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will be v interesting to see if the NYT devotes the attention to this it gave to the president of Harvard's citations!

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Some women want love. Some seek power and money. Some seek attention and fame. Me? I just want to know who the administrator of DOGE really is. My manifesto, my magnum opus—“The WITAOD Chronicles”—is out now. ⬇️ 👇 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

submitted 1 hour ago • 43 comments

Bondi cuts out the ABA from the judicial nominations process.

submitted 3 hours ago • 109 comments

Phil Swagel, the current CBO director, worked in George W. Bush's Treasury Department and was chosen as CBO director by Senate Republicans. rollcall.com/2019/05/15/s...

submitted 1 hour ago • 44 comments

Live on 93-North. 📹: @haileyjade617

submitted 6 hours ago • 85 comments

I was curious just how much time in prison people pardoned by Trump would otherwise have had to have served. So I added it up: more than 700 years, including 600 among Jan. 6 rioters. Gift link: wapo.st/3Hfd174

submitted 9 hours ago • 42 comments

This is important. University leaders need to know that alumni will have their backs as they stand up for their institutions, against the current administration's attempt to destroy higher education.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Since none of the MFers have ever served anything but themselves, sacrifice and dedication is a hard dose of reality.

submitted 6 hours ago • 121 comments

There's a stunning provision tucked into the budget bill that would limit courts' ability to enforce contempt orders, and therefore to uphold the rule of law. This deserves real alarm. If the Senate values the separation of powers, it must remove the provision.

submitted 7 hours ago • 14 comments

Natalie Phelps, a mother of two with stage 4 cancer, can’t start life-saving treatment because of NIH staff cuts orchestrated by Russell Vought and the Trump admin. She was supposed to get a cutting-edge immunotherapy trial that uses her own cells to fight cancer—but now she’s facing deadly delays.

submitted 7 hours ago • 13 comments

President Trump extended relief to at least 11 people whose crimes spanned decades and included tax evasion and extortion, according to a White House official. The pardon recipients confirmed by the official all had felony convictions, like Trump, and could see an array of benefits.

submitted 7 hours ago • 32 comments

RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings. “We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

submitted 9 hours ago • 102 comments

The cuts in the GOP bill were authored by congressmembers who not only attended college, but in many cases went to Ivy League schools and hold advanced degrees. https://trib.al/Qy2d1Nd

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

Letter: In the past 50 years, tax legislation and loopholes have enabled the top 1% of Americans to take $50 trillion from the bottom 90% while depriving the U.S. Treasury of trillions in tax revenues.

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

NEW: Trump’s pick to investigate waste, fraud and abuse at the Labor Department, Anthony D’Esposito, is a former Republican congressman who lost his New York seat after he was accused of putting his mistress and fiancée’s daughter on his payroll.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

🦬 I have now heard from several colleagues that Michael Nedd, the Deputy Director for Administration at the BLM, was escorted out of the Interior building earlier today. Unclear if it’s related to this article or not.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

The American public is being subjected to a disinformation campaign by our own government. The HHS Secretary, NIH Director, and FDA Director are knowingly and willingly passing along utterly false information about vaccines. Every Republican supports this, without exception.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

🔴 Satellite imagery confirms Russia is constructing new power lines in occupied southern Ukraine to connect the temporarily occupied ZPP to its own power grid.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Trump's "Golden Dome" Won't Work-but It'll Make Elon Musk Richer For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

19 years of Elon Musk saying "next year" something is coming and it doesn’t from Tesla to The Boring Company and the promises of Hyperloop in between.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Over at @theatlantic.com, @leahlitman.bsky.social and I summarize our study of the Trump administration's practice regarding judicial orders, which we term "legalistic noncompliance" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Requiring permission to take money from bank vaults will kill the robbery industry.

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submitted 4 days ago • 145 comments

“In the past four months, the lower courts have done more than other government entities to respond to the chaos emanating from the Trump administration. . . .The Supreme Court, by contrast, has undermined lower courts seeking to protect the rule of law.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/o...

submitted 4 days ago • 83 comments

The program that was just “inexplicably” pushing white genocide and Holocaust denial recently.

