Topics covered in today’s Politics Chat: Kennedy Center takeover, monument and memorial legality, ICE-TSA data sharing and mass arrests, expedited immigration court proceedings, unaccompanied minor legal representation, detention deaths and reporting policy, ICE shock gloves, Haitian temporary protected status revocation, ankle monitoring, Big Bend border wall damage, DHS luxury aircraft purchases, RFK Jr. vaccine schedule changes, MMR vaccine executive order, executive privilege expansion, Corporate Transparency Act repeal and shell company data destruction, Epstein files contempt threat, state-level electoral strategy and redistricting, Watergate-era reform parallel. Politics Chat is recorded live on YouTube and Facebook every Tuesday and Thursday at 6 pm Maine time (3 PM PT / 6 PM ET). Watch today's recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/FRzxaXIXI8g?si=Elg6hOLnWG2heqwP Get full, free access to Letters from an American here: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe You can also find me: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hcrichardson.bsky.socialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/heathercoxrichardson/?hl=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@heathercoxrichardson Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe (https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

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