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A federal judge orders Voice of America employees reinstated by March 23, putting hundreds of people who have been on administrative leave back to work (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-kari-lake-trump-cd6…

Judge orders restoration of Voice of America
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the government-run Voice of America to full operations, putting hundreds of journalists who have been on administrative leave for a year back to work. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth's order came a week after he ruled that Kari Lake, President Donald Trump's choice to effectively lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, did not have the authority to effectively dismantle the congressionally authorized Voice of America. Followin…

Trump is pressuring lawmakers to pass the SAVE America Act voter suppression bill
by attaching it to housing and foreign intelligence surveillance legislation currently pending before Congress.
The SAVE America Act would take a giant leap towards the Trump administration’s goals of wresting control of elections away from states.
It would also potentially disenfranchise millions of voters through its provisions requiring documentary proof of citizenship for voter registrati…

Trump seeks passage of SAVE America Act via housing and FISA bills
Trump is still hoping he can save the anti-voter SAVE America Act by attaching it to other bills pending in Congress.

Break the Cycle: Protect America’s Wild Horses! #AnimalRights

Good but depressing analysis of the war with Iran. Must-read.
#iran

How America's War on Iran Backfired
Seventeen years ago, while serving as an Iran desk officer in the U.S. State Department, I asked a more veteran colleague about the latest inflammatory statement by Mahmood Ahmadinejad, then the Iranian president. My colleague responded: “Stop paying attention to Ahmadinejad. Only focus on Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. He makes the important decisions.” He added: “But don’t worry. Change is coming. Khamenei”—who was then 69 and widely believed to have cancer—“could die at…

Watch: Raiders host American Heart Health Month event https://www.raiders.com/video/watch-raiders-host-american-heart-health-month-event

Why Should JD Vance Worry? (Steven Beschloss/America, America)
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/why-should-jd-vance-worry
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p63#a260417p63

Talks kick off Monday between U.S. and Mexican trade officials.
The North American economies could agree to renew the
US-Mexico-Canada Agreement,
or USMCA as it is for another 16 years
— a prospect that appears unlikely.
Or they could keep working on ways to improve it;
Under a convoluted renewal process, they have until 2036 to reach an agreement
Much of this bustling cross-border commerce is duty-free, thanks to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, that Do…

Tricky negotiations begin Monday to renew a trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada — The Associated Press
Every day more than $4 billion worth of goods cross the United States’ borders with Canada and Mexico – U.S. auto parts headed for car factories in northern Mexico, cartons of Mexican avocados bound for California supermarkets, Canadian aluminum destined to become cans of Campbell Soup.

America’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
staked his political career on the false belief that vaccines cause autism,
and has used his power to force federal agencies to support his bonkers position:
The CDC’s website now says,
“Studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism."
Thanks to Kennedy and others, measles outbreaks are happening all over the country after the disease was declared officially eliminated in th…

The Cynical, Gullible American Man
The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time

A Republican-appointed federal judge has ordered that more than 1,000 Voice of America (VOA) employees be reinstated
after a Trump administration order effectively dismantled the radio network, triggering mass layoffs.
In two separate rulings made Tuesday, the US district judge Royce Lamberth said that attempts to shut down operations of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an independent federal agency that oversees VOA, are illegal
-- and mandated that employees return…

Donald Trump’s Save America PAC
— the vehicle he uses to pay legal bills
— is nearly $500,000 in the red,
while owing roughly $1.6 million to a roster of 12 different law firms.
Stiffing lawyers is a time-honored tradition in the Trump orbit.
He famously pulled the rug out from Rudy Giuliani after Rudy devoted his entire post-mayoral career,
law license, and remaining credibility to peddling the Big Lie.
Decades of vendors, contractors, and attorn…

Donald Trump’s Favorite PAC for Legal Bills Is in Debt — And Owes Many Law Firms Money
The Save America PAC is nearly $500,000 in the red, according to a new federal disclosure.