A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on November 12, 2025.
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The larger pattern here is what matters: Trump-world kept choosing fights it did not need, then losing ground in court, in public opinion, or both. On a day when the government was still partly paralyzed, the administration’s signature move was to make life harder for ordinary people and then argue about it with judges.
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The Supreme Court set oral arguments for January 21, 2026, in the dispute over President Donald Trump’s attempt to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. The court’s order did not decide the merits; it only put the stay fight on the January calendar.