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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Don't kill us. by Greg Dworkin @demfromct.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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Let's me be clear. This would end space science in the US. A 50% cut will scramble everything, and the chaos will result in a greater than 50% cut in science. If this happens, China will lap us in a couple of years. #planetsci #planetaryscience #astronomy www.planetary.org/press-releas...

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

The Fulbright program is required by law. It’s literally named after the senator that passed the bill.

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

“Officials liked what the man in the van set out to do - give all the children delicious candy - but have been frustrated by his reckless abduction approach”

submitted 23 hours ago • 71 comments

This "immediate cancellation" violates the law. If the Admin thinks Columbia has violated Title VI by being deliberately indifferent to antisemitic harassment, it has to give Columbia a chance for a hearing first, make findings on the record, & wait 30 days. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

It's not my shitty policy, it's the (((globalists))).

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

Seven federal prosecutors, many appointed by Republicans, chose to give up their careers rather than participate in an alleged quid pro quo. Mayor Eric Adams' dropped charges aren't just about NYC—any city could be next.

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

“Of Health Care, Birthright Citizenship, and the New Politics of Legal Scholarship,” with @anthonymkreis.bsky.social. www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/03/of-h...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This is the cul de sac Republicans have been running into for years. It's easy to talk about rooting out waste and fraud (which isn't a new endeavor). But cutting spending enough to meaningfully reduce red ink requires actions that affect their voters and carry a political price.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Trump in full retreat cause his tariffs were idiotic and drew fierce backlash. He never understood the issue and risks wrecking the economy over it.

submitted 2 days ago • 98 comments

At closed-door lunch, Musk told Repub senators he'd “create a system where members of Congress can call some central group” to get problematic cuts reversed quickly, per Sen Graham Truly embarrassing that Congress has forfeited constitutional power of the purse www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

The US Attorney in Washington DC is investigating Georgetown Law School, demanding that "if DEI is found in your courses or teaching in anyway [sic]," the law school should "move swiftly to remove it" Federal prosecutors don’t control the classroom. This is a dark abdication of the First Amendment.

submitted 2 days ago • 330 comments

We have a healthy two-party system. Republicans hold Democrats in check and so do Democrats.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

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Defenders of Jay Bhattacharya are afraid to quote him. I’m not. Here’s a small sample of what they’ll censor. New article from me. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/the...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Civil service protections are slowly kicking back in, but (1) These folks still can be fired so long as the administration goes about it the correct way; (2) These folks' lives have been massively disrupted; and (3) The administration has made public service jobs look unreliable and miserable.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Trump and Stephen Miller don’t want a system that doles out impartial rulings for migrants. They want the opposite. Their aim is the removal of as many migrants as possible, even if that means eviscerating due process for them—or especially if it does. newrepublic.com/article/1923...

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 3 days ago • 1751 comments

Well that's a pretty succinct read-out.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

in the newest Tufts Public Opinion Lab blog post, Lucy Belknap ('25) shows that Trump doesn't have any special appeal among working class whites...they were already abandoning the Democratic Party before his emergence tufts-pol.medium.com/who-really-c...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The Trump Slump hits investors by Greg Dworkin @demfromct.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is not a presidential speech. It is a disinformation operation.

submitted 4 days ago • 77 comments

Dear Congressional Republicans, it's not too late to prevent thrusting your careers and party's long term viability into the trash fire.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Fighting bureaucracy by check notes having every employee send weekly mandatory reports to the White House that will be read by no-one www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

Reminder: The amount of fentanyl seized at the northern border in the most recent month was 0.03 pounds, according to US Customs and Border Patrol data. That's about a dozen jelly beans. www.cbp.gov/newsroom/sta...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

In the Maryland case challenging constitutionality of Musk's appointment, USAID employees file sealed affidavits alleging direct exercise of authority by Musk & DOGE team in USAID reductions-in-force.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

he thinks he’s king. he issues executive orders (royal decrees) and the entire society is expected to obey

submitted 4 days ago • 641 comments

I’m continually surprised by how many editors think that “we platform just about anybody, it’s a marketplace of ideas, heavens no we’re not ENDORSING this” is satisfying or even what readers are looking for.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The one positive thing about this is, this evil motherfucker has a pretty impressive animal cunning when it comes to media narrative. This is a pretty strong signal that protests have him worried

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

i know people know this but i feel compelled, as a medievalist, to remind people that that's not even how kings actually worked in the past! the idea of divine right was tried out ca. 1700 and then within 2 generations, their heads were lopped off!

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

So @propublica.org has a blockbuster story about Jodi Ernst, who cast a critical vote on Hegseth and has great sway over defense matters, being in an 'inappropriate relationship' w/ a top general The story has responses from both -- and they aren't exactly denials www.propublica.org/article/joni...

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

Enjoy the last Tariff-free Kagro in the Morning www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... with David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social and Greg Dworkin @demfromct.bsky.social !

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

U.S. stock markets fell sharply soon after Trump confirmed he is pressing ahead with punishing tariffs on Mexico and Canada starting Tuesday.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Live look at Trump running the country like he runs his businesses.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

This confirms the observation by @dandrezner.bsky.social that Trump's GOP has come to resemble Hezbollah, “a political party that also has an armed wing to coerce other political actors through violence.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Atlanta Fed forecasts a -2.8% GDP growth for this quarter. 4 weeks ago it was +3.9%. Trump owns this. bit.ly/3Ddsxim

submitted 5 days ago • 195 comments

It just remains utterly shocking to me that the official position of the GOP seems to be that the country which is being invaded and has seen its cities destroyed shouldn't even be allowed to sit at the table on discussions around peace.

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

Absolutely getting the same from Swedish defense folks I met today.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

We need to trust our eyes. Nazi salutes, racist purges, an ambush on the Ukrainian president by a far-right regime. If what we see aligns with what we know and is also in line with an established track record, our default assumption should be that what is happening is actually what it looks like.

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

The former head of the Social Security Administration says he expects the agency to miss on some payments over the next three months, interrupting some people's benefits, for the first time in Social Security's history of eight decades: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

submitted 5 days ago • 356 comments

There it is: Trump announces the US will not be enforcing its new shell company registry, which is the single-best tool to counter kleptocracy.

submitted 6 days ago • 209 comments

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: New Yorkers knew Trump was a mob boss, now the world knows by Greg Dworkin @demfromct.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments