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NEW: Judge Chutkan has blocked the EPA from terminating grants for climate programs held by Citibank, saying the Trump administration failed to abide by legal procedures and provided no evidence of impropriety. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

submitted 1 hour ago • 59 comments

Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk's politics, because his identity is rooted in being an underdog fighting against the real power, but as the world's wealthiest person, who is deeply politically connected, he needs a definition of elite not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

submitted 3 hours ago • 22 comments

Amazon rejects the claim that they should have to recall things like “flammable children’s pajamas and faulty carbon monoxide detectors,” asserting that they are simply a third-party logistics provider, and in addition calls the US Consumer Product Safety Commission “unconstitutional.”

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US district judge Ana Reyes has indefinitely blocked Trump’s ban on transgender service members, writing tonight that the ban “is soaked in animus and dripping with pretext. Its language is unabashedly demeaning…and its conclusions bear no relation to fact.” www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/p...

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A 2024 GAO report found the IRS netted a savings of $13,000 for every additional hour spent auditing wealthy individuals’ tax returns. Watch reporter @andykroll.bsky.social break down how DOGE cuts to the IRS could cost more than DOGE will ever save ⤵️ 📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social

submitted 1 hour ago • 26 comments

15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis

submitted 19 hours ago • 104 comments

Ignore the lies from the Trump administration. Former Russian president Medvedev accurately described the phone call between Trump and Putin: a complete sellout of Ukraine and our European allies. Shame on everyone who continues to enable Trump.

submitted 2 hours ago • 46 comments

Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?

submitted 7 hours ago • 1893 comments

If I try to charge a USB device from my government client it will alert IT to will send someone to my office to investigate but Musk's crew is just casually setting up their own WH/EEOB wifi, no vetting no ATO, and replacing fiber with slower Starlink. Lol nothing matters

submitted 22 hours ago • 42 comments

apparently having a 3-2 voting majority while neutering all regulatory authority, corporate oversight, and consumer protection in the courts isn't enough, they want to salt the earth where semi-functional federal governance once stood absolutely wild

submitted 3 hours ago • 13 comments

Why have Musk-backed PACs spent $10M on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race? It's not just to uphold WI's abortion ban and gerrymandered maps. Tesla is suing WI over a state law that hurts its bottom line — a case that could be decided by its Supreme Court. Follow the money.

submitted 4 hours ago • 87 comments

DOGE has spent the last six weeks on a supposed crusade to audit the government and stop fraud, waste, and abuse. But two federal auditors with years of experience say that DOGE’s actions are the furthest thing from what an actual audit looks like. wrd.cm/420UPoq

submitted 4 hours ago • 65 comments

NEW: DOGE purports to be carrying out an audit of the federal government, but actual federal auditors are having none of it. This is from @telliotter.bsky.social

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In the last week alone, more than 5000 people have signed up with @runforsomething.net to consider a run for office. We're up to over 32k new people in the pipeline since Election Day. That's more than in all of 2017-2018 combined.

submitted 6 hours ago • 29 comments

"Chinese state media are celebrating President Donald Trump’s move to gut Voice of America..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 6 hours ago • 228 comments

Take anyone who claims cybersecurity credentials who also posts public pictures of their children with an extraordinarily large pile of salt. There are bad actors out there and pretending they don’t exist doesn’t make them go away. Something about a metaphor for how 🐕 is approaching govt work…

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From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 128 comments

SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

submitted 7 hours ago • 958 comments

Obviously we are in this mess partly due to SCOTUS, but also: How concerned must the Chief Justice be in order to decide to issue this kind of statement? My guess is... VERY.

submitted 8 hours ago • 87 comments

Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.

submitted 9 hours ago • 362 comments

DHS plans to collect social media data from immigrants (including many already in the U.S.) who file for citizenship, green cards, asylum, and other benefits – "an even greater threat to the First Amendment,” EFF’s Saira Hussain told @bloomberg.com.

submitted 8 hours ago • 8 comments

"...Musk-affiliated PAC, Progress 2028, is airing deceptive ads that purport to support Judge Crawford but in fact appear designed to help Judge Schimel. "A victory for Judge Schimel would flip the court from liberal to conservative control..." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Of course, Roberts and the court bear substantial responsibility for the ascent of Trump and what he stands for.

