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Straight up violation of the Civil Service Reform Act.

submitted 11 hours ago • 12 comments

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 76 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 75 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

It pains me to say this, but if you are not a US citizen, you should not attend scientific conferences in the US, visit US institutions, or otherwise travel to our country. Right now it's not worth the risk. Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, renowned journalist Scott Pelley just highlighted how Donald Trump is working to stifle free speech in America, and how he plans on fighting back. This is huge.

submitted 3 days ago • 212 comments

May 25, 2025

submitted 4 days ago • 93 comments

Thank you to you + all your colleagues who assist w hard choices. Families struggle w these situations - having kind/ thoughtful/informed conversations of the benefits of hospice can be life changing for the entire family.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop. “If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???” Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is unnecessary or a luxury, survive a month without it.

submitted 6 days ago • 688 comments

Thank you. I hope your colleagues in the house on both sides of the aisle as well all those serving in the senate follow your lead. 🙄 Yah - I know - a person can dream !?!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It's weird to me that so many of my neighbors voted to take away their own healthcare to give me a tax cut. They need their health care. I don't need a tax cut. Neither does anyone who makes more than me, either.

submitted 8 days ago • 260 comments

Kelly: Senator Ossoff and I introduced legislation to compel the rest of Congress to do what the two of us already do: put your assets into a blind trust, where you don’t have the ability to use any of the information you have to make money because of your job.

submitted 7 days ago • 233 comments

"I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the United States after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."

submitted 12 days ago • 317 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 63 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

submitted 13 days ago • 197 comments

Way to go DOGE!!!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Is it just me or does the whole Pete Rose ban lifting thing seems like just more piece of a sequel to The Purge for white men in America where any move against racism or sexism or in the name of moral decency can now be thrown out the window?

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments

Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.

submitted 16 days ago • 129 comments

Although from a day ago - please read this beautiful thread. This describes so many people and families who immigrated to the US, including my grandparents. They worked incredibly hard after they arrived here.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Once again - I admire your patience and I do not possess a fraction of it no matter how hard I try.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

When the subject is my friends' right to exist, I am vehemently intolerant of those who "disagree" with me. Bigots can fix their hearts or die.

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Juneau’s Empty Chair memorial for city residents who were taken away as part of America’s Japanese internment program in 1942, has been covered in paper cranes. #Alaska

submitted 21 days ago • 19 comments

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

submitted 20 days ago • 566 comments

She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!

submitted 20 days ago • 986 comments

Rumeysa Ozturk is free! Video now on MSNBC

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 53 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

Please read this entire thread. Assuming yourself or someone you know / love couldn’t give birth to a child w disability or experience a chronic medical condition or a car/sport/recreation activity accident resulting in a disability - you are in fantasy land.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants. Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.

submitted 24 days ago • 719 comments

I have been trying to limit time online and social media - however - I come to BSky to read you (and your colleagues) respond politely/succinctly to nonsensical discourse with facts/case law citations. You all have turned it into an art form and it is fun as hell to watch.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Sending these adorable plushes to a family of a Leo who has now died. Each plush contain a recording of the patient’s heartbeat before he died. May the lion sleep peacefully in the jungle tonight…. @3wishesprogram.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

This is what I wrote in December 2024 and what I continue to believe today. Trump is a bully and bullies prey on the weak. They understand the power of fear and exploit it. Capitulating to Trump makes you more vulnerable, not less. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/now-...

submitted 25 days ago • 101 comments

Alcatraz has a great exhibit on the United States’ incredibly high incarceration rate. Just sayin’ www.nps.gov/goga/thebigl... 📊

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

I may be the only lawyer targeted by Trump willing to speak on camera, but for me it wasn't a choice. All of us have an obligation to speak out against what Trump is doing. All of us have an obligation to fight for democracy. I am fortunate to be a lawyer and to have a platform -- and I will use it.

submitted 25 days ago • 1197 comments

1. 55 years ago today, U.S. soldiers with the Ohio National Guard shot and killed 4 students at Kent State University - Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, and William Schroeder - and wounded 9 others, during a protest against the war in Southeast Asia. Take a moment tonight to...

submitted 25 days ago • 36 comments

She looks so healthy and happy. I am glad she got the medical care she needed.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Judge Howell goes Shakespearean in her order BLOCKING and excoriating Trump's order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie. From Dick the Butcher to Donald J. Trump: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” READ HERE storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 27 days ago • 21 comments

I just met with legal counsel for my constituent, Dr. Badar Khan Suri. Dr. Suri is a global conflict scholar at Georgetown who was detained without explanation by masked agents outside his Arlington home, then disappeared without due process to a prison 1,300 miles from his wife and children. 1/

submitted 29 days ago • 79 comments

This is beautiful and a lovely gift.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 30 days ago • 1336 comments

The answer is simple. You impeach him again because he is acting criminally and unconstitutionally, and impeachment is what the rule of law demands in such circumstances. You do it because it is the right thing to do. But that's too simple for the pundit-brain class.

submitted 31 days ago • 22 comments