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They’re going to try and prosecute their political enemies

submitted 2 days ago • 2409 comments

If you’ve been waiting for a five-alarm fire to raise your voice: it's here. Last night, the president signed executive order giving himself carte blanche to decide what actions are or are not legal. This is the story to focus on. Protest this executive order like democracy depends on it.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Now we find out whether democracy has died.

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Now two-year-old toddlers will have to represent themselves in deportation hearings. www.linkedin.com/posts/the-fl...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

What hope do my Afghan clients have left?

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The evil that we Americans let happen: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans: www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

submitted 8 days ago • 1313 comments

More brave

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

My devotion to @kairyssdal.bsky.social is for his moral and intellectual clarity and his bravery

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

@kairyssdal.bsky.social bravo on your statement about democracy and the rule of law on Marketplace this evening. I made my children listen to hear what bravery sounds like.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Read the human cost to our USAID diplomats of stranding them abroad.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

FORK

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

of course he does... Trump is going to give him Ukraine: www.wsj.com/world/europe...

submitted 10 days ago • 91 comments

Disabled kids’ education is under attack. Please call your state AGs to save it. Details and talking points here: www.bazelon.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Bwahahaha.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

After judge shopping every issue from DACA to the Affordable Care Act to abortion—and being granted nationwide injunctions—the GOP is currently telling Trump to ignore the judiciary. Rule of law party, my ass.

submitted 11 days ago • 114 comments

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Law is holding a hearing at 10 ET on “Reining in the Administrative State”: judiciary.house.gov/committee-ac... I’m the minority witness. My testimony offers some thoughts about reining in the real executive branch abuses we’re currently seeing.

submitted 11 days ago • 70 comments

Today, this bad Catholic is proud to be one

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Go go USAID contractors!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The hopeful version: courts will slap Trump lawyers and administrators with contempt orders until they cry uncle. The realistic version: the administration will ignore the contempt orders.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

We are in deep, deep trouble

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The rule of law, that is, the following of laws instead of presidential fiat, is teetering on the precipice: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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🚨BREAKING: Emergency motion filed in federal court by @democracyforward.bsky.social and @publiccitizen.bsky.social re: Trump admin’s non-compliance with Friday’s court order blocking US AID purges. Visit Democracy Docket for details. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 12 days ago • 137 comments

We’ve had checks & balances & separation of powers embedded into the founding of our national govt specifically because the Framers anticipated that some day an executive might come along like Trump. For over 2 centuries we have also had judicial review. It’s all under siege now.

submitted 13 days ago • 845 comments

"One was fired by email at 12:47 am. Another wept with colleagues as security escorted her from the office. A third frantically tried to fill a prescription after she got a 24-hour notice that her health care was ending." Stories of the purged. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

submitted 13 days ago • 58 comments

Ahem. See my bio: our hope for reproductive rights is advocating locally.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Maternal mortality is preventable through adequate and timely care. Letting women die due to pregnancy is therefore a political choice, and Sen. Cassidy has made his values and his racism clear.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Bondi's Justice Department looks poised to prosecute blue state doctors who mail abortion pills into red states, probably under the Comstock Act. She's also very likely to restrict access to medication abortion WITHIN blue states by declaring that all mailing of abortion pills is unlawful.

submitted 15 days ago • 172 comments

Postdocs around the country had their salaries frozen. They are leaving in droves, unable to pay rent, sharing announcements from other countries happy to take them. This will set the US back centuries (assuming the US survives).

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal court BLOCKS Trump plan to place 2200 USAID employees on administrative leave and orders 500 USAID employees to be reinstated while this case continues. A big victory for @democracyforward.bsky.social! Follow @democracydocket.com for full details. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 14 days ago • 251 comments

In case you wondered what blocking refugees was really about.

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🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.bsky.social files federal lawsuit to block Trump's illegal plan to slash USAID workforce. Follow @democracydocket.com for breaking news. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 15 days ago • 193 comments

The U.S. Labor Department has been temporarily blocked by court order from sharing data with Elon Musk and his staffers. 🥄

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submitted 16 days ago • 605 comments

Bravo, @normeisen.bsky.social!

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Gross

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I served as a USAID contractor on several public health projects in poor countries. The work was vital, and my colleagues were of the highest caliber.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Fun one from today that nobody seems to be clocking amidst all the more substantive chaos. The White House comms department is now declaring that Trump can now "sign [an] executive order into law" without a bill passing Congress. Have never seen this language from a prior White House.

submitted 17 days ago • 149 comments

Here's @hana-kiros.bsky.social on what dismantling USAID means. Mostly it means dead children. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

BREAKING: DOGE has gained access to Medicare and Medicaid payment systems www.investing.com/news/politic...

submitted 17 days ago • 706 comments

Thanks to NOAA’s maps, mom and I are avid hurricane trackers during the season. But no more.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

No tiene vergüenza tampoco

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

submitted 17 days ago • 923 comments

I thought Musk et al were capitalists. Turns out, they’re nihilists

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Donald just said, standing next to Netanyahu: "The US will take over the Gaza Strip ... we'll own it." Which is ludicrously insane. So he’s sending troops to the Middle East, to Gaza, is that right?

submitted 17 days ago • 564 comments

It is atrocious how our leaders are treating our USAID foreign service officers. abcnews.go.com/US/state-dep...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments