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This is an AMAZING resource. Can't encourage you enough to look up your state's supreme court. You'll discover that every state supreme court is designed with more checks than the federal judiciary

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Today in “Article III cannot solve what is ultimately a total Article I constitutional crisis.” The judicial branch has no enforcement mechanism to stop total lawless authoritarianism. The only one is impeachment & removal. Courts/judges can slow down the fascists, but only Congress can stop them

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Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

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How do we even know they’re ICE?

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If you ran a terrorist cell you’d know exactly who to pose as to execute whatever kidnapping you were planning

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HOLD UP. Are you telling us that the President of the United States is refusing regular briefings about threats to the country so his minions are creating a briefing TV show just for him? WHAT THE HELL? www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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I remain convinced that the entire country, including Trump, would be much happier if we just Truman Showed him

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So many thoughts on this one. (1) It is WILD that the quoted internal language describing this change uses the word “risk” so much. That’s one of the central legalese words for both DSA and GDPR. It’s basically waving a red flag in front of a regulatory bull. www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...

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Not sure if democracy remains on the docket? My law firm is litigating 53 voting and election cases in 22 states. ⚖️🗳️ When we fight, we win.💪

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I mean to be totally frank dating someone who is openly Trumpist puts you at obvious, immediate risk of an abusive relationship in a way that wasn’t true of your average 90s Republican

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OpenAI is featuring a "Looksmaxxing GPT" that provides "PSL ratings" for photos. It will rate people as "subhuman", and advise men to get invasive procedures like jaw surgery to "increase their sexual market value" among women, who it describes as "hypergamous by nature".

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I’m sorry, if you can’t understand that people with academic backgrounds dealing with fascism and authoritarianism are not insulting you when we explain the reality of where we are. If you cannot understand that being honest about reality is not a personal attack you are not going to stop fascism.

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“Law enforcement used license-plate readers in several states to search for a woman who had an abortion.” They used cameras in states such as Washington and Illinois where abortion is legal. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Trump dismantles a 164-year-old history project. #TrumpWarOnKnowledge www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025...

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In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

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Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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NEW: We just filed a complaint asking the FEC to close an illegitimate loophole that the Trump campaign relied on to withhold the identities of high-dollar donors during the 2024 election. The FEC should be working to ensure voters have access to more information, not less.

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Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority Of Venezuelans Sent To Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted Of US Crimes talkingpointsmemo.com/news/deporte...

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In the alleged Land of the Free, government officials will now painstakingly review social media posts for any noncitizen seeking to travel to the campus of the ruling party’s opponent, and the ban those who speech it determines conflict with the official party line on Israel.

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This is hilarious... and pathetic.

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Wild story. A family of asylum seekers, fearing deportation, tried to leave the United States by going to Canada. They were stopped at the exit by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and detained for THREE WEEKS in a holding cell meant for no more than 72 hour stays — then released.

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Despite repeatedly raising concerns about labor rights, Nike has grown its presence in Cambodia from about 16,000 factory workers in May 2013 to more than 57,000 as of March. Read more: propub.li/4kIhjCC

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If the Empire State Building had to adhere to Cupertino, CA's parking requirements, the surface parking lot would cover 12 city blocks or 2.541 million square feet!

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“.. But the report, from the presidential Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist.” 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

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Hey more violations of record keeping laws

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SCOOP: Sahil Lavingia, who says he was fired from DOGE after speaking out about his experiences there, told WIRED about how he communicated with the group, who appears to be in charge, and what might be coming next.

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Love being lectured on community by leftists who won't wear a mask

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The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...

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Couldn't agree more with this. It's jaw-dropping to see the patty cake people are playing with him after what was a full constitutional assault that, oh by the way, is almost certainly going to lead to tens of thousands of people in the global south dying needlessly.

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🎵 TACO TACO man

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Some women want love. Some seek power and money. Some seek attention and fame. Me? I just want to know who the administrator of DOGE really is. My manifesto, my magnum opus—“The WITAOD Chronicles”—is out now. ⬇️ 👇 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

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The Alameda County Sheriff claims a no-contact policy with ICE: "We are not sharing information.” But the sheriff received over $1 million in federal money last year, in exchange for sensitive info on undocumented people held at the jail. My latest @boltsmag.org boltsmag.org/alameda-coun...

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crucial 🧵 by @pascalsabino.bsky.social on how he ended up reporting on how bright-blue counties are sharing data with ICE:

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Agree. Important exception: @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on his TV show hammered home this point virtually every day since the (lawless) tariffs were announced.

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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

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HHS, led by anti-vaxxer RFK Jr., just canceled a $766 million contract with Moderna to fight potential pandemic flu viruses, including the H5N1 bird flu. Moderna had just announced positive interim results from an early-stage trial of the vaccine. www.huffpost.com/entry/flu-va...

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Called it. Casey Means didn’t drop out of residency because she was “disillusioned with the medical establishment.” She had already taken a prolonged leave of absence & was having serious performance issues. There’s no way she was on track to graduate after already missing 3 months. It’s all a grift

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Reports of Bluesky's death have been greatly exaggerated.

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Mask Week is here! Originally launched by Celebrate 845, a NY-based grassroots arts and advocacy organization, Mask Week is now a growing international movement supported by the World Health Network.

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🦋 bluesky friends. I need your help. Can we make sure Cuomo doesn’t get elected in NYC? Can you please help me by donating to the WFP IE? I have 20k of you on here….if half of you gave just $100, we would raise $1 mill. This dude has $8.7 million in his PAC. Help! secure.actblue.com/donate/nyc-2...

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Yeah, I had some thoughts on Rubio's nonsense claims about how he has to keep people out of the US for "censoring" social media at the same time he's literally giving the okay to kidnap students off the street for innocuous op-eds.

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Once again, I am begging reporters to include copies of court documents when you are reporting on them. This has been my white whale for over a decade. I don't understand what is wrong with people. You're reporting on a document but you don't link the document? Is it crack? What is it?

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As I've said before, I don't link to or share your story if you don't link to the documents. I'll literally go find the case myself or find another story that does share the documents rather than encourage this behavior, which is anti-educational and poor journalism.

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Same.

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No @columjournreview.bsky.social we left because Substack was platforming and monetizing NAZIS www.thehandbasket.co/p/we-got-sub...

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It remains journalistic malpractice how often mainstream media folks repeat blatantly false claims like that Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Substack, Brendan Carr, etc. are "free speech supporters." They're not. They just like platforming bigots. That's it.

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