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There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

Now that Wall Street correctly believes, in light of his tariffs, that Trump is insane, is it really going to look with favor upon the law firms that shamelessly caved to him? Asking for a profession.

We should abandon the law firms that have abandoned the rule of law and promote those that are defending it. justiceandliberty.blog/abandon-law-... @gtconway.bsky.social @barbmcquade.bsky.social

The ABA and more than 60 other bar associations join to “reject the notion that the U.S. government can punish lawyers and law firms who represent certain clients or punish judges who rule certain ways.”

T’wasn’t a flask of Old Crow, so t’wasn’t Hegseth’s kin.

The government says that if it simply calls you an “alien enemy” it can snatch you off the street and send you away - and no one can question it. So what if you’re not what they say. Or if you’re an American citizen. No court can get any information, much less protect you. So you disappear.

I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy. Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Today the administration abruptly stopped Agriculture Department food deliveries to food banks -- food that had already been promised. Last week they cut off $1 billion in funding for food banks and schools to buy food from local farmers. Apparently it is waste and fraud to feed hungry children.

This.

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

It’s time to realize that the number of insured people is not the right metric for the following reasons :

Does anyone have a contact for Ann ? Would love to discuss with her the possibility of partnering with her to publish her cartoons exclusively on @bluesky