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A real sign at the American Bar Association spring meeting in DC (h/t @balancecraft.bsky.social)

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I suggest reading Lyndon Johnson's remarks upon signing the 1967 bill amending the Meat Inspection Act, which begins by quoting Upton Sinclair's 1906 classic, THE JUNGLE. Very cool that Sinclair, then in his late 80s, attended the signing ceremony. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/re...

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Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.

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This story contains the detail that Edward "BigBalls" Coristine describes himself on linked in as a "Volunteer (Intern) Plumber with the U.S. government," and...do you think that's a deliberate reference to Nixon's plumbers? And does he know how that story ended? www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...

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I can’t believe there are people at other law schools who are incurring hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt and their school can’t even sign onto this letter. Ty UCLA for doing the decent thing. It’s like when you turned down Olin money 🥰

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A Somerville, MA resident sends along this image of all the people who turned out for an emergency rally today for Romeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University PhD international student who was essentially abducted by ICE yesterday. Thousands came "on six hours' notice."

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

submitted 10 days ago • 624 comments

and you can feel bad AND take action and be in community! being right isn't the same as being part of making change

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Fired? Chelsea Manning was sentenced to THIRTY FIVE YEARS in prison

submitted 10 days ago • 134 comments

I hate that this is true but might as well own up to being a member of the profession

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someone pls DM the link to get a newsom bat phone, will accept small group signal chat as well

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Want to organize around NYC public libraries to secure stable & expanded funding? NYC Public Library Action Network’s next meeting is April 13 from 2 to 4:15 pm in Brooklyn. If interested, email [email protected].

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Tesla says it will fix the sticky issue—which could cause panels to detach from trucks while driving—with a new adhesive “not prone to environmental embrittlement.”

submitted 15 days ago • 71 comments

If you're feeling hopeless and miserable, I cannot possibly overstate how much it helps to just pick one thing you can do that helps people, and do it. You only need to do one person's worth of work. That's all any of us can do. You'll be doing what you can, and there is so much relief in that.

submitted 16 days ago • 49 comments

A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.

submitted 16 days ago • 165 comments

House Republicans in 2010: Let's gut the IRS! www.propublica.org/article/how-... Trump & Musk in 2025: Hold my beer.

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The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

submitted 16 days ago • 3345 comments

Wow! This will be an administrative nightmare. Over 3 million people a year automatically get social security numbers when they get a green card or other legal permission to work in the US. Now the Trump admin will force them all to go IN PERSON to a Social Security office. It will be utter chaos.

submitted 15 days ago • 25 comments

I already knew they had my stuff. The last time I complained about it I got called an "ideas landlord" for believing I should get paid for the work they stole.

submitted 15 days ago • 58 comments

Read @rezaian.bsky.social on the 10 jailed journalists who worked for U.S. outlets that Trump shut down www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

People are rightly focused on the threat to academic freedom, but Columbia ALSO shouldn’t accede to the Trump administration b/c there’s absolutely no reason to think it’s a trustworthy negotiator.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Keep calling.

submitted 22 days ago • 14 comments

pretending everything is OK / normal and being completely in a puddle of despair are not the only options we have for coping rn. We can work on accepting that we are living in rough times, but also that it's OK to have things to look forward to, take care of yourself, etc. (some podcast wisdom)

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

They're outright saying they want an uneducated populace without opportunities for women so that they can go back to the kitchen and make babies. They're eugenicists.

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I keep thinking about the Matthew Desmond figure on how much it would cost to pull Americans out of poverty: ~175 billion. The 148 billion Musk is reported to have lost could have made SO MANY LIVES BETTER. Instead it's evaporated into the ether of him being a hateful dick, loathed by millions.

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The initiative helped pressure the Chinese government to clean up the air in Beijing and was later expanded to dozens of cities around the world. Now, it’s been abruptly halted.

submitted 30 days ago • 19 comments

550 faculty and staff at the California Institute of the Arts are unionizing with @uaw.org.

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oh shit it's ON!!!

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BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun. The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.

submitted 36 days ago • 227 comments

I love talking to students and I wish I could tell them that one of the main reasons people leave law is dysfunctional workplace culture run by people who need therapy and not because they weren't qualified, talented, or hardworking. This is true from big firms to teeny non profits and institutes.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Current and former federal workers: We’re here in D.C. sending out our signal 🚨 Contact us confidentially on Signal at 917-512-0201 or go to propublica.org/tips.

submitted 36 days ago • 29 comments

the cfpb is the only law enforcement entity that cares when companies steal from you. the rich people are running their own defund the police campaign

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any update on what the 8 million student loan borrowers in SAVE are supposed to do?

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Even more niche than the Dig, my favorite podcast episode this week has been The Riff www.youtube.com/watch?v=18Gv... I think listening outside of my bubble is good for me

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

if you're not listening to the Dig, you are really missing out. This episode, like many, features BRILLIANT people discussing the anxieties and intuitions and vibes of today in a sane and moving way thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...

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I wrote a little something on how this time of crisis is paradoxically a time for lefty researchers get really concrete about what type of systems we could build. A less predictable world is one in which new paths open up, and quickly lpeproject.org/blog/on-writ...

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

Everyone should read this new book by Dean Spade. I'm on DSA-LA's Conflict Engagement Team and I was for like a year for this to come out and it's a banger rep.club/products/lov...

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SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

submitted 57 days ago • 1129 comments

This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...

submitted 56 days ago • 592 comments

Maybe if we tell them there’s a student encampment inside the White House democrats will spring to action.

submitted 58 days ago • 40 comments

the incel coup

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

Late last night, with about 15 minutes notice to the Union, the NLRB’s HR sent an email adopting the terms of the forked-up resignation scam. HR also provided us a contract that appears to be drafted by AI or LegalZoom. As labor lawyers, we’re happy to go over this in detail. 🧵

submitted 59 days ago • 18 comments