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Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
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Why is this not front-page news? Where is the outrage and alarm?

This ain’t good, folks… Why are we hearing about this, days later?

No no no! These university leaders don’t get it. If you negotiate one on one you don’t buy peace; you just expose the whole sector and yourselves to more shakedowns. See law firms. The only response is to unite in collective action and fight the Admin’s illegality. www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...

Trump Republicanism targets firefighters, first responders, miners, people who work in manufacturing: "We’re really losing 40 years worth of work. Even if they restart them, we’re going to have lost so many people to follow up...” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

House Dem Raskin sends letter to President Trump about the Trump meme coin dinner last week. Trump will never respond obviously. But it documents some important ethics questions. Cites multiple stories we wrote at The New York Times democrats-judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfile...

Sometimes I can’t believe that MASH was as good as I remember. Then I see clips and realize it was better.

What Swit could do with her face. A subtle move here or there. She created a character of such enormous depth, such complexity, and humor. Never to be forgotten.

WATCH - @jessicatarlov.bsky.social on Fox: “If that was a Democratic dogemaster who showed up with a shiner and there was a report he did so much Ketamine he couldn’t pee straight… you would be leading your show with it.”

This has to stop. Has to.

SOUTHSIDE!

he wrote this about Andrew Tate. this is not even the entire post.

Video shows two unknown men, without uniforms or identifying insignias, attacking and kidnapping a man from a Nashua, NH courthouse back in February. During the kidnapping, the assailants, presumed to be ICE agents, knocked an elderly bystander who walks with a cane to the ground.

BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇

Oversight is not optional. We will not stand by while Trump shreds the constitution, treats people with cruelty and spreads fear across the nation. I will not back away from this fight.

A drug addict usurped congressional power, and unilaterally gutted US soft power. Members of the administration knew about, and were disturbed by, his drug use (WSJ). Isn’t this a cover-up?

The Wisconsin Judge indicted by DOJ has filed a motion to dismiss her indictment. "The indictment is an ugly innovation." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Lean in and ask hard questions.

Heads-up! Lots of spin from Trump that needs to be addressed on this U.S. steel deal. The question is not “is the deal done?” Ask, what IS the deal? B/c it appears that if this deal is done it will ultimately cede to Nippon (Japan) ownership of U.S Steel. (GIFT LINK) www.wsj.com/business/dea...

A nightmare.

And Trump is sending migrants there.

“Do you know what it’s like to be targeted by the President of the United States.” - Ruby Freeman *First they came for….

This is monstrous.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Folks Trump has no authority to fire the National Portrait Gallery director and no one need report it as if he does

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This is who put USAID “in a wood chipper,” slashed jobs across the govt to leave our health services, our national parks, our education system, Social Security & Medicaid in shambles. Oh, and he and his minions have all your private data. Well done, Speaker Johnson. Folks it’s all about 2026.

They let this man ravage our govt & make decisions that resulted in suffering worldwide, & loss of jobs, livelihood & security at home. The irresponsibility & negligence ….. DO NOT LET SPEAKER JOHNSON NEAR A MIC OR CAMERA W/O DEMANDING HE ACCOUNT FOR THIS. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

It’s been around since 1983.

Good to see this. Burning down the fed govt and walking away is not how it works.

In normal times, DOJ wins most of its cases because it has the resources to ensure that presidential actions are lawful. But under Trump, the Department is run by a sycophantic election denying enabler. The result is DOJ's credibility with judges is in tatters and it is losing case after case.

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As of today, Elon Musk is thought to be responsible for the death of 300,000 adults and kids due to the illegal closure of USAID (source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...) That's a 103 deaths per hour, each day. And it will get worse. His legacy is one of death, destruction, and failure.

Writing stories that insist that there is order in the chaotic mind and actions of powerful white men is an actual beat at our most influential media institutions.

how Amy Gleason finds out she's been fired

The CBO director, Philip Swagel, is a former Bush political appointee and was reappointed in July 2023 by the leaders of both houses of Congress, including Speaker McCarthy. www.cbo.gov/about/organi...

I just think there needs to be more attention paid to the uniquely creepy, mendacious, awfulness of Speaker Mike Johnson. Don’t underestimate the depth of his ambition and breadth of what he is willing to do to never return to Shreveport.

Phil Swagel, the current CBO director, worked in George W. Bush's Treasury Department and was chosen as CBO director by Senate Republicans. rollcall.com/2019/05/15/s...

Last year, a handful of Democrats tanked Joe Biden's impressive judicial nominee Adeel Mangi out of cowardice. Now Trump is ready to fill this U.S. appeals court seat with his pick: his own criminal defense attorney and "hatchet man" at DOJ. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

WATCH: @repmoskowitz.bsky.social calls out the astounding nearly $1 BILLION (!!) for ICE employees in bonuses alone in the Republican budget. Masked anti-constitutional vigilantism pays well these days. 🇺🇸

BREAKING: A federal appeals court reinstated the most sweeping of President Trump's tariffs, a day after a trade court had ruled he exceeded his authority in imposing the duties and had ordered an immediate block on them reut.rs/43D867w

Agree. But he did get his ass kicked in a way that will make him hesitate to take re-up the kind of publicly devastating role he did w/DOGE. And he is now broadly understood as a villain, so that when people see him coming they know it’s neither “genius” nor “innovation” are headed their way.

Huge, horrifying story.

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Trump EOs are an abuse of executive power that isn’t justified under any fair reading of the Constitution. “.. he would be wise to cut his losses before he goes zero for nine at the Supreme Court.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/rich...

The Trump administration has taken its fight against DEI to the Fulbright program, intervening in the selection process to disqualify applicants whose projects focus on race, gender or climate change. Great reporting by @liamknox.bsky.social. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...