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So…in 2011 the Justice Department confessed error to the Supreme Court that it had misrepresented the factual basis underlying the rationale presented to the Court to justify Japanese internment. As in, that is the official position of the U.S. government. Are they going to retract that, too?

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

Pam Bondi's DOJ says this picture showing David Huerta "banging on a gate" with another guy is proof of a conspiracy to convince them to stop doing their job by intimidating them. www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/10/b...

submitted 16 days ago • 173 comments

Takes a lot of chutzpah to make a $290 million political donation, assume a powerful position in government, use that power to fire tens of thousands of people and do immeasurable harm to American state capacity, and expect not to have to answer for it afterwards.

submitted 25 days ago • 98 comments

Genuinely glad Russell Vought’s daughter got the NIH-backed medicine she needed. ❤️‍🩹 Now he’s trying to defund the very programs that made it possible—for everyone else. 🙃💉 Life-saving science for me, austerity for thee. Cool plan, Volde-Vought.

submitted 30 days ago • 78 comments

Infuriating economist.com/science-and-...

submitted 34 days ago • 62 comments

VAN HOLLEN: Like the McCarthy era witchhunts of the 1950s, your campaign of fear & repression is eating away at foundational values of our democracy. I have to say directly & personally that I regret voting for you for sec for state RUBIO: Your regret for voting for me confirms I'm doing a good job

submitted 37 days ago • 635 comments

I salute the 600 Naval Academy grads who released a letter condemning Trump's book bans at the Academy. At this week's Board meeting, I moved to reverse the ban & made clear I won’t give up the fight. Are we really afraid to have midshipmen read Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”?

submitted 47 days ago • 52 comments

Yes, Americans understand that they do have to care for our destitute billionaires, who face maybe making do with only three mansions or four, instead of the 30 they were hoping for.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

I’m not catholic but I find this wildly offensive

submitted 54 days ago • 1857 comments

I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

submitted 64 days ago • 70 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 69 days ago • 8389 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 71 days ago • 275 comments

Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen is going to El Salvador to check on the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Thank you, Senator Van Hollen!

submitted 72 days ago • 408 comments

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

submitted 73 days ago • 467 comments

tbh, it’s underrated how little many rich guys know about economics

submitted 82 days ago • 25 comments

Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov and his fellow state TV propagandists praised Trump for imposing tariffs and striking a devastating blow against the West. They proposed awarding Trump a medal or erecting a monument of him sitting on a horse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TFt...

submitted 82 days ago • 81 comments

As the crowd at #HandsOff Boston files into City Hall Plaza, someone got up on a barrier waving the flag, and folks started singing the Star Spangled Banner. This too is America.

submitted 82 days ago • 72 comments

THIS IS TERRIFYING‼️ Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last day—forced to resign or be fired because he wouldn’t lie about vaccines. He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfare—because the response team has been gutted.

submitted 82 days ago • 729 comments

Top prosecutor spoke at event attended by January 6 seditionists who are appealing their convictions www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 83 days ago • 30 comments

“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...

submitted 83 days ago • 216 comments

The purpose of these tariffs is to be able to lift them to those who bow down to him and sacrifice their dignity. That is what he did to the GOP, the billionaires, and is doing now to Big Law. Those who stand up will be punished, those who bend a knee and humiliate themselves will be rewarded.

submitted 84 days ago • 636 comments

The Republican Party is a fascist party.

submitted 87 days ago • 10 comments

I could not be prouder of this Georgetown University Law Center student group. They were invited to an exclusive recruiting event with Skadden and withdrew because of Skadden’s preemptive capitulation to the Trump regime. Alanna, Caleb, and Carly were all students of mine.

submitted 87 days ago • 70 comments

the dinner is a disgusting ritual in the best of times, but to capitulate to Trump like this while claiming to be celebrating the First Amendment as his admin literally disappears students from college campuses for writing op-eds & engaging in protests... just gutter shit from the WHCA

submitted 89 days ago • 8 comments

We’ve GOT to work on a thorough list of the DOJ lawyers who have done evil and dishonest things for this administration.

submitted 89 days ago • 80 comments

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

submitted 91 days ago • 443 comments

Trump is now arresting Putin's opponents in the U.S. and sending them back to Russia so Putin can imprison or kill them.

submitted 91 days ago • 65 comments

Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.

submitted 97 days ago • 3245 comments

The is the "Let them eat cake" moment a viable opposition party would use to end "DOGE" permanently.

submitted 97 days ago • 12 comments

It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul Weiss, didn't just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession.

submitted 98 days ago • 2796 comments

1. EXCLUSIVE An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency. The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result. Follow this thread for details. 🧵

submitted 101 days ago • 224 comments

For the first time in 83 years, the voice of America fell silent this weekend. For more than eight decades, that voice had (not always consistently) championed democratic values, challenged tyrants and bullies. This weekend, Donald Trump silenced it. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

submitted 101 days ago • 37 comments

They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

submitted 101 days ago • 743 comments

In biology, I keep thinking of the bacterial strains, yeast strains, plasmids, mouse lines, worm mutants etc etc etc that will be lost to science FOREVER because the freezers and animal facilities won't be maintained Generations of work will be lost in essentially an instant

submitted 102 days ago • 16 comments

“America is deeply unprofitable” it’s a country not a B2B startup you fucking dweeb

submitted 105 days ago • 516 comments

I have warned about the rightwing attack on empathy. It is as dangerous as any attack on democracy. It is an attack on our humanity. Once you turn off empathy you can do anything. It will accelerate in Musks’ hands. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 113 days ago • 82 comments

For anyone confused, the point of this is to functionally abrogate both the tax and spend authority of Congress

submitted 113 days ago • 27 comments

Trump again confirms that DOGE is "headed" by Elon Musk, which undermines the administration's position in a few of its court cases against DOGE's effort to access agency systems.

submitted 113 days ago • 49 comments

Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques

submitted 115 days ago • 61 comments

Can't wait for the Party of Reagan to explain how Lech Walesa is a woke commie simp.

submitted 115 days ago • 100 comments