First at TPM: Teen Deported TWICE This Year in Violation of Multiple Court Orders

Posted on by David Kurtz

Judge Demands Answers by Noon

A 19-year-old asylum seeker — who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March in violation of a court-ordered settlement agreement, then returned Aug. 7 by the Trump administration — was wrongfully deported again Monday to El Salvador, where he fears persecution.

The revelation comes in J.O.P. v. DHS, a long-running class action lawsuit in Maryland over the treatment of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers nationwide. The latest wrongful removal comes after repeated violations by the Trump administration of the settlement agreement and of multiple subsequent court orders by U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher seeking to enforce it, including a July order that found the administration in contempt of court.

Counsel for the class of plaintiffs notified Judge Gallagher of the latest (repeat) wrongful deportation yesterday, describing a mad scramble Monday to determine what had happened to their client, identified in court records only as E.L.A.

They asked the judge to order DHS to answer a series of seven questions to get to the bottom of what happened to the teen. Gallagher obliged, giving the administration a noon deadline today to provide answers, while adding an eighth question in her order: “What is the plan for promptly rectifying this error?”

Trump DOJ Blocked Charging ICE Agent

ProPublica has gone a long way towards confirming what Morning Memo suggested Monday: Main Justice scotched the effort by the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office to bring charges against ICE agent Christian Castro for the shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in January during Operation Metro Surge.

Federal prosecutors in Minnesota had been preparing to bring civil rights charges against Castro and had gone as far as alerting attorneys for the victims of the impending charges. But then nothing happened.

ProPublica has since obtained a Tuesday evening email from assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Evans updating the victims’ lawyers that Castro will likely now only face a lesser false statements charge for lying about the circumstances of the shooting.

“This is being directed by the Main Justice and the US Attorney,” Evans wrote in the email, ProPublica reports. “I objected in the strongest possible terms and fought it as hard as I could. It wasn’t enough.” 

The Trump DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is led by Trump loyalist Harmeet Dhillon, who was in a prime position to block the civil rights charges.

Castro also faces state charges over the shooting, but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott refused to extradite him to Minnesota after he was arrested in Texas. Castro was released from jail in Brownsville last week after the Trump DOJ sided with Abbott in a federal court battle over the extradition request.

Sosa-Celis and another man were originally charged by the Trump DOJ for the incident, which culminated with Castro shooting through the front door of their home, but the case quickly unraveled and the charges were dropped.

In his email alerting the victims’ attorneys that the civil rights case against Castro had been stymied, the federal prosecutor ended by saying: “It has been an honor and a privilege to try to get justice for your clients.”

IMPORTANT

The Trump DOJ has adopted a sweeping new legal interpretation designed to compel state governments to report undocumented immigrants or risk losing federal funding, Politico reports.

A new memo from the Office of Legal Counsel reinterprets longstanding law and formally withdraws a prior 1998 OLC memo that administrations had relied on for almost 30 years.

The move is reminiscent of the Trump administration’s reinterpretation last year of a 1996 law — which suddenly allowed millions of undocumented immigrants to be detained without a right to bond hearings. That shift flooded federal courts with habeas cases in which judges have overwhelmingly rejected the administration’s interpretation, but produced a circuit court split that the Supreme Court is expected to resolve as soon as its next term.

Trump Loses Again on Birthright Citizenship

U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman of Maryland has blocked President Trump’s second executive order on birthright citizenship, leaning heavily on the Supreme Court’s rejection of the first one in June. “The Supreme Court has spoken: Children in the certified class are ‘citizens at birth,’” Boardman wrote in her ruling.

DHS and the Threat to Voting

  • ICE is “preparing to award a contract worth up to $5 million to a company that will create a massive national database of voters,” Wired reports.
  • The NYT has obtained internal documents and training materials showing new details about the new DHS effort to target the bogeyman of illegal noncitizen voting, which the administration is privately calling the “Unlawful Voter Initiative.”

The Left-Wing Terrorism Canard

DHS is using an anti-terrorism provision in the PATRIOT Act that allows warrantless access to financial information to target opposition groups, TPM’s Josh Kovensky reports.

