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JUST IN: Judge Howell rules that the Trump/DOGE takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace was illegal and should be treated as null and void. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

submitted 3 days ago • 173 comments

The studios are marketing the return to theaters all wrong. I like watching movies, but what I REALLY like is sitting in the dark eating candy in a place where it’s against the rules to talk to me

submitted 573 days ago • 5 comments

long answer: Due Process doesn't protect only citizens, or only law-abiding citizens, or only law-abiding people w/ lawful immigration status. It protects people. & no matter how much it upsets Miller, immigrants are in fact people short answer: absolutely tf not ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

submitted 17 days ago • 82 comments

I needed a happy moment to step away from the despair of America for a few moments! #cats #ilovecats #animalsarethebest

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

this reeks of the sulfur of hell

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

My fellow millennials, hearken unto me: We are going thrifting. We are letting weeds grow in the lawn. We are meeting at night with herbs and mushrooms. We are hexing cops and billionaires. This is our time. It is #HagGirlSummer

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

This is outrageous. Judge Boasberg’s order went against government agencies which were in the US, and which were in direct contact with the plane. He must hold them in contempt of court.

submitted 67 days ago • 648 comments

If you’re protesting this weekend, know your rights.

submitted 68 days ago • 63 comments

Approaching majority opposition to basic 20th century second wave feminism among Republican men

submitted 84 days ago • 132 comments

until they can identify what DOGE is and who runs it, the messaging should be that it’s a criminal enterprise

submitted 87 days ago • 16 comments

Ouch. I'm glad judges are pushing, but at some point they need to get over their habitual deference to the government and handle this as they would most cases, to wit: "Counsel, step outside the courtroom, get on your phone, and bring someone here who can answer my questions. You have one hour."

submitted 86 days ago • 96 comments

"private citizens empowered to make arrests" should horrify and infuriate every decent human being in this country.

submitted 86 days ago • 20 comments

Saying "data doesn't lie" is like saying "words don't lie."

submitted 87 days ago • 72 comments

prep your liberal friends for the next four years by reminding them everything Trump did in his first term was also illegal, he was never punished, and in fact was reelected

submitted 108 days ago • 13 comments

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

submitted 109 days ago • 3926 comments

This piece contains a sentence you rarely see in most coverage of Trump/Musk's purported firings of career civil servants: "None of the due process provisions that protect federal civil service employees appear to have been followed here."

submitted 108 days ago • 7 comments

Now, with alt text, to ensure everyone fully understands exactly what we're dealing with with the 19-yo Canadian calling himself Big Balls who, along with a few other nerds, seem to have had exclusive control over the United States Treasury Department since Friday

submitted 109 days ago • 95 comments

I could do an entire cross stitch series from the funniest things Solomon says

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

These are important wording choices. When you describe lawbreaking this way, you’re communicating to the reader that sure, maybe it’s TECHNICALLY illegal, but it can’t REALLY be that important. Nobody describes street criminals as “unbound by legal niceties.”

submitted 111 days ago • 43 comments

If only we had a term for displacing an entire population based on their ethnicity.

submitted 116 days ago • 2 comments

Mercy... is what the Christian does

submitted 118 days ago • 5 comments

This isn't a stockpile, it's a bailout

submitted 119 days ago • 110 comments

I genuinely do not agree that cruelty is the point. Power is the point. Fascism is the point. These people have real, identifiable goals and it’s not Richard III shit. It’s Macbeth and King Claudius shit.

submitted 119 days ago • 42 comments

immediately, but the most obvious one is the trans EO. it violates so many laws. ADA, Rehab Act, Title VII, Equal Protection, FHA, ECOA, i could just keep listing acronyms if you want.

submitted 119 days ago • 4 comments

the goal is clearly to wipe out those statutes but they are in fact still on the books

submitted 119 days ago • 12 comments

it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them

submitted 121 days ago • 484 comments

Sillyness is sacred.

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

Domestic labor is labor. #TipaHomeMaker

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

“The fact that there were four justices prepared to block the proceeding bodes ill for the high court’s willingness to act as a check on Trump once he returns to office.” Why? Because there was absolutely no credible reason to stop yesterday’s sentencing. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 131 days ago • 96 comments

More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”

submitted 132 days ago • 478 comments

You must repost Tom Holland dancing to Umbrella, its the rules

submitted 136 days ago • 5 comments

Pretty much sums up the approach of the tech industry now – trying to force us to accept a thing that is unnecessary and also looks like ass, and that was generated through theft of labor and intellectual property

submitted 136 days ago • 11 comments

Got this for you, babe

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

This is….I don’t have words.

submitted 142 days ago • 126 comments

The person trying to claim their $1.10 an hour in 1963 wasn’t a living wage earlier today? It was a living wage. Median rent for a 1 bedroom was about $65 a month, meaning rent was 34-36% of monthly income at $1.10 an hour full time. Today, with median rent at $1300? A living wage is over $26/hr.

submitted 143 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: A Michigan county elected an unusually progressive sheriff this fall, even by standards of liberal areas. She could reinforce county's reform prosecutor, at a time where it's become clear reformers struggle when siloed into just one part of system. great dive into an under-radar result:

submitted 150 days ago • 7 comments

cops feel no obligation to protect you but they also literally have no obligation to protect you. the court’s been very clear about this.

submitted 150 days ago • 2 comments

Disgusting.

submitted 160 days ago • 4 comments

Each other.

submitted 164 days ago • 9 comments

Yay SPUD!! Proud parent here: Spud was created by my non-binary kid to help Billie shoo away ornery transphobes back on the other place, and I’m delighted to see Spud doling out their sparkly-eyed trans retribution here in the blue skies!

submitted 167 days ago • 1 comment