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Fentanyl is very much like a weapon of mass destruction in the sense that Republicans like to lie about finding it and then use that lie as a justification to do ruinous, destructive things

submitted 50 minutes ago • 48 comments

Federal courts can review whether Trump satisfied the conditions to declare an incursion under the Alien Enemies Act in the first instance @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Nick is a human monkey's paw for the federal government. When he starts writing a @lawfare.bsky.social piece on something, expect that thing to immediately get 10x worse.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

The court found that Mr. Musk had personally, and unlawfully, overseen the dismantling of USAID. In a sternly worded order, Judge Chuang warned that any skirting of its requirements could result in his holding Mr. Musk or members of his team in contempt. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...

submitted 4 hours ago • 99 comments

Something really abhorrent might have happened at SCOTUS just now — beyond the obvious even. Normally when SCOTUS denies a stay of execution, they also deny the accompanying cert petition. They did not do so tonight.

submitted 1 hour ago • 11 comments

The Great Barrington Declaration, but for chickens. RFK Jr. is truly the stupidest motherfucker.

submitted 5 hours ago • 79 comments

Oh, no. Fuck, no. A great way to breed lethal disease, possibly seeing more human infections, and to wipe out the living of every chicken farmer in the country. And the price of eggs? Dumb piece of work, that Kennedy.

submitted 2 hours ago • 26 comments

Judge Reyes will issue a preliminary injunction allowing transgender people to continue to serve in the US military. She stayed her order til Friday morning to allow for an appeal to the DC Circuit. Lengthy opinion: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

I appreciate a lot of this, but I wish federal officials who have not been legally terminated would say so and then remain in their posts, rather than executing this shift to the past tense.

submitted 1 hour ago • 17 comments

🚨NEW VIDEO: Chief Justice Roberts issued a rare statement pushing back on President Trump's call to impeach a federal judge who recently ruled against the administration. Paige and I explain. youtube.com/watch?v=71o2...

submitted 1 hour ago • 94 comments

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes blocks Trump’s anti-trans military ban EO and the orders implementing it. She stays her order until 10a March 21 to allow the government to seek a stay from the DC Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 hour ago • 25 comments

Taken together, experts say, the Trump administration's moves threaten to undermine the single most important plank in our democratic system: free and fair elections.

submitted 5 hours ago • 39 comments

@maryrziegler.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 3 hours ago • 9 comments

Why Trump engineered a constitutional crisis now, over this particular dispute—and what the Chief Justice's rebuke augurs for the administration's eventual odds of success at the Supreme Court. With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 3 hours ago • 8 comments

“The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said, at a time when top officials have emphasized their determination to curb the incidence of such chronic conditions.”

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

The specific quote from General John DeWitt, justifying Japanese internment: “The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 22 comments

The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety as to whether, how, or against whom power will be exercised.

submitted 9 hours ago • 38 comments

Whoa whoa whoa, it turns out if the President constantly says you run DOGE, and you constantly say you run DOGE, and you publicly give numerous examples of running DOGE, then a court will say "this guy runs DOGE." Whaaaaa?! 🤯 Must be a radical leftist judge or something.

submitted 4 hours ago • 17 comments

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

submitted 3 hours ago • 119 comments

Now that Trump has proven to be a ruthless autocrat, too many have grown timid and silent. That is simply not who I am. It is not what I believe, and it is not what I will do. Instead, I will worry. I will hope. And I will fight. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-wo...

submitted 3 hours ago • 144 comments

@ivey.house.gov

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A little over a week ago, one of my constituents from Maryland’s Fourth Congressional District became a former employee of USAID after 15 years of service. He, like many other federal workers are experiencing unnecessary upheaval. Learn more about his story below.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Last night, I joined @rolandsmartin on his show Unfiltered to discuss the state of our democracy and the power of facing constituents through town halls. Tonight, I’m hosting a town hall for those affected in my district. House Democrats are not afraid of pointing out that these cuts hurt Americans.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: The Trump administration is considering to give up the role of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe - a role that began with then-World War II hero and future president Dwight D. Eisenhower.

submitted 3 hours ago • 93 comments

Very strange that Trump "considers" abandoning the NATO commander position on the day he talks to Putin. He's trying to make the world safe for autocracy.

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: A federal court blocked Trump’s military ban on transgender service members, ruling it unconstitutional. The court found no evidence supporting claims of reduced readiness, citing the honor & excellence of trans troops. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

submitted 2 hours ago • 19 comments

I believe this is the first elected Dem member of congress in the country to make this call. We get the party we demand.

submitted 2 hours ago • 26 comments

just start saying trumps waging a “war on veterans” jfc who is in charge of dem messaging

submitted 4 hours ago • 21 comments

The US government effectively illegally kidnapped a bunch of men without evidence or due process and condemned them indefinitely to a foreign hellhole in open defiance of, with contempt for, every single tenet of US justice you can imagine. The criminals here are ICE, DHS and the White House.

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

Speaking as an HIV clinician who knows how far we have come in treating and preventing HIV and how much more work we still have left to do, gutting domestic HIV prevention in the US will be the biggest blow to fighting HIV in recent memory and will erase crucial gains. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Norm Ornstein, one of the foremost experts on Congress, says that Democratic Senators should bring the Senate to a halt. Call your senators, especially in blue states, and tell them to object to unanimous consent. And then write a letter to the local paper saying the same, and post on Facebook.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

British cartoonist Becky Burke who spent 20 days in harsh conditions in a Tacoma detention centre for a trivial visa issue while crossing into America from Canada is finally on her way home. The US needs travel warnings now.

submitted 9 hours ago • 293 comments

One close Trump adviser simply says that the president’s ultimate leverage against certain judges who try to stand in the way of his agenda is that the judiciary does not command an army, while the president of the United States does.

submitted 10 hours ago • 161 comments

We’re about to test that part of the oath of service about defending the Constitution “against all enemies foreign and domestic.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly are holding a town hall meeting over worries that the budget resolution recently passed by U.S. House lawmakers could result in cuts to Medicaid. Note: This townhall was carried by Fox10 in Phoenix but it's important to hear the info from the senators.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump's DOJ Lawyers: WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT THE DEPORTATION! NATIONAL SECURITY! DIPLOMATIC CONSIDERATIONS! Trump's social media feed: LOL LOOK AT US DEPORTING THESE PEOPLE ON THIS VIDEO WE MADE!!!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Good Lord. Latest from US Institute of Peace:

submitted 1 day ago • 221 comments

to me the most disturbing fact about DOGE’s raid on the US Institute of Peace is that the local cops helped them.

submitted 23 hours ago • 236 comments

NEW — Some US Institute of Peace employees just received an email from the independent agency’s new Trump-installed president, per a copy shared with me. They’ve been told to pass along this email to other employees (???) and to telework indefinitely.

submitted 20 hours ago • 85 comments

to be clear, USIP staff spoke to MPD prior and then called them to report DOGE as trespassers and when the cops showed up they instead held the door open for Musk’s thugs.

submitted 14 hours ago • 71 comments