Quote of the Day

“Things have gotten so much more dangerous. I think we are headed in the wrong direction. And if I could ever be more concerned than I was after my only child was murdered, I am.”—U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, whose son was murdered at her New Jersey home in 2020 by a disgruntled lawyer, on the increase in threats to judges

‘More Bismarck, Less Hitler’

With the far-right Alternative for Germany party poised to win big in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt in the Sept. 6 election, Politico profiles AFD lawmaker Hans-Thomas Tillschneider and explores the right-wing resurgence in the former East Germany:

It’s perhaps no coincidence that such a revolution in German identity would take root in the former East Germany, where the AfD is ascendant. While West Germany was attempting to undertake a confrontation with the past, imperfect as it was, the state narrative in the former East Germany was that its people had vanquished fascism, which in any case was a product of the West. Many of the AfD’s supporters in the East believe a West German narrative about the Nazi past was imposed on them after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Art Is Dangerous

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 02: Workers place limbs from the sculpture “Blue” on a truck outside of the Kennedy Center on September 02, 2026 in Washington, DC. Installed in 2019, the artwork was removed today without prior notice. (Photo by Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

Civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill pulls together Trump’s multi-front attack on public art — from last week’s removal by the State Department of a painting by Obama portraitist Kehinde Wiley to the sustained assault on the Kennedy Center — into a coherent whole that whitewashes the American story:

The point of taking down Kehinde Wiley’s painting was not to replace it with some more “aesthetically calming” work of art. The idea is to make art devoid of meaning and imagination so that it cannot inspire thinking that challenges the hegemony this Administration is bent on imposing on 350 million Americans. Doing that requires the brutal reduction of art to works that are “woke” and those that are “patriotic.”

Gloria Steinem, 1934-2026

The feminist leader and cultural icon Gloria Steinem has died at 92.

Portrait of American feminist leader and author Gloria Steinem in a room at a Holiday Inn, San Francisco, California, November 1977. (Photo by Janet Fries/Getty Images)

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Republicans Try, and Fail, to Set Number of Justices at 9

Posted on by John Light

Republicans Remind Everyone That Number of Supreme Court Justices Is Not in Constitution

Amid signs Democrats may be more seriously mulling the possibility of some kind of Supreme Court reform, Republicans put forward an effort to set the number of justices at nine. I’m not sure it worked out exactly the way they hoped.

As context, you likely saw that over the weekend, Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), a high-profile Democrat who has in the past held various positions in leadership, endorsed the idea of expanding the Court from nine justices to 13. Various court reformers have offered up the number 13 as a reasonable one to match the number of federal circuit courts. “I would hope we would get people on the court who will follow the constitutional underpinnings of this great nation of ours,” Clyburn said.

At the same time, Republicans in the House rolled out an attempt to set the number of justices at nine: a joint House-Senate resolution reading, “The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of nine justices consisting of one chief justice and eight associate justices.” It was sponsored by Rep. Andy Biggs, a member of the House Freedom Caucus who is running for governor of Arizona.

The resolution would have needed a two-thirds majority in the House and Senate to pass, something that would have perhaps been achievable in another time, if you imagine a Democratic Party seeking to ostracize those radical Court reformers in their left flank. Instead, it barely achieved a simple majority, with a vote of 212 to 206. One Democrat — Don Davis of North Carolina — voted with Republicans, while Kevin Kiley, a Republican-turned-independent who still caucuses with his former party, voted against the resolution.

House Democratic leadership encouraged members to vote against the bill, with Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA), the House whip, writing, “This proposed constitutional amendment would permanently fix the number of Supreme Court justices at nine, stripping Congress of yet another constitutional authority that is meant to be controlled by the American people’s representatives,” per NBC.

What the gambit effectively achieved, as Supreme Court reporter Lawrence Hurley pointed out, was to underscore that the number of justices is not, in fact, enshrined in the Constitution, that the number of justices can at any moment be changed by Congress, and that there is not support in Congress to change that.

