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Immigrant women say they were held "like animals" in ICE detention, subjected to conditions so extreme they feared for their lives. Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held "like sardines in a jar," as many as 27 women in a small holding cell. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

submitted 16 hours ago • 24 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey. Defiantly, ME

submitted 13 hours ago • 315 comments

There are a bunch of articles like this, which argue that Trump is going after institutions because of their failures. The reality is Trump is going after institutions - bureaucracy, military, judges, lawyers, media - because he is an authoritarian who wants control. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

submitted 5 hours ago • 45 comments

And if you’re not Californian…

submitted 4 hours ago • 7 comments

The extra strict privacy protections for the IRS are to ensure people pay their taxes. We interviewed folks at the IRS and this also shaped their strict culture around privacy. Ultimately, the tax system only works if people voluntarily comply.

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

If a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you? My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.

submitted 1 day ago • 692 comments

Read this from @sulliview.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

"IT'S A TRAP" yells Gallego, about opposing the American government transferring people who have hurt no-one into indentured servitude.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

Do you value your library? Trump just ordered the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the key source of federal support for libraries. Libraries are vital social infrastructure, the foundations of an open, democratic society. Gutting them means gutting our own communities.

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

Important note about this breakthrough: Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing. Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

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Lesson of life experience: No one who is uneasy/ upset / threatened by people with same-sex attractions, or who baits people about being "he/she" or trans or whatever, is actually comfortable in his or her own sexual identity. People who are comfortable don't waste time on others' issues.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

Nationwide! And in a lot of places where you might not expect there to be rallies. Look up an event near you here 👇💪

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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

submitted 2 days ago • 338 comments

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 204 comments

It's important to keep tabs on who the collaborators are. If you don't, then once the Trump administration is gone, they'll re-assume power and start the whole stupid cycle over again. Weak Democrats led us here and they will again if they're not expelled from the movement.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.

submitted 4 days ago • 166 comments

According to the student, he is being put into deportation proceedings via the rarely used provision that the Secretary of State can remove non-citizens if he deems them to be a threat to the US foreign policy.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

There hasn't been a protest this year as large and widespread as the Women's March of early 2017, but there have been more protest events overall. And as this data shows, the margin compared to the start of Trump Term 1 appears to be growing. Don't let anyone tell you no Americans are protesting.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Thinking about blowing the whistle? Our guide to alerting the public to wrongdoing, safely #SunshineWeek s3.amazonaws.com/docs.pogo.or...

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Tesla owner makes a statement with her car...

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Technical question: if you don't have the power to fire someone, are they fired? If so, I have a list.... But seriously, this is a constant with the attacks on civil servants since Jan. 20th.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

This represents a large cut in social security that would make benefits more difficult to get and services more frustrating who interact with the administration. Direct breaking of the promise not to touch social security.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

DODs efforts to erase the contributions of anyone who isn’t a white man is starkly racist, yes, and also an astonishing combination of embarrassing, dumb, ignorant, pathetic, and the oversimplicty of the DOD machine at its ugly and sad “best.” www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I'm doing a fireside chat with Marshall Ganz (Harvard Kennedy School) this evening (5 pm PT / 8 pm ET) hosted by the Korean Association of Party Politics. The title is People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal... at a time in which it really matters?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Hell yes. The press needs to step up in this moment.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is the thinking of a dictator. And let's not use fancy language like authoritarian or autocrat or even despot to describe it.Tyranny is tyranny. During Trump's first term his greatest crime was betraying the country. He was a traitor. Now, he is compounding the betrayal by attacking democracy.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Blog entry: "It’s important that we reconsider how much to government software development outsource. I don’t mean what percentage of development, I mean the extent of each project that is handed off to a vendor. What might it look like to reduce the outsourced extent, if that would reduce risk?"

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

submitted 6 days ago • 622 comments

In the absence of adequate staff, the lion's share of the administrative burden of helping the elderly navigate SSA will fall on adult daughters, DILs, and female friends. The war on the elderly, the war on lower income Americans, and the war on women are the same war. @jessicacalarco.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

A tyrant unbound who should be impeached and removed from office.

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

I'm not a lawyer, but I would strongly recommend that blue state AGs and legislatures start today figuring out how to make treason and intentionally violating judicial orders state level crimes, with appropriately harsh punishments.

submitted 7 days ago • 39 comments

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

submitted 7 days ago • 650 comments

+1 on this: The US stands out relative to other country because of decades of big-time investment in scientific infrastructure. That is why the US won on science and attracting talent. Trump is dismantling that infrastructure now, but it has never existed in other countries to the same degree.

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

New, from me: Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America. Here is a partial inventory. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...

submitted 8 days ago • 93 comments

This cure for sickle cell anemia was made possible by NIH-funded research to turn the gene for fetal hemoglobin back on. It was done predominantly by NIH researchers, including intramural researchers on the NIH campus. irp.nih.gov/catalyst/33/...

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

submitted 8 days ago • 2792 comments

Trump, Rubio, Musk and the his DOGE employees, Luke Farritor and Gavin Kliger, collectively chose to kill these people. Through orders, indifference, and through pushing buttons that meant that some of the most vulnerable people in the world would have their lives sniffed out.

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

This was the same guy who resigned after he was found making a bunch of wildly racist remarks. Musk, Vance and Trump all insisted he be brought back into government. And for what? So be could access and share private personal data in violation of the law? This is our new era of merit?

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

One thing everyone should understand is that DOGE has created the least efficient conditions for government I've ever seen. The working conditions are chaotic. No clear sense of who works there. Routine processes have been stopped. No planning can take place. *People are incredibly demoralized.

submitted 8 days ago • 247 comments

Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding. inews.co.uk/news/world/m...

submitted 8 days ago • 254 comments

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

submitted 12 days ago • 1097 comments

since she was 8 months old www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

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A new study found that 82% of respondents favored DEI policies. "While the vast majority of respondents were positive about DEI themselves, they estimated just 55 percent of Americans held pro-diversity views." DEI is more popular than we assume! www.inc.com/jessica-stil...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

I have been (and am) "hard NO" on Blank Check for Musk. What's strongest case for Senate Ds letting it through? Obviously not Schumer op-ed Try this by Martin Longman/Progress Pond. (It's a pick-your-poison argument.) I'm still "No!" but it's worth reading. www.progresspond.com/2025/03/14/f...

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments