Trump goes after NV truckers in 'de facto immigration raid'

Boo. Jon Wellinghoff is a Nevadan of achievement — he was the first consumer advocate in the state AG's office, and would go on to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. And as it happens he features prominently, in something of a Cassandra role, in this terrifying New York Times story about the prospect of the electricity going out. Like for a real long time. As the author of the story (which is some peak doomscrolling) puts it: "Somehow, we’ve made the industrial equivalent of a Fabergé egg the linchpin of our civilization. What would happen if someone started breaking them?"

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What the truck? Trump is going after noncitizen truck drivers even though they are working in the U.S. legally and licensed by the state of Nevada, because of course he is. This salvo from the Trump regime is not unlike its efforts to hoover personal identifying information about Nevadans from state-maintained voter rolls and databases for food stamps and Medicaid, in that those demands, too, which have routinely been blocked by courts, are driven by conspiracy theories over non-citizens. Niskanen Center, a Washington think tank, has described the administration going after truckers as “a de facto immigration raid.” April Corbin Girnus reports: NV joins suit as Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda targets truck drivers

Assistant/acting/pretend/whatever U.S. attorney and Trump regime sinecurist Sigal Chattah has no beeswax overseeing the Nevada U.S. Attorney's office, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled Monday. Chattah is a MAGA fruitloop, which of course is the primary prerequisite for a paid role in the Trump Department of Weaponized Retribution, Revenge, and Trump-shielding (formerly known as the U.S. Department of Justice). But there are still procedural laws and rules about who can and can't be a U.S. attorney and how people are selected for that job, and — hold on to your hats, you're not going to believe it — the Trump regime has repeatedly failed to adhere to those laws and rules. Dana Gentry reports: Ninth Circuit upholds lower court ruling against Chattah

Note: "He has always taken my phone call," Gov. Joe Lombardo said of Trump while rallying with him in Las Vegas earlier this month. One wonders if Lombardo — upright lawman of the West after all, according to his bloated campaign spending — has ever phoned Trump about the disgrace to Nevada and the offense against law and order that has been Chattah's ongoing occupation of the Nevada U.S. attorney’s office.

From the Dept. of Plague on Both Their Houses. The state’s goal “is not protecting consumers,” said a Kalshi attorney. “It’s just a vindictive waste of taxpayer dollars at the bidding of casinos.” Sounds about right. At the same time, Kalshi is manifestly an assault on and insult to civilization and sense. Upshot: Nevada regulators (and the industry for which they stand) and the prediction markets probably deserve each other. If only they didn’t leave so much social and economic damage in their wake. But I digress. Busy Dana reports: Kalshi and NV Gaming Control Board spar over geolocation mandate

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US refugee admissions near record low, and nearly all those admitted are white South Africans. Jesus wept.

‘Hidden homicides’: Families push states for more scrutiny of domestic violence deaths. Nevada is one of the states advocates would like to see adopt some legislation on this.

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