The San Francisco Standard: A day after ICE agents swooped into San Francisco Immigration Court to take four people into custody, the federal government sent an unusual email to The Standard. "I have a request to ask if you would consider blurring the faces of our officers and agents," ICE spokesperson Richard Beam wrote Wednesday. "Out of a concern for the safety of our personnel I wanted to simply ask." read more
She wrote in a 42-page order: "The Constitution does not permit the Executive to commandeer the entire appointments power by unilaterally creating a federal agency pursuant to Executive Order and insulating its principal officer from the Constitution as an 'advisor' in name only," the judge wrote. "This is precisely what Plaintiffs claim the Executive has done." Chutkan did, however, dismiss President Trump as a defendant, writing that "the court may not enjoin the President in the performance of his official duties." read more
Wall Street traders have developed a biting new acronym for a strategy that's become surprisingly lucrative for President Donald Trump's whiplash-inducing trade policy: TACO " "Trump Always Chickens Out." Reportedly first coined by Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong, the term has quickly gained traction among investors who are profiting from what they say is a predictable pattern: Trump threatens steep tariffs, the markets plunge, and days later he backs off in a way that prompts a rebound.
Paul Walczak's pardon application cited his mother's support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.
This is to say that if the government continues to spend on credit, and offers no clear path for arresting the growth of its debt, investors will demand ever higher interest rates on the money they lend to it. read more
NPR did a good piece on this last year. Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf
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