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Earthling, US citizen, CA resident. Supporter of #commonsense & leaving the 🌎 better than I found it. #resist My 🌈 cat IS judging you. 🧵mycatjudgesyou
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I sure would love a good body language analysis of the criminal 🍊🤡 during the Zelenskyy incident from @drjackbrown.bsky.social

New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

Read it. Not what you think!

Germany’s largest newspaper today: Foreign Minister on the scandal in the White House: “𝗔 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗮𝗺𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗻” Annalena Baerbock's 6-point plan bild.de

Musk explicitly says he wants to turn America into El Salvador where a strongman has consolidated power, undermined judicial independence, harassed journalists, and suspended constitutional rights

In an auto-response message from a person who had been a director in the office as of Monday, which was viewed by Law Dork, the message concluded, “Thank you, and good luck.”

The question I am really struggling with right now is: What is "law & order" and the entire American constitutional order *for* if it isn't a Go Directly to Jail card for guys like Donald Trump and Elon Musk for doing *exactly* what they're doing right now?

Liar. He’s a liar. Keep naming him.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

The more you know…

🌈💫Did you know that government jobs used to be awarded through a patronage/spoils system? This changed in 1895 when Teddy Roosevelt implemented merit-based civil service positions.

“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

Murphy: "Hegseth got the job because he's the weekend news anchor on Fox, and Trump watches a lot of Fox and so he decided to make that guy the head of the DOD and our chief negotiator in Ukraine. Pete Hegseth is screwing it up badly, but of course he is ... all he knows how to do is read the news"

Media are missing this if they don't include it. Yes, Judge Chutkan just denied temporary restraining order in New Mexico v Musk. But judge signals plaintiffs have the better argument when this reaches the merits: That Elon Musk is exercising power in violation of Appointments Clause. ⬇️Key para⬇️

The recent freeze of "all election security activities" at CISA is part of a broader attack against the federal guardrails that protect our elections. Derek Tisler and I take a deep dive into the damage that's already been done, what to expect next, and how to push back in @slate.bsky.social.

Many of Those Much-Hyped DOGE ‘Receipts’ Aren’t Adding Up #StopElonMusk #ElonMuskTheLiar www.thedailybeast.com/many-of-thos... via @thedailybeast

Here's a note at Law Dork on tonight's developments: substack.com/@chrisgeidne...

It is a crime to lie to a federal judge - 18 USC 1623 ⬇️

"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.

Interesting take from the king of the government teat

Is that Nestor?

Bluesky peeps, I need help. I don’t like the Bluesky interface. I’ve tried. I just… don’t. How can I make it more like Twitter or Threads? Settings secrets needed.

I used to be guilty of wanting this, but in hindsight it was all about not paying $800 for a hammer. Not about ruthless efficiency or profit. Not that some level of efficiency is bad. Fuck doge (in case my comment above is misinterpreted)

“A January poll found that 54% of Dems wanted congressional representatives to work with the Trump administration; only 46% wanted relentless opposition. One month later, only 35% of Democrats want relentless cooperation and 65% want all out opposition.”

we are all going to die

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

BuT hE rUnS wItH SeALs 🙄

Donald Trump's week so far: Gets told off by a 4 year-old in the Oval Office by the son of the guy who was nice enough to let him sit in his chair Ignores court orders teeing up a Constitutional crisis Lets food and medicine across the world spoil MaKEs BriBeRY GrEaT aGaiN

Is this where the US is headed under the Trump dictatorship? Will we become the Republicans' slave labor? The way that agencies that protect us are being gutted by the Muskrat and his DOGE-bags I do wonder if that is the unspoken goal. RESIST! Protect our agencies!

The DOGE website that Elon says is proof of how transparent they are basically doesn't exist www.doge.gov

It’s about that time folks. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

One reason the press is being very cautious about talking about a constitutional crisis is that the top Democrats in the country are talking about high grocery prices. Try to imagine it from their perspective: how do they report on a "crisis" that even the opposition doesn't seem to acknowledge?

“Apparently, the new MAGA logic is that government cannot force a private entity to bake a cake for a gay wedding because that's tyranny; but government can force a private entity to not bake a cake for a gay wedding, because that's freedom.”

district judges have a lot of discretion in how they handle this sort of apparent misconduct. it's critical that Judge Kollar-Kotelly put Bradley Humphreys and whomever he received information from on the stand and question them under oath, ideally tomorrow.

All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor www.vox.com/politics/398...