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Just in case those of us fighting for democracy in court didn't need another challenge, Big Law turning collaborators is here and growing. My firm and others continue to fight. We will never back down. We will never bend a knee. We will never obey.

US law firms quietly scrub DEI references from websites to appease Trump

Donald Trump, an ignorant buffoon with no impulse control, thinking he is going to outplay and outsmart China is just one of his many, many delusions.

"My patients simply cannot survive without these drugs."

There’s so much wrong with this. This space is reserved for the formal portrait of the last president, no one has ever put their own picture up before. This is an oil painting of a photograph taken when two people died, and the whole thing is just without class or decorum. It’s just so freaking sad.

Every state in the union should join Arizona and Michigan in helping their citizens report when they're experiencing problems with Social Security services.

Alex Lawson: This is going to end in checks not going out. The money that we have earned is not getting into our hands. And I believe strongly that’s the point. The cuts they've made have had no other rhyme or reason except to literally destroy the system. @maddow.msnbc.com

This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.

Sure. Tell Grandma to just head on over to X to sign up for her benefits.

This is bad. And it’s where universities should band together and take action.

Senator Elizabeth Warren asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate whether President Trump violated securities laws while reversing course on his global tariffs.

When Maine's Governor told Trump, "We'll see you in court" she meant: We'll kick your ASS in court. And she did.

Very informative chart from Washington Post

The Trump admin has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new EO on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

When Trump, Musk, and MAGA extremists try to gut Social Security and slash Medicaid to fund billionaire tax breaks, our seniors say: Hands off! We’re not backing down. We’re just getting started.

Our Executive Director @alaw202.bsky.social was on Rachel Maddow tonight. Stay tuned for clips! @maddow.msnbc.com

Let these observations of Fiona Hill sink in, please! This is happening and get just a little worse every day! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8jAYYEg/

It’s hard to think of anything he’s done in his second term that’s *not* impeachable.

labornotes.org/2025/04/kent...

Exactly

The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families.

Maybe if we can't track and study hurricanes anymore then they won't happen? www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

Trump will next sign executive orders targeting media outlets critical of him with sanctions. Those media outlets will then find out that no big law firm will represent them because either they already made a deal with Trump or they fear he will sanction them. Trump is methodically ending democracy.

When Rubio announced the agreement with El Salvador in February he touted it as a way to outsourcing the federal prison system by allowing the US to send American citizen inmates there to serve their . This undercuts the Trump administration’s claim to the courts that it can’t get people back.

America’s largest newspaper chain, Gannett, will no longer publish demographic and diversity data about its workforce, and has revamped its corporate site to remove mentions of diversity. Cited Trump’s EO on DEI www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/gann...

" It may even be desirable to restore America’s standing with creditors and trade partners."

'Something is happening generally in America,” she said. “Something bad is happening. I don’t think everybody understands.”

Panama opposition party accuses US of ‘camouflaged invasion’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Your senators and representative are back home for another congressional recess. We’re organizing hundreds of rallies to turn up the heat on Republicans who are trying to gut Medicaid and SNAP in order to fund tax cuts for billionaires. Join us: indivisible.org/muskorus

The Trump tariff roller-coaster goes off the rails. The mad king makes a mockery of the rule of law. The Reverse Robin Hood budget bill begins. Heather and I break down this week's news — and take a sneak peek at my new memoir — on today's Coffee Klatch. https://youtu.be/fUIFIG1TnRo

I GREATLY recommend everyone read about how trump has caused investors from around the world to lose confidence in US markets, US bonds and US dollar. I can’t emphasize enough how dangerous of an economic scenario Trump has caused. This is way beyond stocks dropping. This will impact all of us badly

Trump’s administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs, potentially cushioning consumers from sticker shock.

Sorry, world...

lord willing we will one day prosecute miller for crimes against humanity

Exclusive: Two days after the Social Security Administration purposely and falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, Maryland, headquarters.

77 million people voted for deregulation (Trump). Did they know they were also voting for pollution, cancer, and climate chaos loved ones and future generations? We can now be poisoned on purpose—without a check.

Private prisons outside the country and outside the legal system.

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This era of mass grift—driven by one of the most corrupt administrations in American history—isn’t just a crisis. It’s a massive opportunity for the Democratic Party to lead an unapologetic, system-wide anti-corruption campaign.

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America Last, Putin First

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Fight this, Nicole. Do not comply.

“The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying ‘anti-Christian bias’ as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new order on supporting employees of Christian faith.”

JFC. "only those who voted in a few Democratic counties."

Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.