submitted 9 hours ago • 21 comments

First he bought Twitter. Then he bought Trump. Now he's spending millions to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court so he can overturn a state law that protects local car dealerships from big auto companies. The best way to stop Elon's power grab is to support Judge Susan Crawford in the April 1 election.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

We're all going to be unbelievably fucked if blue states don't start immediately rolling back restrictions on new housing to create a construction boom and build millions of new multifamily homes as soon as possible

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

We're watching an incredibly rapid state collapse--faster than pretty much any except those involving tanks in the streets--in real time. I say this as a person who's been in places with tanks in the streets. And as one who reads enough to know that the first lie of fascism is inevitability.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

Chilling details from a lawsuit against DOGE by USADF about how much of a lie DOGE's "IT modernization" is (the best way to describe it is if someone comes from the cable company and then says because he's in your house, he's allowed to do a home invasion) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1465 comments

“It was also unclear if Starlink communications were encrypted. At a minimum, the system allows for a network separate from existing White House servers that people on the grounds are able to use, keeping that data separate…” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

submitted 22 hours ago • 688 comments

It seems odd that if the President has the “inherent” authority in Article II, as understood by the Framers, to summarily remove people from the country, that Congress would felt the need to pass the Alien Enemies Act in the first place, merely 10 years after the Constitution was ratified 🤔

submitted 16 hours ago • 24 comments

One problem with the idea of reserving due process for law-abiding people is that due process is how we figure out which people are law-abiding.

submitted 1 day ago • 305 comments

Watching Jurassic Park, where a computer nerd with a debt problem and delusions of grandeur tears down all the safety systems, with no understanding of the consequences, so he can better facilitate his planned espionage and theft.

submitted 3 days ago • 226 comments

One of the most important things for Dems to do for long-term viability as a party is elect as many pro-housing local leaders as we can, especially in states projected to lose population - then empower them to build fast.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

The US recently deported a child with brain cancer WHO WAS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN Now we’re deporting doctors who are here legally to perform organ transplants IN DEFIANCE OF COURT ORDERS The Trump administration is spitting on the Constitution Judges must hold them in contempt of court

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

“The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said, at a time when top officials have emphasized their determination to curb the incidence of such chronic conditions.”

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NEW: There’s a massive Agent Orange site in Vietnam. USAID was funding a cleanup. Then Trump stopped work. Now the rainy season is about to start, and the runoff could poison hundreds of thousands. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

In addition to everything else I just mentioned in that SSA thread, important to remember: this isn't Congress making these changes. It's certainly not reform coming from within the SSA. And it's not even really coming from MAGA, tho Trump is responsible. This is being done by a by a bunch ...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

To put it in clearer terms…

submitted 1 day ago • 470 comments

"It’s the principle that Democrats are wholly unwilling to fight on the same playing field as Republicans. It’s that we seem forever doomed to be the party that allows the parliamentarian to shut down our entire agenda, while the Republicans won’t even let the US Constitution shut down theirs."

submitted 1 day ago • 223 comments

Trump's DOJ Lawyers: WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT THE DEPORTATION! NATIONAL SECURITY! DIPLOMATIC CONSIDERATIONS! Trump's social media feed: LOL LOOK AT US DEPORTING THESE PEOPLE ON THIS VIDEO WE MADE!!!!!

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This isn't anti-DEI - it's retelling history as a story with only white men in it. The tale of the Navajo Code Talkers is essential to understanding the Allies' victory in WWII. Removing it because the people involved were non-white is segregationism.

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

Other people are still at "is it a constitutional crisis yet?" and I'm at "the crisis was several exits ago, the car has crashed, we're now just seeing how many cars end up in the pileup and how high the casualty count is" or "the house is actively burning down, the question is what's left after."

submitted 1 day ago • 181 comments

Clearest proof yet that the Trump admin uses "DEI" to mean "nonwhite people doing something impressive and getting credit." Navajo Code Talkers made a big difference in WWII. The Axis had more trouble translating their language than cracking codes. And it's not like the Navajo owed the US anything.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

You want people with this much money-power-influence to… to not have such an astonishing lack of self awareness.

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So nearly two thirds of Americans are not. Got it.

submitted 2 days ago • 1584 comments

1. EXCLUSIVE An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency. The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result. Follow this thread for details. 🧵

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There's something grimly ironic about Trump, whose criminal guilt was quite clear based on public information, managing to land in the White House rather than a prison cell thanks to dragging out Due Process, now handwaving process away and assuming the right to brand criminals by fiat.

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments