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Those on the high court often exercise caution in their choice of words. That is why it was striking when she used an audience of lawyers to deliver a stern message to the legal profession: stand up for democracy, take on the hard fights and do whatever you can to win.

but seashells!

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Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

Breaking News: A federal judge expressed deep concern that the Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras “with no meaningful process.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

@maddow.msnbc.com please please please consider staying in the eight o’clock hour nightly, past the 100 days.

The Gaza Government Media Office has called for an independent, international investigation into Israel’s killing of 15 Palestine Red Crescent and civil defence workers after new video evidence contradicted the military's account. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7n8dex

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

Imagine thinking this is a good characteristic in a president when the market is in free fall

2022: undocumented immigrants paid $96 billion into Social Security/Medicare—yet these Trump marks have no clue they pay into the system & get nothing back. Just going to say it—Dems don’t have a messaging problem. We have a stupid people problem & encyclopedia-length memes won’t reach these folks.

Important thing about this jaw-dropping story is that even if Jeff Goldberg hadn't been invited into the chat, Hegseth was sending out detailed military stuff over a civilian app that *even the other people in the conversation probably didn't need to know about* "Need to know" means "need."

nightmare group chat

Israeli forces have killed Hossam Shabat with a targeted airstrike while he was driving his car in Beit Lahiya. Shabat, who was 23 years old, had become well-known for his reports from northern Gaza amid Israel’s total siege on the region.

🔥 PETE ON HEGSETH-GATE: “An epic fuck-up… these are not serious people… if there are no consequences, all the bluster from Trump about merit was bullshit… we deserve so much better…”

This is apparently the best the official DOD “rapid response” account can do in response to the Houthi PC Small Group story.

An insane response. Don’t let up on this story.

Wes Moore: "I say this on a Sunday morning -- I know there is a King of Kings and a Lord of Lords, and I know he does not live in the White House."

Hey look — DOGE found dead people on social security and cut off their benefits… one problem: THEY ARE ALIVE. 😕 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Donald Trump targeted AP and legacy media did nothing. Donald Trump has now targeted two large law firms and Big Law is silent. You all read Martin Niemöller's poem “First They Came.” So, I ask you -- What are you doing?

legit lol at this

NEW VIDEO: The Republican Party's voter suppression war machine grinds on and once again it is targeting student voting. Paige and I explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2CS...

Spot the difference

While Donald Trump is attacking democracy at the federal level, we continue to see the war on voting continue in the states. We need to pay attention to both threats. Paige and I discuss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2CS...

March 7, 2025

At least 14 people have been killed in overnight Russian attacks on eastern Ukraine, with strikes hitting the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions and damaging buildings and vehicles, according to Ukrainian officials ⤵️ aje.io/fse7ym

President Donald Trump targeted another elite law firm that has represented clients he considers his political enemies, sending a forceful message that he is willing to punish firms who work for people or groups that oppose his administration’s agenda.

Trouble in DOGE Paradise? Duffy to Musk: “What am I supposed to do? I have multiple plane crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers?” 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

Is America great again yet?

Trump was asked yesterday about Putin increasing strikes on civilian targets after we cut off inteI: “He’s doing what anybody else would do. I think he’s hitting them harder than he’s been hitting them. And I think probably anybody in his position would be doing that right now.”

just inane. "For the farmers in the Central Valley, it was not irrigation season, and this was their precious summer supply..." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

More of this! We all know this won’t pass but this is a line in the sand and a great talking point. /cc @shasti.bsky.social

Dumbest senator in history

Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu has praised US President Donald Trump’s proposal to empty Gaza of its population as “brave and innovative.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/jectrs

Feel the burn

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

REPORTER: Would a Russian oligarch be eligible for a gold card? TRUMP: Yeah, possibly. Hey. I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people.

The Republican who voted NO 👇🏽 “$20 trillion to the debt” — all to cut taxes for the rich, while gutting health care for poor folks. A massive transfer of wealth. Again: They never cared about the debt.

21 DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services www.npr.org/2025/02/25/n...

We dare Mike Johnson to give that answer at a town hall in front of his constituents