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Fourth Circuit reverses lower court injunction blocking DOGE access to Treasury data storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Breaking: Federal judge in NY grants emergency TRO re concerns about poor conditions at an ICE detention facility in Manhattan. Lots of specific provisions about how detainees must be treated here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Some some big legal news this morning: DC Circuit Court of Appeals vacates a lower court's injunction that blocked the Trump admin's dismantling of some USAID/foreign aid work. Majority finds basically that the plaintiffs lack standing to bring the suit storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Another loss in court for Trump's "gender ideology" executive order, as a federal judge in MD blocks grant terminations the administration had pursued tied to a number of LGBTQ+ terms storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Record highs in 2024 🌎 - greenhouse gas concentrations, - global temps (land & oceans) - global sea level + glaciers lost the most ice of any year on record per new “State of the Climate” annual report from the American Meteorological Society ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/…

Just in: Trump's firing of Inter-American Foundation president/CEO Sara Aviel was illegal, federal judge in D.C. rules. She's to be reinstated and Trump officials are barred from appointing "acting" board members there except as allowed by law storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

New: 314 Action, the PAC aimed at "recruiting, training, and electing Democratic scientists to public office," is announcing a $1M ad campaign to support CA redistricting efforts. Will focus on fundraising, recruitment, IEs and mobilizing network of supporters, I'm told

A senior NATO military official confirms to me that Gen. Grynkewich, the commander of both NATO and U.S. forces in Europe, is in Alaska to "provide military advice to President Trump and Secretary Hegseth as President Trump tries to bring this war to a peaceful close."

Just in: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has DECLINED to stay court order barring widespread/warrantless ICE arrests in LA that critics claim had bordered on racial profiling. Admin had said the lower court erred in granting a TRO, but appeals court upholds it for now

As Trump is being interviewed by Sean Hannity post-Putin meeting, Fox has just posted the full interview he did with Brett Baer aboard AF1 before the meeting took place. A notable section:

Trump to Bret Baier aboard AF1 before the Putin meeting: "I won't be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire."