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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 15h

🚨🚨 OVER ON TWITTER Politico.. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito CONFIRMS he is CONSIDERING RETIREMENT 🚨🚨 IF SO. . . REALIZE HOW IMPORTANT YOUR VOTE THIS NOVEMBER IS WE MUST TAKE CONTROL OF THE SENATE

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 9h

icymi Hegseth just reopened a can of worms when he did his little vanity project to make Musk happy and I am HERE FOR IT

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Jonathan Ross has not been charged. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez have not been charged. Charles Exum has not been charged. None of them have even been fired. They can murder us in the streets and get away with it. And they know it. They'll keep getting away with it until we stop this.

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ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good in Minneapolis Gets Cushy New Job

Jonathan Ross is still avoiding accountability months after he shot and killed Renee Good.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Remember, Republicans made ICE one of the most well-funded "militaries" in the world. The GOP took tens of billions of our tax $$ to fund a violent, lawless paramilitary group to terrorize American communities and brutalize, abduct, and kill us and our neighbors.

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“Ukraine attacks Russian resources to stop death. Russia attacks Ukrainian people to stop life.” nypost.com/2026/07/11/o...

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For peace in Ukraine, don’t give Putin an off-ramp — force him into a dead end

If you give Putin a Crimea, he’ll try to take a whole country.

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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is the website #DonaldTrump ordered to be deleted Global Climate Dashboard Tracking climate change and natural variability over time The truth about climate change. It looks very bad. www.climate.us #KatharinaReiche #FriedhelmMerz #HeatWaves #CDU #AfD #ClimateEmergency

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Climate.us Home

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Here's what the NRSC is telling Republican Senate candidates they can do after today's SCOTUS decision. I'm flagging the key parts. And whatever they can do, so can the DSCC and DCCC—though this memo argues that the GOP is in a better position to capitalize in 2026. www.nrsc.org/wp-content/u...

MEMORANDUM
TO: NRSC Supporters and Allies
RE: NRSC v. FEC — Q&A
DATE: Tuesday June 30, 2026
The Basics
What did the Supreme Court Decide?
The Court struck down the federal limits on coordinated expenditures between political parties and their
candidates. These limits, in place since the 1970s and upheld in FEC v. Colorado Republican Federal
Campaign Committee (Colorado II, 2001), generally capped how much a national party committee could spend
in coordination with each of its candidates for federal office. For Senate races, those caps most recently range
from roughly $130,000 to $4 million depending on a state's voting-age population.
What was the NRSC’s Argument?
The NRSC argued, and the Court agreed, that the coordinated expenditure limits violated the First
Amendment. The only interest the Court recognizes as sufficient to limit political spending is preventing quid
pro quo corruption, but there is no evidence that coordinated spending between a party and its own candidates
can be linked to that kind of corruption. Twenty-eight states allow unlimited coordinated party spending, and
none have produced a single documented instance of corruption as a result. The government's interest was
purely speculative, and the limits were not closely drawn to address it.
Who Brought the Case?
The NRSC, the NRCC, then-Senate candidate J.D. Vance, and former Representative Steve Chabot filed the
challenge in 2022. The case moved through the Southern District of Ohio and the Sixth Circuit (which upheld
the limits as bound by Colorado II) before the Supreme Court granted certiorari in June 2025. Oral arguments
were held December 9, 2025. Notably, the Trump Administration declined to defend the limits, agreeing with
the NRSC that they were unconstitutional. The Court appointed an amicus to defend the statute; the DNC,
DSCC, and DCCC intervened to defend the limits as well.
What Changes
What can the NRSC do now that it couldn’t before?
The NRSC can spend without limit in direct coord…

and leading large-scale paid canvassing programs (which the FEC has advised can be coordinated with
campaigns and committees). The NRSC coordinates the overall ecosystem – data, targeting, sequencing – to
make sure all efforts are aligned.
Does this help Republican campaigns specifically?
The ruling applies equally to both parties' national committees, but the practical impact is asymmetric. This
cycle, the Republican party committees vastly outraised our Democrat counterparts, and the more a committee
raises, the more it benefits from unlimited coordinated spending at preferential rates. Democrats know this,
which explains why the DNC, DSCC, and DCCC all intervened to defend the very limits this case struck down,
even though lifting them expanded their own spending authority. They preferred the old system because it
channeled spending through campaigns and their outside group network rather than through party committees,
where Republicans hold the advantage. The NRSC has also spent years litigating this case and built its 2026
infrastructure around the anticipated ruling, a head start that compounds the fundraising edge.
What Doesn’t Change
Does this remove contribution limits?
No. Individual contribution limits remain in place. A person can still give a maximum of $44,300 per year to a
national party committee's operating account (and $132,900 per year to each of the special accounts for
conventions, headquarters, and legal proceedings). The ruling affects how the party spends its money, not how
much it can raise from any one donor.
Does this let donors earmark money to specific candidates?
No. Donors give to the NRSC. The NRSC decides how to allocate coordinated spending across the map.
Allocation of funds to specific races is determined at the sole discretion of the Committee, though deployment
decisions within a race are developed with deep knowledge of what most benefits campaigns. This is not a
pass-through mechanism.
Does this affect Super PACs or other outs…

