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What to Expect When You’re Expecting an Oligarchy | Putin’s Russia shows what happens when billionaire businessmen choose to back a strongman.

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Full DC Circuit Unfires—For Now—NLRB, MSPB Board Members That Trump Lawlessly Axed

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You Will Be Hotter, Dirtier and Poorer | Trump’s tariff-palooza is part of a whole-of-government approach to reversing as much climate progress as he can in as little time as possible.

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Notes on Civil Society’s Quasi-War with A Renegade President

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A Second Child Dies of Measles in Texas

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Protesters Assail Trump, Musk in Rallies Around US

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You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.

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DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

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Mass Protests Across the Country Show Resistance to Trump

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Biglaw Is Under Attack. Here's What The Firms Are Doing About It.

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States Challenge Trump’s Effort to Dismantle Library Agency

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Russia Executes P.O.W.s Without Caring Who Watches, Ukraine Says

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DNC Chair Ken Martin Launches “People's Cabinet” to Fiercely Counter Trump Administration Chaos and Lies

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Trump’s Jewish Cover Story | The administration claims to be protecting Jews while advancing an agenda that most Jews oppose.

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WTAF is Going On? In Search of the Plan Behind Trump’s Global Economic Crisis

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Unsanitary Practices Persist at Baby Formula Factory Whose Shutdown Led to Mass Shortages, Workers Say

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US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts

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Senate Republicans vote to advance a massive budget blueprint for Trump's agenda

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Trump’s Trade War Risks Forfeiting America’s Economic Primacy

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Top Trump Aide Hosts White House Meeting with Kremlin Envoy

  • They don't have the votes in either house of Congress to actually stop anything. Rhetoric is all they've got; what they can do is to make it super-clear how awful Trump's decision-making is, so that there's a chance voters will turn out and give them the power to act in the future.

  • When appointing people who have absolutely no clue, he's tended to do better than when appointing those who are actively malicious. Rick Perry famously wanted to abolish the Department of Energy, despite not being able to remember his name, but was probably one of the least-awful Trump appointees, since he seems to have been unaware of its primary mission of nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship until after he was appointed.