Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

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  1. Trump militarizes 60-foot strip along 600 miles of border to give military operational control.
  2. RFK Jr. claims measles is plateauing as cases double last year’s total, top 700, and spread to six states with three dead.
  3. Judge allows Trump’s immigration agents to carry out enforcement in houses of worship after denying religious groups’ challenge.
  4. Trump pressures five more law firms into pro bono deals, bringing total to nine and nearly $1 billion after EEOC threats and executive orders.
  5. Trump admin kills sewage cleanup deal in Alabama, slamming environmental justice as DEI ‘preference’.
  6. Three Florida universities move to deputize campus police for ICE enforcement under DeSantis-Trump directive.
  7. Trump pushes Congress to make daylight saving time permanent, calling clock changes ‘inconvenient’ and ‘very costly’.
  8. Trump’s U.S. attorney for New Jersey opens probe into Gov. Murphy and AG Platkin over refusal to aid ICE.
  9. Trump DOJ seeks release of FBI informant who admitted lying about Bidens after meeting with Russian agents.
  10. Musk’s DOGE hijacks computerized federal grant system, blocking agencies from posting $500B in awards.
  11. Trump moves to cut Maine’s K-12 school funding over a handful of transgender athletes.
  12. Judge clears Trump to deport Columbia grad for political speech under Cold War-era law, federal appeal still pending
  13. Judge orders daily updates on mistaken deportation case as Trump administration defies courts.
  14. Trump plan halves NASA science budget, shutters Goddard, and cancels Mars and Venus missions.
  15. Judge allows one DOGE member access to Treasury data tied to Americans’ bank and Social Security info.
  16. Trump says he aced cognitive test during physical, breaks with tradition and will release results Sunday.
  17. Social Security slashes regional staff and moves all public updates to Musk-owned X posts.
  18. FDA staff walk out as RFK Jr. accuses agency of being ‘sock puppets’ and claims Deep State is real.
 
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