In the latest installment in “Dude, What Law Did I Just Pass?” some Republicans were shocked to learn of a provision in Donald Trump’s behemoth budget bill that will tax gambling losses, HuffPost reported Tuesday.

Under the new provision, gamblers will no longer be allowed to deduct 100 percent of their losses from their income tax, and instead will only be allowed to deduct 90 percent. “Now, for example, gamblers who win $100,000 but lose $100,000—coming out even—would still be required to pay taxes on $10,000,” according to HuffPost.

The provision was apparently added at the last minute by Idaho Senator Mike Crapo, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

Republican senators, who had been in a mad rush to see Trump’s tax and spending legislation passed by the Fourth of July, admitted that they didn’t know what the provision was.

“If you’re asking me how it got in there, no, I don’t know,” said Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley during an interview on Tuesday.

Texas Senator John Cornyn admitted, “I don’t know anything about it. I’m not sure what it does.”

“I was so focused on Medicaid, I wasn’t looking for other reasons to be against the bill,” said North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis, one of just three Republicans to vote against the bill. “But that would be another one.”

Already, bipartisan efforts have sprung up in the House and Senate on provisions to repeal the rule, concerned that it will attract big bettors to black-market gambling in an attempt to escape the rule.

In a 15-page dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson torched the Supreme Court’s Tuesday ruling allowing President Trump’s mass government layoffs to resume.

Trump in February issued an executive order directing agencies to implement “large-scale reductions in force,” or RIFs, per DOGE’s plan to slash the federal government. A number of unions and nonprofit groups challenged the order in court, and a district court issued an injunction temporarily blocking it as legal proceedings continued.

Trump turned to the Supreme Court with an emergency request to lift the freeze, which the majority granted Tuesday (without yet weighing in on “the legality of any Agency RIF and Reorganization Plan produced or approved pursuant to the Executive Order”).

Justice Jackson said the lower court’s injunction had been a “temporary, practical, harm-reducing preservation of the status quo,” which was nonetheless “no match for this Court’s demonstrated enthusiasm for greenlighting this President’s legally dubious actions in an emergency posture.”

She added that the Supreme Court ought to defer to lower court judges, who “have their fingers on the pulse of what is happening on the ground and are indisputably best positioned to determine the relevant facts.”

In this case, the lower court carefully reviewed the evidence and issued “a detailed 55-page opinion,” she wrote. The Supreme Court, meanwhile, “from its lofty perch far from the facts or the evidence,” cannot “fully evaluate, much less responsibly override, reasoned lower court factfinding about what this challenged executive action actually entails.”

And yet, Jackson said, her colleagues made the “truly unfortunate,” “hubristic,” and “senseless” decision to override the injunction—a decision Jackson described as SCOTUS stepping in to “release the President’s wrecking ball” while legal challenges to Trump’s order were just underway.

Beyond being procedurally “troubling,” Jackson torched the majority’s decision as “puzzling, and ultimately disheartening, given the extraordinary risk of harm that today’s ruling immediately unleashes.” Trump’s order, after all, paves the way for “mass employee terminations, widespread cancellation of federal programs and services, and the dismantling of much of the Federal Government as Congress has created it,” Jackson wrote.

Such assertions of executive power that potentially step on Congress’s toes must undergo careful scrutiny, Jackson wrote, considering that:

What one person (or President) might call bureaucratic bloat is a farmer’s prospect for a healthy crop, a coal miner’s chance to breathe free from black lung, or a preschooler’s opportunity to learn in a safe environment. The details of the programs that this executive action targets are the product of policy choices that Congress has made—a representative democracy at work.

Throwing caution to the wind, Jackson wrote, the majority clears the way for “the immediate and potentially devastating aggrandizement of one branch (the Executive) at the expense of another (Congress), and once again leaves the People paying the price for its reckless emergency-docket determinations.”

Democratic Senators Cory Booker and Alex Padilla have introduced a bill that would ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from wearing masks or concealing their identities during raids and arrests.

The VISIBLE Act would also require agents to display their names or badge number as well as their agency’s name or acronym at all times, without covering it up. The legislation would require a level of transparency and accountability that ICE has not yet seen, as the agency has essentially been operating as a secret police, using masked agents to kidnap people off the streets, in immigration court, or at their jobs, without saying who they are or who they’re with. They aren’t even required to wear bodycams as it stands now. There are countless examples of this practice, and while criticism has grown with every plainclothes detainment, the Trump administration insists that it is to protect the personal safety of their agents, while pushing inaccurate data.

“For weeks, Americans have watched federal agents with no visible identification detain people off the streets and instill fear in communities across the country,” Booker said in a statement on his website. “Reports of individuals impersonating ICE officers have only increased the risk to public and officer safety. The lack of visible identification and uniform standards for immigration enforcement officers has created confusion, stoked fear, and undermined public trust in law enforcement. The VISIBLE Act is a necessary response grounded in law enforcement best practices that will prohibit immigration enforcement officers from wearing face coverings and require them to display their name or badge number and the agency they represent.”

House Democrats have put forth a similar bill, the No Anonymity in Immigration Enforcement Act.

Thanks to an anti-woke update, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot has become profoundly antisemitic.

xAI, the corporation building Grok, updated the chatbot’s code over the weekend after the virtual assistant partly blamed........

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