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TODAY'S NUGGETS
🪦 The FTC’s Red Wedding and Saturday Night Massacre. In a Game of Thrones/Watergate-esque escalation, President Donald Trump moved to fire both Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission yesterday in defiance of federal law. Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter rebuked their firings as illegal and corrupt, accusing the president of turning the FTC into a “lapdog for his golfing buddies” — and pledged to take the administration to court.
