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LFG! #teslatakedown GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION March 29 Every showroom in America 500+ around the world Let's send these techno-fascists, broligarchs and old fashioned Nazis a message loud and clear. NO WAY Plan an action or find one near you: teslatakedown.com

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Boasberg mad storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

submitted 10 hours ago • 604 comments

Another brilliant piece from @mikepod.bsky.social History has a habit of repeating itself—today's MAGA attacks on civil rights & freedoms mirror the backlash from over a century ago Worth the read! - TN

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Musk reportedly has made max donations ($6,600) to following R MoCs & Sen who support impeachment of federal judges Eli Crane (AZ) Boebert (CO) Ogles (TN) Clyde (GA) Van Orden (WI) Gill (TZ) Sen. Grassley (IA) He may also pour in $ to outside rightwing groups too. Watch this space ↘️

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

NEW from @courtacctability.bsky.social on the plight of Prince John. The constitutional crisis is here, and it's up to US to confront it. Please share and subscribe to our free newsletter, Tilted Scales, for more up-to-the-minute analysis. courtaccountability.substack.com/p/leopards-e...

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Happening now in Texas: Cindy Clemishire, whose disclosures led to the indictment of megachurch pastor Robert Morris, is testifying in favor of a bill that'd ban NDAs in settlements for sexual abuse lawsuits.

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

We’re living in an age of authoritarian book bans and some rich cheapskates in Concord, MA are trying to shutter the libraries on Sundays to save 40k. Thoreau and friends have thoughts in the local weekly.

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The most formidable conservative jurist of my lifetime gets it in a way that the current Minority Leader of the Senate does not. It is time for Chuck Schumer to leave Senate leadership.

submitted 22 hours ago • 18 comments

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that we are not in a constitutional crisis. "Whew," I'm relieved, @schumer.senate.gov says. "No problem," Justice Thomas says as he packs up his brand new RV. #Satire

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At least with the CR and his NYT interview there was a vaguely defensibly (if woefully naive and politically daft) lesser-of-evils argument to lean on. Tonight’s interview was perhaps even more disqualifying, erasing any doubt that he can’t see the game being played. Chess/checkers and all that

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Watching Schumer is like watching Biden during those three weeks. A man from a different era, well past his prime, who never adjusted to the current era & is in a deep state of denial and, frankly, arrogance, about how his own behavior & his insistence on continuing threatens our very democracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

SCOOP: The FTC has removed content critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI companies published during the Biden administration from its website.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

How is this the same guy who introduced the “No Kings Act,” which would have overturned the Roberts Court’s Trump immunity decision and stripped its jurisdiction to review it? Can he even define the “rule of law” at this point? FFS, can he define “King”?

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Honestly wasn’t prepared for how lost and out of his depth Chuck Schumer is this interview. Doesn’t seem like he’s absorbed any new information since 2007. I don’t know who Senate Democrats’ best option is, but hard for me to imagine it’s this.

submitted 1 day ago • 213 comments

Elon Musk just called for Republicans to follow the footsteps of Latin American countries and “impeach” judges who block Trump’s illegal actions.

submitted 1 day ago • 629 comments

This. Folks are right to demand Trump's compliance with court orders, but you'd think we'd have learned our lesson by now that we can't trust the Roberts Court to be a guardrail for democracy. We must not walk into this trap. Popular resistance and power building are the only way out.

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I read this as “you don’t need to impeach anybody because we’re planning on fixing it for you anyway”

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We couldn't be more excited to have @jasmineforus.bsky.social joining our #teslatakedown mass mobilizing call. Join us Weds March 19 at 8:30p ET to hear from one of the bravest champions in Congress about what's next for our non-violent grassroots movement! actionnetwork.org/forms/teslat...

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And what happens when that normal appellate review ends with his defying you?

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"Reporting Right" is my go-to newsletter every week, keeping me sane and grounded (mostly lol) during transnational fascists' criminal takeover. special shoutout to friends @alexaronson.bsky.social & @nancymaclean.bsky.social for keeping it 💯 us21.campaign-archive.com?u=1ea8510e1f...

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Wife: Is that Karma Police? Me: Yes. Wife: On repeat? Me: Yes. Wife: Things really are that bad, huh. Me: Yes.

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This case could upend the separation of church and state. Apart from the role of Justice Barrett's good friend, reported here, there's another potential big issue. 👇The director of the clinic behind the case was clerking for Gorsuch as it was being seeded. www.yahoo.com/news/justice...

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Unfortunately, I think this is true

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Project 2025 called explicitly for defiance of court orders where (as here) the administration unilaterally determines courts lack jurisdiction. Of course this wildly dangerous legal theory shouldn’t hold up. But what then?

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If, as the Trump admin contends, the federal courts lack jurisdiction over a federal government flight over international waters, then there is nothing stopping the Trump admin from deporting American citizens. As soon as they reach international waters it is fait accompli.

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

So the Admin has defied the order of a federal judge. www.newsweek.com/rubio-touts-...

submitted 3 days ago • 747 comments

Chuck Schumer has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins

submitted 5 days ago • 170 comments

Rollover and play dead wins. I'm honestly really sorry everyone. This is a bad, depressing outcome. We tried our best, and we didn't succeed. We're circling up with Indivisible group leaders over the next day to plan for what accountability will look like. Stay tuned.

submitted 5 days ago • 213 comments

The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.

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Here's something important. It's just one part of the equation. But it's a key one. This debate is being carried on on the basis of the claim that a long shutdown opens up new legal authority for Musk to fire people. For a while now I've been in contact with a lawyer with deep knowledge of ...

submitted 5 days ago • 53 comments

You wanted post-liberalism, here’s the reality of it. Not an enlightened philosopher king pursuing your idealized notion of the common good, but the arbitrary and chaotic whims of a system tearing itself apart because it is not constrained by codified rules or any obligation of rationality.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

These people are so hopped up on a reject theory that'll provoke a POTUS v. SCOTUS constitutional crisis that they'd forfeit Congress's power of the purse rather than just pass a budget that sets spending ceilings for Trump and then approve his rescission requests for mandatory spending items.

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

submitted 6 days ago • 792 comments

Remember when Biden's inner circle swore up down left right he would not step down? Made battleground state Dem leaders put out a letter supporting him staying the DAY BEFORE he stepped down? Do not give up. This is not over & saying it is gives them cover. #NoOnMAGAMurderBudget

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

submitted 6 days ago • 3688 comments

We're currently in a kind of constitutional purgatory: it's not clear the current constitutional order still holds. It feels a little bit like the US is Wily Coyote hanging out over the cliff and it's just a matter of time until we look down.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

INCREDIBLE. @aoc.bsky.social calling out @senatedemocrats.bsky.social & basically @schumer.senate.gov for playing games around a "fake failed 30 day CR" which is basically a path to surrender in passing the Republican funding bill w/ blank checks 4 Musk/Trump. Keep calling the Senate: 202-224-3121

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments