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I still do not want to start down a The Lawyers Are Our Resistance Heroes path, but credit where it’s due, that’s a bar. Guy really got to publicly quit with a “couldn’t be me bitch,” may we all get to do something half as satisfying someday www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/n...

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On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

submitted 8 days ago • 401 comments

Trump and Musk are “shrinking” government like cutting off limbs and calling it “weight loss”

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

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.

submitted 8 days ago • 2697 comments

If Trump sells F-35s to India, the era of US air dominance is over. Full stop.

submitted 9 days ago • 193 comments

✅ DEI Employers of the Day™ Giant Food Lion (owned by Alhold Delhaize) "Diversity, Equity & Inclusion" "I truly believe that we’re stronger together, and stronger in our diversity as well." - CEO Thanks for all suggestions. Growing list of corporations here: www.impactivize.org/dei-employer...

submitted 10 days ago • 78 comments

In this emergency, I think it likely that we are going to need to pitch a very big tent and invite everyone in who doesn't want to live in a dictatorship... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/big-tents-an...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.

submitted 9 days ago • 219 comments

For a US audience, Hegseth is doing muscle porn, for an international audience he is the first SecDef to ever saw the US is too weak to face Russia. What a disaster.

submitted 10 days ago • 103 comments

Holy shit.

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"Cutting government personnel by one-fourth would reduce federal spending by about 1 percent" www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 52 comments

Can confirm DOGE is at IRS questioning employees about roles and departments.

submitted 10 days ago • 43 comments

Here's one I haven't seen before: Bove says DOJ made a "weaponization finding" in the prosecution of Eric Adams, and this finding is not reviewable. This has not previously been a thing.

submitted 10 days ago • 160 comments

Do not mess with librarians. They let complete strangers borrow their books. For a living. Even the hardcovers. They are so much stronger than you know.

submitted 10 days ago • 165 comments

In her lawsuit, Harris said Trump “disregarded that clear statutory language.” She received a Feb. 10 email that said “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position on the Merit Systems Protection Board is terminated, effective immediately.”

submitted 9 days ago • 68 comments

these cabinet announcements are like an advent calendar counting down to the apocalypse

submitted 10 days ago • 377 comments

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

submitted 10 days ago • 788 comments

1000 probationary Department of Veterans Affairs employees fired. OIT, Procurement, and Veterans Benefits Administration. They are lying and saying it won’t affect support for veterans. news.va.gov/press-room/v...

submitted 9 days ago • 292 comments

I’ve been struggling this past week. I’ll admit it. So let’s discuss what history can tell us about where we are. On my live webcast, History Matters. Friday 10AM ET NCHEteach.org/conversations

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 10 days ago • 418 comments

Issa Rae just canceled her sold-out event and Shonda Rhimes resigned from the board amid Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center

submitted 10 days ago • 122 comments

Just saw a post screenshotting this & saying they’d unfollowed me over it. Some Dems are responding well, but some aren’t and the base is clearly mad about it. There will be primary challenges, and just like AOC in 2018, a few of them will be successful. So … sorry for saying that out loud?

submitted 10 days ago • 987 comments

NEW YORK (AP) — New York's governor refuses extradition request for doctor charged with prescribing abortion pills to Louisiana minor.

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Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, resigned on Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order that she drop a corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, that she had championed, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

submitted 10 days ago • 613 comments

Hi all. Pleased to announce that @barnesandnoble.com dnoble.com is offering a limited signed edition of my upcoming book, Bad Law. Kirkus Reviews calls it "Cheerfully profane." :) I signed them all myself while watching YouTube videos :) Link for the order: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bad-law-el...

submitted 10 days ago • 42 comments

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

submitted 10 days ago • 241 comments

People keep talking about the Gulf of Mexico, and yes, that, but goddamn I am going to call it Denali until I die and you should, too.

submitted 9 days ago • 63 comments

How long until the Library of Congress faces a purge? Should historians be getting what resources they can now? I'm imagining anything related to the civil rights movement, anti-fascism, and even public health could be gone soon.

submitted 10 days ago • 481 comments

So basically, the Department of Health and Human Services is finished. If you want to stay safe from food recalls, viruses, and whatever else is coming—better start looking elsewhere for reliable information.

submitted 10 days ago • 1232 comments

I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

submitted 9 days ago • 488 comments

The circus is starting: Jim Jordan, Taibbi & Shellenberger are congratulating themselves on Twitter Files. Jordan opens by gloating ab getting Stanford Internet Observatory shut down. Yes: the congressman got 1A protected research shut down. That's censorship. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7G5...

submitted 11 days ago • 44 comments

Where is your safe haven? Place or person, dream or real. Somewhere you can breathe, meditate, think your thoughts unhindered. A small moment away from chaos, when you notice the way the light shines, the sigh at the end of a long day when you are finally home. #vssdaily meditate #vss365 safe haven

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From @theathletic.bsky.social: The Department of Education has rescinded Title IX guidance that stated NIL payments must be proportionate between a university’s male and female athletes. nyti.ms/40Z3Z4i

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Lots of talk on “law and order,” and “tough on crime” legislation, from both sides of ‘the aisle’. Why? As @prisonpolicy.bsky.social reports: 💣 Crime rates are historically low 💣 3/4 of all jail bookings are for nonviolent charges 💣 3/4 of people in jail have not been convicted of a crime

submitted 11 days ago • 81 comments

Now is the time for a genuinely non-evil, open-source, privacy-focused ecosystem -- operating system, email and other basic services, mobile OS, phone -- that would allow consumers to entirely defect from the enshittifying exploitation systems controlled by today's increasingly fascist tech bros.

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

Overturning Sullivan has at least two votes on the Supreme Court — Thomas and Alito. Maybe more. I can’t overstate how catastrophic that would be for free expression in America in an environment where political and performative defamation litigation are common.

submitted 16 days ago • 122 comments

It's not that courts won't save us, it's that they can't. What Trump and Musk are doing are somewhat beyond what a branch of government with no enforcement power can stop. The court orders are important, but they will never be enough. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 16 days ago • 108 comments

One Roberts clerk, one former Gorsuch clerk, and one future Gorsuch clerk. All working for DOGE to help Musk usurp the government. Like I wrote earlier today, the courts are not going to stop this.

submitted 15 days ago • 139 comments

“It turns out the social fabric was good for business, so sorry guys, we’re trying to find the guy who did this.”

submitted 13 days ago • 38 comments

Not "all white people" are wrong. But when it comes to race, the majority of white Americans have been on the wrong side of every single racial issue in the 248-year history of this country. So why would anyone even care what they think about Black art?

submitted 12 days ago • 118 comments

1. Big win for trans students in New Jersey. In a pair of rulings, an appellate court upheld preliminary injunctions banning the forced outing of trans students. The latest from contributor Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/in-major-w...

submitted 12 days ago • 29 comments

Oh wow, my piece on Trump's possible SCOTUS picks is actually the cover story in @thenation.com magazine this month. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 11 days ago • 49 comments

This piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social really drills into the racist backstory behind Trump’s posture towards South Africa

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

This is so true.

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Twenty-three days, six plane crashes. 😳

submitted 10 days ago • 431 comments

Ukraine and Europe must be part of any negotiations - a joint statement by Ministers of Foreign Affairs of France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, EEAS, and European Commission. Full text of the statement: "We are ready to enhance our support for Ukraine.

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