Amazing. The Trump administration simply refuses to deploy the power of the federal executive to compel lower drug prices when doing so would be both easy and popular.
No enduring rules, just Trump deals. Overpromise, underdeliver.
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![Pressure on Hospitals
CPSC Chief Data Officer Elizabeth Puchek, who joined the agency late last year after engineering [highlighted] U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ [end highlight] data system, has told hospitals in emails that they must seek an exemption from the program if they decline to share patients’ emergency room records with Konza.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ppappkmqzwohcsveymatn76q/bafkreifizyn3sf6wwmu76ky6gfzterfzgbw53p256rrylto6lodq6mk6fa)
![The fact that the Michigan case failed does not necessarily mean the federal case against Trump would also have failed. Simmons said that Trump’s election lawyers withheld meaningful information from the would-be Michigan electors. But her ruling still highlights a real problem with all of these cases: [Next sentence highlighted by OP] Though the Trump campaign’s challenges to the 2020 election were destructive and culminated in violence on Jan. 6, 2021, they were not a secret.
Fraud and forgery charges are therefore a poor fit for the alleged behavior. “Typically, [rest of quote sentence highlighted by OP] people who are seeking to defraud or deceive do not gather and make a spectacle of that,” Simmons said. That’s why it took prosecutors more than two years to bring indictments. These were a useful complement to Democratic political efforts to keep the 2020 election front and center. (Nessel got a prime speaking slot during the party’s national convention last summer in Chicago.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ppappkmqzwohcsveymatn76q/bafkreihoyfrn6rf76vgmw2cwlf3aaeqx7c65yuf5rgebdmaffj7kep6hka)
![Screenshot from the Wikipedia article for the National Butterfly Center.
Section: US-Mexico border wall
Text: The proposed US–Mexico border wall is slated to pass through the grounds of the National Butterfly Center.[7][8] Filmmaker Krista Schlyer, part of an all-woman team creating a documentary film about the butterflies and the border wall, Ay Mariposa,[9] estimates that construction would put "70 percent of the preserve habitat behind the border wall."[2]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ppappkmqzwohcsveymatn76q/bafkreieth66ro4hkb5yvkypygzfnq7logozzyncvmjkmmtplz3vxswcxhy)
![Screenshot from the Wikipedia article for the National Butterfly Center.
Section: QAnon
Text: After a QAnon conspiracy theory spread on social media that the National Butterfly Center was smuggling migrants into the US, in late January 2022, Republican Congressional candidate Kimberly Lowe and her purported Secret Service Agent[17] visited the center referring to "the rafts with the illegal crossing" and to child rape, then reportedly injured the director, Marianna Trevino Wright, and almost struck her son with their vehicle. In response, the center closed for three days the following weekend as a precaution during the We Stand America rally nearby, and announced on February 3, 2022, that it would be closed indefinitely for "the safety of our staff and visitors".[1][18] The center reopened on Earth Day in 2022.[19]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ppappkmqzwohcsveymatn76q/bafkreidkzpdtieqqa5gx3wq2rmscrvfsqchekjlkf5jf65zc6fhvdk73wa)
![Screenshot from a May 2020 NPR article: "Maine Sen. Susan Collins voiced concern on Twitter, saying, "The President has not provided the kind of justification for the removal of IG Linick required by [a 2008] law."
Contemporaneous tweets from Collins appear below:
"In 2008, I coauthored with former Sens. McCaskill and Lieberman The Inspector General Reform Act (P.L. 110-40), which among other provisions requires the President to notify Congress 30 days prior to the removal of an Inspector General along with the reasons for the removal."
"The President has not provided the kind of justification for the removal of IG Linick required by this law."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ppappkmqzwohcsveymatn76q/bafkreigxxaxn4tqv5uhhoth5qpdblmrqlxolqivis6sboaarskbahfwgwa)