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Yesterday felt like a sneaky big news day. First day in a good while where there like 3+ stories I felt were worth posting here.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/25/trump-classified-documents-mar-a-lago/

Update on the classified documents at MAL. Trump's employees were moving boxes of documents the day before the FBI arrived to seize them and they find that suspicious. Additionally it came out that even before the subpoena that led to the seizure that Trump and his aides carried out a "dress rehearsal" for moving the classified documents. Finally, it appears prosecutors have gathered evidence that Trump kept classified documents in a visible place and showed them to others.

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/25/supreme-court-clean-water-act/

SCOTUS decides 5-4 to gut the Clean Water Act by overturning a decades-old previous decision that defined what counted as protected under the law. While all 9 agreed that the EPA went too far in the specific case of an Idaho couple they were deciding, the Court decided to go further than that and just eviscerate the law.

Kavanaugh was the one conservative who joined the liberals this time. In his dissent he points out that the majority is literally just ignoring the text of the law and redefining words as they please to push their agenda. (At issue is the text of the Clean Water act uses "adjacent" and the majority just goes "fuck it" and decides it actually means "adjoining" to which Kavanaugh points out they are different words with different meanings. And that by deciding to ignore the text and insert their own version from their asses they are having millions of acres fall out of protection of the Clean Water Act with potentially massive consequences.)

The majority barely responds to his point, and the tiny paragraph they address him with you can feel their disdain dripping from it. I'm barely paraphrasing when I say their response is, "But how can a wetland count as water? who is redefining words now? checkmate libs."

3. https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1661763458843529216

Is it really "saying the quiet part out loud" at this point? I kind of feel like it's not quiet anymore that the GOP puts the party before the country. "A default would be bad for America but good for us politically."