DHS’ ‘Voter Fraud’ Surge Takes Shape

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 01: Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin is seen speaking through the viewfinder of a camera during a press conference at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) NY field office on September 01, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Reports in the New York Times and Wired give us new details of how DHS’ pre-election voter fraud push is working.

  • In Wired, David Gilbert writes that ICE is offering up to $5 million for a contract “for the handling and secure delivery of publicly available voter registration files and voter history files to support Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) fraud detection and data segmentation activities” before Sept. 30.
  • The Times writes that as part of the push, federal agents are plugging people’s names and partial social security numbers into websites run by states that are intended for individual voters’ use.
  • Its not clear where the list of individuals came from that agents are being asked to investigate, but one source told the Times it includes U.S. citizens.

Tabs

  • Gloria Steinem has died at 92.
  • Elon Musk and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) met in Texas as the billionaire contemplates dumping millions into House races there, according to Politico.
  • The U.S. on Tuesday bombed a wedding in Iran, killing a six-year-old boy and several others, the New York Times reports.

Man of the Hour

CLIVE, IOWA – AUGUST 29: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) poses for a selfie with an audience member during a BBQ fundraiser for Iowa Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) at the Horizon Events Center on August 29, 2026 in Clive, Iowa. Hinson, running against Democrat state Rep. Josh Turek, is looking to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA). (Photo by Charlie Neibergall/Getty Images)

It’s Ted Cruz, glutton for punishment, visiting Iowa and reportedly contemplating another run for president in 2028.

Are We at War?

Yes, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth quietly extending deployments into 2027, per the Wall Street Journal.

Thune Tries to Carve Out Lane for GOP on Data Centers Beyond Trump’s ‘Poor’ People Bombast

Posted on by Nicole LaFond

Trump Is Making It Impossible

President Trump has made it impossible for Republicans to seize on a relatively easy, bipartisan issue that could help them win over voters in the midterms if they spoke about it in the right way. As he espouses bombastic rhetoric about how only “poor and backwards” people oppose data center construction, Republicans have struggled with how exactly to cross him on the matter.

American opposition to data center construction in their communities is one of the only issues that voters across the political spectrum can agree on at the moment. TPM has been tracking the bipartisan outrage aimed at the tech industry’s attempts to expand this construction boom in rural and urban communities around the nation. A May Gallup poll found that more than 70% of Americans are anti-data center, primarily because of their fears about tech companies coming in to their towns and building facilities that drain local water and energy resources, all for the purpose of expanding the capabilities of artificial intelligence that could eventually be used to strip human Americans of their jobs.

The backlash is simple, relatable and widespread enough that some Republicans — including anti-regulation Republicans who have embraced accelerated AI development — are attempting to message around data center differently heading into the midterms given how universal fears are among voters. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, for example, has, at least temporarily, blocked new data center projects from connecting to the state’s power grid. After extending an open invitation to tech companies to come and build in Texas, Abbott softened his stance amid mounting voter backlash about rising energy costs tied to the projects.

Trump has made any attempt at nuance nearly impossible for members of his party facing reelection. He’s paid back the tech company executives who donated to his inauguration and funded his White House ballroom by using his second term to push for unregulated AI expansion and is even pushing new rules that make it more difficult for local governments to get public input on data center construction.

Earlier this week, the president planted himself firmly in alignment with Big Tech interests by suggesting only communities that want to be “poor and backwards” should be opposed to the construction of the facilities and the natural gas plants that run them.

Likely recognizing the vulnerable opening Trump created with his hard line on the matter, Vice President JD Vance tried to dial that back a bit, suggesting that tech companies should “be putting power back into the grid” in the communities where they’re building. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) tried to do something similar on Monday.

“These entities need to be self-sufficient,” Thune told a local South Dakota TV station. “They ought to be able to take care of their own utilities, their own power, and that ought to be a given any place they go in the country. But they shouldn’t be going places where there isn’t support for them at the local level.”

The Trump administration has, reportedly, tried to press data center developers to sign a pledge that they will try to keep electricity costs in check in the communities where they’re doing construction. But you wouldn’t know it from Trump’s rhetoric. It appears that both Thune and Vance are trying to give vulnerable Republicans a reasonable message to voters on an issue that could be an easy win — if Trump cared about Republicans winning the midterms more than maintaining the Big Tech oligarchy he’s enabled.

