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According to a source I have at the CIA, Director Radcliffe lied today under oath. Signal is absolutely not loaded on agency computers. As a matter of fact it’s specifically prohibited as an outside app. Skype is allowed for conference calls but not Signal. He’s lying. @markwarner.bsky.social

submitted 11 hours ago • 1083 comments

Just going to repost my essay "Decapitation Strike" from November. We are living through it now. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...

submitted 9 hours ago • 30 comments

Top intelligence committees need to begin an investigation into Pete Hegseth's epic Signal chat mishap. ASAP. There should be televised hearings so all Americans have transparency on how such an enormous breach of national security could take place in first place.

submitted 1 day ago • 1704 comments

At the Mike Lawler empty chair town hall in Peekskill, 102 year old Dee in danger of losing her Medicaid, heard FDR on the radio in 1935 when he created Social Security. @indivisible.org

submitted 3 days ago • 548 comments

DHS insiders say Trump’s Homeland Security agenda is now a single issue. “The vibe is: How to use DHS to go after migrants, immigrants. That is the vibe, that is the only vibe. ... It’s wild — it’s as if the rest of the department doesn’t exist.”

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“Denmark is not being a good ally” because they just won’t turn over their land? Tough words from Vice President Maybelline

submitted 2 days ago • 252 comments

An October 2024 story about Russell Vought captured the breadth and ferocity of the coming attack on the federal government. So why didn’t this story drive more of a national conversation when it appeared?

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Law firms/universities will hang together or hang separately "W.H. official said on Friday that despite the deal reached with Paul Weiss, Mr Trump would continue to target law firms with executive orders, including some the president could sign as early as next week" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

Fascinating work from @chenoweth.bsky.social: the number of protests in 2025 is vastly outpacing the number in 2017 www.nationofchange.org/2025/03/21/r...

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

No parent would be glad their child died unless they were in a cult.

submitted 3 days ago • 177 comments

This admin citing the need for aggressive enforcement of FRCP Rule 11 — which covers sanctioning lawyers for unethical behavior, making frivolous claims to harass the other side, etc. — falls SOLIDLY in the “every accusation is a confession” category. And federal judges need to wield it more.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

This will be Paul Weiss' most enduring shame. Performatively denouncing an honorable man and a former partner in order to please an autocrat. "Paul Weiss has acknowledged the wrongdoing of its former partner Mark Pomerantz."

submitted 3 days ago • 924 comments

For most Americans, not getting their Social Security check would mean not being able to afford rent, groceries, their medication—or all three! But a billionaire cabinet secretary is saying if you complain about not getting the benefits you've EARNED, you're a fraudster.

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This Paul Weiss capitulation is the most disgraceful action by a major law firm in my lifetime, so appalling that I couldn’t believe it at first. Any lawyers at that firm—partners or associates—who don’t promptly resign will defile their moral and professional reputations beyond repair.

submitted 5 days ago • 1465 comments

Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman was booed after defending DOGE at a town hall.

submitted 5 days ago • 246 comments

“It makes it very hard to imagine a leader ‘meeting the moment’ if they don't believe the moment is here,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Chuck Schumer saying democracy is not at stake—yet.

submitted 6 days ago • 150 comments

I found @chrislhayes.bsky.social's interview with Schumer to be eye-opening. Now that I understand Schumer doesn't believe we're yet in a constitutional crisis, his tactical shortcomings make sense. But his position here is also deeply out of line with rank and file Dems. We need new leadership.

submitted 7 days ago • 101 comments

NEW: Hundreds of FTC business-guidance blog posts, including ones critical of Big Tech firms and AI companies, have vanished from the FTC website—possibly in violation of federal records law. This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

The audio was horrible for those of us lucky enough to get into the deportation hearing but it was good enough to make clear that the Judge wants the gov’t to clarify the facts so he can determine whether they were in contempt of court. He only used that word once but it was clear.

submitted 8 days ago • 60 comments

The hubris here is just incredible.

submitted 8 days ago • 107 comments

How many eggs can you send? U.S. asks countries to help lower soaring prices - www.reuters.com/world/us/how...

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Shame! www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 37 comments

The stock market is in freefall, a trade war has begun, the economy is teetering, the U.S. is emboldening Russian aggression, measles are back, federal agencies are in chaos, the deficit is soaring, and we're 36 hours from a govt shutdown. Meanwhile, in the U.S. Senate...

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Judge Alsup just now, on Ezell's evasion: "The government has tried to frustrate the judge’s ability to get at the truth of what happened here. It set forth a sham declaration, then withdrew it, then substituted another. That’s not the way it works in the U.S. District Court."

submitted 12 days ago • 63 comments

A US judge extended his order blocking federal authorities from deporting a detained Columbia University student, in a case that has become a flashpoint of the Trump administration's pledge to deport some pro-Palestinian college activists reut.rs/4iHWx4N

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

In the CR they passed yesterday, Republicans have made it clear they intend to choke off the Social Security Administration and end vital customer service functions that millions of elderly and disabled Americans rely on to access their benefits.

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Congrats to ADL, AJC and the other mainstream Jewish orgs content to sit back while a fascist delivers antisemitic smears against the most prominent Jew in American government

submitted 13 days ago • 93 comments

The world is watching a US president directly ordering the arrest of a legal citizen & now directly ordering the expulsion of students This is as fascist as it gets How long before any of us are next? Trump has already threatened to put citizens in private prisons in other countries Wont be long

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

Citizens United put America up for sale, and Musk and Trump are the private equity firm stripping it for parts.

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants." In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.

submitted 14 days ago • 422 comments

Note the first sentence. Russia's idea of peace is Ukrainian surrender. Russia rejects a ceasefire every single day. Do NOT fall for the gaslighting coming from the Trump admin that Zelensky and Ukraine reject peace and compromise. Russia rejects peace and compromise. For over a decade already.

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

"The Trump administration has essentially announced that the American financial system is open for Russia’s kleptocratic business." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The US is not the only game in town. Our policies that cause allies to think about going "Four Eyes" are shortsighted. 👓https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14477803/Britain-urged-form-breakaway-Four-Eyes-alliance-without-US-Trumps-unprecedented-decision-block-intelligence-sharing-Ukraine.html

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

Extraordinary filing released tonight in a case about access to Social Security data from Tiffany Flick, fmr chief of staff to Acting Commissioner Michelle King. It details the unusual urgency the DOGE boys had in getting to SSA data & what they were looking for: democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 17 days ago • 30 comments

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submitted 17 days ago • 170 comments

The head of the FBI’s largest office is forced out. This is the beginning of the end of “Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity”: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/n...

submitted 22 days ago • 58 comments

Call your Reps & Senators on Tuesday. Tell them your views on the President acting lawlessly to thwart appropriations passed by Congress. Call them: 202-224-3121

submitted 22 days ago • 50 comments

The headlines SHOULD say something along the lines of: For second time, Trump violates the law to help Putin, this time in bid to end democracy.

submitted 22 days ago • 35 comments

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Donald, what, you had to bring a guy from the Russian state media in to watch you try and beat up Zelenskyy—and you thought that would make you look good? It made you look like the crook you are. Zelenskyy is a man that you will never be; he’s a genuine hero.

submitted 22 days ago • 263 comments