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Retired trademark attorney, feminist, liberal, determined and curmudgeonly. #Angret
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DHS is threatening to revoke Harvard’s ability to host international students and the IRS is looking at revoking their tax exemption. The “stop the weaponization of government” crowd sure is quiet as fuck on this one.

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

There’s a special place in HELL for anyone who stands before the Supreme Court and argues that a man they wrongfully sent to an El Salvadorian death camp should stay there.

Just in case those of us fighting for democracy in court didn't need another challenge, Big Law turning collaborators is here and growing. My firm and others continue to fight. We will never back down. We will never bend a knee. We will never obey.

A seamstress named Elsy Noemi Berrios was forcibly detained by masked agents who did not present a warrant. Elsy is about 52 years old & has an asylum case pending in court. Her teenage daughter filmed this terrifying scene. If they can do it to her, they can do it to you. Speak out now!

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Republicans in Congress can repeal every tariff tomorrow and take Trump’s tariff authority away from him. But they choose not to. So every Republican in Congress owns EVERY SINGLE BIT of this. You can’t hide from the voters forever.

Russell 2000 hit its circuit breaker in the overnight hours, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen before. Japan halted trading after hitting their breaker. Tomorrow is gonna be ugly.

Another unvaccinated child has died from the measles in Texas. There are over 600 cases in the US right now. Letting children die to a completely preventable disease is absolute insanity.

a friend sent me this one

The current figure I'm seeing is that as many as 3.3 million Americans protested today. #HandsOff #Resist

This is Salt Lake City, Utah. Amazing turnout for #HandsOff rally in a deep red state.

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

She shouldn’t have to be out in the Kansas City cold, worried about her financial future. #HandsOff #KansasCity

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top. #HandsOff2025

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

CHICAGO…

Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.

Interestingly enough, if you take the top 10 largest dollar drops, the entire chart is Trump and Bush 43. Weird how Obama and Biden aren’t on there, despite the growth of the $DJIA over the years.

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

This guy has collapsed the economy twice.

I was thinking that none of those numbers made sense, but holy fuck this is insane

Incredibly, this appears to be true. We tariffed our own (jointly operated with the UK) military base.

Milwaukee now reporting and Susan Crawford surges to a 60-40 lead over Brad Schimel with 33 percent counted. A bad night for Elon Musk.

Senator Cory Booker: a genuine profile in courage, commitment, empathy, and principles.

The abuser’s classic playbook is to isolate you from your friends, create a sense of helplessness, make it difficult to connect with others and force you to simply think about your survival from one day to the next. We are seeing that playbook applied to the nation as a whole.

Ignore the third term talk - it’s meant to distract you, and it’s working. “No person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”

So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

When Melanie mixes up your Garanimals and you end up wearing two different colors.

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once again, every accusation is a confession. republicans spent 15 years accusing democrats of winning elections by trading cash for votes. now, here we are.

Of course they are.

DOGE's goal is an interruption of Social Security benefits. Then Trump can declare an emergency and send in the tech bros and the private equity folks to take over. The long standing Republican goal of getting rid of Social Security as a public program is achieved. [email protected]

I saw the work by Olga Lautman and he findings were disturbing: Steven Witkoff was in Russia when he was added to the signal chat. Russia has infiltrated Signal and used against Ukrainians. Very possible they have the classified signal info:

Most of the Cabinet and Trump’s senior national security team were coordinating strikes on Yemen in a *signal chat* and nobody noticed they accidentally added a reporter. Really unbelievable shit here. But her emails, right?

People like these who vote are why we’re screwed. 🤦🏻‍♀️🙄😵‍💫😩

This Paul Weiss capitulation is the most disgraceful action by a major law firm in my lifetime, so appalling that I couldn’t believe it at first. Any lawyers at that firm—partners or associates—who don’t promptly resign will defile their moral and professional reputations beyond repair.