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Calling all US meteorologists and climate scientists! Come speak at the 🌊 Weather & Climate Livestream 🌪️. Starting May 28th, we will be having a marathon livestream to share our work with the public, and show why the vital services we provide should not be cut.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

submitted 7 days ago • 238 comments

If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity.

submitted 34 days ago • 1758 comments

Just know that the utterly horrific or unconstitutional thing he's doing right now is just meant to distract you from the 15 other utterly horrific or unconstitutional things he is doing right now.

submitted 37 days ago • 88 comments

This post by Bryan is going viral on instagram… on some rando’s account. Why not here too? It’s spot on.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

In order to fight antisemitism, we will be withdrawing federal funding from universities that admit Jews. by Linda McMahon

submitted 38 days ago • 20 comments

🎯

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Not a historian, but to my knowledge, this is the first time a sitting US Senator — or member of Congress, generally — or perhaps any senior US gov’t official — has included an f-bomb in an official press release. www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-r...

submitted 56 days ago • 1435 comments

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

submitted 58 days ago • 615 comments

But her emails…

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Trump defied a federal court order—and he’s daring the system to stop him. If Congress won’t act and the courts have no enforcement power, what happens next? Democracy doesn’t survive on its own. Are you ready to fight for it? adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-rule-o...

submitted 59 days ago • 360 comments

Outstanding 🔥

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Not to put too fine a point on it, but when the Nazis first started sending Jews and other victims to camps, they called it deportation, and the camps were technically in other countries.

submitted 60 days ago • 22 comments

This is how you respond to attacks on lawyers and the legal profession. Thank you, Center for Reproductive Rights & Nancy Northrup. (Abortion rights lawyers have known what it is like to be under attack for awhile, so not surprising they know what to do and say now.)

submitted 60 days ago • 8 comments

More of this.

submitted 61 days ago • 20 comments

Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump’s Latest Executive Order “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”

submitted 61 days ago • 352 comments

This country is broken.

submitted 61 days ago • 180 comments

@badlawyerpod.bsky.social episode on Paul Weiss?

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Look, folks, you don't have to believe me. Literally, the guy who wrote the books & coined the terms is telling you it's a five-alarm fire. If Steve is saying this, you should be deeply, immediately, & overwhelmingly concerned.

submitted 63 days ago • 4 comments

🏳️‍⚧️🎉

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

There’s been zero explanation for this given but it seems exceedingly likely it’s pure retaliation for the Maine governor challenging Trump. Really sick. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...

submitted 76 days ago • 623 comments

This is how you defend your educational mission.

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

submitted 78 days ago • 1289 comments

The firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are “going to affect safety of flight, safety of shipping, safety of everyday Americans,” Admiral Tim Gallaudet, who was acting NOAA chief during the first Trump term, told the AP. “Lives are at risk for sure.”

submitted 83 days ago • 92 comments

McCarthyism is alive and well, apparently.

submitted 83 days ago • 195 comments

Today is a really good day to do something. Read the Constitution. Have a talk with a stranger about DOGE. Volunteer at a food bank. Be kind to people. Whatever you do, don’t just throw your hands up in the air & assume Trump gets away with it all. We are still a rule of law country. Insist on it.

submitted 84 days ago • 160 comments

Every single philanthropic institution needs to do this rather than retracting right now. abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/abcnews....

submitted 84 days ago • 41 comments

I hope you’ll read this piece I wrote about the insanity of Elon Musk & Utah Sen. Mike Lee attacking federal judges, yet another attack on democracy joycevance.substack.com/p/when-they-...

submitted 84 days ago • 98 comments

Once again, the quiet, separate lawsuits-only strategy is not going to work. R1 presidents need to be out in public, loudly & collectively speaking out against what is an existential assault on 🇺🇸 research universities: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

"The strategy is simple. Claim there’s fraud, dismantle the institutions that prevent fraud, and then capture public dollars for yourself." Policy experts @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social on DOGE operations:

submitted 85 days ago • 6 comments

Read this excellent 🧵:

submitted 85 days ago • 30 comments

NEW: On DOJ COS Chad Mizelle's judicial complaint against Judge Ana Reyes: "It is an almost unbelievably petty and small letter — but, in this moment, it is also exceptionally alarming and could be the launch of a new attack on judicial independence from the Trump administration." At Law Dork —>

submitted 88 days ago • 8 comments

Resting this makes me so sad, so angry. No one goes into public service to be rich. These are individuals who care deeply about their mission and work. Just devastating.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I think the most wrong I have ever been as a political scientist was when I said in a public forum in 2020 that there would not be political violence in the US (Jan 6 was 2 mos later). Tonight’s purges are a clear precursor to more future such violence. This is textbook authoritarian abuse stuff.

submitted 89 days ago • 44 comments