planned Parenthood Federation of America must stand trial in a cooked-up False Claims Act case that could bankrupt it before it can appeal. The trial will be before Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who tried to ban mifepristone in 2023 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

screenshot of an opinion from the full fifth circuit:

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
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No. 23-11184
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United States of America, ex rel, Alex Doe, Relator,
Plaintiff—Appellee,
versus
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Incorporated,
Defendant—Appellant.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Texas
USDC No. 2:21-CV-22
______________________________
Before Elrod, Chief Judge, and Jones, Smith, Barksdale, Stewart, Richman, Southwick, Haynes, Graves, Higginson, Willett, Ho, Duncan, Engelhardt, Oldham, Wilson, Douglas, and Ramirez, Circuit Judges.*
Jennifer Walker Elrod, Chief Judge, and James E. Graves, Jr.,
Circuit Judge:
Relator Alex Doe alleges that, after three regional affiliates of
Defendant–Appellant Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., were...
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* Judge Oldham concurs in the judgment only 

appeals court docket: 
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68159062/doe-v-planned-parenthood/?order_by=desc

district court docket
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/62341481/united-states-v-planned-parenthood-federation-of-america-inc/?order_by=desc
Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 3w ago

We’re also still waiting to hear whether an anonymous plaintiff (an anti-abortion activist propped up by Leonard Leo ) can try to bankrupt Planned Parenthood national or “just” two of its affiliates news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...