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Safe to assume everyone in Trump’s inner circle has made $millions in last 10 days insider trading as we all lost our retirement funds & economic opportunity.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Have you seen any news orgs use the words “impeach” or “resign” applied to Trump? Any editorials? As far as we’ve seen Murdoch’s WSJ w/the first indirect use of the word. Will any editorial board call for resignation or impeachment? Where’s the Fourth Estate? Please thread your findings

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

Area Man Claims To Be Strongest Leader in World But Can’t Ask El Salvador a Favor

submitted 5 hours ago • 534 comments

This is truth. People are being disappeared by this administration. Let’s not dress it up or frame it via one egregious case or another. This is a systemic effort to violate US law, international law and human rights.

submitted 6 hours ago • 13 comments

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

submitted 8 hours ago • 382 comments

Read this thread for a real life example of how these phone calls to elected leaders can and should go. It’s not hard. It costs nothing. But this kind of outreach, education and advocacy is vitally important and worthwhile. No one is coming to save us. This is how we save ourselves.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

This is what Musk and DOGE have actually tried to do: -- Kill USAID (investigating Starlink) -- Kill CFPB (regulator for X to be payment app) -- Move $2.3 BILLION contract from Verizon to Starlink -- Force Social Security Administration to use X exclusively 100% CORRUPTION

submitted 7 hours ago • 57 comments

The Trump administration is now canceling people's Social Security Numbers, treating them as if they are legally dead. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

Good way to see the current tariffs, as of literally today, is no tariffs on high value add manufactured goods marketed to middle and upper middle classes. Massive tariffs for cheap consumer items which amount to the biggest economic privilege of working class/middle class life in US.

submitted 7 hours ago • 74 comments

You know fucking well it is not "realistic," #BrokenPost. Stop sanewashing his dangerous anti-science bullshit. RFK Jr. says we’ll know what causes autism by September. Is that realistic? www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 18 hours ago • 59 comments

Too many members of Congress keep letting us down. This is about more than opposing Trump’s bad nominees — it’s about treating this administration like the authoritarian threat it is and using every inch of power to fight back: indivisible.org/campaign/tru...

submitted 11 hours ago • 76 comments

Spurred by ProPublica’s reporting, Democrats have introduced a measure designed to block a right-wing strategy to disallow ballots after they were cast. It’s being used to try to upend the results of a key state Supreme Court race. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

submitted 15 hours ago • 6 comments

College presidents had better take a hard look at what's happening to @columbiauniversity.bsky.social right now and start fighting, together, in every way possible. Because they will be next.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 9 hours ago • 104 comments

'Political-science research reveals that autocratic leaders can be successfully challenged. Erica Chenoweth, a professor at Harvard University...found that when at least 3.5 per cent of the population participated in nonviolent opposition, movements were largely successful.'

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

The backlash to DOGE is HUGE... but the allure of "getting rid of government waste" remains strong. Beyond fighting DOGE, advancing progressive alternative makes sense. The focus should EFFECTIVENESS--making government work for people, in a visibly effective way. 1/19 www.salon.com/2025/04/12/c...

submitted 12 hours ago • 18 comments

Scenes at Harvard Square right now: community leaders in solidarity with Harvard faculty call out federal overreach for what it is: an attack on academic freedom — and democracy itself.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

If you read one article this weekend...or this week, or this month...let it be this one from the New Yorker by @amifieldsmeyer.bsky.social and @juliaangwin.com. It is indeed a "practical guide to courage in Trump's age of fear" and it couldn't be more important. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

submitted 12 hours ago • 12 comments

Courage is contagious. But how do we catch it? For months, @amifieldsmeyer.bsky.social and I have been asking dissidents and activists from around the world how we can topple authoritarianism. We assembled their lessons into a field guide to courage. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

submitted 17 hours ago • 22 comments

When Rubio announced the agreement with El Salvador in February he touted it as a way to outsourcing the federal prison system by allowing the US to send American citizen inmates there to serve their . This undercuts the Trump administration’s claim to the courts that it can’t get people back.

submitted 18 hours ago • 369 comments

We were just notified that our contract to UCSD and Scripps Research to support wastewater surveillance in San Diego (searchcovid.info) was terminated immediately for the same reasons 👇. That means no more genomic wastewater surveillance, and our proposed extensions to measles, Hep A, others, gone.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

BREAKING: Last night, the Harvard faculty chapter of the AAUP and the national AAUP filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump administration from illegally demanding that we keep quiet and change how we teach and research at the point of a financial gun. actionnetwork.org/user_files/u...

submitted 16 hours ago • 39 comments

The moral and intellectual pygmies around Trump might learn a thing or two from history and America's last grand strategists. Of course they won't. My weekend FT essay. on.ft.com/3GhNw4u

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

In this case “moving fast and breaking things” is destroying the lives of every day Americans and this great country.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

If you feel like being inspired by a big law firm, here's the opening to Sussman Godfrey's lawsuit against Trump and his executive order targeting the firm. It still is amazing other firms caved quickly to Trump's mob-like and unconstitutional shakedown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

FYI @normornstein.bsky.social @thebradblog.bsky.social 👇

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This

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EEOC agrees to drop pending enforcement letters against law firms that pledged major dollars to Trump "pro bono" fund. We now live in a country where making a payment to the ruler's slush fund lets you buy your way out of regulatory difficulty.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Very informative chart from Washington Post

submitted 1 day ago • 187 comments

Not for nothing, but how, exactly, is it legal to send people for punishment in a foreign prison (esp with no due process)? Were the funds being used for it appropriated for this purpose? I feel this has just become a thing no one questions

submitted 1 day ago • 521 comments

UPDATE: ICE has awarded a new contract worth up to $3.8 billion for the company to operate a migrant detention camp on Fort Bliss — its largest contract yet. It's the first time ICE is moving ahead with plans to detain thousands of people arrested on U.S. military bases in tents before deportation.

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

we are well over the line into contempt territory at this point, this is open defiance at a level that we haven't previously reached, they are just flatly refusing to even take the Supreme Court's fig leaf of pretending to try to get him back Judge Xinis should hit them with everything she can

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

submitted 1 day ago • 373 comments

If I were Judge Xinis, I would order the government to produce, in her courtroom, officials who were in a position to answer her questions and to do so under oath. Letting DOJ continue to prevaricate and deflect responsibility in written submissions seems ... insufficient at this point.

submitted 1 day ago • 642 comments

By appeasing Trump, law firms are allowing him to rewrite history by creating false impressions of election misconduct and illegal hiring practices. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

If you are a law student or associate who joined one of the Big Law firms that is now collaborating with Trump to do pro bono, ignore the bullshit management is telling you. Here is what Trump has in mind for you. Your spineless leaders will never say no to him.

submitted 1 day ago • 143 comments

Economics might seem -- from the outside -- like it's about competition. But really it's about creating the miracle of cooperation, where folks from all around the world enrich your day in a million tiny ways. It's that beauty that I'm worried about losing.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Florida 2000 all over again.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Friday Night Democracy Massacre

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Let me try this again, because everyone's focused on the morality of the $ 1 billion in bribes Trump's squeezed from law firms. Yes, big time lawyers are shmucks. Not news. What's news? A $1 billion war chest in legal fees Trump will dole out to fascist supporter orgs.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Blank check indeed. I can't buy sandwiches for community dissemination events without 3 levels of explicit approval.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments