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“RESIST. DO NOT COMPLY WITH THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES.”Judge Ortiz emailed her EEOC colleagues after the anti-trans EO. She told me, “The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up. I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”

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US officials are reportedly threatening to revoke Starlink access for Ukraine if they don’t give us 50% of their mineral rights. That’s not diplomacy, it’s extortion. We’re also pushing them to kill a UN Resolution that blames Russia for starting the war. Facts matter.

submitted 6 hours ago • 233 comments

Our country was built on one voice, one vote. Citizens United changed that. Hear End Citizens United President @tiffanymuller.bsky.social break down how wealthy special interests are drowning out the voices of everyday Americans:

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The Trump administration is now bringing the postwar era to an end. No one should be surprised: this is what they said they would do. America's European and Asian allies need to adjust, quickly. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 3 days ago • 1412 comments

Genuinely incredible piece of reporting here that makes the story completely unimpeachable. They sat in the back of an immigration courtroom and watched the guy pull out his personal phone and post to his racist account DURING the hearing!

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

If Trump wants to see elections in Ukraine, all he has to do is use the power he keeps talking about to get the Russian invaders off Ukrainian soil. Then martial law in Ukraine ends, and elections will follow.

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 2182 comments

“…administration officials are paying lip service to complying with the letter of the court orders while violating their spirit. “ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 992 comments

This database would give Musk detailed technical specifications of every system, detailed pricing and delivery schedules, and information on any confidential government investigations into every other U.S. defense firms. Conflict of interest does not get bigger than this.

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

"I wonder what this relatively small account that Elon Musk follows is?" "Oh I see, it just posts porn and Nazism only."

submitted 4 days ago • 59 comments

Math is hard

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The critical caveat 👇 “This order shall not apply to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or to the Federal Open Market Committee in its conduct of monetary policy.” We’ll see if it lasts. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

helluva thread from the hellsite about the comically bad “savings” doge claims to have found (sorry for the weirdly sized screenshots, I had to squeeze everything into only 4 of them)

submitted 3 days ago • 93 comments

The idea that the harm will only come to other people is such an under-appreciated part of how we got here.

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 4 days ago • 863 comments

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 728 comments

Read www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

submitted 6 days ago • 116 comments

A judge just blocked Elon Musk and co-president Donald Trump from firing the financial cops at the CFPB who protect consumers from Wall Street scams. There's power in fighting back.

submitted 8 days ago • 229 comments

The Musk version of Twitter/X is playing the same role during Trump II that ‘Fox & Friends’ played during Trump I: driving the news cycle by amplifying demented conspiracy theories that only people steeped in that closed information ecosystem understand www.fastcompany.com/91278563/elo...

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

This is what I mean when I say the current iteration of DOGE simply is not working. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...

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What could go wrong? www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 8 days ago • 1161 comments

The rule of law we take for granted was centuries in the making. But it can be destroyed in weeks. www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th... @stevevladeck.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 52 comments

Amazon's $40 million to license the Melania Trump documentary, two weeks after Jeff Bezos dined at Mar-a-Lago, was nearly three times the next-closest offer. The president's wife gets a 70% cut www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

💘 This Valentine’s Day, swipe right on reliable birth control! Whether you’re crushing on the pill, condoms, or IUD, there’s a method that’s the one for you. Share these valentines with your faves and spread the love (and the facts)! 💕💌

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 9 days ago • 418 comments

The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 9 days ago • 166 comments

Worth a read www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 10 days ago • 71 comments

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

submitted 10 days ago • 334 comments

You know what’s frustrating? No one is asking the Trump administration at all what the positive impact of their choices are. They’re making a lot of choices, how come nothing has improved? If the problem was simply funding when can citizens expect their money back?

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

From @theathletic.bsky.social: The Department of Education has rescinded Title IX guidance that stated NIL payments must be proportionate between a university’s male and female athletes. nyti.ms/40Z3Z4i

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Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!

submitted 11 days ago • 1484 comments

Your regular reminder that the senator could have taken care of this in 2021

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External studies have shown: -NIH funding directly or indirectly supported the development of ALL new treatments that were FDA approved between 2010-2020 -the return on NIH investment is estimated at 25-40% annually given the improvement in productivity from a healthier workforce Facts matter.

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SCOOP from @nbcnews.com — A senior FEMA official instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 11 days ago • 179 comments

I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.

submitted 11 days ago • 182 comments

my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory

submitted 11 days ago • 1141 comments

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 11 days ago • 491 comments

Call your Senators. 202-224-3121. Tell them in a recent poll, 70% of those polled were against RFK for this position. That might give your Senators the political cover they need to vote no. Don't allow RFKjr to be in charge of your health and that of those whom you love.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

aging well, sadly

submitted 14 days ago • 349 comments

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

submitted 15 days ago • 644 comments

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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