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Raskin probes DOJ after Apple, Google blocked ICE tracking app (Alfred Ng/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/06/raskin-probes-doj-after-apple-google-blocked-ice-tracking-app-00767914
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p59#a260206p59

Democratic state attorneys general sue Trump over tariffs

The lawsuit accuses the president of trying to “sidestep” a Supreme Court ruling that overturned many of his previous levies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/05/tariffs-lawsuit-democr…

Democratic state attorneys general sue Trump over tariffs
In a lawsuit, Democratic officials from more than 20 states say that Trump’s new tariffs are illegal and that he is trying to “sidestep” a Supreme Court ruling.

"But should we be surprised by this chaos? As senior editor Jack Mirkinson writes, “The president is a congenital liar who loses a little more brain function with each passing day.” Perhaps there’s another reason we’re now at war, however: Israel has been longing for one. And “that has the potential to erode both the US-Israeli relationship and Israel’s already shaky standing with the American people,” Mirkinson notes."
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A Knock on the Window and a Glimpse of America’s Surveillance Future – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/mobile-fortify-face-scan-dhs-kristi-noem-database-technology/

A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future
“This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.

DHS watchdog details extensive probes into Trump's immigration crackdown (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/05/dhs-watchdog-probe-trump-immigration-00768311
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p131#a260205p131

I suspect that most people do not recognize how terrible this proposal is.
It is a return to the patronage system of the 1860s where people were hired into and fired from government positions, not on merit, but on loyalty and patronage.
If you think the Federal bureaucracy is slow and sometimes indifferent now, just wait until those bureaucrats operate not out of concern for the country and its citizens but for their jobs and salaries.
"Trump admin moves to finalize re…

Trump admin moves to finalize return of Schedule F
Officials estimate that around 50,000 federal workers will be stripped of their civil service protections beginning in around a month, as unions, employee associations and good government groups decry their positions’ politicization.

💢 Partisan X posts boost political polarisation among users, research finds
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/27/partisan-x-posts-increase-political-polarisation-among-users-social-media-resea…

Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years

When Elon Musk’s social media platform X launched a contest to promote its “Articles” feature,
the guidelines were explicit: Submissions “must not contain political, or religious statements.”
But when the company announced the winners on Tuesday, the results appeared to contradict those rules.
While the stated criteria emphasized high-quality writing and nonpolitical content,
more than $2 million in prize money largely flowed to users ranging from popular right-wing …

X awards $1 million prize to creator with history of racist posts
X said it would give $1 million to a user who had previously shared racist posts, including one supporting Hitler.

Virginia Democrats Propose New Congressional Maps Ahead of Midterms (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/us/politics/virginia-redistricting-maps-midterms.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p132#a260205p132

Virginia Democrats expect to release proposed new congressional map this week (Brakkton Booker/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/05/virginia-congressional-map-redistricting-00767226
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p76#a260205p76