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Satchel

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  1. After losing to the AP in court, this is how Trump and the Pep Sec’y are responding: The White House is making changes to which outlets are included in the press pool covering President Trump, and doing away with the spot normally reserved for wire services covering his daily activities. A source in the West Wing confirmed the changes to The Hill on Tuesday evening and said moving forward, the press pool will be made up of the following group: one print journalist who will serve as the “print pooler” each day, one additional print journalist, a crew from one of the major television networks, a crew from a secondary television network or streaming service, one radio journalist, one “new media” or independent journalist and four photojournalists. The White House official said eligible outlets will be chosen for the pool on a rotating basis, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will retain day-to-day discretion to determine composition of the pool.
  2. Trump’s DOJ has sued Maine because their governor has the nerve to talk back to him: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/military-contractors-prison-plan-detained-immigrants-erik-prince-00287208 It is unclear how many transgender students are currently participating in school athletics in Maine. The Maine Principals' Association, MPA, which governs the state's athletics, has said there are just two transgender athletesinvolved in girls' high school sports this year. The DOJ's suit refers to at least three transgender athletes.
  3. People dislike immigration except for all the times when they directly or indirectly benefit from it. Let’s keep it 100.
  4. This is how Trump plans to eventually ship Americans off to El Salvador. Don’t think this can’t happen. Hitler made it happen. Auschwitz is not in Germany. It’s in Poland. And, oh, Eric Prince is the personification of evil: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/military-contractors-prison-plan-detained-immigrants-erik-prince-00287208 Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince and a team of defense contractors are pitching the White House on a plan to vastly expand deportations to El Salvador — transporting thousands of immigrants from U.S. holding facilities to a sprawling maximum security prison in Central America. The proposal, exclusively obtained by POLITICO, says it would target “criminal illegal aliens” and would attempt to avoid legal challenges by designating part of the prison — which has drawn accusations of violence and overcrowding from human rights groups — as American territory.
  5. In the Trump regime’s letter to Harvard demanding a complete eradication of diversity, equity and inclusion, they, in that very same letter, demanded Harvard implement “viewpoint diversity” throughout the university. Somebody should tell them…
  6. I hate these people. Please don’t turn me in.
  7. Serious question. Has Trump lifted the tariff on smart phones and electronics?
  8. The only reason Tech is mentioned at all is because they’ve been throwing around money like crazy lately. Don’t think California helicopter dad and West Texas grit are a good mix.
  9. Dan Hurley’s approach may be appropriate for such a time as this. When sizing a kid up, he says he sizing the parents up as well, since they’re a package deal.
  10. There’s some awfully wrong about this. Deals are worth more than 600 million. Five More Big Law Firms Reach Deals With Trump Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft agreed to do free legal work on causes the White House supports. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/business/trump-law-firms-kirkland-ellis-latham-watkins.html
  11. Trump is such a malignant narcissist: https://www.yahoo.com/news/painting-iconic-trump-raised-fist-201116831.html
  12. My money was on him becoming the Sec’y of ‘Rasslin and Shootin’. But Trump gave the job to Linda McMahon.
  13. Facilitate and effectuate in context mean all deliberate speed, which means nothing
  14. How anyone, including his supporters could think this is okay is beyond me. It’s chilling:
  15. The bill does not say who gets to decide if the teaching is accurate or factual. That could be a problem.
  16. Circa 2016: The “Real Time” host made his case that nobody fits the stereotypically ’50s description of women better than the modern-day Trump. “Irrational, pouty, vain, thin-skinned, hysterical and just not that bright, does that sound like anyone we know today?” the comic said. “Who gets more hysterical than Lady Donald Trump…Maher goes on to call Trump a “whiny little bitch” numerous times.
  17. “…while hiding their racism, bigotry, homophobia, and transphobia.” They don’t hide anymore.
  18. Today, the Trump administration revoked: 27 student visas at UNT 15 student visas at Texas A&M 19 student visas at UT Dallas UT, you’re on the clock.
  19. Does this mean because Governor Abbott, being a member of the “inclusion” community by virtue of his disability, will not be able to get another job?
  20. Really?
  21. More of Eric Swalwell, Jasmine Crockett and Dan Goldberg.
  22. Getting worse before it’s better is obviously a real thing: The Trump administration will remain steadfast in its reciprocal tariffs on major U.S. trading partners even in the face of a global stock market sell-off, Commerce Secretary Howard Bootlick told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
  23. True. It just occurred to me that this is the first time in my life where a POTUS has gone after the legal profession in the manner Trump has. What is particularly sobering is how almost normal it feels.
  24. Yeah, well, they chose the wrong school for that name.
  25. It really should be called East Texas A&M to distinguish it from West Texas A&M in Canyon.
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