No One Wants to Go to Trump’s Fake Dallas Convention

The Republican Party is hosting a bizarre midterms convention in Dallas later this month in an event that will feature President Trump as the headlining speaker. He’s reportedly planning to use the moment to tout his perception of his record so far this term, in hopes that it will somehow bolster Republicans’ prospects in November (unclear how his cratering approval rating factors into all of this).

But the GOP convention in Dallas is not exactly something that Republicans are rushing to attend — and why would they? Trump has actively made it harder for Republicans to have anything concrete to campaign on this cycle, both in the data center realm, as I unpacked above, and also on other issues, like his obsession with the SAVE Act (and torpedoing easy wins while pressuring Congress to pass it).

Politico surveyed more than 70 Republican candidates and members of Congress to see if any were planning to attend. Most are not:

The 45 Republicans cited a variety of reasons for skipping the first midterm convention put on by a major party in more than four decades. Some cited prior obligations such as fundraisers or events in their districts that were planned before the convention was scheduled in June. Others had personal conflicts, like weddings and family events, and still others raised qualms about the five-figure-minimum fees that party officials want attending lawmakers to pony up.

And some Republicans in tough races are steering clear of the gathering — which has come to be called “Trump-a-palooza” in some GOP circles — as they face growing hesitation about associating themselves with the polarizing president so close to the election.

But Maybe They’ll Come to This

MS NOW reports:

President Donald Trump is hosting vulnerable Republican incumbents facing tough re-election contests for dinner in the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday, according to a White House official with knowledge of the invitations.

The invitees include GOP lawmakers who are locked in competitive races this November, according to the official, who declined to provide a full list of the Republican attendees.

Here’s What Else You Should Read From TPM Today

Josh Kovensky has new details on the Trump administration’s use of a tool that Congress created in 2001, in the early days of the War on Terror, to investigate groups that oppose the Trump administration’s agenda: DHS Brings PATRIOT Act Tool to Bear in NSPM-7 Investigation

Emine Yücel has a new piece out today that outlines how Democrats have evolved on the issue of expanding the Supreme Court: What Democrats Have, and Haven’t, Said About Supreme Court Reform

“The destruction of a professional military has to rank among the most egregious and long-lasting of Trump II initiatives targeting government itself, along with his attacks on the merit-based civil service system, his abusive misuse of the Justice Department, his elimination of USAID, and his running roughshod over Congress’ power of the purse,” David Kurtz writes in today’s edition of Morning Memo: The Pentagon Purges Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Yesterday’s Top Story

AUDIO: Colorado GOP Gov. Nominee Tells Wild Exorcism Story About Fighting ‘Satan In Person’

What I’m Reading

ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database 

Tillis renews calls for Hegseth’s ouster 

Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread 

Is the Data Center Backlash Just NIMBY Run Amok?

Posted on by Josh Marshall

In response to my post about this data center backlash outside of Kansas City (specifically Independence, Missouri), I’ve been fielding the range of ideas people have about hyperscale AI data centers. As you’d probably expect, the vast majority of people are against them and excited to see this kind of backlash through the architecture of local government. But there’s a small but vocal group saying: no, this is all a kind of NIMBY moral panic driven by anger at Big Tech when a lot of these deals, maybe most, actually are good deals for the local communities.

The last part isn’t totally crazy. Or at least they’re certainly on to something that a big part of the punch behind the data center backlash is fueled by a broad politico-economy anger about tech platforms, AI, and nascent oligarchy which in this one set of circumstances people can actually fight back against. I discussed this in a post at the end of last month. Part of the big sour mood that seems to pervade every nook and cranny of our society today is focused on Big Tech, the central and most visible moneyed power in the U.S. today. Everyone has this sense that these guys can simply do anything and there’s no accountability — no democratic control — over any of it. It’s their world and we’re just living in it. But here you have a case where you need to build a super big data center, where finally you have to come and ask permission from some sleepy town council or county commission. And all that pent up powerlessness just comes out as, No! Or, really, Fuck no! And along with that is comment that amounts to, I don’t even care what you’re doing. The answer’s still no. Because you guys have way too much power and someone has to say no to you.

