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If they can build the capacity, you can bet that re-entering citizens will be next.

Can we please remember that John Adams literally represented the Redcoats who did the Boston Massacre. Like, if you’re going to wave the goddamn flag and say that lawyers ought not to represent clients you disagree with or who are allegedly guilty, then you’re just confused about American lawyers.

Is this a rhetorical question?

As more lawyers stand up, more lawyers will stand up. #socialproof

Bloop.

What an actual opposition party looks like.

Paul Weiss: We are pathetic. Skadden: Hold our beer.

🙅 Zelenskyy: Deal with US will not be signed if it threatens Ukraine's accession to EU

As more lawyers stand up, more lawyers will stand up. #socialproof

The same death cult that refuses to protect kids from guns now refuses to protect them from infectious disease.

BREAKING: While major news outlets and law firms fall all over themselves to bend the knee to Trump and Musk, I am standing up and suing DOGE for transparency. www.muellershewrote.com/p/im-suing-d...

The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations #Measles https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report

I wrote about the White House X account — which is steeped in the sociopathic posting style of far-right extremists — and seems to get more sinister and cruel with its posts each week of the administration. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

BREAKING: D.C. Circuit, on 2-1 vote, keeps the TROs in place in the Alien Enemies Act case. The appeals court DENIES the Trump administration's request to stay the TROs issued by Chief Judge Boasberg — a move that would allow AEA removals to restart. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/alien-enem...

The truth is an absolute defense in the courtroom and in the court of public opinion. Spread the truth. The facts. Good or bad. That's the way to combat authoritarianism.

I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.

Texas’s abortion ban is one of the most strict in the country. Now they’ve taken the disturbing step of arresting a midwife for helping women who sought reproductive care. Abortion bans were never about protecting women, they were always about control. www.dailykos.com/story/2025/3...

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

LFG! #teslatakedown GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION March 29 Every showroom in America 500+ around the world Let's send these techno-fascists, broligarchs and old fashioned Nazis a message loud and clear. NO WAY Plan an action or find one near you: teslatakedown.com

if you think that "no one is protesting this time" it says less about what's happening in the world and more about your media consumption habits and how the news media is lying to you.

Wow! I had seen the still image of this and I wasn’t sure if it was real or not… it’s real! #teslatakedown #dontbuyatesla @teslatakedown.com @niedermeyer.online @alexwinter.com

Another reason to actually *subscribe* to WIRED, which has been doing some of the strongest reporting out there about the takeover of our government by fascists and oligarchs.

Would like to report some gang tattoos.

YESSSSSSSSSSSS! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #TransRightsAreHumanRights 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

One of the truly useful things people could do right now is set up some lemonade stands in their communities [where it's warm enough], get a chair, print a ton of flyers and talk to every single person who walks by to share information about what's happening in your communities and in the country.

LFG.

FFS!

Keep lifting up Jasmine Crockett & all the Dems fighting for us! She’s dropping truth: Chuck Schumer isn’t the only brain in the room, & Dem AGs & Governors keep racking up wins in court. Meanwhile, Trump? He’s a loser with a capital L. The law will prevail. Don’t give up. @repjasmine.bsky.social

As we reckon with each MAGA horror, vital to not repeat name they use. Calling it "Alien Enemies Act" puts those odious words into discourse, amplifying favored right wing idea that non US born folks are dangerous. It's the 1798 Wartime Act - to highlight how utterly absurd.

Too perfect.

Quite a few people in this country excited to become brownshirts

AOC IS PISSED. I love that when you look at her profile photo thumbnail, she almost looks like she’s taking off her earrings.

If we’re going to PNG every foreign leader who hates Trump, Ambassador Row will cease to exist.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rubio says South Africa’s ambassador 'is no longer welcome' in the US.

With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?

FFS no need to call things their formal, right wing aiding name. "Continuing resolution" sounds bureaucratic and benign. It's the MAGA Murder Budget. Always be framing the debate, most importantly in how we name.