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i imagine the executives at that plant, and the hiring managers, were arrested and charged for illegal hiring practices??

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office posts a video of Emperor Palpatine reciting Donald Trump’s Truth Social post about L.A. via @swholocron.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 345 comments

ugh. [day_name]s, amiright? lol 🤣

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As Audrey Watters recently wrote, it's important to talk about how AI - not just GenAI - is being deployed in schools and its harmful effects. So let's not forget about online proctoring. I curate "Against Online Proctoring," an open library of journalism, peer-reviewed research, and more, at:

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

isn't this so cute! He has her same eyes :)

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

could someone check with John Roberts whether accepting a $400 million plane for your personal use is a core executive power that congress may not constitutionally regulate or merely an action for which the president is presumptively immune from any accountability?

submitted 36 days ago • 412 comments

"You get two dolls and some pencils. I get a golden 747 jumbo jet. See? You get more things than I do. When was the last time you said 'Thank you, Mr. President'?"

submitted 36 days ago • 931 comments

The conclave today made me think about the time a room mother in my C.C.D. class concluded that I had somehow counterfeited stigmata for dramatic purposes. /1

submitted 40 days ago • 56 comments

BREAKING: Barbara Lee has won the special election for mayor of Oakland, California. With the result of this race, held on Tuesday, nearly every election Bolts has been watching in April is now resolved. Explore our guide below.

submitted 59 days ago • 19 comments

I can't even make a cute quip about this because instead of partying on a Friday night, I am writing slides for a digital security border crossing training.

submitted 59 days ago • 10 comments

it’s gonna be a good time for the scammers

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 60 days ago • 78 comments

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

submitted 60 days ago • 169 comments

Context: The Trump administration is trying to use a procedural issue (the scope of the injunctions) to put the policy into effect across 99% of the country. It’s not formally asking the Court to uphold the executive order, but the relief it’s seeking would produce the same practical result.

submitted 60 days ago • 36 comments

worried that someone is watching? go over the basics, or get in-depth recommendations for specific scenarios: ssd.eff.org

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

if this is something that worries you, you've probably seen this guide already. but a quick scan wouldn't hurt

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted and is being held in a notorious prison in El Salvador — barred from contacting his family or lawyers. I’m speaking to the press now after we were denied access to the prison to check on his condition. Tune in:

submitted 60 days ago • 306 comments

my M3 laptop is crawling to a stop, because it's out of memory. Why? you ask? because an internal wiki page is taking 4.9 GIG, and a diagramming web app is 3G, and a bunch of google docs are taking 2G each. Meanwhile, the nav computer of the Apollo 11 lander had less memory than a Commodore 64

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 67 days ago • 8 comments

just when we need them the most

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When a person is abducted, there's a number to call to report & identify. A habeas petition challenging the abduction is electronically filed in that district, by a lawyer admitted in that district, within 30 minutes of the call. Anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day. Nothing else is good enough.

submitted 70 days ago • 84 comments

get your grubby hands off of my LIBRARY

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

oh good. Dr OZ will fund measles prevention, right? he's a "doctor" www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Pam Bondi’s brother is running for DC Bar president. Ed Martin’s deputy is running for DC Bar treasurer. If like me you’re a DC lawyer who doesn’t usually vote in DC bar elections: time to start

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here's WaPo living up to their motto again -- swing a deal to give Trump his third term, in return for abolishing the electoral college. as if the rest of the constitution would mean anything by that point 🤦 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

it worries me when the narrative about trump is that “it’s dumbasses that don’t know what they’re doing”. they know exactly what they’re doing. peter thiel is a close ally of trump and owns JD vance. peter thiel is a believer in curtis yarvin thought, which is 100% in line with what’s happening

submitted 74 days ago • 111 comments

shooting yourself in the foot is a great way to ... assert control... ? "yeah, see, I really _meant_ to do this all along. If I crash the economy, then we're sure the democrat cabal doesn't have control. See?"

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

submitted 76 days ago • 98 comments

hey, if they don't measure childbirth mortality, no one can complain that the "pro life" movement actually kills people!

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

take a moment. stand up, get out of the room for a minute. get something to nibble on. salty snacks can still make things better, for a minute anyway

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

maybe I'm old, but remember the scene in Bananas where the new dictator declares everyone will wear clean underwear, on the outside, "so we can check"? you're not crazy; they are. youtu.be/ukr3Y3unFhg?...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

wtaf? The DOGe-sh*t guys have installed a 20-something college dropout as the acting president of the US Institute for Peace, who then writes a memo to transfer the $500M landmark building to the Govt Services Agency? www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goon-is...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

it's definitely time to buy some decrepit property in the Catskills and rebrand as a TB sanatarium www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

A morning reminder that if the senator you're trying to reach isn't answering the phone, you can FAX many of them FOR FREE from whatever device you're reading this on. Do you know annoying and attention-getting it is to get faxes? faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

submitted 94 days ago • 31 comments

“This is THE destination right now ... Every legal challenge to Trump’s agenda, it’s there on Just Security.” - @erinburnett.bsky.social @cnn.com Thanks to the team that produces @justsecurity.org's Litigation Tracker, which is located here: www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

submitted 95 days ago • 22 comments

We need to run America like a business. Specifically, the business should be a website that’s been acquired by private equity. Fire 90% of the workers. Pivot to video. Go bankrupt. Sell the company to a shady overseas conglomerate that installs spyware on every user’s computer

submitted 95 days ago • 5 comments

it’s only cloture if it comes from the Clôture region, otherwise it’s just sparkling capitulation

submitted 95 days ago • 14 comments