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“Willkie’s longest-serving lawyer, Joseph T. Baio, resigned … “In an email to the firm’s executive committee, Mr. Baio wrote that he had left so he could ‘join the fight against governmental tyranny, unconstitutional decrees and social injustice, particularly at this critical time.’”

submitted 66 days ago • 178 comments

The weirdest part of the “let’s run the government like a business” nonsense is that the idiots spouting it always tend to take a dim view of the “bringing in money” aspect, which I’m told is actually a pretty big goal in business

submitted 66 days ago • 52 comments

"Voter bribery is a crime. It's illegal to pay people for their participation in an election, plain and simple. Despite this, Elon Musk has been flagrantly bribing voters, both in last year’s pres. election and most recently in the high-profile election for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court."

submitted 67 days ago • 15 comments

It would be poetic justice if the NY law firms that sold out democracy got hit the hardest -- Paul Weiss, Skadden, Willkie Farr, and Milbank. "Bankers and lawyers tore up already sparse calendars for deal making, reasoning that no chief executive would risk a big merger or public offering soon."

submitted 68 days ago • 79 comments

Today Secy Kennedy said he'll undo some layoffs in HHS "was always the plan. Part of the DOGE, we talked about this from the beginning, is we're going to do 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to have to be reinstated, because we'll make mistakes" tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...

submitted 71 days ago • 112 comments

WOW. Rep. @jayapal.house.gov says CBP's internal affairs department found that a Chinese woman who had overstayed a visa was arrested by Border Patrol and hung herself in a cell. She wasn't found for two hours—even though the records reported multiple welfare checks (suggesting records falsified?).

submitted 71 days ago • 89 comments

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

submitted 71 days ago • 961 comments

“The decision vindicates [the DOJ] attorneys … who resigned … rather than sign on to this improper motion which, as the judge so eloquently said, was ‘difficult to square with the words engraved above the front entrance of the United States Supreme Court: “Equal Justice Under Law.”’”

submitted 72 days ago • 20 comments

Can we please all agree that this experiment of putting a man who bankrupted a casino in charge of America’s economy is not going well at all?

submitted 72 days ago • 361 comments

🚨 FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON CALLS FOR PAUSE ON FUTURE AND RECENT INVESTMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES (audio translation)

submitted 71 days ago • 720 comments

Nothing to see here. Just a mentally ill president firing national security staffers at the behest of a mentally ill outside advisor.

submitted 71 days ago • 266 comments

Just for the record, electing judges is bad. Hearing a judge give a speech like this is bad. (In a bad system, this was the better outcome. To be clear.)

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

At a more basic level, in a democratic society, due process before a neutral fact finder is how we evaluate a conditional statement that begins with “if you <allegation>.” It doesn’t turn on and off depending on the allegation.

submitted 73 days ago • 41 comments

My advice is if your law firm can't say this, get yourself a new law firm. "Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf."

submitted 73 days ago • 547 comments

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

submitted 76 days ago • 185 comments

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

submitted 76 days ago • 1126 comments

Wilmer Hale partners now have a choice. Disgrace yourself or fight. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 78 days ago • 715 comments

No one voted for Elon Musk to have unlimited power. They voted for lower costs. So yes, we need to fight back against the chaos. But Democrats also need to lay out a clear vision for the new American Dream. And how we’re going to build it.

submitted 78 days ago • 18 comments