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The most obvious thing about this is it is evil and sociopathic. But there’s another element: speaking as someone who has both prosecuted fraudsters and defended people very wrongfully accused of being fraudsters, it’s absolute bullshit. /1

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So Trump is now saying he didn't sign the Alien Enemies Act after originally saying he signed the Alien Enemies Act 🤔

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www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

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DOJ Designates Posting Photos Of Balding Elon Musk As Domestic Terrorism

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I was about to go find the house and look up what it was worth 10 years ago when I realized that’s the real goal of this tweet. They want one of their reply-guys to share the judge’s address.

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Just to be clear: Boasberg is thought such a solid judge that John Roberts chose him to serve on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, over which he presided in 2020-21. He then became Chief Judge of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court. Not a fellow who takes national security lightly.

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The crisis is less “is Elon Musk the president” — whatever — than the reality that the United States functionally has no one in the role. Trump heads a syndicate of plunderers inside the institutional remnants of the U.S. government — but has in no sense carried out the duties of his office.

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US has had hegemony over science since WW2, it has made US rich & powerful with academic dominance spilling into tech dominance. With Musk/Trump squashing funding & free speech & immigration we are going to quickly lose that to EU & China & India, who will stop sending their best & brightest to US.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

On a daily basis, I marvel at how many people in putative positions of power are willing to help obliterate American democracy. The US has faced a series of very easy moral tests in the past decade and it’s staggering how often people in once-respected positions have failed.

submitted 4 days ago • 212 comments

YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

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happy wood anniversary to all who celebrate

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New Federal Law Mandates Women Talk With Baby Voice

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A Raft of Sea Lions as seen from the Santa Cruz Wharf #sealions #santacruz #wharf youtube.com/shorts/lxEoa...

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Opinion | It's time to deport all the convicted felons who have led violent protests against the United States. by Donald Trump

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

The #snow received over the last week has helped bring the statewide snowpack up from 77% to 90% of the April 1 average. However, dry conditions expected to take over later this week and last 7-10 days are likely to prevent us from attaining an average snowpack this year. 1/2 #cawx #CAwater

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Just hours after President Trump called for the impeachment of a federal judge who ruled against his deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans over the weekend, House Republicans introduced a measure to do just that.

submitted 5 days ago • 119 comments

"justify military ops in Mexico/Canada." WHAT

submitted 5 days ago • 65 comments

Didn’t take long for Elon to start saying Roberts is a Soros puppet. #HmmIndeed

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BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts responds to inquires after Trump called for a D.C. federal judge who ruled against him to be impeached @courthousenews.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 62 comments

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

submitted 5 days ago • 282 comments

Rest in Peace King Charles III, who got his giant sausage finger stuck in the axle of a locomotive and spun around so violently his body was launched across the Irish Sea

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If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.

submitted 6 days ago • 893 comments

the DOJ just stood in front of a federal judge & said it, no implying was involved; they're arguing that if cops get you out of US territory before a judge issues an order demanding that you're accounted for--not freed, accounted for in a legal process--you never get to see a judge astonishing

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

By the by, this from the DOJ lawyers is a fortitori an argument that if the government wants to kidnap some people, load them into planes, fly out past the maritime boundary, and then simply dump them in the sea, that’s not something that any US Judge could rule was against the law.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

This is Dixie. She's only sticking her tongue out to give you a convenient place to put treats. It's called being considerate. 12/10

submitted 6 days ago • 227 comments

Also, even as to written orders, it really depends on the font, I would think

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I'm going to take a break from social media for a bit. Life’s moving fast, and I want to take some time to focus on things that matter—whether that’s personal growth, new projects, or just being more present in the moment. So starting now I'm gonna completely disconnect. I'll be back in 10 minutes.

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mRNA is at the forefront of cancer research, as well as vaccines National Institutes of Health officials have now told scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications. This means that all research in the field will be stopped and abandoned.

submitted 6 days ago • 74 comments

One good reason for Democrats to show up for Mahmoud Khalil is you're all fucking next

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mRNA vaccines are the biggest breakthrough in disease prevention and treatment in decades. We're curing cancer with mRNA vaccines. To eliminate research in this field, at this moment, is fall-of-the-empire-grade stuff.

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Statement from the director of the Voice of America (who has been placed on administrative leave).

submitted 8 days ago • 201 comments

i bet an illegal egg tastes amazing

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In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week - a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill - hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.

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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 8 days ago • 6060 comments

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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this guy’s distinguishing quality is his boundless contempt for anyone who voices the slightest disagreement with him. you can see in his voice and mannerisms that he thinks he’s better than everyone around him. (which to my mind is just compensation for his palpable self-loathing)

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Two Republican senators told me tonight this vote shows they can execute the same strategy again — cut Democrats out of the negotiations on a gov’t funding bill, pass it thru the House, and expect Senate Dems to back down and not filibuster it. “We liked it over here,” one said.

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Today Donald Trump attacked me by name in a speech at the Department of Justice. Of course I am worried, but courage comes from acting in spite of being worried. I have made my choice: I will continue to speak out, I will continue to litigate, I will continue to stand tall. I will never bow down.

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Holy shit. This is the gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.

submitted 9 days ago • 94 comments

It is beyond parody that a MyPillow ad comes up in the middle of this clip. We live in hell.

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@schumer.senate.gov If you vote for cloture you are a stain on this country’s history that will never go away. You are willingly passing power to a tyrant in waiting, and you are a disgrace to every oath of office any senator has ever sworn. Your legacy will be one of cowardice and contempt.

submitted 10 days ago • 964 comments

I’m telling you, if we somehow pull out of this death spiral one of our top priorities as a nation must be a new wave of Schoolhouse Rock songs

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The irony is that between DOGE and Trumps tariffs they’re endangering the anchor of a lot of American prosperity, which is centuries of political stability and rule of law which makes a place people want to put capital. None of these dweebs grasp that.

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