On Legal AF, former Judge J. Luttig, who helped protect democracy after the insurrection, joins Popok and Lisa Graves to condemn Trump-era lawlessness and says federal judges now have renewed courage to rein in Trump in ways they didn’t before.

Supreme Court allows California to use new congressional map, giving Democrats a boost www.nbcnews.com/politics/202... “Donald Trump said he was ‘entitled’ to five more Congressional seats in Texas. He started this redistricting war. He lost, and he’ll lose again in November,” Newsom penned.

Sad to hear. I hope they find her mother alive. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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But Bezos had $75 million to spend on Melania’s vanity project.

Rep. Dave Min: This is not normal. We cannot allow it to become normalized. And I just wanna point out the obvious here, punching someone in the face because you don’t like their sign is a felony in every state in this country.

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How will we feed our communities? Farmers are part of life. Humans need healthy food and water and both are being diminished. Agriculture Experts Warn of 'Widespread Collapse' in US Farms Thanks to Trump Policies www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Moulton: This is state-sponsored terror. This is what you would expect to see in North Korea or Iran or the old Soviet Union. We’ve got to crack down on the government before they crack down on the American people.

Swalwell: The guy said he would cut prices, and instead he’s killing people—and I’m not signing off on that.

Powerful testimony from Renee Good's brother. "Our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps Nee’s death would bring about change in our country. And it has not."

In the first case of its kind, an ICE agent is being criminally prosecuted for his battery of lawyer/activist, Robert Held. Robert joins me to talk about the case, as well as his work across the country fighting back against the Trump Regime. youtu.be/84kwpm4woQ8?...

We're already seeing the damage from Republicans' refusal to extend health care tax credits last year: 1 million fewer Americans signed up for ACA coverage this year. It’s only going to get worse as Americans realize that they can no longer afford their health insurance in Trump's America.

“.. Michigan has lost 6,300 manufacturing jobs since Trump took office .. Canada was Michigan’s primary export market. Now its wheat exports are down 89 percent ..” @washingtonpost.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Why is the DOJ protecting Trump over the victims?

Per BBC, “Police specialising in combating cyber-crime, assisted by Europol, have raided the offices of Elon Musk's social media platform, X, in France.”

BREAKING: Judge Cobb has barred DHS from preventing members of Congress from visiting immigration detention facilities without notice, saying the administration's policy likely violated the law requiring their unfettered access. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We must defend our fundamental freedoms.

🚨 Pritzker: The monsters responsible for unleashing this havoc on American cities, whether they were firing at civilians in the streets or calling the shots from their cushy offices in Washington, need to be investigated and prosecuted.

Trump said he’d cut prices. Instead, he’s killing people.

The Doomsday Clock has now been set at 85 seconds to midnight & if Felon Donald Trump continues in the driver’s seat, the future of the world is at stake. The @thebulletin.org's Alexandra Bell joins with a sobering assessment of the issues we must be paying attention to. youtu.be/scvnqwPRtFQ?...

🚨NEW BULLETIN: Federal agents names revealed in Alex Pretti murder, Trump family’s $500M foreign crypto deal exposed, Dems flip deep-red Texas seats, Epstein fallout grows, and Trump’s approval keeps sliding. Catch up on all the weekend news (paywall free):

Journalists arrested. Raids on election facilities. U.S. citizens killed by federal officials. Bogus prosecutions or firings of those who speak out. This is not the kind of country we should be.

Trump promised he would cut prices. Instead, he's killing people.

Ben and Popok on the top rated Legal AF Podcast cover breaking legal and political news, including reporting about Minnesota, Georgia, California and DC developments. LIVE at 8 pm ET, tune in below!

Today, I voted no on the bill that included funding for ICE. The events taking place in Minneapolis represent a cultural moment — where people across the political spectrum saw, with their own eyes, U.S. citizens abused, threatened, and gunned down. Our fundamental rights as Americans, trampled.

Was an absolute pleasure to be interviewed by @katiephang.bsky.social

Hearing a second journalist was taken into custody, not just Don Lemon. Independent journalist Georgia Fort was also arrested. Two Black journalists arrested.

My first remarks since being arrested last night.

Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.

Trump's IRS lawsuit is demanding $10 billion from taxpayers. $10 billion would pay for 4 months of ACA tax credits for millions who can't afford health care—because of him. In Trump's ideal world, you make him richer. While he makes you sicker and poorer.

Want to know how the Fed *actually* sets interest rates? Which rate it sets, how it does it, and how that filters through to the rates you pay? I helped my friends at CNN with this 6 minute explainer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsnD... #TeachEcon (Could be useful for econ instructors.)

In this week's Intel Brief, we dig into three important topics: 1️⃣ How ICE operates with different sets of rules than the police. 2️⃣ The raid on a Georgia election office, and the larger efforts to collect voter rolls 3️⃣ How the chaotic approach to China is hurting Americans youtu.be/Sh0ilxogooc

Charging a journalist for covering a protest is not law enforcement. It is intimidation. Calling reporters “embedded with rioters” does not erase the First Amendment. Holding a microphone is not a crime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6K4vIjCrRs

BREAKING: The DOJ just DELETED a document in the Epstein Files that contained allegations made against Donald Trump. But we saved it. 👇

Don over Donald

Trump and his cronies are trying to cast doubt on free and fair elections.

This is an OUTRAGEOUS assault on the press and just goes to show that Convicted Felon Donald Trump doesn’t want people to see the truth about what is happening in our country when he tries to silence us!

NEWS: The Trump regime has arrested Don Lemon in its latest crackdown on journalism after he reported from inside a church protest in Minnesota—despite a magistrate judge previously rejecting the case against him as unsupported by evidence.

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

Trump's attacks on affordability; his secret attempts to court Canadian separatists to destabilize the country; the latest with the government funding deal; the most brazen attack on our elections yet; and more. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcasst live at 8p ET/5p PT!

Hochul: The whole crew has to go. It’s a joke, so they should clean house, kick their asses out of town, say “we’re starting over,” and stop militarizing our streets with people who have literally days or weeks of training

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I’m on my way to vote on the Republicans' bill to give billions more to Trump's ICE. I’m not just a no — I’m a hell no.

Angus: Donald Trump is furious that he was made to look like an absolute buffoon in Davos, and that the revenge was coming fast and quick. And what do you do the next day? You start raising the issue of breaking Canada apart. This is the Donbass playbook.

Trump’s goons went to Fulton County & executed a search warrant to seize ALL of the ORIGINAL 2020 ballots, voter rolls, and other documents. I’ve got the search warrant & the backstory showing Trump’s DOJ pulled an end-run after losing in other lawsuits to get this info. youtu.be/ZAhcLRtUdB8?...

Fulton County, Georgia Commissioner warns that FBI search is about midterms www.ms.now/chris-jansin...