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BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇

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Civics 101: presidents are not kings…

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Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

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The Trump administration is building a central online marketplace for the Intelligence Community to buy private information about individuals from unregulated data brokers — coming soon to www.icdata.gov theintercept.com/2025/05/22/i...

submitted 13 days ago • 34 comments

Microsoft is apparently blocking all employee emails mentioning "Palestine" or "Gaza." Read more: interc.pt/3H5WAtI ✍️ @sambiddle.com 📹 @jordanuhl.com

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

He has little if any experience in land, wildlife, or resource management. He *does* have years working as a Republican operative.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

As the executive branch grows more hostile to checks on its powers, the courts remain the last, fragile line of defense.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Republicans are hoping to use the budget bill to curb judicial power.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Want to expose wrongdoing in the U.S. government? Take these steps to keep yourself safe.

submitted 98 days ago • 16 comments

Here’s a starter guide to steps you can take to protect your digital privacy. This is accessible enough for someone who’s a total beginner to this stuff to find a few tips that might make a difference and be fairly easy to implement for them. Good to send to parents/grandparents, etc.

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Access to the payment system at the Bureau of Fiscal Service, which handles nearly 90 percent of federal payments has now been granted to four DOGE team members: Thomas Krause, Linda Whitridge, Samuel Corcos and Todd Newnam. Ryan Wunderly received access last month. thehill.com/regulation/c...

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SCOOP: The new DOGE official seeking private taxpayer information at the IRS has ties to a sanctioned Russian oligarch considered part of Putin's inner circle. Sam Corcos is married to a woman who partnered w/ a VC firm handling Suleyman Kerimov's money. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 89 days ago • 103 comments

NEW: Who is Linda Whitridge, reported to be at Treasury for DOGE? Her name is in a court filing, and was first reported by Brian Krebs on Tuesday, who noted that she has a nutrition business. But why DOGE? Besides being a Crossfit trainer and anti-school mask advocate in her native Greenwich, CT/

submitted 88 days ago • 7 comments

In several respects, Frankfurt’s [1986 On Bullshit] essay neatly describes the output of AI-enabled large language models. They are not concerned with truth because they have no conception of it. They operate by statistical correlation not empirical observation.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

TIL From Counter/Surveillance, the surveillance exhibit at the Wende Museum.

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Alabama hires bespoke law firm to defend its prison system; firm uses ai and cites cases which don’t exist.

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

All over the world lawless, brutal policing is seen as a mark of eroded democracy.So why isn’t America’s ongoing, century-old problem of police racism & brutality part of our democracy discourse? Here’s my take on the 5th anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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This should be seen as evidence of the crisis: federal judges fear that Trump will order U.S. Marshals to stand down on securing the safety of judges whose decision they don’t like. This is just devastating. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 11 days ago • 127 comments

Track the lawsuits against the regime: www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

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California has a right to protect its own people. From dirty air and dirty water. Now, Republicans in the Senate want to change that. And repeal California’s right to set its own policy, even as they eliminate the filibuster to do so.

submitted 14 days ago • 42 comments

Tonight’s Trump meme coin dinner is gross corruption—selling access to the president for personal profit & inviting foreign adversaries to buy influence. Once again, billionaires & foreign moguls are the ones cashing in on seats at Trump’s table.

submitted 13 days ago • 44 comments