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Start your day with The Contrarian Co-founders Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen offer your morning dose of democracy—breaking legal and political news essential to safeguarding against autocracy. Stay in-the-know and fight back! Watch LIVE on Substack

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NEW: A blockbuster ruling in Wisconsin hands vote suppressors a big loss. A victory for voting rights! Paige and I explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXur...

submitted 4 days ago • 376 comments

Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.

submitted 4 days ago • 1417 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 7 days ago • 2698 comments

Tueaday edition of The Jim Acosta Show with Michael Cohen and Olivia Troye. We discussed Trump playing chicken with the courts, Musk mayem and the “Gulf of America.” I tell Google to change it back! Also… Special guest: Greg the plant! open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

submitted 11 days ago • 67 comments

BREAKING: We just filed a new lawsuit vs. DOGE to block their access to the personal data of millions of gov employees at OPM Trump may be flooding the zone with autocracy but we are meeting it with even more rule of law shock & awe! We’ll continue fighting to protect privacy & democracy 👇

submitted 11 days ago • 79 comments

If you are looking for someone to say that all is lost and the courts can't help protect democracy, you are following the wrong guy. If you are looking for someone who fights hard and will never give up, I'm here for you.

submitted 11 days ago • 1853 comments

BREAKING: Our brief in the "fork in the road" case supporting the plaintiffs & asking the judge to strike down the Trump/Musk buyout as illegal was just filed ecf.mad.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

submitted 13 days ago • 64 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 12 days ago • 3913 comments

NEW. Bulwark on Sunday. @sarahlongwell25.bksy.social and I discuss Elon Musk's ungrounded and occasionally bizarre attacks on...the Bulwark, as well as the damage DOGE and MAGA are doing to the country, and how we can fight back. youtu.be/Oaz41OMkvD4?...

submitted 13 days ago • 30 comments

Thanks to #JamieKabler and friends for a great #RanchoMirage festival, where I got to sit down with one of our most important thinkers, @stevenpinker.bsky.social. A real highlight in a fun and exciting week.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

JUST IN: Federal judge, Carl Nichols, GRANTS the plaintiffs' request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) of the planned administrative leave for thousands of USAID employees.

submitted 15 days ago • 70 comments

Headed to court this morning with the Legal Dream Team, including @normeisen.bsky.social and @markzaidesq.bsky.social, to stop the WH from collecting the identities of FBI officials who did work on the J6 cases. These officials did their jobs. They fulfilled lawful orders. They deserve privacy.

submitted 16 days ago • 311 comments

I can see it now. First you build hotels in Gaza. Then of course you go to the Ukraine. Find nothing but the best land and rebuild. .. You can train the staff at Mar a Lago ....

submitted 17 days ago • 2733 comments

All the Government’s Data open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 17 days ago • 44 comments

🚨BREAKING: The Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents Association files federal court lawsuit against Department of Justice over the improper targeting of agents previously involved in politically sensitive investigation. For more details follow @democracydocket.com. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 18 days ago • 515 comments

Hey here’s episode 2 with @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social - substack.com/@jimacosta/n...

submitted 18 days ago • 64 comments

🚨BREAKING: The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the Maryland State Board of Elections’ (MDSBE) administration of voter rolls and voting machines. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 18 days ago • 158 comments

🚨BREAKING: Three unions, represented by Forward Democracy, file federal lawsuit to BLOCK the co-called “Fork Directive” Feb. 6 deadline. For breaking democracy news follow @democracydocket.com www.democracydocket.com

submitted 18 days ago • 73 comments

And it begins. FBI class action lawsuit against the retaliatory purge. First Amendment Violation of Due Process Rights to Privacy www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 18 days ago • 1036 comments

Our United Airlines pilot made sure to emphasize Mexico when he said we'd be flying over the Gulf of Mexico today. It's the little things. Microdose hope.

submitted 18 days ago • 1038 comments

not gonna lie—were I potus I would def threaten Canada with ginormous tariffs if it would make them take Ted Cruz back

submitted 18 days ago • 1117 comments

Susan Collins, who can be counted on for saying she's "very disappointed," says she will vote for Tulsi Gabbard.

submitted 19 days ago • 1892 comments

This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?

submitted 18 days ago • 2652 comments

BREAKING: if you don’t like what DOGE is doing at Treasury— neither do we So we just sued to stop it! www.citizen.org/wp-content/u... I’ll be on @thereidout tonight at 7:40 PM ET to break down that and much more

submitted 19 days ago • 329 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS Trump spending freeze. A big victory for @democracyforward.bsky.social and their clients. Also a win for democracy and the rule of law. Follow @democracydocket.com for full details. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 19 days ago • 487 comments

Higher costs, smaller paychecks, disappearing jobs #MAGAnomics

submitted 19 days ago • 291 comments

I’m gonna keep saying it. The BILLIONAIRES are deciding that poor, starving, homeless people, have too much. If you stay quiet, you are complicit, if you’re complicit, they’re coming for you next. Read about the past and get pissed, or lose it all. - human history

submitted 19 days ago • 25 comments

Yes. Finally, some meaningful pushback against these constitutional outlaws. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 20 days ago • 892 comments

We need a group of lawyers who are willing to take every lawsuit from every fired federal employee to the max. Bury this admin in lawsuits

submitted 20 days ago • 2660 comments

Canada is considering 100% tariffs on Teslas. 🔗: www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...

submitted 19 days ago • 1337 comments

At the press conference outside of USAID headquarters, Rep. Jamie Raskin: "Elon Musk, you didn't create USAID. The United States Congress did for the American people. And just like Elon Musk did not create USAID, he doesn't have the power to destroy it. And who's going to stop him? We are!"

submitted 19 days ago • 126 comments

Really love this cartoon from the great Michael De Adder. The outpouring of support coming in has been truly amazing! Thanks everybody!

submitted 24 days ago • 4663 comments

this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!

submitted 24 days ago • 4290 comments

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submitted 24 days ago • 1264 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 25 days ago • 45 comments

Looks like somebody has ADS: Acosta Derangement Syndrome.

submitted 25 days ago • 3588 comments

A D.C. judged enters an injunction preventing Trump's across-the-board budget freeze from going into effect. He finds irreparable hard and enters a brief (c 3 day) stay to litigate lawfulness of freeze. This is headed to the US Supreme Court, and in short order

submitted 25 days ago • 65 comments

Every fucking MAGA cultist who fucking assured me that Trump had no fucking plans whatsoever to implement fucking Project 2025 can go fuck themselves.

submitted 29 days ago • 828 comments

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉) "Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 29 days ago • 253 comments