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DOGE has attacked life-saving programs, including: -Malaria & HIV/AIDS prevention -NOAA forecasting & FEMA disaster response -USDA food safety -FAA aviation safety -FDA flu vaccine research This will result in needless suffering — all to pave the way for billionaire tax cuts.

submitted 71 days ago • 109 comments

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submitted 71 days ago • 736 comments

Seeing folks on the other site claim that Alien Enemy Act removals are not reviewable by courts. The statute explicitly requires "a full examination and hearing," and there are literally dozens of reported cases from the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II: law.lclark.edu/live/files/9...

submitted 71 days ago • 87 comments

I joined Ali Velshi last night on MSNBC’s The Eleventh Hour to discuss the Chief Justice’s rebuke of the President. I explained that America is in a constitutional crisis when, rather than faithfully executing the laws, the President of the United States is defying the laws.

submitted 71 days ago • 190 comments

Far From Giving Ground, Putin Digs In With His Demands on Ukraine ... of course because Trump is the worlds's worst negotiator and Putin can play him www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/w...

submitted 71 days ago • 29 comments

“Mr. Trump is already undercutting the separation of powers at the heart of the constitutional system, and the right question now is how it will transform the nation” — not whether we are undergoing a constitutional crisis, which understates how deep the problem is. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

submitted 71 days ago • 55 comments

Pentagon has been ordering the removal of web site references to General Colin Powell and the Tuskegee Airmen and one of the flag-raisers at Iwo Jima as part of a crackdown on DEI. Have you no shame Pete Hegseth?(hat tip to Task and Purpose, WaPo for reporting) youtube.com/shorts/0HJpe...

submitted 71 days ago • 1966 comments

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

submitted 71 days ago • 3319 comments

🚨BREAKING: It seems very clear that the Administration decided not to abide by the court's order. The question now is what will the judge do. Does he proceed with contempt or something short of that to defuse. Upping the stakes is the fact that the AG and her senior staff signed this notice.

submitted 74 days ago • 1568 comments

1/ Musk says he’s dead but he isn’t. Social Security clawed back 2 months of benefits & haven’t sent more. “He called Social Security 2 or 3 times a day for two weeks, with each call put on hold and then eventually disconnected.” Finally he went down in person www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 74 days ago • 228 comments

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 75 days ago • 757 comments

Playing out in real time….

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments

I strongly suspect this recent piece from Prof. David Knoll is about to be come extremely relevant and widely read. "Even a rogue marshal’s service, in other words, is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law. If courts have the courage, the legal tools are there."

submitted 74 days ago • 505 comments

These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

submitted 73 days ago • 1844 comments

Oh FFS!!! This entire Trump Regime is full of idiotic clowns completely unfit for their jobs!!

submitted 78 days ago • 71 comments

TRO needed lest the whole legal system shy away from advancing claims that are unpopular with/ Admin. -->our justice system assumes development of adversary system, vigorous representation on all sides. Exec order threatens to undermine integrity of entire judicial system. --> TRO GRANTED

submitted 78 days ago • 7 comments

The parallels continue. It is as if Trump is following step by step Hitler’s playbook. If that is the case, methinks Trump didn’t make it to the final chapters.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Trump keeps spreading lies about Social Security. What he isn't telling you is that he's actively trying to dismantle it — firing thousands of SSA employees and shuttering regional offices. Why? To pave the way for privatization so Wall Street can gamble with our retirement.

submitted 85 days ago • 134 comments

So there happens to be a Supreme Court case that addresses whether and how federal funds can be used to indirectly regulate policy in the states. Among other things, the goal must be related to the original purpose of the funds and it cannot be unduly coercive. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

submitted 86 days ago • 87 comments

"In the minds of many Canadians, extreme measures are legitimate because 'this isn’t really a trade war—it’s a shakedown.' The same day Trump said tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods would go ahead, a story broke that he is seeking to ease sanctions on Russia." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-puti...

submitted 86 days ago • 19 comments

“This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States,” the president of the White House correspondents’ association wrote. “In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...

submitted 93 days ago • 120 comments

Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) letter to chair of Senate Judiciary Cmte, which is poised to vote on confirmation of Kash Patel: “We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI”

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submitted 118 days ago • 1875 comments

When Disney paid Trump $15 million people were outraged. Now it looks like they got a bargain. In protection rackets, the prices always go up. I built Democracy Docket to stand up to bullies like Trump. Become a member now to help support its work. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe/

submitted 119 days ago • 45 comments

Because they are evil, we must stand up to them. But because they are also stupid, we needn’t be afraid to.

submitted 120 days ago • 1596 comments

The Whitehouse is not stupid or incompetent. They’re malicious. This entire freeze has been nothing but a trial to see how far they can go and how far the backlash will be. The chaos and confusion is the point. It’s nothing but blinders to distract you. Move accordingly.

submitted 120 days ago • 48 comments

Don't give up - do something. A great list for civic minded Americans, from @protectdemocracy.org open.substack.com/pub/protectd...

submitted 125 days ago • 61 comments

This @washingtonpost.com headline and story are deeply misleading. The real question in the case is not whether a state (i) "may" (ii) "allow" a religious public school, but instead whether a state (i) must (ii) create a religious public school. [1] www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

submitted 124 days ago • 85 comments

My firm @eliaslawgroup.bsky.social has already encouraged recent law school grads who planned to participate in the DOJ Honors Program to apply for open positions. elias.law/careers

submitted 124 days ago • 154 comments

Oh no

submitted 125 days ago • 1416 comments

The reality is that these positions are more important than Sec of Defense because they will do all the work and define all strategies. He won't freelance decisions. @schumer.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov What do you have planned ?

submitted 124 days ago • 831 comments

Firing independent watchdogs is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Removes another obstacle to corruption and abuse of power www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 124 days ago • 152 comments

Elon Musk is doing a Nazi salute. The denials are bullshit. You see it. I see it. They see it. Anyone denies it the appropriate response is FU*K YOU!

submitted 128 days ago • 139 comments

“It was ntentional, deliberate and unequivocal.”

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Starting to get it?

submitted 129 days ago • 1476 comments

Bjorn Höcke of the German AFD party that Elon Musk Endorsed.

submitted 128 days ago • 107 comments

"Trump made clear that a lawless presidency is at the core of his second term vision...Opposing, resisting, and checking Trump, and ultimately defeating Trumpism, are the prerequisites to preserving, protecting, and defending the Constitution of the United States." www.thebulwark.com/p/all-out-as...

submitted 128 days ago • 22 comments