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As Trump’s march toward autocracy continues, @vermontgmg.bsky.social says that America is already beyond a crisis—we’re now facing a “constitutional crash.” Democracy isn’t dead yet, but without greater action it may be soon, he argues. Worth a read. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...

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"Admin officials have a myriad of feelings toward Musk: they hate him, they’re afraid of him & they think he’s creepy sleeping on a cot in his office...where 5 guards stand outside his door," @tarapalmeri.bsky.social reports: www.tarapalmeri.com/p/fear-and-l...

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“These are attempts to use drug-war tactics against people who share abortion pills with others." www.thecut.com/article/repu...

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Welcome Chief Justice Roberts to the right side of the American Revolution. Hope it's not too late.

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Mysterious security guys in black SUVs. Who the hell are these guys?

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So it wasn't the US Marshals at all. It was the DC Metro police who provided DOGE with the muscle to roust the staff of the US Institute for Peace out fo their offices. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dc-me...

submitted 4 hours ago • 163 comments

BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. This is a critical victory for trans rights.

submitted 4 hours ago • 113 comments

Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?

submitted 3 hours ago • 1247 comments

Just hours after President Trump called for the impeachment of a federal judge who ruled against his deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans over the weekend, House Republicans introduced a measure to do just that.

submitted 3 hours ago • 83 comments

the most servile people imaginable. completely unsuited for democratic citizenship. they would be better off under a despot.

submitted 2 hours ago • 108 comments

In a stunning legal rebuke, a federal judge has ruled that Elon Musk and officials from the Department of Government Efficiency must reinstate nearly all functions of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

submitted 2 hours ago • 356 comments

Judge: This action is blatantly unconstitutional DoJ: Which part? Judge: All of it! DoJ: No I mean which part of the constitution does it violate? Judge: ALL OF IT

submitted 2 hours ago • 21 comments

we're not throwing trans people under the bus for any fucking reason. None. There are two sides: the one that throws people under buses and the side that does not. Choose which one you are on.

submitted 1 hour ago • 49 comments

Here's the basis for the urgency behind the takeover of US Institute of Peace. An EO from February 19 saying the heads of these agencies had to self-deport within 14 days. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 4 hours ago • 16 comments

This guy co-sponsored a bill to have "Trump Derangement Syndrome" classified as a mental illness YESTERDAY.

submitted 3 hours ago • 230 comments

I've been keeping a running list of the nice things we used to have. It is VERY rough. Please tell me what I'm missing. If you want to use this list to do the project better, please do! www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/18/w...

submitted 3 hours ago • 51 comments

Re-posting this since I have a few new followers (Hi, folks): I'm eager to speak, confidentially of course, with nonprofit orgs that receive federal $$ who have been asked by the US govt to remove DEI, climate, or other speech from their websites where the govt $$ is not used for the web content

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DC Metro police is still being cagey. But based on their new statement their role in evicting the staff of the US Institute of Peace considerably worse than I'd suspected. Ed Martin's office intervened, told MPD the staff were intruders and they went with that. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-...

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If anyone can arrange an introduction, I would be happy to meet Mr. King. My kids attended Texas public schools and now my grandkids do. I’m also on the board of my local Christian church. I sincerely believe that forcing kids to read the 10 commandments violates the “Love your neighbor” one.

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Judge rules DOGE is likely Appointments Clause violation. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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"Thousands of employees returned to the Food and Drug Administration’s headquarters Monday to find overflowing parking lots, long security lines and makeshift office spaces without chairs and other basic supplies..." apnews.com/article/fda-...

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The TESLA (a/k/a "TESLER") TAKEDOWN is working... WORLDWIDE! Turns out people really resent an unelected weirdo running our Government & creating economic chaos. Hit Elmo where it really hurts: in his big, fat wallet. If we #TankTesla, It's Ex-X! (a/k/a Twitter) #WinWin Visit www.takedowntesla.com

submitted 1 day ago • 2278 comments

rfk jr's attitude toward anyone or thing that gets sick is "if he dies, he dies."

submitted 2 hours ago • 274 comments

Honestly just shut it down. This is embarrassing. It was a nice thing but it's done. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

submitted 21 hours ago • 405 comments

@washingtonpost.com They were not DEPORTED. Deported means sending them back to their country of origin. These people were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, without any due process or any analysis as to whether they feared harm in El Salvador!

submitted 5 hours ago • 53 comments

Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.

submitted 5 hours ago • 322 comments

- "Detained docket" means in ICE custody. - "Non-detained docket" means not in ICE custody and still in the US; most likely still in removal proceedings or ordered removed but not arrested yet. - "In criminal custody with active detainers" means in jail with an ICE custody transfer request pending.

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DEPT. OF INTERESTING TIMING: Chief Judge Boasberg has denied an effort by people seven Capitol Police officers, who are suing Trump over Jan. 6, to access grand jury information from Trump's criminal case. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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NEW: Chief Justice Roberts is seeking to tamp down calls by Trump and his allies for impeaching judges over rulings they don't like. Itunderscores the precarious moment as hill Republicans race to back Trump's call. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social +Meredith Lee Hill www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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Trump: the streets will run like rivers with the blood of my enemies. Their heads on spikes will adorn Congress and every federal building and court. Chief Justice Roberts: Actually the GSA is in charge of federal court decorations in consultation with the judicial counsel

submitted 4 hours ago • 61 comments

this is a bad sign for the administration on the Roberts Rudeness Index (the metric I made up for whether John Roberts thinks that somebody has been Rude, and therefore rules against them)

submitted 5 hours ago • 52 comments

I’m a true believer in the Roberts Rudeness Index There’s something very Sandra Day O’Connor about it — jurisprudence guided by a generalized aversion to things that seem rude, distasteful, or uncouth

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1/ Quite the admission in a government Declaration submitted late last night in the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) case: "It is true that many of the TdA members removed under the AEA do not have criminal records in the United States." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 8 hours ago • 98 comments

It’s only been a day and we have six credible family reports from Reuters and Washington Post that missing men were not in a gang

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments

Keep in mind: Due to lack of transparency, the several reports the public has comes from families recognizing their loved ones in the slick propaganda video posted by El Salvador's strongman Nayib Bukele touting their arrival.

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This is on me but I did not realize that Trump had repealed a 1965 LBJ executive order on non-discrimination. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

"Why is this guy acting like a king?" asks the guy who ruled it was permissible for him to act like a king.

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