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Office of @raskin.house.gov provided a letter template to officially request your federal personal data from DOGE in accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(d)(1) and this could be interesting jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

submitted 20 hours ago • 63 comments

Nice economy you got there. Shame if something happened to it. "Let's just do it the grown-up way," he continued, "where the biggest economy in the world says, 'I don't like the way you're treating us. How about a little respect? How about a little dignity?'" www.cbsnews.com/news/lutnick...

submitted 18 hours ago • 43 comments

They absolutely could not possibly be clearer that they are going to try to cut Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.

submitted 1 day ago • 748 comments

Now is a time to fight, and it should be a fight in which the allegiance of the American public to a free and fair press is clear. We hope.

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments

I cannot overstate how much I love the fact that Williams & Connolly put 14 individual lawyers’ names in the signature block of their complaint. W&C is sending a clear message: We are not afraid. BRAVO.

submitted 23 hours ago • 303 comments

"Everybody should be taking this seriously, because our system of government is premised on three independent branches and a judiciary that can function independently. That's what makes it work." -- Judge Richard Sullivan More from @lawrencehurley.bsky.social: www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.

submitted 1 day ago • 620 comments

Please note that rogue countries, like China, actively monitor and harass dissidents here. This is a trial balloon. If this is OK, there is nothing stopping the Trump admin from handing over “troublemakers” to countries who are “willing to make a deal”

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

I hope you read, really consider its implications, and share it widely. "It is often said: When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. If that is true, then only weeks into Donald Trump’s four-year term, we are approaching tyranny."

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

I’m willing to pay more for eggs and imported goods if that’s what it takes to make this country a dictatorship.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe. If Elon doesn't understand that, maybe he should leave it to those of us who do.

submitted 2 days ago • 650 comments

This is all, of course, lies

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

After Trump acknowledges possible recession, S&P 500 slides 2.7%, the worst daily fall in a three-week-long stretch of selling. The index is now roughly 9% below a record set last month, and approaching a correction. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. Nonetheless, holy shit. What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.

submitted 1 day ago • 501 comments

What Krugman said

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

The rightwing is trying to turn their minions on me by publishing a transcript of something I said today to @nicollewallace.bsky.social on @msnbc.com. I stand by every single word.

submitted 1 day ago • 763 comments

Questions for my friends at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP: 👉 Are you proud of representing this felon on his criminal appeal? 👉 Why do you think he deserves legal representation when he’s trying to prevent others from getting representation through the corrupt abuse of official power? (1/2)

submitted 3 days ago • 394 comments

Bravo, Williams & Connolly.

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

There are only two things that stand between Trump and being a dictator -- the courts and elections. Trump wants to send a clear message to law firms that he will go after them. It is ok to be afraid, the question is what do you do. Do you hide and cower in fear or stand tall and say it is wrong?

submitted 1 day ago • 305 comments

The alt-right as a movement has largely faded from view, but white nationalist and/or antisemitic views have infiltrated the right-wing mainstream—and with it, the government—to a degree unthinkable eight years ago. Case in point, and not the only one:

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Every lawyer should be required to read this. commons.stmarytx.edu/cgi/viewcont...

submitted 3 days ago • 311 comments

Tommy, crashing most Americans’ saving is “not fine.” It’s reckless

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

ICE agents deported fewer immigrants in February than they did under the Biden administration during the same month one year ago, according to data obtained by NBC News. One major reason for the higher numbers under the Biden admin. was higher traffic from attempted border crossings.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Trump Recession Timeline: 1. This will be a Golden Age on Day 1! Prices will come down and economy will boom! 2. These policies won’t cause a recession. We know what we’re doing. 3. Ok, it will cause short-term pain but will be good in long term. 4. This is Biden’s recession!

submitted 2 days ago • 407 comments

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Trump confirms that Musk and Rubio despise each other.

submitted 3 days ago • 809 comments

Holy smokes! Wake up Citizens!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: I helped Brian Krebs trace the background of one of Elon Musk's top loyalists, Branden Spikes, head of IT at X, who spent 2 mo at DOGE. Spikes and his ex-wife were involved with Russian diaspora websites and groups linked to pro-Kremlin KSORS players, Russian state media while he was at SpaceX.

submitted 5 days ago • 161 comments

Trump’s abandonment of Ukraine is disgusting.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

As a Country, imagine how much better off we would be if we spent just 1/2 the time we spend watching sports instead engaged in civic activities and participating in our own democratic institutions. The decline of the US democracy correlates with the rise of the age of TV and the internet.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Tapping the sign again

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

The obscuration of Senator Cassidy is jaw dropping. He should clearly and emphatically say: Get vaccinated, unless you want to play Russian roulette with your child’s life

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

If the US had continued to support Ukraine, we may have been months away from the end of the war. The Russians would not have been able to continue to fight for much longer. They were making almost no progress, taking huge casualties.

submitted 7 days ago • 213 comments

Why does Lincoln have the best and most relevant quotes www.nps.gov/liho/learn/h...

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments

A disgusting and abject betrayal by the US. A decision that will save the US approximately zero dollars and will very directly kill countless Ukrainians

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

Slotkin: While we are on the subject of Elon Musk, is there anyone in America who's comfortable with him and his gang using his own computer servers to poke to your tax returns, your health information, your bank accounts?

submitted 7 days ago • 287 comments

"Is there anyone in America who is comfortable with him and his gang of 20-year-olds using their own computer servers to poke through your tax returns, your health information and your bank accounts?" — Sen. Elissa Slotkin on Elon Musk and DOGE during the Democratic response to Trump's address

submitted 7 days ago • 64 comments

Elissa Slotkin. Wow! More of this please.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

submitted 7 days ago • 683 comments

Pour one out for the fact-checkers tonight.

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 9 days ago • 52 comments