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Retired from practicing law, then retired from teaching History and Political Science. Now, just fearful all the time
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Trump says he can invoke the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 because the nation is at “war” w/Venezuelan gangs. At yesterday’s House hearing on the newly published Annual Worldwide Threats Assessment, Rep. Castro asked a blunt question: Why is there no mention of it the official threat assessment?

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So ashamed.

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Over 300 Texans have gotten measles since January. So why would Trump and Musk cut funding for fighting infectious diseases? Because Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to give that money away in tax cuts for billionaires.

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Thanks, SCOTUS & Chief Justice Roberts!

submitted 16 hours ago • 14 comments

Let's check in with a leading introductory economics textbook.

submitted 16 hours ago • 109 comments

This needs to be said more and loudly.

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This is a really important point. Trump is losing most of the cases he's losing because no statute directly authorizes what he's doing. Instead of complaining about judges doing their jobs, congressional Republicans could, you know, *pass legislation* to give Trump the authorities he's claiming.

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merit is back baby

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This will end with kids dying and being left damaged and disabled for life by diseases basic science has cured. RFK Jr will be gone sooner or later (ideally sooner) but nothing will bring those kids back or repair the damage done to their families.

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Ding ding ding

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This guy has got to be one of the most viscerally loathsome public officials alive anywhere on earth right now

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I have a feeling I'll be Columbia's president by the time this semester is over.

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The only real response to make: sue the bastards

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The President does not control the Smithsonian. He has no authority over it or what it presents to the public. www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

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Secretary Clinton asks the question of the day: “How much dumber will this get?” Im afraid of the answer.

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Marco Rubio represents the interests of the "Free Speech" president by making sure that foreign students do not express any views contrary to the official position of the state.

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Note this important fact

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Career disappointment could not be more deserved for Stefanik who sold her sole, gave up every principle to become a MAGA player. Karma, honey. Karma.

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SAD. Capitulation.

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Proud to be an alum of Wilmer Hale right now. If you are in a position to direct business to law firms - or to take business to law firms - please consider which firms are standing up and fighting. Against *blatantly illegal* policies!

submitted 3 days ago • 69 comments

Not the A team for sure

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If only they had money. And power. And influence.

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Career DHS employee inadvertently sent unclassified details of an upcoming ICE operation to a journalist in late Jan. She's having her security clearance revoked And yet zero consequences when Trump's Cabinet members send actual war plans to a journalist by accident www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Hang together or hang, separately. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/b...

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What benefit to America does this provide? I can see none

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This is not efficiency, this is abandonment. Americans deserve health care that works for them — and instead, the Trump administration is wreaking havoc on seniors, people with disabilities, and our most vulnerable. In Illinois, we will stand up against these attacks.

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One of the first things Trump did was pardon an asylum seeker from Brazil who was part of the January 6 riot.

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I've been writing and re-writing things all morning about this horrific video. I am grateful to @gregsargent.bsky.social for pointing us to a rubric for interpreting these abuses, as well as a focal point for our disgust, despair, and shame, as an American. Marco Rubio. We need to focus on him.

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"The use of prisoners for propaganda purposes is as old as war itself. ISIS made extensive use... The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese...This is what evil, illiberal regimes do." Now that's us. Must-read @JVLast thebulwark.com/p/this-is-th...

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Whether the person who answers the phone listens to you or not, they keep count of the number of calls about particular issues. It matters.

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Agents of the state are kidnapping people off the street for exercising their first amendment rights. The definition of fascist behavior.

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Fact check - true

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Turning dehumanizing conditions and ritual humiliation into a US government propaganda video. This makes me ill

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American Gestapo

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