ow does the NRSC decide which races get coordinated spending?
The NRSC has structured a four-tier support framework. All in-cycle incumbents and endorsed candidates
receive the maximum direct contribution ($62,000). Allocation across battlegrounds is at the sole discretion of
the NRSC.
What should allies and operatives know before speaking on this topic?
Key points:
● This is a First Amendment victory — the Court recognized that parties should be able to speak with
their own candidates.
● It levels the playing field. Democrats have long benefited from a network of well-funded outside groups.
This gives the party committees the tools to compete directly.
● It makes campaigns more efficient and accountable. Coordinated spending means better messaging,
less waste, and more transparency than the independent expenditure model.
● Small-dollar donors and grassroots supporters benefit — their contributions to the Committee now carry
dramatically more purchasing power.
What some get wrong
● Don't describe this as "removing limits on donations" — it doesn't change contribution limits.
● Don't suggest donors can now direct money to specific candidates through the party — that's not how
this works.
● Don't overstate the scope — this is about party-candidate coordination, not a wholesale rewrite of
campaign finance law.
● Don't engage with "corruption" framing on opponents' terms — 28 states have operated without these
limits with no evidence of the problems critics predicted.
Legal and Political Context
Where does this fit in the broader arc of campaign finance law?
This is the latest in a series of decisions in which the Court has applied rigorous First Amendment scrutiny to
campaign finance restrictions:
● Citizens United v. FEC (2010) — corporations, unions, and associations may make independent
expenditures
● McCutcheon v. FEC (2014) — aggregate contribution limits struck down
● NRSC v. FEC (2026) — coordinated party expenditure limits struck down
The through line: the Cour…

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The fact that libs of TikTok is posting this kind of shit about literal 7 year old girls genuinely terrifies me. The right has been aggressively accelerating the eliminationist rhetoric over even just the last few weeks.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

absolutely vital to win the senate this november. need to basically blockade judicial confirmations for the next two years.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trump-endorsed Montana Senate nominee Kurt Alme allowed a police officer who sexually assaulted a 6-year-old girl to serve less than a year in prison and avoid being registered as a sex offender.

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Paul Nolley for Congress @nolleyforcongress.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The House Majority is at stake this year & we can flip a district right here in IL. But we need your help. Our fundraising period ends midnight today! Please pitch in any amount and help flip the 16th District from Red to Blue! Go to NolleyforCongress.com to contribute before midnight tonight!

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Most attention on last Thursday’s #SCOTUS ruling in the TPS cases has been (understandably) focused on Justice Alito’s whitewashing of the Trump administration’s racism. But as today’s “One First” explains, it also includes an alarming power grab for appellate courts in *all* “interim relief” cases:

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235. Hypothetical Jurisdiction in Mullin v. Doe

Justice Alito's TPS opinion offered a new theory of how courts can resolve "interim" appeals. Fortunately, Justices Gorsuch and Barrett refused to endorse it.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

JUST IN: DOJ's No. 3 official @ASGWoodward signals dept will take up an option we raised here and pay off many J6ers using ordinary DOJ procedures www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

There is no law & there is no legitimacy anymore. Congrats again to Chief Keyser Söze, who has now passed even Roger Taney as the worst, most corrupt & authoritarian Chief Justice in American history: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

👇🎯 Once again, an easy way for the @nytimes & every other media outlet to avoid what they clearly feel are unfair & biased criticisms for how they cover 🇺🇸 politics & Democrats vs Republicans would be for them to stop doing things <every day> that <completely confirm> the merits of those criticisms.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Just leaving this right here. #25thAmendment

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Just call God “she” or “her” or “mother” and you will find out very quickly how many Christians refuse to see God’s image in women. As if calling God by a feminine pronoun is demeaning to God rather than naming part of who God is. This is the worship of patriarchy.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The special services soldier appears not to have understood that insider betting on Polymarket and similar fora is reserved as a privilege for members of the president's family and immediate entourage. abcnews.com/US/doj-arres...

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DOJ arrests soldier who made $400,000 betting on Maduro's removal: Sources

Authorities have arrested an U.S. soldier involved in the capture of Nicolas Maduro for allegedly pocketing more than $400,000 by betting on his capture, sources say.

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

🚨What’s 1 more Black man on death row in TX? 🔴Confession from Gunman 🔴DNA Confirms it 😡Scheduled 4/30 🤬More Abbott & Paxton Foolery! ✍️Petition to Pardon bit.ly/4cESBk9

GRaphic explaining the April 30 scheduled execution of James Broadnax in TX
for murders he didn’t commit and the confession of the actual gunman that committed the crimes with DNA evidence support it. Req is to petition Greg Abbot to Pardon the execution

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

BREAKING: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned following multiple scandals.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Israeli soldiers destroyed statues of Jesus Christ on Sunday in support of Donald Trump’s war on the Pope and 1.4 Billion Catholics. Netanyahu forced to issue an apology to keep actual Christian groups from cutting all funding and retaking Jerusalem.

