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submitted 6 days ago • 288 comments

I'm going to start publicly calling out campaigns that text me because they bought my number from a list. Not just because I've run out of patience, but because if I am this annoyed, then I can't even imagine what it's doing to Democrats' reputation among casual voters.

submitted 12 days ago • 509 comments

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

submitted 13 days ago • 1461 comments

Veterans Day began as Armistice Day, honoring the end of World War I—then it was changed to honor ALL who served. Now Trump wants to rename it. Reframe it. Twist it into a tribute to conquest. Veterans don’t need rewritten history. They need respect—and the benefits they earned.

submitted 20 days ago • 93 comments

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submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers how lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem. You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.

submitted 37 days ago • 125 comments

Emergency Announcement youtu.be/U1kPW5MGxQQ

submitted 37 days ago • 108 comments

The Supreme Court will soon issue a decision in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom the Trump admin admits it deported due to “administrative error.” The ruling will be a make-or-break moment, not just for Abrego Garcia, but for what kind of country we are going to be.

submitted 42 days ago • 39 comments

I have been convinced that the UK is right to make their cops dress silly. You are not a soldier. You are a policeman. We made you this nice policeman uniform. If you want to be an operator, join the Green Berets. Helps breed a law enforcement culture distinct from a crude imitation of war.

submitted 42 days ago • 56 comments

in so much news coverage there’s still this sense of propriety and decorum in the face of an outright assault on our civil and human rights. i just want to remind journalists that your politeness will not save you—so you might as well say what you really mean.

submitted 43 days ago • 80 comments

Every word of this Jamelle. Now let’s ask why so many leaders in media, business and politics who should be sophisticated enough to see this, keep insisting that Trump is pursuing a “strategy”?

submitted 43 days ago • 55 comments

#NIH funding cuts threaten future treatments and cures for cancer, stroke, ALS, heart attacks and other deadly diseases. Protect life-saving research, tell your legislators to #saveNIHresearch 👉 bit.ly/4bhqRke

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

submitted 53 days ago • 185 comments

More than 50 bar organizations stand together with the American Bar Association to defend the rule of law and reject efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read the full statement: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 57 days ago • 206 comments

Anybody else think “The Emperor’s New Clothes” was written for this very moment in time?

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Hegseth, Waltz and company texting war plans to a reporter on signal is just the tip of the iceberg. This whole administration is full of incompetent, inexperienced, and unqualified clowns. Our national security is compromised in ways we’re just beginning to understand.

submitted 58 days ago • 1573 comments

Canada: we love you! Stay strong and free! With much respect from 🇺🇸

submitted 62 days ago • 32 comments

If a friend from abroad asked me about traveling to the US right now, I world advise against it. That’s where we are as a society two months in to Trump 2.0.

submitted 62 days ago • 455 comments

This Paul Weiss capitulation is the most disgraceful action by a major law firm in my lifetime, so appalling that I couldn’t believe it at first. Any lawyers at that firm—partners or associates—who don’t promptly resign will defile their moral and professional reputations beyond repair.

submitted 62 days ago • 1470 comments

submitted 64 days ago • 246 comments

There are people making common sense arguments that if Trump can revoke pardons, then all his pardons can be revoked when he leaves office. You are missing the fact Trump is not planning to leave office alive. Once you understand that fact then everything Trump says makes more sense.

submitted 66 days ago • 24 comments

Well, looks like we’re already here. The Trump administration willfully defied a court order. Hopefully the court will hold the government in contempt. What happens next is going to tell us exactly what direction we are headed

submitted 67 days ago • 202 comments

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social created a podcast "This is Gavin Newsom," the title indicating that the show is designed to tell us who Gavin Newsom is. He has had three guests: Charlie Kirk, Michael Savage, and Steve Bannon. Message received; now we know exactly who Gavin Newsom is.

submitted 70 days ago • 89 comments

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

submitted 72 days ago • 1098 comments

U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.

submitted 87 days ago • 484 comments

Why is this so hard for news orgs? www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin...

submitted 90 days ago • 93 comments

The only GOP votes against any Trump nominees so far: HEGSETH: Collins, McConnell, Murkowski GABBARD: McConnell RFK JR: McConnell PATEL: Collins, Murkowski Cowardice.

submitted 91 days ago • 68 comments

Correct. He’s not capable of playing multidimensional chess. Or chess. Or checkers. Or tic-tac-toe. As one of his aides put it during Shit Show I, “he’s just eating the pieces” on the board. Nothing he does is strategic. He’s purely guided by narcissistic, sociopathic impulses at all times.

submitted 91 days ago • 1236 comments

AOC is currently the de facto leader of the Democratic Party.

submitted 91 days ago • 48 comments

Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.

submitted 93 days ago • 1384 comments

for a while Musk really did seem like the most relatable billionaire. yeah, if i had that kind of money I'd want to go to space and make sports cars, etc. Turned out that was just PR, and what he really wanted out of life was to be seen as funny by teenaged Nazis on the Internet

submitted 94 days ago • 117 comments

An excellent question. Where are the Fortune 500 & Wall Street CEOs? Where are the university presidents? Where are the civil society leaders? Not just speaking out specifically in defense of their institutions & democracy, but also about 🇺🇸's global interests? The silence is deafening & shameful.

submitted 96 days ago • 167 comments

In the modern history of the Justice Dept., there has never been such a thug-like, ruthless perversion of the rule of law to serve political interests. Kudos to the prosecutors who stood tall, faithfully fulfilled their oath to the Constitution, and refused to buckle www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 98 days ago • 32 comments

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on. Now.

submitted 98 days ago • 320 comments

Just think, if Congressional Republicans had been around in 1776, showing this level of courage and dedication to principles, we’d all have free healthcare now!

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Neither Trump nor Musk nor anyone in their orbit knows how to run a legitimate business. It's all scams, so they don't understand why "just bribe them" is bad business. People who run actual businesses understand the value of blaming the lawyers for why you can't do a thing you don't want to do.

submitted 100 days ago • 29 comments

I realized today that Trump, Musk, DOGE, Vance, Miller, Vought and their many collaborators have broken so many laws already that they know they have to destroy our government and entire way of life to stay out of jail. This is all or nothing. We should respond accordingly.

submitted 102 days ago • 854 comments

My take, essentially, is that we could be weeks or maybe even days away from the disintegration of the rule of federal law in this country. At some point this administration is going to stop obeying court orders. What then? Nothing good.

submitted 102 days ago • 1019 comments

Where are the chancellors and presidents of the 30 largest R1 research universities in the country? The silence is deafening.

submitted 102 days ago • 21 comments

"None of Trump's nominees has anything resembling the experience necessary to do those jobs; their thin résumés alone should have disqualified them. But GOP senators are afraid that doing what is right for the country would be very wrong for their own political careers."

submitted 104 days ago • 30 comments