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Over 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into imprisonment in internment camps simply because they were of Japanese heritage.

submitted 3 days ago • 284 comments

Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $394.2 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $241.9 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $254.1 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

submitted 5 days ago • 62 comments

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

submitted 5 days ago • 839 comments

Hey @JDVance, and @elonmusk, and @realDonaldTrump it looks like the Auschwitz Memorial wants to educate you. STOP LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

submitted 5 days ago • 828 comments

The companion video posted to YouTube by the US Office of the Surgeon General last summer when they published "The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Firearm Violence: A Public Health Crisis in America" - is no longer found at the original URL. But, we saved you a copy: www.pcgvr.org/archived-vid...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Right now we're making principled lawyers and a few brave journalists do all the heavy lifting while the rest of us sit back, fire off angry emails and phone a congressperson or two. What will it take to get us out into the streets? Showing force? Practicing civil disobedience? Organizing en masse?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The National Park Service removed references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument web pages because of Trump. "The rebellion at Stonewall would not have happened without trans people. To attempt to erase their existence is utterly shameful." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

This is tragic.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

submitted 8 days ago • 853 comments

Chief Judge BOASBERG has ordered DOJ not to remove any Jan. 6 videos from a database the court previously ordered to be accessible to media and to identify any videos removed.

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submitted 13 days ago • 87 comments

This energy.

submitted 13 days ago • 647 comments

This week we blocked Musk out of the Treasury systems & stopped the Trump admin. from doxxing 6000 FBI agents who worked 1/6 We got the best of Trump this week & we're not stopping! I discussed @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social 👇

submitted 13 days ago • 55 comments

Straight out of the 1984 playbook. Horrifying!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This should help wake up the country. FBI leaders holding-the-line for the rule of law. "Resistance from leaders of some of the bureau’s nationwide field offices, some of whom have urged subordinates not to fill out the questionnaire and let higher-ranking officials handle the fallout." Valor.

submitted 20 days ago • 56 comments

AOC is more clear-eyed than any other major figure in the party. Been that way for a while, actually, but it's become just undeniable now. I don't know about you, but if we ever get another round of elections in this country, I hope I get to vote for a former bartender for president someday.

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 20 days ago • 539 comments

Very important from @alisonmgill.bsky.social: All federal employees need to understand the grievance process if you’re placed on administrative leave other otherwise targeted by the administration. There is a limited window for you to act, so please read this great guidance about how to proceed.

submitted 21 days ago • 24 comments

Brown paper. Their thuggish offensiveness has no bottom.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

This is sickening. Revolting.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 22 days ago • 3628 comments

A constitutional crisis requires friction to make it legible. That often comes from conflict between the branches of government, but a Republican-controlled Congress and SCOTUS are not interested in challenging Trump’s lawlessness. That why it’s especially important for Democrats to act.

submitted 22 days ago • 82 comments

ICYMI: After OMB Director Nominee Vought's hearing, I submitted some questions for the record which he is required to answer under oath. While he dodged many of our questions in the hearing and in other responses to QFRs, he used this one to show his true colors.

submitted 23 days ago • 236 comments

With so much going on right now, it’s hard to know where to focus your attention. But Donald Trump shutting down both the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention and the Federal School Safety Advisory Board endangers America’s children and we really should be talking about that more.

submitted 25 days ago • 19 comments

RFK Jr. is not only a crackpot, he's dangerous.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it. Irony is dead. I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated. #LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

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submitted 29 days ago • 9 comments

a few lines from Primo Levi on Holocaust Remembrance Day

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

This needs to be amplified and echoed to the hills. The trump administration is laying the foundation to an Orwellian universe by rewriting history and smothering opposition.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

The Capitol Breach Cases page is now down, as predicted - that's why it was archived earlier this week. This page linked to over 1200 Jan 6 cases, with charging documents (indictments, statements of fact, sentencing memos, etc.). This material is still on PACER but is also saved as a collection. 1/

submitted 29 days ago • 15 comments

Hard no. Maybe he’ll say it was just a joke but you can’t put the FBI in the hands of someone who thinks this is funny.

submitted 28 days ago • 1464 comments

"The imagery was projected onto the outside of Elon Musk's Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin" Source: Deutsche Welle

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Brilliant.

submitted 30 days ago • 66 comments

Republicans plan to pay for their billionaire tax cuts by slashing health care for kids, seniors, and people with disabilities. It’s robbing working families so the richest Americans can get even richer. I’m in the Senate to fight back.

submitted 30 days ago • 252 comments