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Morale in the U.S. Foreign Service Craters
One shocking stat: 98% of the roughly 2,100 Foreign Service members who responded to the voluntary survey reported poor morale.
Trump Delegates Pardon Power to Subordinates
When Donald Trump issued a sweeping pardon for allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election, he stretched the boundaries of the pardon power in unprecedented ways.
The pardon’s language is so vague and limitless that it could apply to thousands of people. And now Trump’s Justice Department says it’s up to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Pardon Attorney Ed Martin to decide who, and which possible crimes, Trump actually meant to cover.
There’s no modern precedent — and maybe no historical precedent, either — for a president to delegate his pardon power to subordinates on a pardon this vaguely worded.
Justice Department Still Names Lindsey Halligan
Federal judges in Alexandria, Virginia, have lashed out at the Justice Department as they continue to list Lindsey Halligan on court documents — some going as far as striking her name from paperwork from the bench.
———— Stark. Raving. Mad. ————
I don’t know what is wrong with Donald Trump, but something clearly is. Yes, yes, he’s never been what one might call stable, but his instability is more apparent now, dangerously so. I mean, 150-160 overnight tweets on December 1—some incomprehensible, others just crazy. Michelle Obama controlling Joe Biden’s autopen?
And yet—this is kind of crazy, too—none of the great legacy newspapers have done, to my knowledge, an in-depth analysis of what he may have been thinking, what caused these effusions, whether there was any kind of pattern or explanation—or linked them to Trump’s nappiness at the Cabinet Obeisance Festival the following day, where, struggling not to doze off, he called Minnesota’s Somali community ‘garbage.’
Crude is on the crazy spectrum. Crazy is being defined down before our eyes. Trump is in a spitball lather, damp, mushy projectiles exploding in every direction.
Trump Is Fuming Over Coverage of His Health
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———— The Epstein Coverup ————
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———— Autocracy R Us ————
Judge Rips Stephen Miller as “Ignorant or Incompetent, or Both”
The judge said Miller had made erroneous claims about warrantless arrests.
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———— Blatant In-Your-Face Corruption ————
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———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————
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The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute
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———— Melon Husk ————
———— Hegseth on the Rocks ————
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'New York Times' lawsuit creates a new headache for Pentagon chief Hegseth
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———— Mors Imperii ————
University of Alabama shutters Black, female student magazines
A school official cited July guidance from Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Trump to Stop Considering LGBTQ Safety Standards
The Department of Justice has instructed inspectors to stop evaluating prisons and jails using standards designed to protect transgender, intersex and gender-nonconforming people from sexual violence.
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