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A good starting point for reporters, headline writers, and readers is to not take for granted the government's initial claims. Because they are probably not true.

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"It breaks my heart." Jennifer Cook on RFK comments on what people on the spectrum 'won't be able to do.' "I've written a poem and ten books... Is that enough for you?"

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

These cases will never survive federal courts overseen by federal judges...which means at some point I'm pretty sure they're going to resort to military tribunals or kangaroo courts in soccer stadiums

submitted 6 hours ago • 291 comments

Democratic members of Congress should probably be made to understand that unless they throw everything they have at this, they are next.

submitted 7 hours ago • 32 comments

All the hand wringing op-eds in 2024 worrying that the president was senile and the advisors were in charge were true. They just had the wrong president. Of course, no wall to wall coverage about Trump's cognitive capacity.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

The people who have urged electeds to shy away from talking about human rights abuses against immigrants are dead wrong. Call it out and people will notice and update their views accordingly. bsky.app/profile/greg...

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

SCOOP: three days after Kilmar Abrego García’s family sued the govt for his wrongful deportation, US officials began working on plan to fix the mistake and ensure his safety in El Salvador until they could bring him back. Then the Trump administration dug in www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 8 hours ago • 55 comments

Pew Research poll: Trump approval 40% approve 59% disapprove U.S. adults

submitted 7 hours ago • 134 comments

Even if this is true, the damage done to US universities is potentially irreparable. International students know that their degree/career could be upended in an instant, either because of political speech or a traffic ticket. They could even be sent to the camps!

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

An ICE official has contradicted DOJ’s arguments that are pending before SCOTUS regarding when the Trump administration could seek to remove people from America under President Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation. Law Dork has the story —>

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Trump is now desperately lying. He played himself. There are no negotiations. President Xi is going about his business solidifying deals w/Mexico & countries in Africa. The tariff gambit failed, and Trump is panicked. So off to the Pope’s funeral where no one wants to see him.

submitted 10 hours ago • 106 comments

This, in a nutshell, is why the Justice Department remains independent from the White House when it comes to directing criminal prosecution. A country that fails to take to heart the lessons of Watergate ends up with Trump.

submitted 14 hours ago • 104 comments

Bragging about being “close to a trade deal” with South Korea is a joke—we already have one: KORUS—a free trade agreement signed in 2007 & updated in 2018. Nearly all tariffs are already gone. PS— Bessett sounds like a terrible negotiator. “We’ll see if they actually follow through.” Clown show.

submitted 21 hours ago • 322 comments

Trump destroys international credibility of the USA.Previously trade agreements; now Budapest Memorandum.USA committed to securing Ukraine. They have half done it militarily.Now they refuse even diplomatic support.The USA is now at the level of a rogue state when it comes to complying with treaties.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

No, @slotkin.senate.gov — Dems shouldn’t stop using the term “oligarchy”. They should make it a household term. And they should be wary of anyone telling them otherwise. People know what it means. And if they don’t, tell them. That’s what leaders do.

submitted 21 hours ago • 449 comments

we look east for hope, at the turn of the tide.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

The Justice Dept. has authorized law enforcement officers to GO INTO PEOPLE'S HOMES WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANTS if they suspect that someone is an "alien enemy" I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below

submitted 11 hours ago • 289 comments

Trump’s team is designing a gangster state, where he can snatch people off the street and disappear them to a foreign dictator’s torture camp. We must stand up for the Constitution now or slide headfirst into dictatorship ourselves, a system where no one is safe from the gangsters.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

NEW: A coalition of students from more than 15 law schools across the country have signed a pledge not to work for any firm that “gives in to Trump administration demands…” Signatories include students from Harvard, Georgetown, University of Chicago, UT-Austin… docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 1 day ago • 93 comments

Ukraine is home to many talents. My mission is not only to share the truth about the war. I want you to see the richness of our culture and the depth of our history. Today, I visited something beautiful. Coming soon.

