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Barbara Lee is Oakland’s next mayor.

submitted 40 days ago • 17 comments

Best song of 2025 so far

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

Your periodic reminder that if you are a US citizen with a passport you don't need to get a REAL ID driver's license and go through a tedious stupid process. Get a passport card instead. It's $30 . You get it by mail. Also a global entry card works too. travel.state.gov/conte%E2%80%A6 #RealID

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

16 ways Substack steals from creators journalistspaythemselves.com/p/how-substa...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

I'm running a "Why Pay" sprint in April for my paid contributors. Every week, I'll send you a prompt and a recipe and by the end of the month, you'll have a Why Pay sequence. Join us here:

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

a fundamentally unserious piece of shit

submitted 60 days ago • 12 comments

Florida AG James Uthmeier went to West Palm Beach Saturday to make it clear he supports Tesla protests and even property damage to Florida businesses But I suspect he's just not very smart and don't rely on this for legal advice

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

A friend of Neri Alvarado, the young Venezuelan man with an autism awareness tattoo sent to El Salvador, shared this video from members of the swim club where he worked with neurodiverse children. More about Neri from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and I here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 61 days ago • 60 comments

A Skadden attorney resigned today, citing the firm’s decision to strike a deal with Trump amid pressure campaign on law firms. “[I]f my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them,” the former Skadden lawyer, Brenna Trout Frey, wrote on LinkedIn.

submitted 61 days ago • 268 comments

Every senator, including every Dem, voted to confirm this fascist who hates free speech. Every Senate Dem should be condemning this fascist assault on free speech and apologize for voting to confirm Rubio

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD in any country to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR. This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!

submitted 62 days ago • 331 comments

Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."

submitted 63 days ago • 187 comments

Waiting for "so the government's position is that publicly available information about plane landings in El Salvador is a state secret, but detailed operational plans about military attacks in Yemen is not classified information?"

submitted 63 days ago • 8 comments

This jibes with contemporary reporting that the raids hit several residential buildings, in each case killing about 15 people and wounding more. Maybe a little more of the conversation should be about how cavalier we apparently are about bombing civilian homes? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...

submitted 63 days ago • 76 comments

You should use Signal. Seriously. There are other encrypted messaging apps out there, but I don’t have as much faith in their longevity. In particular I have major concerns about the sustainability of for-profit apps like WhatsApp in our new “AI” world.

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

So amused to see Admin using Signal to hide records and NPR head Katherine Mayer testifying today Has everyone forgotten the Rufo-led fake attack on Mayer for being on the board of Signal and Musk et al attacking Signal, falsely accusing it of being backdoored? The hypocrisy is just right there

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

New: you really need to use Signal's nickname feature. Look what it's like when I search for "Jason" to make a group in my Signal app (left). Not useful information at all. You then use the nickname feature to add a name/identifier/note only you can see (right). www.404media.co/you-need-to-...

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

Not to be dramatic, but I think any journalist with half a cup of integrity would rather resign than write this shamefully asinine tripe. You can't even blame just the headline. Look at this utter horseshit of a lede:

submitted 63 days ago • 80 comments

when I grow up I want to be a feckless oligarch earlobe nibbler who uses my office to threaten companies for not being racist enough

submitted 63 days ago • 5 comments

“Canadians will no longer have to worry about the inconveniences of international travel when they become American citizens as residents of our cherished 51st state” -- White House spokeswoman's response when asked about plunging rates of Canadian tourism to the U.S. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

submitted 64 days ago • 35 comments

Here is the co-founder of Substack blaming its users for seeing Nazis on the platform and then trying to deflect from the fact that Substack revenue shares with Nazis by saying he encounters more extremism here on Bluesky (which doesn't revenue share with Nazis). This is I ndefensible.

submitted 88 days ago • 119 comments

More writers are embracing the business side to get away from platform dependence. Turns out...not that hard! Read this and stop letting Substack steal your audience and your revenue. journalistspaythemselves.com/p/audience-h...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

People in this administration really can't handle being made fun of, of being laughed at.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

I know Kara Swisher and other Silicon Valley folks are pushing for this guy to run for president as a Dem but I really hope they don’t succeed. Because it’ll go about as well as Swisher’s Elon-boosterism.

submitted 64 days ago • 15 comments

"when a federal judge attempts to restore basic due process rights, the administration not only ignores his order, but the Secretary of State publicly mocks it while coordinating with their partner in human trafficking... it’s contempt for the entire concept of legal constraints on executive power."

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

The opportunity here isn't hard Trump and his acolytes are shameless You can't shame them for breaking D.C./natsec norms You attack them for being incompetent Demand their resignations for being too stupid to do the work They are very sensitive to being shown to be stupid

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

So the Trump administration has decided to invoke the State Secrets Privilege. The first quick read of this brief raises a number of red flags, so let's step through this in a bit more detail, shall we? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 65 days ago • 13 comments

A story that aged about as well as a fruit fly

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

The State-Secrets privilege, born from military lies to a judge tocover up why soldiers died in a plane crash, is basically a get-out of court scot-free card. Illegal mass spring on Americans? State secrets. It's a legal abomination destined to be fully weaponized by a fascist administration.

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How Eric Adams and the NYPD Helped Create the Xenophobic Tren de Aragua Panic "New York City's law enforcement officials were some of the first to push the narrative that a mysterious and deadly Venezuelan gang was running amok, despite little evidence to back it up."

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

I spoke with Rachel Cohen, the Skadden Arps associate whose resignation letter went viral. Her message for those in positions of power who are still staying mum: “Their silence is not only not going to protect them, it is going to kill people.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

submitted 68 days ago • 47 comments

At the exact moment when Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are actively dismantling democratic institutions and working to silence critics, a group of Democratic Senators have decided to collaborate with Trump’s supporters to make it easier to censor speech online. Great piece @mmasnick.bsky.social

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

In some countries this position is known as a Political Officer.

submitted 68 days ago • 158 comments

This AGAIN. First time tragedy, second time joke, third time utter and complete chaos?

submitted 68 days ago • 6 comments

My family issued the following after Medgar Evers was partially removed from the Arlington National Cemetery website under the direction of the Department of the Army. “It is a spit in the face to all who have served, honored, and fought for this country,” said Myrlie Evers. Full statement below:

submitted 70 days ago • 62 comments