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This is hilarious to me. Especially the "often leads to higher quality infrastructure, education, public health and more"

Yeah, Alaska and Louisiana are known for all of that stuff, lol. Fucking justifying mooches.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700

I couldn't figure out why my drafts weren't able to be edited after I Ieft the email to be done later. I finally got the answer in help when they asked if I want Gemini to be turned on so it could help me edit the draft. I thought I screen-shotted it, but I can't find it..

The Seattle Seahawks return to the Super Bowl Sunday, 12 years after their last and only Super Bowl win. The team’s fan base, nicknamed “The 12s” have a long, loud tradition that dates back to the 80s. The No. 12 jersey has been retired since 1984 to honor the crowd’s spirit and volume.

The number 12, and the Seahawks’ Super Bowl win in 2014 was an important day for Mayan Bomsztyk. She was about to have her first baby that day at Swedish Hospital in Seattle.

“My labor was taking forever,” Bomsztyk said. The nurses at the hospital made a special onesie that would be awarded to the 12th baby born on that Super Bowl Sunday.

The attorneys said that when ICE detained several men near Vail last month, agents pulled them over and handcuffed them without warrants and without asking them any questions. ICE agents later left branded playing cards with information about its Denver field office in some of those men’s abandoned cars, alarming advocates.

The allegations come more than two months after U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson found that ICE was routinely conducting illegal arrests in Colorado as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown. Warning that ICE’s conduct would continue without a court’s intervention, he ordered the agency to take several steps to change the practice.

While ICE can detain people without warrants, federal law requires that they have probable cause to believe that the arrestee is in the country illegally and that the person is likely to flee before a future court date.

"This is just part of a much larger picture is, you know, in which the Trump administration is doing everything it possibly can quickly detain and deport as many migrants as possible," said Philip Schrag, Delaney Family professor of public interest law at Georgetown University. "Even migrants who like this family have a pending asylum case. So this family is legally in the United States because they have pending asylum case and they should not be deported until case is resolved."

Ramos' attorney says the family was following all established protocols for pursuing asylum in the U.S. and should have never been detained in the first place. They called the new effort to deport the family uncommon and retaliatory.

In a complaint filed in the Southern District of Texas on Friday morning, the group of more than 30 people said that immigration authorities’ current practices violate their rights to due process and protection against unreasonable arrests.

“ICE has ignored constitutional protections and created and encouraged an environment of seize first and sort it out later,” attorney Raed Gonzalez wrote. “Constitutional protections and limits are not even treated as an afterthought; they are ignored, trampled on, and forgotten.”

Far-right influencer Jake Lang was charged Friday with felony damage to property, after posting video to social media showing him damaging an ice sculpture outside the Minnesota Capitol.

The incident happened Thursday, with the sculpture — commissioned by a veterans organization — originally spelling out “PROSECUTE ICE,” in opposition to the ongoing surge of federal immigration agents to Minnesota.

Lang — who was pardoned for his participation in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and who organized an anti-Islam demonstration in Minneapolis last month — posted video to his social media account showing him kicking down several letters from the sculpture so that it spelled “PRO ICE.”

According to the criminal complaint filed Friday in Ramsey County:

The original sculpture, unveiled around midday Thursday, was a permitted display on the Capitol steps, with organizers paying more than $6,000 to have it created. It was set to be removed Thursday night, and donated to a local business to be displayed for a longer time.

A spokesperson for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says both President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi asked Gabbard to be present for an FBI search of the elections headquarters in Fulton County, Georgia, last week, after Gabbard and Mr. Trump offered seemingly conflicting explanations for her presence.

"As the president said, he asked for Director Gabbard to be there," Gabbard spokesperson Alexa Henning wrote on X. "Attorney General Bondi also asked for her to be there. Two things can be true at the same time."

On Thursday morning at the National Prayer Breakfast, the president said Gabbard attended the search "at Pam's insistence," referring to Bondi.

"She took a lot of heat two days ago because she went in, at Pam's insistence, she went in, and she looked at votes that want to be checked out from Georgia," Mr. Trump said. "They say, 'Why is she doing it?' Right, Pam? 'Why is she doing it?' Because Pam wanted her to do it."

Former immigration judge Charles Neil Floyd has served as “interim” U.S. attorney for Western Washington since October. But facing a crucial deadline this week, the Justice Department changed his title to "First Assistant U.S. Attorney" — as it has done for Pete Serrano in Eastern Washington. The change keeps Floyd as the leader of the Seattle office, for now, since the position above him is technically vacant.

“While my title has changed, what has not changed is my leadership of the men and women of the U.S. Attorney’s Office," Floyd said in a statement to KUOW. "It is an honor to lead the experienced litigators and professional staff who work every day to do justice in our community.”

He added, “My background in immigration law has been very useful as we respond to department priorities around immigration enforcement.”

U.S. President Donald Trump will have more power to hire and fire up to 50,000 career federal employees in an overhaul of the government's civil service system announced by his administration on Thursday.

The overhaul, released by the Office of Personnel Management, fulfills Trump's campaign pledge to strip job protections from federal workers deemed by the president's team to be "influencing" government policy.

It is the biggest change to the rules governing the civil service in more than a century and targets employees that the administration sees as undermining the president's priorities. Trump called the overhaul "Schedule F" during his first administration.

"You can't run an organization if people are refusing to actually carry out the lawful objectives and orders of the administration," said OPM Director Scott Kupor, the administration's top HR official.

Legislators passed Senate Bill 13 as a way of discouraging divestment from oil and gas companies, as financial figureheads at the time had signaled they intended to make climate change initiatives a larger factor in their investment considerations. The law requires the comptroller’s office to maintain a list of financial firms that refuse, terminate or penalize business with a fossil fuel company “without ordinary business purpose.” SB 13 is commonly referred to as an “anti-ESG” law, which stands for “environmental, social and governance.”

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright delivered the summary judgment, and affirmed in the 12-page order that the way SB 13 determined what constituted boycotting a company was too broad and undermined free speech protections of firms affected.

“SB 13’s ‘boycotting’ definition is comprised of three clauses, all of which are undefined and not susceptible to objective measurement or determination,” Albright wrote in the ruling.