An IDF soldier smashes a statue of Jesus in southern Lebanon, in an image uploaded to social media

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This is awesome. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen this, and wait, is that Dan Aykroyd?

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Turns out, yes, that is Dan Aykroyd. He wasn’t supposed to be there and ended up there basically by accident. Hahaha. screenrant.com/greatest-nig....

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Dan Aykroyd's Cameo In 1985's "We Are The World" Song Explained: When He Sings & Why He's In It

Why is Dan Aykroyd in "We Are the World"?

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

“I thought it was me as a doctor” is such a childish lie that the media’s refusal to call it that and drive in circles to say “trump denied it was an image of jesus and said he thought it was a doctor” is an implicit admission that they will never truthfully report on trump for the rest of his life

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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It is crazymaking to listen to the right claim Orban's loss means he was never an authoritarian when people in Hungary feared that opposing him would immiserate their families www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/04/2026

Harmeet Dhillon’s project “has already done a great deal of damage to the Civil Rights Division’s traditional mission—even if it ultimately falls short of its goals, and regardless of whether it nets Dhillon a promotion,” @qjurecic.bsky.social reports:

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Harmeet Dhillon Is Not Wasting Any Time

She arrived at the Department of Justice with radical changes in mind. One year later, she has reshaped the Civil Rights Division—and may be up for a promotion.

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It's not a counterpunch, guys. The pope didn't throw a punch. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

If you are interested in listening to the oral arguments this morning at SCOTUS on birthright citizenship that begin at 10 am ET, you can click here: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

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Live Oral Argument Audio Live Oral Argument Audio

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 01/04/2026

Q: You're from Florida, it's Trump's home state, you're a voter. Why do you think your opinion doesn't matter to him? Florida resident: Because I'm not rich

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

OK, off early to this circus. I’ll be in the Supreme Court courtroom today for the oral arguments over Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship. There are no cameras and Trump is expected to attend, so subscribe to Law Dork to get my full report after I’m out of court: www.lawdork.com

Chris with Colada Shop Havana Cold Brew, wearing a sky-blue dot tie, blue-and-brown-stripe-on-white dress shirt, and a royal blue jacket.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

"In immigration detention, he missed 4 out of 5 chemotherapy sessions scheduled in his fight against aggressive lymphoma. A scan last month showed the cancer had spread into his bone marrow. “I was in shock, seeing those little dots,” he said of the scan...” www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

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Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice.

Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

"The third No Kings protests were an unmistakable display of political force..." "Two-thirds of participants live in suburban, small town or rural areas, a 40% increase over last time in protesters from outside big cities..." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Red flare for Trump: 'No Kings' rallies a show of political force

With a Revolutionary-era slogan, the protests had an historic geographical reach across the country. What does that mean for November?

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"I'm Just A Bill" debuted #OTD in 1976. The SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK classic was written by Dave Frishberg and performed by Jack Sheldon (with Sheldon's son John as the voice of the boy). All the #SchoolHouseRock shorts are on Internet Archive, relics of a simpler time: archive.org/details/scho... #TVSky

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The regime counts its successes by looking outside electoral politics, touting speech suppressed, laws violated, media co-opted, societal institutions cowed. That’s why demonstrative politics outside of electoral campaigns, where tons of people express dissent and show that they can, matters a lot.

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Democratic Women of South Orange County @dwsoc.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Some signs carry harder messages. 10 times in 5 seconds. We won’t forget.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 28/03/2026

I LOVE clever #nokings signs. Send them! Andor references especially appreciated.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/03/2026

I'm writing a piece on the No Kings protest today! If you're comfortable, reply with your photos of No Kings, where you're protesting, and what motivated you to go out and protest! And don't forget to include the best signs you saw! #NoKings

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

On election night in 2012, Trump called for “a revolution in this country!” Minutes later, he added, “We can’t let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

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Trump told us who he was in 2012. Will we finally believe him today?

Trump has always been an election denier. He has always vilified voting. He has always started with lies, escalated to the courts, and ultimately embraced violent rhetoric.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 28/03/2026

So far this year, now 87 days old, Trump has spent all or part of 36 days at Mar-a-Lago and likely played 16 rounds of golf. www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...

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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A bill passed the Senate 100-0 to fund critical agencies like the TSA and FEMA. If Speaker Johnson called it for a vote it would pass easily. But he won’t do that. Instead, House Republicans are prolonging this shutdown by insisting on even more funding for ICE. I voted NO.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Again, we should have started upholding the core tenets of the Constitution back in 2017, when he started openly monetizing his hotel three blocks from the White House. 👇 is literally Republic 101 stuff.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Notable: The White House's absurd cult-like flattery of Trump's handling of the war is boxing them in: He won't want to accept any deal that doesn't look like a world-historical triumph for him. On the pod @emilyhorne.bsky.social is great on this/other Iran matters: newrepublic.com/article/2081...

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Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as New Leaks on War Humiliate Him Badly

As Karoline Leavitt’s praise for Trump goes wild amid fresh revelations about his decision-making, a former national security official details how his leadership failures explain what’s going wrong on...

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