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At least half of the front-line lawyers in the elite Justice Department office that represents the Trump administration at the Supreme Court are preparing to leave or have already announced their departures.

submitted 49 days ago • 45 comments

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

submitted 64 days ago • 3118 comments

As a reminder, Joseph Welch — who defied McCarthy and brought him low with the “no sense of decency” line — was a partner at the prestigious firm of Hale and Dorr (now WilmerHale). It’s not only possible for leading firms to resist; it’s essential.

submitted 66 days ago • 43 comments

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

The Pentagon owns 145 golf courses. As Trump cuts government services, @theintercept.com found it aims to spend $$$ on sand traps and clubhouses. theintercept.com/2025/03/10/p...

submitted 79 days ago • 5 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 96 days ago • 1988 comments

Go to Google Search "Gulf of Mexico" Click the 3 little dots next to "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" Choose "Send feedback" Click "Gulf of America" Click "Inaccurate content" Click "Incorrect" Tell Google the correct name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of...

submitted 105 days ago • 2049 comments

From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...

submitted 108 days ago • 37 comments

Filed in District Court today. Judge Berman Jackson making sure the record will always be reflective of what really happened that day.

submitted 110 days ago • 244 comments

i am not in washington DC, but if you are, this should be important for you to know

submitted 112 days ago • 6 comments

INTEL: In the last 12 hours, I've been talking with congressional staff, including some who work for senators who continue to vote for Trump's nominees. I just wanted to understand the calculus. Here's what they're telling me...

submitted 113 days ago • 24 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 114 days ago • 1290 comments

The Trump Tariffs are ILLEGAL. He does NOT have the unilateral authority to amend trade agreements with Canada and Mexico. He needs Congressional approval -- and he does NOT have it. The tariffs should be challenged in court -- and overruled by Congress. NOW.

submitted 115 days ago • 262 comments

It seems like an unelected, non-Senate-confirmed billionaire who recently gave a Nazi salute onstage is directing private citizens in a takeover of U.S. federal workers' personal information? Is this okay with everyone? What am I missing

submitted 116 days ago • 120 comments

🎁 Impoundment Control Act explainer democrats-budget.house.gov/resources/fa...

submitted 120 days ago • 26 comments

Today is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Holocaust Remembrance Day. I was honored to have filmed the Auschwitz Exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in 2019

submitted 121 days ago • 7 comments

Yup. Microsoft automatically switched me to the $99.99/year version with Spicy Autocomplete. You have to go all the way through "cancel subscription" to be presented these options and get the $69.99/year one you actually chose.

submitted 124 days ago • 197 comments

Well then I support placing conditions on California’s tax revenue supporting red states.

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submitted 141 days ago • 356 comments

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/with-grati...

submitted 141 days ago • 878 comments

From @deadder.bsky.social in support of @anntelnaes.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

submitted 143 days ago • 313 comments

Ann Telnaes Quits After Bezos' Washington Post Kills Satirical Cartoon #FollowFriday: Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social

submitted 144 days ago • 12 comments

New: Retired liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer plans to kick off 2025 by serving as avisiting judge hearing cases on the federal appeals court in Boston next week. - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

submitted 148 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

submitted 432 days ago • 987 comments

Most hospitals have dropped masking & #SARSCoV2 testing requirements. But after 10 Boston hospitals ended both precautions a surge in hospital-onset viral infections ensued. Just resuming masks—for healthcare workers only—lowered rates of respiratory infections by 33% jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 176 days ago • 7 comments

#Pomeranian pin-up boy Desi

submitted 193 days ago • 1 comment

7 years ago today: Trump fires prosecutors including US attorney in Manhattan 6 years ago: Trump letter inviting Putin to pageant revealed; tanks not included in DC parade 5 years ago: House Judiciary investigating Trump 4 years ago: Trump "playing down [COVID] risks and immersing himself in feuds"

submitted 444 days ago • 1 comment

One of those “fact a day” calendars, only with crazy shit that happened on this date during the Trump administration that would have ended any other presidency.