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What Democrats Have, and Haven’t, Said About Supreme Court Reform

Posted on by Emine Yücel

A once controversial issue pushed only by the most progressive members of the Democratic Party is seemingly becoming a more common stance in the era of Donald Trump: reshaping the Supreme Court.

The topic is top of mind for high-profile Democrats who are preparing for the possibility of regaining control of Congress or even having a trifecta in the coming months and years. 

Some of these calls for Court reform remain vague and half-baked, and many lawmakers have yet to weigh in at all. But from congressional leadership to 2028 presidential hopefuls, a growing number of big names are offering specific proposals and, in some cases, endorsing the idea of expanding the Court beyond its current nine members.

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DHS Brings PATRIOT Act Tool to Bear in NSPM-7 Investigation

Posted on by Josh Kovensky

The Trump administration used a tool created in the early days of the War on Terror to obtain financial information without a search warrant as part of its broad crackdown on opposition groups, new documents show. 

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In a Rare Move, Republican House Censures One of Their Own Over Conduct Toward Women

Posted on by Allegra Kirkland

This story was originally reported by Mel Leonor Barclay of The 19th. Meet Mel and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy.

House lawmakers formally censured Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina over findings that he behaved inappropriately toward two women staffers, showering them with gifts and attention, including reciting poetry for one and giving each a personalized handgun.

The resolution was backed by members of both parties with overwhelming support. The vote marked a rare moment where a member of the party in power faced disciplinary action in the form of censure, and where that action stemmed from inappropriate conduct toward women. A censure doesn’t carry any practical consequences but is rare enough to show deep disapproval of the conduct among lawmakers. How and if Edwards will be punished would require a separate vote. 

Edwards abandoned his reelection campaign last month amid growing attention on the accusations and details of his behavior. 

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The Backstory on the Big AI Backlash in Independence, Missouri

Posted on by Josh Marshall

As you can see in my most recent post, yesterday evening TPM Reader BC flagged this news out of Independence, Missouri, best known as the hometown of Harry Truman. A city councilman, John Perkins, got canned in a recall election over a data center and by a massive margin: 68% of the town’s residents voted to end Perkin’s term immediately. It’s all backlash from the town’s approval of a major hyperscale AI data center on which construction is now already well underway.

While this is just one city council race, the broader metastory and this particular development sounds like one of the ur-stories of the 2026 midterm cycle. It coincides with and is related to the backlash against Donald Trump and all his corruption and wrongdoing over the last 18 months. But it’s only in the last three or four months that the AI data center story has fully broken into the national headlines. For all these reasons, I wanted to dig in and find out a bit more of the details. It’s really quite storybook in a kind of made-for-TV-movie dystopian kind of way.

Here’s the story as I understand it.

How the Supreme Court Helps Trump Run Out the Clock

Posted on by Allegra Kirkland

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes.

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Postal Service to overhaul mail voting in a way that threatens to disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans in the upcoming election. 

Federal courts have repeatedly issued orders blocking this election interference. But the Supreme Court has swooped in to lift those court orders, and Trump remains undeterred. This week, an anonymous federal official filed a whistleblower disclosure revealing that the U.S. Postal Service is “poised to derail the midterm elections,” and is working “at a breakneck speed” to implement Trump’s directive, regardless of whether any court orders were in place.

These revelations are closely connected to the Supreme Court’s strategy for facilitating Trump’s lawbreaking, in the November elections and beyond. The Republican justices regularly delay substantive review of the administration’s actions, which confines lower courts to procedural questions and frees the administration to act lawlessly in the meanwhile. When Trump can count on the Court to forestall legal review as long as possible—and to override unfavorable determinations when they do occur—he has every incentive to just keep breaking the law.

