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The truth is mighty, and it shall prevail. "Not the moment we might have chosen, but the one we were made for." -- possibly G.K. Chesterton
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Thank you to everyone who spoke out in defense of legal services for immigrant children. Your advocacy and outrage made a difference! We are thrilled to announce that the stop work order we received earlier this week was rescinded!

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The Trump admin is planning to strip healthcare away from millions of Americans by proposing new criteria for who can and can't receive Medicaid. Please CALL YOUR SENATORS/CONGRESSPEOPLE. Tell them they work for US. And we demand they protect our access to healthcare. 5calls.org/issue/protec...

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

@karaswisher.bsky.social Now that Elon is stealing our information from the IRS, isn't it time for us to stop paying our taxes, and instead pay them into an escrow fund run by the Democratic Governors' Association?

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 2 days ago • 985 comments

#Resistance

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

The Q Anon conspiracy theorist Kash Patel is now Trump's director of the FBI thanks to a 51 Senate majority confirmation. America, we have been here before. COINTELPRO and the assassination of Illinois Black Panther chair Fred Hampton at the behest, it is now thought, of the FBI. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

My compilation of what you can do to fight the Trump agenda www.headsupnews.org/p/what-you-c...

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

"Traded insults"? Seriously, WaPo? Trump lied, Zelensky calmly pointed out that Trump lied. That's not "trading insults".

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Check out my list of 11 new heroes of the resistance! www.headsupnews.org/p/elon-musks...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

At CJR: Where do you stand in this "emerging debate" between those who think the press should be on full blast against a constitutional crisis, and those who warn that overselling his power "increases the likelihood that people will accept such moves as a fait accompli?" www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

Good piece. "although the government may deny someone a valuable benefit for any number of reasons, 'there are some reasons upon which the government may not rely'” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: Griffin’s legal approach: If at first you don’t succeed, change the rules of the game after the fact. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/a-s...

submitted 8 days ago • 105 comments

The Trump admin has fired key watchdogs across the fed govt Removing them makes it harder to hold the admin accountable to ethics & anti-corruption laws But other guardrails exist—as I explain in our Democracy Playbook 2025👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Investigative news outlets across the globe are scrambling to survive and fearing backlash from authoritarian regimes following the Trump administration’s foreign assistance freeze and other moves to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

RFK Jr was confirmed. There is a lesson here for the future. The only chance that science had to stop RFK was a public relations strategy—to mobilize enough of the public that people not paying attention to politics would learn that he is a disaster. We failed at that. Let’s fix it and do better. 🧪

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

NEW This may be one of the most important cases. Doe 1-26 vs. Elon Musk and DOGE Complaint: "Attempted government takeover" in violation of the Appointments Clause. www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 126 comments

WE HAVE RESOURCES for our people affected by the mass #USAID lockout and you can reach out if you have something to offer (legal support, housing, volunteer time) or something you need! www.usaidstopwork.com

submitted 15 days ago • 31 comments

I launched a new weekly newsletter yesterday, in which I'll be reporting about the people who aren't bending the knee. Maybe it will give you some hope. www.headsupnews.org

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments