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No shit.

submitted 5 hours ago • 518 comments

The firing of top military lawyers—the Judge Advocates General of the Army, Air Force, & Navy—by Hegseth signals a troubling move to strip legal oversight from military ops. @stevevladeck.bsky.social explains how this move clears the way for the Trump admin to ignore the rule of law in the military.

submitted 12 hours ago • 23 comments

1) You do not represent Donald Trump—you represent the United States of America. This statement is fundamentally anti-American. 2) Not only is this statement absurd and wrong, but it’s also grammatically incorrect. Trumps’?!

submitted 11 hours ago • 529 comments

A message from the brave woman - Dr, Teresa Borrenpohl - who was dragged out by unmarked private security in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

submitted 13 hours ago • 604 comments

In case it wasn’t clear before, the U.S. is officially aligned with Russia

submitted 14 hours ago • 1033 comments

One of the first targets here will almost certainly be blocking the mailing of abortion medications like mifepristone. If I'm right, it'll be a the biggest blow to reproductive freedom since the repeal of Roe.

submitted 4 days ago • 458 comments

Not an accident. Not a mistake.

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So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

submitted 3 days ago • 1188 comments

It would be far less time-consuming to just document when he tells the truth. shorturl.at/tohgb

submitted 4 days ago • 1127 comments

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

submitted 3 days ago • 1165 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 3 days ago • 1232 comments

Happy Friday! This is the resistance. Cause some Good Trouble today!

submitted 3 days ago • 243 comments

Imagine posturing your religious moralsso hard that you would choose the worst people on Earth as president because you think it would make the world a better place, and then you sit there with a straight face and watch this guy defund telehealth for Medicaid seniors for the sake of "efficiency."

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

"I think there's real risk of a generation or more of data being lost." - Dr. Michael Greicius, neurology professor at Stanford University, on the damage Trump's cuts to NIH research will do to progress on a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, adding as much as 20 years to the timeline.

submitted 4 days ago • 50 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 4 days ago • 864 comments

-The Question: How the hell did we get here? -The Answer: Citizens United.

submitted 6 days ago • 1142 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 5 days ago • 1950 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 664 comments

Timothy Snyder is an expert of modern authoritarianism.

submitted 5 days ago • 116 comments

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 5 days ago • 1154 comments

American presidents don’t even joke about this. Just because he’s petty doesn’t mean this isn’t dangerous.

submitted 5 days ago • 1740 comments

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

submitted 5 days ago • 535 comments

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

submitted 6 days ago • 801 comments

Marco Rubio's collaboration with Russia's Sergei Lavrov and Putin is one of the most disgusting acts of betrayal to democracy and our nation. Rubio has secured his place in history of infamy.

submitted 6 days ago • 1364 comments

NEW: The head of the FDA’s food division has resigned. “The division is tasked with ensuring that the country's food supply is safe, overseeing inspections and recalls.” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 6 days ago • 182 comments

Prius at 0:16 doing the ope let me sneak by you real quick

submitted 7 days ago • 1887 comments

When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.

submitted 7 days ago • 604 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 7 days ago • 2287 comments

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

submitted 7 days ago • 2727 comments

Republican Senators just voted to confirm RFK Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services - a man that believes Black Americans should receive a different vaccine schedule than White Americans. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

submitted 11 days ago • 620 comments

The Sassoon to Bondi, and Bove to Sassoon, letters, are positively radioactive, and to a seasoned eye -- eg any judge on the SDNY -- expose Bove and Bondi as complete political actors indifferent to--worse, more than willing to undermine--longstanding DOJ policies about dismissal. This is not over.

submitted 11 days ago • 41 comments

Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"

submitted 12 days ago • 2578 comments

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this. Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

submitted 11 days ago • 1465 comments

👀 “I understand my duty as a prosecutor to mean enforcing the law impartially, and that includes prosecuting a validly returned indictment regardless whether its dismissal would be politically advantageous, to the defendant or to those who appointed me.” - Former Acting USA, SDNY Danielle Sassoon.

submitted 11 days ago • 593 comments

A new study shows that bird flu has silently spread from animals to some veterinarians.

submitted 11 days ago • 27 comments

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

submitted 11 days ago • 1248 comments

Apparently, spending $400 million on battery operated trash cans was not seen as government waste or fraud. www.yahoo.com/news/musk-sl...

submitted 11 days ago • 325 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 11 days ago • 420 comments

“There is no logical stopping point for them, and … the only recourse will be for people to get out and say, we want the rule of law, we want a government that obeys the law, and that's going to require people to go out on the streets, because … there is no other alternative,"

submitted 14 days ago • 536 comments

“The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law.”

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Ellen Weintraub, chair of the Federal Election Commission, announced that President Trump sent her a letter declaring her immediate removal. However, Weintraub rejected the action, stating it was not legally valid.

submitted 18 days ago • 143 comments

The removal of the Jan. 6th database “signals the Trump administration’s intention to not only spare the president’s supporters any further consequences for their role in the riot, but to erase the event from the record…” www.propublica.org/article/janu...

submitted 18 days ago • 102 comments

A federal judge has just ordered Musk to get out of Treasury’s computers. We are fortunate there are good lawyers representing democracy. Normally that would end the matter, but in this era there are legit questions about compliance & enforcement. We live on the edge of a constitutional crisis.

submitted 18 days ago • 864 comments

Elon Musk’s staffers have gained access to the computer systems at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), claiming to use that access to search for programs and staff linked to diversity policies.

submitted 18 days ago • 203 comments

Vaccines do not cause autism. Full stop. You will never be wrong standing up for what is right and what is true.

submitted 20 days ago • 209 comments