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

Attorneys for election denier and My Pillow Guy Mike Lindell face possible discipline for submitting an AI-generated brief full of fake legal citations. A federal judge in Colorado was not pleased. youtu.be/EIHLX_mO9QY?...

submitted 20 hours ago • 24 comments

Reminder: Claiming "I was just following orders" does not provide a defense in criminal court when the orders are illegal. "All five of the men are associated with the private security firm Lear Asset Management, which had its license revoked by the city after the town hall, the AP reported."

submitted 22 hours ago • 22 comments

Screaming at these people works. They’re fundamentally wimps, we just have to actually DO the screaming instead of preemptively admitting defeat. I am talking about my fellow Americans, not the Democrats. We actually need to scream, gang, not just complain that Schumer isn’t.

submitted 20 hours ago • 45 comments

Morning from Kyiv, where the night was calm. However, it was not the same everywhere in Ukraine. 103 drones were launched by the russians. There is damage and casualties. I had my #warcoffee. The sun is shining. Tomorrow is expected to be colder.

submitted 18 hours ago • 25 comments

reporting on this has really got to get better about communicating the magnitude of the breach here. if you read the nyt article with minimal context, you would have no sense that this was watergate-level impeachable misconduct

submitted 23 hours ago • 107 comments

People sometimes ask "what are the crimes" and let me tell y'all, as a lawyer, that intentionally copying, altering, destroying, or disrupting government computer systems is super-duper illegal if you don't have a spotless paper trail authorizing it, which none of these DOGE people do.

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

When the open letter from univ prez against Trump over-reach was released on Tues morning, it had 180 signers. By Tues evening, over 270. Through the day Wed (yesterday) it went into mid-300s. This morning, Thurs, starts at more than 400. This is significant. (Point of my post.)

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JUST IN: The ACLU has added Andry Hernandez Romero, the openly gay barber/makeup artist, as lead plaintiff in its D.C.-based class action against the Alien Enemies Act. They say the US has "constructive custody" over those held in El Salvador. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 19 hours ago • 272 comments

Please do it less quietly, Europe. US political leadership needs to be more rattled by this! www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 1 day ago • 97 comments

President Donald Trump’s team privately alerted Wall Street executives to the state of its trade deal negotiations, according to a reporter for the Fox Business Network.

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The Trump administration has canceled the lease for NASA's top climate science modeling and monitoring lab, known as NASA GISS, at Columbia Univ. in NYC. The lab is going virtual as of May 31. (The lab is above the Seinfeld restaurant.) www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/c...

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As we mentioned — MEMPHIS: “A decades-old law firm (Donati Law) has resigned from the Tennessee Bar Association (TBA), citing qualms with its inaction against Trump’s ‘unprecedented assault on the rule of law.’” www.actionnews5.com/2025/04/24/m... The letter: www.instagram.com/p/DI1vFJeyr6...

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Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

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www.yahoo.com/news/america...

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UPDATE: Last night, we brought you this story of the Trump administration trying to gut the largest women’s health study in America. Today, they reversed course: they are going to keep funding the study. @chrislhayes.bsky.social

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"Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) posted on X: 'This isn’t Trump just being Trump. The Trump coin scam is the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done. Not close.'" wapo.st/4iAatO1

submitted 1 day ago • 93 comments

There's some fine reporting in this. But it badly soft-pedals the degree to which Trump has been an easy mark for Putin, and Witkoff a far easier one. And it simply ignores the way that the concessions Trump is rushing to make are the quid he still owes Russia from 2016.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

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This is the reason why you all should be subscribed to Law Dork and not just following me here on Bluesky!

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Trump just signed an executive memorandum aimed at investigating ActBlue, the leading Democratic fundraising platform. The memo directs the AG to look into alleged foreign contributions made on the platform to U.S. elections. There is no evidence to suggest this is happening.

submitted 1 day ago • 170 comments

BREAKING: Pete Hegseth had an internet connection to bypass Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use Signal on his personal computer. The “dirty” internet line, as it’s known by the IT industry, can expose users to hackers and lacks recordkeeping compliance required by law. (AP)

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“An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.” By Elizabeth Williamson at NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

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