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We had a month of op-eds when the estate stopped printing an obscure Dr Seuss book and a single library stopped carrying it.

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Under pressure from Elon Musk, Delaware lawmakers are about to pass a law that would erode small investor protections and hand Musk the largest CEO payout in history. The richest man on the planet keeps bending government to his whim to make himself even richer.

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(May 1, 2020)

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My first official interview about my book was with the iconic law professors at @strictscrutiny.bsky.social. We talked about a lot, including all 10 Bad Laws I highlight in my book. And, you know, fascism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCc-...

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

People who are still writing stately essays about how 'fascism has arrived at our doorstep’: My dudes, autocracy rode down the escalator a decade ago. We get it, we've all read our Hannah Arendt. Hit the streets with the rest of us or find another way to make yourselves useful. The ship has sailed.

submitted 4 days ago • 366 comments

I spent most of the last year spelling out in detail how this was going to happen they're going to redirect taxpayer money from a lot of locally-owned fiber ISPs (focused on service and affordability), and throw it at musk's expensive, ozone layer depleting, congested plagued satellite service

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.

submitted 8 days ago • 168 comments

The level of crudity displayed outside the WH is truly horrifying . How degrading.!

submitted 7 days ago • 356 comments

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

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submitted 13 days ago • 497 comments

Stop listening to dinosaurs. Stop paying the consultants that got us here. Stop asking for money instead of telling us what you’re going to do to fight back. The DC bubble has never been more glaring to me than ever. People out here are absolutely pissed and scared. Figure that out fast!

submitted 14 days ago • 301 comments

It’s fine

submitted 16 days ago • 24 comments

Yaaaaaassssssss!!!! Senator Ron Wyden isn't going to be attending Donald Trump's joint session of Congress tomorrow. Instead, he will be holding his own town hall. More Democrats need to do this! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 17 days ago • 123 comments

Man, you just have to be the biggest rube in the universe to think that Trump is halting Ukraine aid because Zelensky didn't wear a tie or kiss the ring.

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Vance has, for years, used this technique where he mischaracterizes the position of his opponents by taking it to an extreme that they never advocated, then arguing w/that fictitious position. Supporters don’t want “permanent” shipments, nor did we advocate de-industrialization.

submitted 18 days ago • 939 comments

🗣️MUST-WATCH: “It will only take a few of you to protect it… WHERE DO YOU STAND?” A @RepHarshbarger constituent on Obamacare presses her to protect the health care of millions — as she pretends not to know Project 2025 is targeting it Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGsx4ck...

submitted 18 days ago • 626 comments

That reporter really looked at the president of a country being battered by an invading force and asked “but what was he wearing”

submitted 19 days ago • 809 comments

As effective as they have been compared to last time, we are still nevertheless blessed by their incompetence

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

“Elon, we love your outfit. Very official and respectful.” “Donald, what are you doing in my office?” youtu.be/CUpOMSJ1MdU?...

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

submitted 18 days ago • 727 comments

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin

submitted 19 days ago • 66 comments

Whatever you think about Ukraine and Russia, you have to admit that Zelensky's refusal to fellate Trump and Vance on tv was a major diplomatic failure.

submitted 19 days ago • 113 comments

Dickless chode

submitted 20 days ago • 9345 comments

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

submitted 21 days ago • 1601 comments

Consumer confidence down. Unemployment up. Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to make 6 nuclear warheads. Are we great again yet?

submitted 21 days ago • 154 comments

MSNBC worries about the perception that they’re not fair to R’s while Fox eats an $800m libel settlement to preserve its ability to lie about Ds. That’s the asymmetry that gives illiberalism a structural advantage. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

submitted 22 days ago • 961 comments

When the FBI searched Jan. 6 defendant Jeremy Brown's home, they discovered illegal grenades, a sawed-off shotgun and classified information he retained after leaving the army. Today, DOJ says Donald Trump's pardon for J6 issues covers all of that.

submitted 23 days ago • 237 comments

Author Mary Kay Andrews turned down an honor from a Georgia state rep because she looked up his voting record, then told him why, then made a video about it. If you need a dose of inspiration, I embedded and summarized it:

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

Where, oh where is our senator

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US officials are reportedly threatening to revoke Starlink access for Ukraine if they don’t give us 50% of their mineral rights. That’s not diplomacy, it’s extortion. We’re also pushing them to kill a UN Resolution that blames Russia for starting the war. Facts matter.

submitted 26 days ago • 298 comments

Did the @nytimes.com really quote the mf-ing communications director of the Houston YOUNG REPUBLICANS as if he were just some random young Black person who likes Trump? Cause it sure looks like it.

submitted 27 days ago • 195 comments

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 26 days ago • 549 comments

“If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.” www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 27 days ago • 143 comments

As of noon on Thursday, Trump was president for 31 full days. He spent all or part of 16 of those days at four Trump Organization properties. from @pbump.com: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 27 days ago • 110 comments

Instead of overseeing intelligence and counterintelligence, they can just start a podcast to share classified materials with our adversaries.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Elon Musk fired a disabled Veteran with 3 tours of duty from his job serving other Veterans at the VA. Elon’s companies get billions from defense contracts. He’s happy to profit off our servicemembers - but when he can no longer make money off them, he kicks them to the curb.

submitted 30 days ago • 297 comments

Here’s the pitch: They hire back the accidentally-fired bird flu folks and the accidentally-fired nuclear security guys BUT they put them in each other’s jobs — also by accident! It’s TRADING PLACES meets FAILSAFE meets CONTAGION — and maybe also FREAKY FRIDAY! Need a title.

submitted 29 days ago • 255 comments

Fuck Marco Rubio. That spineless, feckless fucking weathercuck of a doormat flunky. Fuck him.

submitted 30 days ago • 746 comments

On the left: President Trump: "I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk ... will lead the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE")" On the right: Government declaration (by Joshua Fisher) submitted to Judge Chutkan stating Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE

submitted 30 days ago • 214 comments

Is Musk demanding the data held by the Social Security Administration in order to make it more efficient? Unlikely. Here's a better explanation: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 30 days ago • 132 comments

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 30 days ago • 232 comments

This video kicks ass: youtu.be/o2jzKo1RqWU?...

submitted 30 days ago • 121 comments

Trump Admin fired all of the US Attorneys appointed by Biden, informed them by email, and sent the messages to the wrong email addresses. Not just classless, but incompetent, too.

submitted 30 days ago • 102 comments

"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.

submitted 30 days ago • 512 comments

Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all. www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

submitted 31 days ago • 66 comments

"hey siri, what is the quickest path i could take to destroy the confidence that keeps commercial passenger flight viable?"

submitted 31 days ago • 292 comments