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Elon doesn't seem to understand how the federal government works.

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If you were a federal employee who got Musk's email asking for the five things you did last week at work, how would you respond? Wrong answers only.

submitted 1 hour ago • 328 comments

Members of the military are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not the president. Changing that seems to have been the point of the Friday Night Massacre. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 2 hours ago • 226 comments

What ?!?

submitted 5 hours ago • 644 comments

The Trump administration is canceling presentations including book talks on important civil rights issues at the Carter Center & possibly elsewhere. Let’s celebrate these authors by buying & reading their books. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

submitted 6 hours ago • 101 comments

Victoria DeLano is one of thousands of federal probationary employees fired in recent days by the new Department of Government Efficiency team. At the time of her firing, she said she was the only Office of Civil Rights investigator based in Alabama. www.al.com/educationlab...

submitted 8 hours ago • 60 comments

Joining @katiephangshow.bsky.social soon, although there is currently a friend in my chair

submitted 10 hours ago • 50 comments

These people all have actual conflicts of interest that should keep them from working on any investigations like this. It's a measure of how tainted and corrupt this Justice Department is becoming and it breaks my heart. I hope it doesn't break our country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 10 hours ago • 113 comments

At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

submitted 11 hours ago • 550 comments

Friends - we will be doing additional content on this Monday. But a quick primer on what you need to know about Measles, from a recent segment. Stay vigilant, stay informed. youtube.com/watch?v=XNZP...

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This is a shameful way to treat our fellow citizens who are public servants. This doesn’t make America great.

submitted 23 hours ago • 187 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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You hate to see it 😂 www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Judge Ho appointed Paul Clement, the conservative solicitor general under George W. Bush. Liberals will like the process more than that selection. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/n...

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The context makes it clear:“Fight. Fight. Fight.” Nazi salute “Amen”

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A little substance about what the FBI does & historical context to help you articulate just how dangerous the confirmation of Kash Patel is. joycevance.substack.com/p/kash-patel...

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Murdoch’s New York Post today. #ukraine🇺🇦

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I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

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“If FBI agents who are just doing their jobs aren’t free of the risk of political prosecution, then who is? In a country run by a president who has accumulated all power into his own hands, you never know who might run afoul of the leader’s good graces.” joycevance.substack.com/p/kash-patel...

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Kash Patel’s confirmation to head the FBI is quite a contrast to what happened with Richard Nixon’s first pick, L. Patrick Gray, who Congress rejected for being to partisan & too close to the president—the same characteristics Patel possesses. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 1 day ago • 210 comments

Last night in my newsletter, Civil Discourse, I used presidential polling numbers to show that Trump isn't inevitable. We can find our way out of this. joycevance.substack.com/p/on-being-i...

submitted 2 days ago • 120 comments

The Trump presidency is a threat to the well being of the American people.

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

The message is clear. The Trump WH thinks democracy is a joke.

submitted 2 days ago • 240 comments

Does Congress even remember that it has the power of the purse? www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...

submitted 2 days ago • 554 comments

Important 🧵: Stanford political scientist uses data to show DOGE is attacking “liberal” agencies, not focusing on waste & inefficiency: “The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education.”

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On Being in Community joycevance.substack.com/p/on-being-i...

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You never imagine the descent into despotism being quite this embarrassing, you know? You expect liberal democracy to fall to a Palpatine, not Biff Tannen.

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Republican pollster Frank Luntz debunks Trump’s lie about zelensky’s approval numbers, points out they’re actually higher than Trump’s 👇🏽

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This morning in @punchbowlnews.bsky.social — a little good news for Democrats.

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"The hard reality is that we are not going to get a quick fix. We will not wake up one morning this month and find that Trumpism is over. And we can’t throw our hands up in the air in disgust and walk away in the absence of instant success. The fight for democracy is going to be long and hard and

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How We Get Through This open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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American presidents don’t even joke about this. Just because he’s petty doesn’t mean this isn’t dangerous.

submitted 3 days ago • 1740 comments

🚨 My new book, The Folly of Realism, comes out in less than one week 🚨 Take a look at the video trailer!

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

Certainly doesn’t look to me as though the end goal is cutting government spending… They’re looking to reroute $$$ to the oligarchs. Firstly, by funneling our tax dollars into tax cuts for the oligarchs. Secondly, by creating government contracts for the oligarchs by privatizing our services.

submitted 3 days ago • 140 comments

So many threads to pull here; the atrocious grasp of history & geopolitik, the glib lie about how the war in Ukraine began, the disgraceful abandonment of European allies. But it’s the alignment with the war criminal Putin, no friend of ours, that sticks out. What won’t Trump do to harm us?

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Sometimes the little things matter & can tell you the most about how we should understand Trump 2.0, like his nomination of a guy who calls himself Eagle Ed Martin on Twitter to be US Atty in DC. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 3 days ago • 1156 comments

There's this, there has been reporting that they got numbers wrong & massively overstated, by tens of billions, the amount of the fraud. But Trump & Musk are claiming that the federal gov't is incompetent? That it is full of fraud & waste? Give me the fed'l bureaucracy any day over these buffoons.

submitted 3 days ago • 194 comments

A Black man with 13 kids by six different women wouldn’t be allowed near the White House much less allowed to run the shadow government.

submitted 5 days ago • 88 comments

This is another huge norm broken within DOJ. Typically, a long-time senior career official -- who knows and cares about the institution and has DOJ's integrity as a guidepost -- would hold this role within the office of the Deputy Attorney General.

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Brazil shows that it can be done. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 955 comments

Turmoil at DOJ. @eliehonig.bsky.social joins me to discuss the resignations amid the dispute over dismissing NYC Mayor Adams charges on a new episode of CAFE Insider. Listen: bit.ly/41mz9En

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

“Clearly contrary to manifest public interest” is the standard for when a judge can countermand the government’s decision about dismissing a prosecution. The interesting question is, what would the prosecution look like if a judge did that with the government unwilling to proceed?

submitted 4 days ago • 118 comments

A week ago, Musk refers to DOGE as "we"

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