Today is allegedly Liberation Day. Guess the one we had less than three months ago didn’t take. - Whitney

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THE BIG NEWS

Liberal Wisconsin Judge Defeats Anti-Abortion Opponent, Humiliates Elon Musk

Judge Susan Crawford won a seat on the state Supreme Court Tuesday night, defeating anti-abortion Judge Brad Schimel and locking in liberal control for at least three years. Crawford will likely rule on abortion and labor rights. 

"As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never could have imagined that I'd be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won!" she told those at her election night watch party. Absentee father Elon Musk spent $20 million to help Schimel win; his super PAC offered people $50 on Tuesday if they posted a picture of a Cheesehead outside a polling site. It was the most expensive judicial contest in US history, drawing more than $100 million in donations.

News outlets framed the win as a referendum on the Trump administration’s activities, including its destruction of federal services, which continued yesterday with mass layoffs at public health agencies. Ten thousand workers lost their jobs across the giant U.S. Health and Human Services Department, including doctors, researchers and scientists, as well as the top veterinarians overseeing the response to bird flu.

Other election results were gloomy. Wisconsin voters approved an amendment to the State Constitution further strengthening a photo ID voting requirement, a win for Republicans. And in Florida’s special election, Republicans Jimmy Patronis and Randy Fine beat their Democratic opponents to respectively replace former Representative Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz, now Trump’s national insecurity adviser.

To readers in Wisconsin: congratulations on the high court win. For those in Florida: stay strong.

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Cory Booker Destroys Confederate Statue

The Democratic senator from New Jersey ended his marathon speech yesterday evening after 25 hours and 5 minutes, during which he excoriated Trump and Elon Musk, read distraught comments from constituents and others, and rallied his fellow party members. The speech drew over 350 million likes on TikTok live and was one of the highest-profile protests from Democrats, who voters have begged to mount a stronger response to Republicans’ demolition derby. Booker blasted past the previous record for longest floor speech set in 1957 by segregationist Strom Thurmond. That racist creep talked for 24 hours and 18 minutes in a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act. He’s dead now.

USIP Transfer Already “Done,” Judge Ruled Yesterday

A federal judge denied on Tuesday the US Institute of Peace’s request to block the transfer of its $500 million building for free to the government. The transfer was already done on Saturday, so the organization’s request was “moot,” Judge Beryl Howell ruled. The General Services Administration seized the building and everything in it because it allegedly wants the office space but can’t afford to buy it at fair market value, Wired reported. Howell did not rule on the fate of USIP’s other property, including its $20 million endowment.

Build Back Worse

Fire stations, hospitals, schools, federally funded housing and other public projects can be built closer to floodplains after the Federal Emergency Management Agency stopped enforcing construction elevation rules to speed up disaster recovery, Blue Ridge Public Radio reported. “Why on Earth would the federal government want it to be rebuilt to a lower standard and waste our money so that when the flood hits if it gets destroyed again, we're spending yet more money to rebuild it,” said Chad Berginnis, the head of the Association of State Floodplain Managers.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

• Fly the Unfriendly, Unsafe Skies With ICE Air Flight attendants with deportation flight contractor Global Crossing Airlines have received no training to safely evacuate people in shackles and fear “it’s only a matter of time” that a trip ends in disaster. via ProPublica.
• OPSEC Not So Clean National security advisor Michael Waltz and Co. conducted government business over Gmail, too, which is even less secure than Signal. via The Washington Post.
• Government Wants Luigi Mangione To Die For His Alleged “Political Violence” Pamela Bondi told prosecutors to seek the death penalty against the man accused of shooting to death UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. via the Department of Justice.
• Signs and Symbols (?) Archaeologists excavating the ancient city Pompeii found star crossed lovers cursed by a cruel goddess and turned to stone, their fate sealed for eternity, their silent screams piercing one's very soul large and detailed funerary relics of a man with a woman who may represent a priestess of the agricultural goddess Ceres. via The Guardian.

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$40 Million

That’s how much the Pentagon said it has cost taxpayers to imprison 400 migrant workers at Guantánamo for a month.

ON THE SHOW TODAY

4/2: Happy Wednesday! Today’s MR guest is Robert Weissman, assistant professor of law at Willamette University and co-president of the non-profit advocacy organization Public Citizen. Public Citizen has filed eight lawsuits against the Trump administration and says they have more coming.

DON'T MISS MR CLIPS‌

Elon Musk's Daughter Vivian Destroys His 'Genius' Mystique

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Crackhead Barney Is The Most Important Political Journalist In America

NSFW!

PARTING WORDS

“Although he cannot speak, he shows me how much he missed Kilmar. He has been finding Kilmar’s work shirts and smelling them, to smell Kilmar’s familiar scent. He has been crying and acting out more than usual since Kilmar was arrested.”

-- Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura, describing in an affidavit how her autistic child has responded to the absence of his father. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, her husband, is in an El Salvadorian supermax prison because of a Trump goon squad “administrative error.” They admitted their mistake but claim they can’t get him back. Garcia is now suing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons and several others. “This has been a nightmare for my family,” Vasquez Sura wrote.

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