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Trump again blames Zelenskyy, not Putin, for the war. If he’s not a Russian asset, he’s the most useful useful idiot in history.

submitted 12 days ago • 91 comments

The GOP bill, a direct product of President Donald Trump’s decade-long obsession with illegal voting, would require documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration, bar states from counting late-arriving mail ballots, and dramatically infringe on states’ authority to run elections.

submitted 14 days ago • 117 comments

Imagine being a small business with debt, that you used to import products you had manufactured in china. In the time it took to make the products, tariffs were added, that more than doubled your cost. They are crushed Are there any states offering support for their businesses ?

submitted 14 days ago • 1913 comments

Donald Trump knows that he owns these cowardly law firms. Here are a few recommendations: Paul Weiss can litigate to bring children back in the mines. Milbank can challenge clean air rules. Willkie Farr can lead on spoiling the water. Skadden is perfect to break the unions. Shameful all.

submitted 18 days ago • 298 comments

Not joking: as of today Donald Trump is the absolute greatest destroyer of wealth the country has ever had

submitted 20 days ago • 729 comments

As the economic news keeps coming out over the coming weeks keep one thing in mind: this is the fault of one man and didn’t need to happen.

submitted 20 days ago • 2769 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 25 days ago • 549 comments

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

submitted 30 days ago • 3043 comments

This is not who we are. We are better than this. This is not what America is. This must not happen here. The political party behind this authoritarianism must pay a price. In the courts, and at the polls.👇

submitted 31 days ago • 24 comments

Trump sent masked law enforcement officers to arrest Rumeysa Ozturk—a Tufts University grad student with legal status—without a criminal charge. Disappearances like these are part of Trump’s all-out assault on our basic freedoms. This is authoritarianism, and we will not let this stand.

submitted 31 days ago • 66 comments

Almost certainly the Trump NSC team has been using this commercial encryption Signal since being sworn in. They should assume that many adversary INTELL agencies directly and successfully targeted the senior leaders since 20 Jan. This is shocking incompetence.

submitted 32 days ago • 15 comments

The breach left military and intelligence experts asking the same questions as the public: Why would top U.S. officials use a free messaging app to discuss classified military plans?

submitted 32 days ago • 562 comments

Hegseth is literally denying a story that the NSC has already confirmed and in which receipts were printed verbatim. Remember this the next time he impugns another journalist.

submitted 33 days ago • 269 comments

"That's a lie ... they were plans for the attack. They were texted before the attack" -- Jeffrey Goldberg on Hegseth's denial of texting war plans

submitted 33 days ago • 355 comments

Important thing about this jaw-dropping story is that even if Jeff Goldberg hadn't been invited into the chat, Hegseth was sending out detailed military stuff over a civilian app that even the other people in the conversation probably didn't need to know about "Need to know" means "need."

submitted 33 days ago • 489 comments

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed war plans in a group chat that included the editor in chief of The Atlantic two hours before U.S. troops launched attacks against the Houthi militia in Yemen, the White House said. It was an extraordinary breach of U.S. national security intelligence.

submitted 33 days ago • 651 comments

Trump's administration has launched an all-out assault on working people: Gutting Social Security Slashing Medicare and Medicaid Defunding public schools They're making life harder and more expensive — all to give tax breaks to Elon Musk and his billionaire buddies.

submitted 34 days ago • 12 comments

This letter from Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp makes things worse. Basically offers rationale and justification for everyone else following in Paul Weiss’s footsteps and capitulating to Trump. BLUF: We capitulated and everyone else should as well. open.substack.com/pub/davidlat...

submitted 34 days ago • 338 comments

Due process is the very complicated idea that your rights are not determined by the whims of guys like this

submitted 34 days ago • 112 comments

Steve Witkoff is a real estate developer. Oh, and Trump assigned him to a part time gig in Putin’s propaganda department. And he’s also the US Envoy assigned to negotiate the end of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Make this make sense.

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

Mike Waltz can't explain why the State Department cut off funding to a program that finds Ukrainian kids who were abducted by the Putin regime

submitted 34 days ago • 943 comments

🚨 🚨 More details are coming out that many of those whisked away to El Salvador did not have criminal records, and do not appear to have been part of a gang of any sort: 1/

submitted 34 days ago • 23 comments

Couture: 700 billion in fraud that only he could find, yet hasn't produced the receipts… this is all about undermining your confidence in the program’s legitimacy so they can raid that trust fund

submitted 35 days ago • 299 comments

This will be Paul Weiss' most enduring shame. Performatively denouncing an honorable man and a former partner in order to please an autocrat. "Paul Weiss has acknowledged the wrongdoing of its former partner Mark Pomerantz."

submitted 35 days ago • 913 comments

This is literally just corruption.

submitted 38 days ago • 640 comments

This is the article that got me banned on Twitter. Nazis? Fine. Racist freaks? Perfectly ok. Describing a social and media campaign to hit Tesla's stock price? Sissy SpaceX freaks the fuck out.

submitted 38 days ago • 374 comments

No reason to trust that ICE is really deporting bad guys, or that Trump's unconstitutional justification for doing so will not be used for others.

submitted 41 days ago • 10 comments

I did not anticipate that so many leaders across industries and professions would allow fear to silence them. Even worse than their silence in the face of Trump’s actions against our democracy is their silent complicity as they watch their peers be targeted, humiliated and punished.

submitted 42 days ago • 254 comments

Republicans are taking a chainsaw to the critical services folks rely on. Veterans' benefits? Slashed. Alzheimer's research? Eliminated. Affordable housing? Gutted. All so they can hand Elon Musk a bigger tax break.

submitted 42 days ago • 14 comments

Trump can call me names but the truth remains. He is an unhinged wanna be dictator who is angry that I beat him in court and won't cower in fear. Now he is weaponizing the federal government against his political opponents. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 43 days ago • 1449 comments

NOW: attacking @normeisen.bsky.social and calling him scum and states that anyone going after him is illegal. Trump is a liar, a criminal and a dictator. He should be prosecuted again.

submitted 43 days ago • 41 comments

Trump is standing on a stage right now in the Dept of Justice calling out attorneys like Marc Elias by name accusing them of trying to turn the U.S. into a “corrupt, communist, 3rd world country,” and praising Judge Cannon for “modeling everything that a judge should be.” Disgraceful & dangerous.

submitted 43 days ago • 203 comments

Get in loser, we're tanking the economy

submitted 46 days ago • 1370 comments

How much longer til America is great?

submitted 46 days ago • 1385 comments

McGovern: The stock market is going down. Planes are going down. We've had several major accidents, several close calls, and we just learned that Elon Musk, the guy whose rocket just exploded, wants to fire air traffic controllers. Make that make sense.

submitted 46 days ago • 91 comments

Trump Recession Timeline: 1. This will be a Golden Age on Day 1! Prices will come down and economy will boom! 2. These policies won’t cause a recession. We know what we’re doing. 3. Ok, it will cause short-term pain but will be good in long term. 4. This is Biden’s recession!

submitted 47 days ago • 403 comments

Schiff: "I was just listening to your guest [Hassett] trying to explain that these on-again off-again tariffs are not about trade. It's a drug war, but next month it's a trade war, but now it's a drug war. It was incomprehensible ... they're destroying the economy. That's where we need to focus."

submitted 48 days ago • 520 comments

“The leopards are going to eat all of the faces and then each other and then there will be a nuclear accident (or whatever) and everyone will still be cheering because Americans elected a carnival of cruelty and sadism and they still believe [they’re] good people…” www.greatpower.us/p/america-ne...

submitted 49 days ago • 23 comments

Shameful reversal of support for Ukraine fighting for survival from Putin criminal invasion. Also Trump stopped cyber ops to defend the US from Russia. Opening Russian Embassy DC. Congress zero influence, power. Trump unilaterally exercising authority. Defy court orders.

submitted 52 days ago • 12 comments

The biggest fraud being perpetrated on the American people is the GOP Tax Scam.

submitted 53 days ago • 1088 comments

THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG: Plaintiffs in one lawsuit against DOGE have alerted the court to President Trump's remarks tonight calling Elon Musk the "head" of the office.

submitted 53 days ago • 309 comments

I’ll sum up Trump's speech for those who missed it: He's raising costs for families with pointless trade wars. He’s slashing health care for seniors and families. He's going after the CHIPS Act and all the jobs it created. And he’s abandoning allies for Putin.

submitted 53 days ago • 110 comments

So, wait, the plan is for Trump to crash the markets, destroy people's savings, push up prices with tariffs, crush economic growth, and then gut Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security? While firing tens of thousands of federal workers? The concept of a plan is a depression?

submitted 54 days ago • 244 comments