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So many people, including the world's richest man, falsely believe that having a Social Security number allows you to vote. It does not. It is entirely unrelated to citizenship. Any person who can work legally in the country gets a Social Security number so they can pay taxes! There's no conspiracy!

submitted 17 hours ago • 63 comments

The administration’s key demand is not just that they can send anyone they like to a foreign labor camp, it’s that you will accept without question their assertion that the people they choose are dangerous menaces who deserve it. They want your unquestioning obedience.

submitted 14 hours ago • 218 comments

BREAKNG: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from ending "temporary protected status" for 350,000 Venezuelan nationals — which was slated to expire next week. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 10 hours ago • 59 comments

he's unconventional (breaks the law) but he gets results (lawsuits)

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

submitted 17 hours ago • 98 comments

outright vote buying

submitted 3 days ago • 143 comments

They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.

submitted 4 days ago • 463 comments

I’ve been sort of idly keeping track of all the points in the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars that arguably apply to the Trump Admin. This is the first four-in-a-row I’ve hit. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

submitted 4 days ago • 3079 comments

One thing that is fairly clear at this point is that the entire point of whisking people out of the country with no due process in defiance of a judge's orders to put them into a foreign gulag was so they could produce fascist content.

submitted 4 days ago • 462 comments

we are living under fascism right now

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

I for one will never forgive or forget the people who ordered this - nor the people who voted for this.

submitted 5 days ago • 157 comments

JUST IN: Judge Reyes has rejected the Pentagon's renewed demand that she permit the transgender military ban to move forward. Despite new guidance claiming theban is really just about "gender dysphoria," it's still discriminatory, she says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 40 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 5 days ago • 1944 comments

"This verbatim transcript of a conversation between administration officials is misinformation."

submitted 5 days ago • 90 comments

They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics. Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.

submitted 5 days ago • 2439 comments

“Nobody’s texting war plans”

submitted 5 days ago • 806 comments

There was one singular person the Trump team wanted to kill. They thought they tracked him to his girlfriend’s place, presumably in a civilian apartment building in Sana’a. So they dropped bombs on the neighborhood and leveled the building. Reactions from the group: “amazing job” “Excellent” “👊🇺🇸💥”

submitted 5 days ago • 173 comments

The Signal leak is a prime moment for Democrats to get caught trying. Call for resignations or impeachment hearings or both. Be omnipresent in the media demanding and explaining accountability measures. Don’t let this fade away. Treat this the way the GOP treated Hillary’s emails. Make it a thing.

submitted 6 days ago • 192 comments

Idk seems like a pretty good strategy since they got all the Administration to say publicly and repeatedly that details weren’t included and then got to show the world they were liars!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The Democrat who just flipped a very Trumpy seat in Pennsylvania’s Senate made opposition to Elon Musk front and center in his campaign. (lancasteronline.com/news/politic...)

submitted 6 days ago • 92 comments

The current position of the Trump administration is that specific information about the means/timing of an airstrike in Yemen is not classified, but the details of deportation flights that they made propaganda videos of constitute state secrets that can’t be disclosed to the judge in the AEA case 🤡

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

i dunno these kind of seem like classified war plans www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 5 days ago • 69 comments

it is BUCK WILD that they are just texting this shit to each other

submitted 5 days ago • 1617 comments

my “we are currently clean on OPSEC” shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are answered by my shirt

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

This is an attack on the rule of law. If a country seizes people with valid documents for detention and refuses to abide by any judicial process for it, that country is fundamentally lawless. That the detention is indefinite and in a foreign labor prison makes it even more so.

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

Happy “we didn’t do it, but if we did it, it wasn’t a crime” day to everyone who observes

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

Seems extremely obvious that the "none of it was classified" line is 100 percent about covering their asses and 0 percent about the actual dissemination of attack plans on a third-party app with an unverified distribution list. The 2025 variant of "it's not illegal if we say it wasn't illegal."

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

The right wing noise machine has settled on "there was no classified info in the Signal chat, and the reporter who was added to the Signal chat should be fired and prosecuted for leaking classified info." Yes, these two things contradict each other. Welcome to the right wing noise machine.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

If a non-citizen has no right to contest their removal because the government claims that they’re in a Venezuelan gang, what’s to stop the government from claiming that we’re in a Venezuelan gang? That’s the most elementary reason why due process matters: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...

submitted 7 days ago • 99 comments

News: NPR’s Tom Bowman reports of a Pentagon-wide warning about Signal’s security vulnerability - one week ago 👇🏼

submitted 6 days ago • 117 comments

Some questions that Mike Waltz and the others must answer: 1) How did he preserve the thread and others for PRA 2) What phones were everyone using 3) What kind of security do those phones have 4) WHERE were they using those phones 5) What else is on the phones 6) Why was Joe Kent included

submitted 7 days ago • 333 comments

not to lib out but if I was looking to make the Dems seem more useful and relevant I’d give this guy a lot more airtime

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 7 days ago • 818 comments

U.S. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett, one of the three judges hearing the Alien Enemies Act case: “Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemy Act than has happened here, where the proclamation required the promulgation of regulations, and they had hearing boards before people were removed.”

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The barber, Andry, actually entered legally at a port of entry after waiting months in Mexico to secure an appointment. At his initial CBP processing, that’s when the tattoos first came up. So he had been in detention the entire time, making their claims of an urgent need to deport him even worse.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

submitted 9 days ago • 1175 comments

I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy. Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 9 days ago • 427 comments

ICYMI: Just coincidentally, I’m sure, Pam Bondi’s BigLaw partner brother is running to be President this year (of all years!) of the DC State Bar Association. DC-barred lawyers: VOTE FOR DIANE SELTZER! April 15-June 4. Make sure you get your email ballot.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

It’s a long “memorandum,” but it’s essentially telling Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem to go after lawyers who challenge the federal government — which is many lawyer’s jobs. It’s basically a catch-all “let’s Paul Weiss whoever pisses us off” memo.

submitted 10 days ago • 259 comments

Do you get it yet, law firms? What’s happening isn’t an isolated threat to Paul Weiss or Covington or Perkins Coie. It’s an existential threat to the independence of the legal profession. You’re a fool if you think you won’t be next. Say something. Do something.

submitted 9 days ago • 95 comments

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person. I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

submitted 11 days ago • 1256 comments

Rubio’s position seems to be: - We get to say who is a terrorist. Our decision is final. It can’t be challenged. Just trust us. - Once we decide you are a terrorist, we can immediately deport you. No judges. - After we deport you, we can make you rot in a foreign prison. No criminal charges needed.

submitted 12 days ago • 391 comments

The President has ignored Congressional appropriations, closed Congressionally-created agencies, and is grabbing people off the street without any judicial process and sending them to a foreign labor camp while boasting that he won't follow a court order telling him to stop. I think we're there.

submitted 13 days ago • 69 comments

This is, quite literally, how democracies die www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 96 comments

These pictures show the aftermath of armed agents of the Executive Branch forcing entry into, and destroying, an independent agency established by the Congress.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments