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PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

submitted 10 hours ago • 2947 comments

"the reason [musk] does not do patents is because he would not be listed as an inventor as putting a fake inventor on a patent would kill it and moreover it would reveal the superstars behind the work" a thread that's totally worth your time 🧵 >>

submitted 14 hours ago • 19 comments

This isn't just true for Americans - it is vital that we all hold the line and defend democracy. "I’m far from certain that staying engaged will make a difference. What I do know is that if we all tune out, there’s no hope at all" @sulliview.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Trump posts a fake Time magazine cover with a crown on his head and a headline calling himself a king, while falsely attacking President Zelensky—who is courageously fighting for his country’s survival—as a dictator. This is sick and disgusting rejection of basic human values.

submitted 4 days ago • 76 comments

SCOOP: On his second day as HHS secretary, RFK Jr., the onetime environmentalist, killed climate change programs at NIH that research and prepare for the health effects of extreme weather and a warming planet. This is not going to make Americans healthy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 531 comments

A reminder: 1. Elon Musk's wealth is mostly in Tesla stock 2. Tesla is successful because at a key moment in 2009 the federal government gave it a $465 million loan so it could make sedans 3. Musk is now firing thousands of government workers and slashing every service ordinary people depend on

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

I worked on this story for a decade and he just said it out loud on Fox News

submitted 6 days ago • 172 comments

Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

submitted 6 days ago • 225 comments

Since the Washington Post didn't want you to see the anti-Musk ad with your newspaper, please check out this website and share it around www.commoncause.org/work/fire-el...

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Favorite paragraph from this:

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 6 days ago • 2288 comments

At some point, I hope enough people start reading the room with these people. No one elected a king or a dictator, and he damn sure didn't have a mandate.

submitted 7 days ago • 37 comments

With traitors galore in our white house and congress

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

This is a good time to remind everyone that this administration hasn't done anything for anyone. It has literally only taken away things we've already paid for and fired and sued people. Oh and the quid pro quo with Adams. That's the extent of what they have done. Kinda nuts.

submitted 7 days ago • 137 comments

And on FOX NEWS, no less.

submitted 8 days ago • 1244 comments

So, they are - illegally dismantling US govt, disabling Congress - burning our alliances, turning US into global pariah - reigniting inflation, exploding the deficit, unraveling US public health system - putting backdoors into Treasury This feels more like an attack on the US than a new government.

submitted 9 days ago • 296 comments

This is about as disturbing as it gets. When Trump says he plans to be a dictator, there’s no reason not to believe him.

submitted 8 days ago • 622 comments

Judges are going to have to start finding people in contempt, issuing fines and probably throwing some in jail.

submitted 9 days ago • 53 comments

My latest column: Trump's war on science will harm you www.latimes.com/business/sto...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The best way to fight back against Musk: Don’t buy a Tesla. (And if you own one, sell it.) The company was already in a precarious position before Musk launched his assault on democracy. A Tesla boycott would be devastating – and richly deserved. Me, in Slate 🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 68 comments

Tulsi Gabbard was just confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). God help us all.

submitted 11 days ago • 292 comments

Appeasement, Trump style

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

wapo.st/4hSE7Ox Illicit and entirely kleptocratic

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

His buddy Vlad does it. His mafia buddies do it. So he wants to do it too. Trump thinks powerful people should just take what they want by force. And he's daring anyone to stop him.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Caption by Trump: “I CAN tell a lie; I did it with my hatchet job on the truth.”

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This is — literally — unheard of in federal prosecutions. We can’t prosecute him because he’s a candidate for office? Wow.

submitted 13 days ago • 1916 comments

President Trump ended a first-of-its-kind assessment of land, water and wildlife across the U.S. that its leader called "too important to die," weeks before the study was set to be completed.

submitted 13 days ago • 48 comments

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

submitted 13 days ago • 487 comments

What he said.

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

One of the best articles I’ve read about the age we are entering. And it touches on something that we need to discuss more: in authoritarianism it is logical to cede power to those in power. Or rather, it is seemingly logical. Ultimately, even after you give in, they’ll come for you.

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

I guess they don’t teach you much at Yale. But most lawyers know that what judges do is interpret the written constitution and laws to distinguish legitimate and illegitimate exercises of power.

submitted 14 days ago • 71 comments

Today we are all focused on what is happening to the federal government. This is coming next. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

submitted 14 days ago • 453 comments

Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.

submitted 15 days ago • 1232 comments

This is completely illegal. The reason it is being permitted is that the press refuses to say it is illegal, only describing it as contested.

submitted 14 days ago • 69 comments

The right thing to do is to put out a statement saying that Democrats will consider this to be insurrection against the US government and Constitution, and that those who take seriously their oath have 1 week to arrest and detain Musk or be considered offering him aid and comfort.

submitted 15 days ago • 28 comments

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

submitted 15 days ago • 131 comments

submitted 16 days ago • 644 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments