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This is what happens when you make a deal with the devil. “[H]e has hinted that he sees the promises of nearly $1 billion in pro bono legal services that he has extracted from the elite law firms. . . a legal war chest to be used as he wishes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

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The list of shame lengthens. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...

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Never in my decade of filing FOIA requests have I gotten a response like this. Customs and Border Protection denies my request, saying "Due to law enforcement sensitivities we can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records." No exemption cited, no name of who wrote this.

submitted 47 days ago • 308 comments

I’m staggered by Skadden Arps anticipatory compliance with Trump. I graduated from law school in 1976 and I’ve never seen such a pathetic, disgusting display by attorneys in my life. Not since Bhopal, have, I been so embarrassed at being a attorney.

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The only thing I can think of is that can make things worse with Trump in the White House is Andy Cuomo and Gracie Mansion. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/n...

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Could the last principled person leaving the Pentagon install a breathalyzer test to unlock our missile silos? Please and thank you.

submitted 113 days ago • 444 comments

Excellent post

submitted 113 days ago • 2060 comments

If your spouse needs a safe word with her friends to protect herself from you, you should be in therapy. Or in prison. Not the Secretary of Defense.

submitted 115 days ago • 489 comments

I remember when advocating for mercy and compassion was considered Christian. Now it's considered radical ideology.

submitted 115 days ago • 2128 comments

Breaking News: U.S. securities regulators sued Elon Musk in an enforcement action arising from his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, now called X. nyti.ms/3C56FFl

submitted 125 days ago • 116 comments

Democracy Docket is fiercely independent and unapologetically pro-democracy. It does not obey. Check it out. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 125 days ago • 31 comments

Anyone upset about minimum wage workers in 21 states getting a much-needed pay raise as of January 1 should consider this: if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now exceed $20 per hour.

submitted 137 days ago • 89 comments

www.instagram.com/reel/DDZmY77...

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In case we’ve forgotten what a political leader who is genuinely trying to live out his religious ideals sounds like. . .or that we could have them.

submitted 141 days ago • 1 comment

Guess who wants this photo banned from the internet? Please like and repost! 😉😘

submitted 145 days ago • 83 comments

Not everyone is sure that President-elect Donald Trump’s talk of annexing Canada and Greenland and reclaiming the Panama Canal is driven by a deeper strategy.

submitted 142 days ago • 214 comments

My son had it for weeks this year

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

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