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Still a lawyer, still playing jazz w/our BSQ Quartet & Quintet. Advocate for free expression, competition, democracy, & the planet. Started the Public Domain Song Anthology - it’s free online.
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Ultimately, this is what those who capitulate to Trump are enabling. All of the dehumanization, assaults on the rule of law & fundamental rights, draconian policies are in service of this authoritarian power grab. And it’s not going to end well for anyone but Trump. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

OH MY GOD I’VE BEEN HACKED

An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

I've never posted a music gig notice here but folks seem to have fled other social media, so here goes, if you live in DMV area: www.instantseats.com?fuseaction=h...

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

Employees who continue to work for the federal government were told to come back to the office. At Denver Federal Center, if they do, they won't be able to charge their cars. @nbminor.bsky.social reports on an internal email CPR News received

Since when is it now okay to start randomly saluting to Hitler?

Or, DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNING INCOMPETENCE

Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

Never forget.

Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNING INCOMPETENCE

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

We highly recommend y’all crack open a copy of the U.S. Constitution before you break anymore laws…

At least USAID doesn't catch on fire & explode.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot—both in our politics more generally, but also in the meteoric rise of far-right, misogynistic, racist, etc politics among younger voters who were stuck at home and isolated during a pivotal moment in their social and psychological development.

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No sh*t. apnews.com/article/arab...

Are the people who still say that voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil pleased by greater evil that results from not voting? Even if you accept their argument as true the difference in outcomes is overwhelmingly negative.

“He’s unqualified, and I daresay that everybody here knows it.” We need more principled senators like Warnock.

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Cathy Gellis - About how Musk & DOGE may be violating the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/04/w...?

I spoke with the owner of a small NY manufacturing firm. Most of his sales are exports. Biggest markets: Canada, China & Europe. He never thought Trump would actually impose tariffs; figured it was just campaign talk. If they go into effect, he fears he’ll have to lay off most of his 65 employees.

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

Incompetent Dork Stuck in the 7th-Grade Takes Time Away From Messing Up Twitter to Mess Up the US Government.

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

If you’re a government employee, thank you for your service & here’s a resource you may find helpful. Stay strong. www.civilservicestrong.org

Starting today, Donold’s idiotic 25% tariff hike on imports from Canada and Mexico (and 10% on China) is set to make life more expensive for every American. Even his own voters are furious over what they voted for. Let’s break down this economic self-own.

There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

Kudos to whoever figured this out

Just 24 HOURS before an American Airlines flight collided with a Blackhawk at Reagan National Airport, ANOTHER American plane had to abort landing due to a helicopter crossing its flight path. 🤔 AA4514 can be seen on radar having to make a second attempt and is currently under investigation.

MSNBC needs an aviation expert with more brains than John Cox. Q: Are there now too many flights into DCA? A: I enjoy flying in there, I like the challenge, and there hasn’t been a collision until now.” Get your thrills on your own time, buddy.