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The Pentagon Purges Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Posted on by David Kurtz

Black and Female Officers Targeted

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has blocked the elevation of seven Army officers to the rank of two-star general, the New York Times reports, as part of his ongoing mission to destroy the military’s merit-based promotion system and replace it with a politicized system based on personal loyalty and fealty to MAGA ideology:

More than half of the officers affected by Mr. Hegseth’s dismissals are Black or female in a force whose senior ranks are dominated by white male officers. Of the seven officers Mr. Hegseth removed from the Army two-star promotion list, two are Black and two are female.

The Pentagon purges have hit more than 80 generals and admirals so far, which represents about 10% of the military’s top officers, according to the NYT.

The destruction of a professional military has to rank among the most egregious and long-lasting of Trump II initiatives targeting government itself, along with his attacks on the merit-based civil service system, his abusive misuse of the Justice Department, his elimination of USAID, and his running roughshod over Congress’ power of the purse.

It is one of the bitter ironies of the Trump II presidency that he is destroying not just what he views as liberal shibboleths but core elements of what Republicans used to say mattered most to them — which creates a perverse future dynamic where Democrats will be expected to expend their political capital to repair everything.

Quote of the Day

“It’s been a year of murders. The Trump administration has normalized murder. It’s absolutely criminal.”—an unidentified defense official, on the one-year anniversary of the start of the lawless high seas campaign against alleged drug-smuggling boats that has killed 227 civilians in 65 attacks

Warming of 1.5°C Is Now Unavoidable

A turquoise-green house stands tall amid sludge near Trishuli river in the aftermath of flash floods at Trishuli Center in Nepal’s Nuwakot district on September 2, 2026. Nepali rescuers searched on September 2, for survivors feared trapped inside hydropower tunnels a week after devastating floods, but hopes were fading as teams hit dead ends and no one was confirmed alive. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP via Getty Images)

A first-of-its-kind UN report titled “Limiting Overshoot” assumes that the world will exceed its 1.5°C target for warming and recommends what it calls the “best remaining option”: limiting peak warming to 1.8°C and then begin the Herculean task of bringing temperatures back down.

Even this revised plan — with the ungainly name “overshoot, peak and decline” — requires an enormous global undertaking without precedent that must be commenced immediately. It starts with reducing carbon dioxide emissions worldwide to net zero by the 2050s and then relies on the future development of carbon removal technologies at scale to bring temperatures back down to the 1.5°C threshold.

TOPSHOT – A woman walks among the ruins of flash floods in Nepal’s Nuwakot district on September 1, 2026. The huge wave of freezing water and debris, sparked by a glacial collapse on the China-Nepal border, killed at least 939 people and left nearly 4,500 missing, with Kathmandu warning reconstruction costs could run into the “billions of dollars”. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP via Getty Images)

The report emphasizes the importance of minimizing the time spent above 1.5°C and limiting the overshoot as much as possible to have any real chance of (i) mitigating the most extreme consequences of climate change; and (ii) bringing temperatures back down to more survivable levels.

Even under its best-case scenario, the report still envisions the world spending decades above 1.5°C and warns that in the event “overshoot, peak and decline” works, civilization will still face lasting and irreversible consequences: “Legacy impacts that do not reverse with temperature—continued sea-level rise, species extinctions, ecosystem regime shifts, permafrost carbon feedbacks and the displacement of communities—mean the post-peak stage inherits the full burden of what preceded it.”

Tina Peters Declines New Elections Job

Tina Peters, the convicted former Colorado county clerk who has been on high-profile victory tour since Gov. Jared Polis commuted her prison sentence, has declined to accept a job offer as an elections official in Shasta County, California, a hotbed of Big Lie enthusiasm.

“She declined the offer because she’s running around the country right now trying to secure the elections,” Clint Curtis, the Shasta County registrar of voters who is himself a longtime election denier, told the LA Times. “Shasta County lost out.”

Bovino Was Under Internal Investigation When He Resigned

Greg Bovino, the flamboyant former Customs and Border Protection commander who became the face of President Trump mass deportation operations in blue cities, was under internal investigation when he resigned in March, according to newly released government emails.

Thanks, Apple

Another tech giant has fallen in line with President Trump’s executive order purporting to rename Lake Ontario:

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