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Progressive lawyer, ex-consultant, chain migrant, Native Virginian adopted by DC, e-biker, sci-fi fanatic, dad! Senior Counsel at Democracy Forward. All views my own.
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Thrilling to join so many of my fellow paid protestors this afternoon. In this economy you've got a take whatever work you can get.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Just catastrophic. The Court is basically saying that the government gets to illegally terminate thousands of contracts at one time, with no individualized determinations, but litigants have to challenge the government's decision in piecemeal litigation. Brutally asymmetric.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Here's my pessimistic-for-D's take on last night. The D special election overperformance seemed to be in the ~15 point range. Go back and look at 2017 specials and that number is about the same. It led to winning the House and holding a bunch of dicey Senate seats in 2018. 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I wish we could get Obama to poke his head up and deliver a serious speech right now, warning the country that we are losing things that we can never get back. Allies, scientific leadership, functional government, rule of law, economic stability. America will become unrecognizable. 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Our alliance with Canada is over. I guess we aren't far from leaving NATO altogether. Our investments into scientific research (and bringing the best minds in the world to help us be global leaders) are evaporating. We're purposely ending millions of jobs and exiting global trade. 1/

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Maybe the easiest place to start - Congress could, tomorrow, turn off the tariffs. Huge majorities of the country are concerned about Trump demolishing US trade for no reason. Every day these tariffs are in effect it is because Congress is *making a choice.* Hold them accountable!

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

The town hall & Bernie/AOC energy is great. We need to channel it into concrete demands for action in Republican-held districts & Senate seats. It needs to be clear what we are asking Congress to do in this moment. Because right now I worry about America making it to 2026.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Very biased here obviously, and views 100% my own but... Independent multi-member Commissions are Congress's attempt to design some government institutions that force a degree of bipartisanship and provide some stability and continuity. 1/

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I'm going to work here in a minute, and I've started just not looking at socials during the workday because it just doesn't help. But before I go, I need you to know what's going to happen in DC today, in all likelihood. The Senate's going to vote on a continuing resolution to fund the US govt.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 50 days ago • 208 comments

Any DC politician who votes for surface parking lots at RFK has lost me as a supporter

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Really great, humane reporting about the senseless and brutal situation our nation's civil service is being put through. Warning that it may trigger tears.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

As someone in the legal / good governance movement who was here in 2017 too, here is another thing that feels *very* different this time around: many law firms are sitting the fight out, too scared to be seen fighting Trump. 1/

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Omg. After the Google algorithm created the problem of recipe sites needing to post long ass articles with their recipes, Google has finally decided to fix it.... By just extracting the recipe from the site and placing it directly into search results

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

submitted 79 days ago • 2509 comments

Just checking in on today's @washingtonpost.com cartoon after Ann Telnaes was fired and they abandoned the "democracy dies in darkness" motto. Don't worry, they are still fearlessly tackling the tough issues of the day.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment