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neithandunderhill.bsky.social
Hobbit with a most unusual interest in law, government, and national security. There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.
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NEW: On Section 504. "Attacks on any one group will be used as a wedge to attack all of us. You may not personally know any trans people, and you may even be uncomfortable with the idea ... but letting this attack go forward will eventually hurt you and the things you love, too." /1

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Judge orders nationwide preliminary injunction of anti-DEI executive orders. "Plaintiffs’ irreparable harms include widespread chilling of unquestionably protected speech." www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 23 hours ago • 43 comments

Trump and Hegseth’s Reckless Purge of Military Leadership Endangers National Security. Common Defense calls on Congress, military leaders, and every American who cares about democracy to speak out and stand against this dangerous coup in the making.

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

First they came for the trans, and @marcelias.bsky.social said "Sit the fuck down, Nazi."

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2760 comments

“Zelensky survived a dozen Russian assassination attempts including a special forces assault on his presidential complex.He stood up to Trump. I’m sure he’ll be deeply impressed to learn our Congressional Republicans live as terrified hostages of their own party leader.” ~ @michaeldweiss.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 802 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 2182 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1213 comments

This is absolutely disgusting.

submitted 1 day ago • 728 comments

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

He gets it.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Elon and DOGE are treating the government like software: just delete things that don't make sense to you and see if it breaks. If not, it must not matter. If it does, you can always just put it back. Except they're not cutting lines of code, these are people and partnerships and ongoing medical

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

BREAKING — I've confirmed the DOGE staffers at SSA. They are Marko Elez (who was previously fired for racist posts and then reinstated), Ethan Shaotran, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gautier Cole-Killian. This is per Social Security Works, a non-profit working to protect/expand Social Security.

submitted 2 days ago • 136 comments

Dem leadership think their only job as a political party is to win elections. So they're still thinking in terms of what will win an election in '26. They've never considered good government or our rights more important than that. This is not the time to campaign! It's time to fight, *now*, for us!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

If Russia does not have every national secret on every TS/SCI program they could ever want in 12 months, there simply is no FSB (fka KGB). No amount of dedicated national security professionals can prevent the DNI from accessing and distributing those secrets. A lot of people are going to die.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This is not a problem you can wait and fix by winning a midterm election! There. Will. Not. Be. One!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

1/This may truly blowup #KashPatel nomination On left: Patel Testimony: "I'm not aware" of purge inside DOJ/FBI and "don't know what's going on." On right: Whistleblowers tell Senate that Patel was directing the purge! Contemporaneous note: “KP wants movement at FBI, reciprocal actions for DOJ”

submitted 11 days ago • 637 comments