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he thinks you can terminate a federal employee with one of those asinine "we're updating our user agreement" emails

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Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

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this is an extremely helpful thread!

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A way to respond to attacks on authors: buy their books. bookshop.org/p/books/spel...

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And you can make sure you have it as soon as it’s ready by preordering it now!!! 🙃😬 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawles...

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this is so at odds with all the feelings parenthood brings up, i find it genuinely incomprehensible, even for someone as depraved as elon

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among other things, this is telegraphing that the council thinks it couldn't defend the current rule against a legal challenge from the Trump admin and red state AGs, which is laughable when you consider its ability to choose the forum

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

let's give this guy the power to remove the fed chair

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Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the offer of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

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this kind of seems like an admission that, for all of stephen miller's strutting about invading blue states, the mechanics of mass deportation are far from worked out and the administration is still heavily dependent on local sheriffs to do its dirty work.

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it’s so funny to be like “we don’t need diverse spies”

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just wait till the Supreme Court invites him to fire Powell

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translating everything regardless of context into Upper East Side politesse is not only an extremely weird psychological trait but is fundamentally at odds with the journalistic imperative to report the truth

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i missed this story when it came out. if the nomination process were a court proceeding, we would describe what happened with the Hegseth nomination as witness tampering and obstruction of justice. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

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smart play to line up appellate counsel for when this goes up

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for my friends, everything www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...

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if 2016 and 2020/21 were inflection points when we all paid the price for the Republican Party ceasing to perform the basic boundary-policing functions of a political party, 2025 is shaping up to be the Democrats' time

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lot of ppl saying that shredding state capacity is not how you build an authoritarian but: the entire history of Jim Crow governance refutes that? even with almost zero "state capacity" to speak of, what little there was coordinated with existing extra legal (read: vigilante) capacity

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i find it endlessly fascinating that people are willing to put their reputations on the line for this guy

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a fun fact about Judge Dale Ho is that he is one of the lawyers who won the census case, in which the Supreme Court said, quoting Judge Friendly, that "we are 'not required to exhibit a naiveté from which ordinary citizens are free.'"

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

what a tryhard

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It’s very funny to me when people write “would Canada and Greenland get statehood?” content from DC, which has the population of New Brunswick and no statehood.

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New York City Bar Association statement on US v. Adams www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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This is the problem with having two chains of command—one legal and one real.

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So all of our tax returns have been fed into ChatGPT by now, right?

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great day to be on a flight that's delayed by four hours because of an inoperative ATC transponder

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elon and co. are purging the civil servants who prevent incidents like this because they're critical of Tesla on social media

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