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OBGYN, MFM, recovering trial attorney
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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

This is the way… “The elected officials in Washington have to stop protesting in Washington. They have to go back to their districts…show the consequences…show the school that isn’t operating…they have to make it real.” With social media, word will spread to neighboring districts—even red ones.

Where are all those TERFS who claim to care about women? Surely they will speak out against this? 🙄

I know everything is chaotic, which makes it difficult to reflect, but I'd like to draw your attention to this from @jamellebouie.net. We're in a nation-defining constitutional crisis caused by the failure of the "liberal consensus," which has existed since the 1930s. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

if the president can say “i don’t like the department of energy,” and within a week it’s closed, then the constitution means nothing, and the president’s entire claim to power is the loyalty of the military. either he is constrained by the constitution or he’s a dictator, there isn’t a middle ground

Federal Workers Sue to Disconnect DOGE Server

Two sets of FBI agents who investigated the Jan. 6 attack filed lawsuits to prevent the Trump administration from disclosing their identities.

this is worth reading!

Fired Democrat NLRB member sues Trump over ouster : Gwynne Wilcox, a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) fired by President Trump, sued him on Wednesday over the ouster.  Wilcox’s attorneys claim Trump’s firing was a “blatant violation” of NLRB members’ removal…

Who else agrees with Jamie Raskin? 💙 🔥 ✅

Jesus christ these people are craven beyond belief.

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

ok, so basically I'm trying to make this post go viral.

As I wrote in January, we should worry about the en-masse US retreat from multilateralism not just because it leaves a yawning gap in financing IOs, but because it will urge other gov'ts with similar impulses to follow suit. Not surprised by this 👇🏼

It’s a War. Do Democrats Get That? Trump and Musk have have initiated an all-out battle against the US government, the rule of law, and decency. Where’s the opposition?

Notably, Wall Street is quiet, apparently preferring to keep favor with fascists than to raise the rather important objection that the world's richest person and his friends having early access to, and the ability to manipulate, U.S. economic releases will be catastrophic to our financial markets.

I wrote about Google unveiling its 'responsible AI progress report' by quietly deleting the part of its AI principles where it promised not to work on weapons www.platformer.news/google-ai-pr...

Training the next generation of Maternal Fetal Medicine specialists is a literally life-saving endeavor #SMFM2025 www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

The Proud Boys organization no longer controls the trademark, “Proud Boys”, and is now “barred from selling any merchandise with either its name or its symbols without the consent of a Black church in Washington that its members vandalized.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Something our great political journalists will largely pretend not to know (or maybe not know) is that musk has a very long documented history of being a fucking liar.

In his abandonment of his oath as a physician “do no harm” and his admittance of wanting to help DT, Senator Cassidy’s decision to vote yes for RFK Jr has put him directly down a path of causing irrevocable harm to our children 👧 👦🏽 🧒 thehill.com/policy/healt...

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

I remain fascinated by the expanded child tax credit case study & the implications for leftist policymaking. People received REAL financial benefit from it. It drastically cut child poverty rates and it was rescinded without a real fight. I think about this at least once a week.

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

i'm gonna have to start buying eggs on the goddamn dark web

I both think Trump is somewhat serious about occupying Gaza and think he’s floating this to distract from outrage over Musk and his goons hijacking the federal government. Important that any stories on former talk about the latter

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

There is still beauty in this world

@ashleygwinter.bsky.social

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

Yes, It’s a Coup and Yes, It’s Targeting You

Read this. We’re in Mad King territory. sjvwater.org/decision-to-...

Ahem!

Our Litigation Tracker is now souped up with interactive Table. ⬇️ Now tracking 23 cases and expecting more to drop soon. Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

BREAKING WAPO: Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin just announced the dismissal of roughly 30 federal prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases in the D.C. office over the past four years. Notifications went out at about 5 p.m. on Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

it is honestly kind of striking to me that the founders were basically on target re: “things that could end our republic”

U.S. agencies are being bulldozed tonight and media is not covering this dangerous authoritarian shit. I understand there was another plane crash and am praying for everyone but please make time for the overthrow of our institutions

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

"We know you’re out of power. We understand you’re in the minority. We hear that, loud and clear. What we’re not hearing is your anger. We’re not hearing your outrage. We’re wondering whether or not you actually hear us." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/comms-advi...

Oh. The LA Times is editing out negative parts of an article about RFK Jr. that say he's unfit for Secretary of Health and Human Services. If you haven't canceled your subscription already, you should.

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

If the FBI gets purged of almost all of its agents, they will be replaced. The current vetting process for agents is onerous. But that can be changed, and there’s really nothing stopping a director from handing every Jan. 6 pardonee, or any other yahoo, a badge and a gun (and TS clearance)

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

The Framers foresaw this problem and figured legislators' ambition, self-preservation, and self-respect would drive them to act against a tyrant. The Framers didn't expect a majority of Congress would be cowards and fools who cheered it like pigs celebrating the arrival of the butcher.

Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare. Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.” We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