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“It’s clear that’s exactly what’s happening here, given Media Matters’ history of holding those same figures to account. These threats won’t work; we remain steadfast to our mission,” Media Matters chief Angelo Carusone said in a statement. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The “no tax on social security “ promise was a lie. The change made is useless. Cover this lie media. They need called out on it as it affects millions of seniors. @cnn.com @kaitlancollins.bsky.social @katiephang.bsky.social @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social @cherijacobus.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

Right now, Republicans in Congress are trying to push through a bill that would put millions of Americans at risk of losing their health care. They want to cut federal funding for Medicaid, take away tax credits that help more people afford coverage, and raise costs for working class families.

submitted 7 days ago • 1204 comments

REPORTER: On the president's dinner tonight, will the White House commit to making a list of the attendees public so people can see who's paying for that kind of access to the president? LEAVITT: The president is attending it in his personal time

submitted 7 days ago • 2203 comments

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 8 days ago • 220 comments

Seems like more people should be talking about this www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 8 days ago • 49 comments

So you’re telling us the radical transparency people are against… transparency? www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 7 days ago • 608 comments

Yes, everything is terrible. It’s likely all the bad things that can happen will. But those videos where people push back against ICE, where they publicly boo and shame university presidents. They matter. The court of public opinion still matters. We have to create the right outrage.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

McGovern: Some people are wondering why are we debating this bill at 120AM which is prime time in Guam because they are ashamed of what they are bringing to this floor. They should be

submitted 7 days ago • 48 comments

Bringing this to Bsky bc @steverattner.bsky.social hasn't posted it yet and it's so critical. The entirety of the cuts to Medicaid and food benefits are to pay for tax cuts for people earning more than half a million a year. Call Congress: 202-224-3121

submitted 7 days ago • 58 comments

Reminder that the "Big Beautiful Bill" that they're ramming through Congress w/o debate is Trump's fascist wish list. One item is a restriction on the "authority of federal courts to hold gov't officials in contempt when they violate court orders" If passed, judicial orders will be meaningless.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Senate Dems report that 19 fired inspectors general identified $175B in potential savings—more than Musk’s chaotic DOGE team, which promised $2T, now claims $170B. Turns out real watchdogs are better at cutting waste than self-promoting billionaires.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

This is your biggest problem right now US. If your media is not giving it live coverage right now, you are getting played.

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

Neguse: This provision clearly states you no longer have to register silencers with the ATF. Is that incorrect?

submitted 7 days ago • 173 comments

McGovern: House rules require a super majority vote for any bill that increases income taxes. Guess what? Republicans are turning that rule off. Why did they have to do that? Because they know this bill will increase taxes on those families struggling the most to put food on the table.

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

Democrats on the House Rules Committee, led by Jim McGovern, have been battling since 1:00 AM to expose as many shady things as possible that were crammed into the Big Bloated Budget Busting Disaster in the dead of night and have been fantastic.

submitted 7 days ago • 130 comments

Biden was a phenomenal president -- as reluctant as people are to recognize that.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

With an RSVP so that his office knows who's on board. They did this at one of the war colleges many years ago, until someone complained and an investigation put a stop to it.

submitted 8 days ago • 53 comments

"Of course you don’t want anybody to know what you’re doing here,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) said around 1:30 a.m. “It’s because you know this bill betrays the people who voted for you.”

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Unreal. The Trump administration is disappearing migrants to places that aren't even their origin countries, then refusing to say which countries they were sent to by claiming this is "classified," then refusing to say why the info is classified:

submitted 8 days ago • 103 comments

I would say that it violates the 1st Amendment to cancel NSF grants based solely on viewpoint discrimination. You can't run a legally mandated federal program and only allow Republicans to participate.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Elon Musk doesn't care about efficiency, and here's the proof: I called for an investigation into Musk's cuts at the IRS. Because he fired so many staff that audit wealthy tax cheats, we could lose $323 BILLION in tax revenue over the next decade. Nothing efficient about that.

submitted 8 days ago • 67 comments

Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith refuses to read a line from Republican's legislation that would provide a tax break for owners of tanning beds. Fernandez: "So if you have a tanning bed, you get a little bit of a tax break and if you need a hospital bed in rural America, you're out of luck."

submitted 8 days ago • 55 comments

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

submitted 8 days ago • 353 comments

The New York Times, historically a paper of record, continues to support fascism by underplaying scandalously unconstitutional behavior and patently incorrect nonsense shared in Congress by Kristi Noem, a member of leadership in the US Government.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments