Avi Grant

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[Avi Grant @avi_grant2000]

@Tyrellcrosby She is the best. So amazing!! Here’s a photo I took of her in early March 2020 before covid. @chelseacutler 🥺

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

STATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REFLECTING POOL INFIGHTING

[ProPublica @propublica]

A new White House rule would restrict international collaboration, potentially shutting U.S. scientists out of critical discoveries.

The shift “could jeopardize the whole future of high-energy physics,” one scientist said.
https://t.co/Q3pZuAfQr5

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Secret Service agents were told to quickly send a written summary of their interview with Comey to Trump on Air Force One, one of the most glaring examples to date of how he now personally directs federal law enforcement actions. @DevlinBarrett @alanfeuer https://t.co/WgOgiJ1MiL

[Apple TV @AppleTV]

Please frolic in moderation.

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

Breaking: Paramount announced Friday afternoon that its takeover of CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, will be delayed for many months, and potentially well into 2027, due to pending lawsuits by state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America. @CNN reporting

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING:

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Man who killed Democratic Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman is sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years in prison.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

BREAKING: All 212 House Democrats have joined my motion to force a vote blocking President Trump's taxpayer-funded slush fund for convicted criminals and other allies and to nullify his family-sized Super Pardon for any criminal, civil or tax offenses committed by him, any of his sons and all of his businesses.

Now looking for six Republicans who say they oppose this illegal insurrectionist slush fund and want to protect the taxpayers to join us to end this corrupt self-dealing once and for all.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Trump has blamed vandals, but a WaPo analysis finds that the peeling tracks closely with stages of the renovation process.

The lining peeled in at least seven places along seams created when the material was applied in large rectangular sections, indicating likely problems with installation.
https://t.co/sIwlFQoLHL

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

NEW: Donald Trump's speech on the 2020 election tonight isn't arriving on a blank slate.

His own intel officials rejected the notion that foreign powers manipulated votes. And endless reviews/audits have confirmed this.

w @johnnysaks130

https://t.co/9cXVu8BtgV

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge says Trump lawsuit against IRS was filed for 'improper purpose' and refers attorneys for disciplinary action

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Nothing to see here: Just 292,150+ people warning about Trump Admin’s new federal rule to strip grant funding power away from experts, scientists and unbiased arbiters

Instead granting power over federal grants to Trump appointees

Enormous issue

Comment deadline is today

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

A new proposal from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget is poised to dramatically increase the President’s power over how federal funds are given out. The proposal would hand Trump a “new cudgel” to “advance his partisan agenda and punish political rivals,” according to a letter signed by all 47 Senate Democrats. “The stakes could not be higher,” is how the legal website Lexology put it. The rules would impact hundreds of billions of dollars in funding disbursed by agencies including the National Endowment for the Arts and the Transportation Department, to pay for everything from local dance performances to massive infrastructure projects and scientific research. It could even bar the U.S. from being included in the International Space Station, and in any weather and pandemic monitoring efforts. “The list of tactics the Trump White House has used against its perceived enemies is nasty and brutish,” Elizabeth Kolbert writes, “but certainly not short.” Read Kolbert’s report on how federal funding could be terminated or denied on the ground that it doesn’t fit the President’s agenda: https://t.co/DttSK7SpEs

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, according to Atul Gawande, a former leading administrator at the agency. Gawande, backed by recent academic studies, believes that the death toll will likely reach seven figures. The policy is not only immeasurably cruel, he argues; it is also stupid, badly undermining what remains of American soft power and prestige. Gawande explains the human cost of DOGE’s war on U.S.A.I.D.: https://t.co/pcqDGOFqdJ

[ProPublica @propublica]

Ten members of Congress have warned the secretary of defense that the Trump administration’s gutting of a program focused on shielding noncombatants puts service members in peril, erodes the military’s moral standing and may violate federal law.
https://t.co/lJn7dsk7md

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

Reports that the White House has dismissed the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission — all of whom were unanimously confirmed by the Senate, including a commissioner appointed by President Trump himself — should concern every American, regardless of party, because the EAC was established by Congress as an independent, bipartisan body to help states administer secure and credible elections.

If these reports are accurate, removing every remaining commissioner just months before the 2026 midterm elections is an extraordinary step that demands an immediate explanation from the administration and raises profound concerns about political interference in the institutions that support our elections.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms.

The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment. https://t.co/DBaRuFaWJB

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The nation’s largest group of scholars of U.S. history denounced a White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. https://t.co/nuojReB9Mv

[Avi Grant @avi_grant2000]

@DylanMcD8 Yes you can disable it. In the “sharing” settings in Instagram

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

No, George Washington didn’t have a personal-business desk beside his official desk. No, 38,000 Americans didn’t die building the Panama Canal. No, it’s not true no pre-Trump president donated his salary.

Lots of fake history from Trump this past week: https://t.co/kYZHpl60b2

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING:

ATLANTA (AP) — Judge rejects Justice Department attempt to subpoena names of 2020 election workers in Georgia's Fulton County.