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ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.

submitted 25 days ago • 1122 comments

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

submitted 25 days ago • 643 comments

Now might be an excellent time to remind everyone that the evidence of demand-side benefit fraud in the US (i.e., from claimants) is incredibly weak. While benefit fraud happens, in health and welfare policy sectors, it's overwhelmingly coming from supply-side (organizations, contractors, etc.) 1/

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Among the many avenues Democrats need to be pushing now is: Trump, Musk, and their Republican enablers just compromised the personal and financial info of every American. This isn't hyperbole; it already happened. They broke all the cybersecurity protocols and are concealing what they're doing.

submitted 30 days ago • 65 comments

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

submitted 30 days ago • 1093 comments

Today is Fred Korematsu Day in California and a few other states. A reminder to always fight for your civil rights and those of our fellow humans. 🌸

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

i have written about this before but i have become extremely civic republican virtue pilled as a result of all of this. democracy will not work without an active effort to cultivate virtue among ordinary people!

submitted 33 days ago • 111 comments

Montgomery County Public Schools comes out and tells Trump to pound sand with his EO telling schools that they have to discriminate against transgender students. This is how you refuse to comply.

submitted 33 days ago • 187 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 33 days ago • 2305 comments

This is Phyllis Fong. I very much respect that she made them physically remove her from her office, which remains hers by right, because she hasn’t been legally terminated.

submitted 34 days ago • 89 comments

Concentration camps preceded extermination camps by several years. They began in Germany just as administratively, just as innocuously, as this. It's important to understand the historical track we are on.

submitted 34 days ago • 106 comments

the correct response to being told to build a concentration camp is "absolutely the fuck not" regardless of the legality of the order

submitted 34 days ago • 31 comments

Everybody bow down to @marisakabas.bsky.social and her newsletter which broke the biggest federal government/political story since forever last night?

submitted 35 days ago • 27 comments

🚨NEW from @bbkogan.bsky.social: Trump's spending freeze is a disaster for Americans. It makes things like housing more expensive. It slashes health care and other benefits. And a whole lot more chaos. This is his extreme Project 2025 plan in action: www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...

submitted 35 days ago • 12 comments

Federal workers protect your rights. They protect the food you eat, water you drink. They provide care when you age, health care, life saving research, they pave your roads, protect our troops, protect us when we lose work. What Trump is doing is a direct attack on America.

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

Judge AliKhan is a fantastic member of the Federal Judiciary. Glad she's on the bench for so many different reasons. Confirmed 51-50 in a deeply divided Senate in 2023. The work we have done on our courts in the last four years is deeply and critically important.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

The EO on gender affirming care for people under 19 is now available on the White House website www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it. It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.

submitted 35 days ago • 217 comments

This morning, we learned that President Trump fired Board Member Gwynne Wilcox, whose Senate-confirmed term runs until 2028. This move must be called out for what it is—a frontal assault on the NLRB, its employees, workers, and the very idea of an independent civil service. 🚨

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments

President Donald Trump fired one of the Democratic commissioners on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission late on Monday night in a move that experts said violated legal statute. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-f...

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments

How many moms won't be able to show up for work tomorrow because he cut off the funding for the Head Start programs they rely on for childcare?

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

For the KY and Cincinnati folks: that means you’re not getting the Brent Spence Bridge back any time soon.

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

Whenever people ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I always say “become Rosa DeLauro”

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

gotta go with "trump illegally stops funding for housing and home heating assistance during the middle of winter"

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

Got the list of programs affected in the memo - it includes SNAP and WIC. Literally taking food away from hungry families. Completely unconscionable.

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Just got off the phone with a medical provider who accepts Medicaid. Because they are shut out from the Medicaid portal, they might not be able to make payroll. They exclusively serve low-income Floridians.

submitted 35 days ago • 671 comments

Multiple states locked out of the Medicaid portal. Chaos for Americans who depend on federal programs for necessities as basic as paying their heating bills in the winter. This is Trump's America.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

I'm a former OMB official and this is absolutely true. And let's also not forget that these illegal actions have direct, harmful consequences for actual people. New moms won't get help feeding their infants. Small businesses won't make payroll. People could lose their jobs, their homes.

submitted 35 days ago • 65 comments

There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent. The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.

submitted 35 days ago • 276 comments

One key point here: OMB's internal communication said to pause a bunch of programs, while its external communication claimed it wasn't doing anything.

submitted 35 days ago • 17 comments

Senators’ phones have been ringing off the hook with nonstop calls from hospitals, police departments, volunteer firefighters, food pantries, drug treatment centers, on and on and on.

submitted 35 days ago • 3573 comments

President Trump firing @nlrbgov.bsky.social member Gwynne Wilcox, the first Black woman on the Board, is illegal and has effectively shut down the NLRB’s operations, leaving the workers it defends on their own. aflcio.org/press/releas...

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: A set of nonprofits and a small business organization sue OMB over Monday's grants/loans "pause," seeking a temporary restraining order. The groups are represented by @democracyforward.bsky.social. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 35 days ago • 45 comments

Not to be alarmist, but this is the most radical presidential action I've ever seen. He's straight up seizing Congress' budget power. What do laws matter if the mad king's whims dictate what gets enforced and where money goes? It's not a policy memo - it's a revolution. Don't let it be a quiet one.

submitted 35 days ago • 41 comments

This is 100% illegal. It’s a new escalation in Trump’s battle for absolute control over the administrative state. Federal law explicitly protects Wilcox against termination. That law is constitutional under binding Supreme Court precedent. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 35 days ago • 78 comments

Trump’s OMB has ordered a freeze on all federal assistance. This is more than an illegal and authoritarian power grab—it’s a direct attack on the well-being of millions of Americans, jeopardizing healthcare, food assistance, and economic stability. Statement from Groundwork's Kitty Richards ⬇️

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

it is very telling of these guys’ conception of how power works that they see issuing a flurry of executive orders as evidence of presidential strength and vigor and not a sign that the president is too weak to pursue a serious legislative agenda

submitted 36 days ago • 472 comments

their view is that high status jobs ought to belong to white men, who exist at the top of a natural hierarchy

submitted 39 days ago • 827 comments

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

submitted 40 days ago • 4411 comments

They're talking about cutting working-class Americans' health care to pay for tax cuts for the top 2%. punchbowl.news/article/hous...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Not just unusual. It’s unprecedented. It’s a seismic reordering of American government and an actual instance of the “weaponization” of the DOJ that the Republicans were heretofore so fond of complaining about (when it wasn’t happening).

submitted 39 days ago • 98 comments

Trump's freezing of all civil rights cases at the DOJ is not part of an anti-DEI agenda, but an anti-civil rights agenda. DOJ was founded to protect Black rights during Reconstruction. That this difference is unclear speaks to the success of conservative propagandists and the failures of liberals.

submitted 39 days ago • 61 comments

This is what stealing an election looks like. It doesn’t involve any conspiracy theories about rigging voting machines in the dark of night—it happens out in the open. All you need are judges who care not about the rule of law but about ramming through their preferred partisan outcomes.

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments