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You know this is 100% going to happen…

submitted 3 days ago • 370 comments

This is genuinely an important article. The two main lessons from Hungary appear to be: DO NOT WAIT DO NOT UNDERREACT Authoritarians like Orban and Trump rely on opposition being unwilling to believe that what is happening is actually happening. That’s their window. www.vox.com/politics/398...

submitted 18 days ago • 48 comments

“It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is” Chief Justice John Marshall, US Supreme Court Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)

submitted 4 days ago • 81 comments

Judge Chutkan won't issue a sweeping TRO against Elon Musk & DOGE—but fires this shot across the bow: "Plaintiffs legitimately call into question what appears to be the unchecked authority of an unelected individual and an entity that was not created by Congress and over which it has no oversight."

submitted 4 days ago • 68 comments

This.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

This negotiation between the US and Russia, and cutting out Ukraine, is just like when Trump cut out Afghanistan and negotiated with Taliban. We see how that “good deal” turned out. Afghanistan was on Trump Every Trump deal fails

submitted 7 days ago • 762 comments

Rep. Jasmine Crockett is the best. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 7 days ago • 90 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 7 days ago • 186 comments

This one was censored in the US so not sure how many of you caught this before, but little X knows about the election rigging. Which is why Musk has effectively kidnapped him and doesn't allow him to be with his mother or other family.

submitted 10 days ago • 846 comments

#ProudBlue #Resist Want to do some resistance work? Try this - right from your phone you can actively join us in resisting #Felon47! It’s fast & easy!

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Isn’t this coup similar to what happened in Russia when their fragile democracy failed? I would love to see reporting on that .

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submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

“If a married woman hasn’t paid $130 to update her passport —assuming she has one, which only about half of Americans do— she may not be able to vote in the next election if the SAVE Act becomes law,” @wendyweiser.bsky.social tells Glamour

submitted 11 days ago • 80 comments

Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 605 comments

With Trump and Elon at the helm of the destruction of our country, we are now the number one enemy of democracy. Who would have thought that possible, but here we are.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The ordinarily cautious and conservative ABA is blowing the whistle: The break-the-glass moment has arrived. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 12 days ago • 143 comments

This is an absolutely astonishing report. DOGE did a complete takeover of CFPB’s systems at the root. This is identical to worst case scenarios for the most devastating cyberattacks by foreign actors, only this is an internal threat

submitted 12 days ago • 70 comments

This is very quickly moving from a messaging problem to a law enforcement problem

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

I wrote about the biggest rap performance of all time, Kendrick’s positioning of anti-Drake-ness as part of a larger pro-Blackness and justice for Serena Williams andscape.com/features/gen...

submitted 13 days ago • 104 comments

Donald Trump spent $18 million on security to watch the Show Bowl in person. But DOGE wants to shut down Medicaid to save money. DODGY!

submitted 13 days ago • 24 comments

They are not going to obey court orders. Judges either need to aggressively sanction them or it's already over.

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

Great point.

submitted 13 days ago • 1225 comments

Absolutely on point here

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

6. Beware of false attacks Bondi is an election denier. Patel has an enemies list. Trump has promised retribution. When a Trump foe is under investigation, be skeptical. When you read leaks against pro-democracy leaders, consider that it may be part of an effort to discredit their work.

submitted 14 days ago • 121 comments

submitted 14 days ago • 734 comments

Important thread from the ranking member of House Oversight, Rep. @connolly.house.gov, on the damage Senate Republicans did to this country by confirming fascist and white supremacist Russ Vought to OMB. Please read and share the thread. The devil really is in these details.

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

A great website tracking all the companies that have bent the knee to Trump and eliminated their DEI programs, and all the companies that have stood strong. www.dei.watch

submitted 14 days ago • 176 comments

The truth is that vouchers don't work. They take funding from public schools while leaving behind students with disabilities, Black and brown students, and kids in rural communities with no private school options. nea.org/vouchers

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

I was at the National Archives in November & took this photo of my favorite inscription, showing the relationship btwn studying our past & our pursuit of democratic institutions. The illegal GOP destruction of our public resources & institutions relies on the suppression/erasure of our shared past.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Not for nothing, but this NIH indirect cost cap was in Project 2025. Just in case we weren’t already sure they were following the playbook.

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

In just two weeks, Trump has made drastic changes to the EPA, from firing top agency officials to freezing funding for community projects. Here’s how that could impact efforts to reform toxic hot spots across the country. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 28 comments