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“In Civil Disobedience, Thoreau …believed all taxation was illegitimate as long as the US condoned slavery. “If [the injustice] is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law,” he concluded.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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AND ALSO THERE'S A COUP

submitted 6 days ago • 1001 comments

Now we know: He plans to divvy up the world with Putin. The ignorance of the Orange Coup is astonishing - the US has never been weaker. It’s all going to Putin. Musk is in way way over his racist head.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump are stealing from us.

submitted 11 days ago • 46 comments

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.

submitted 11 days ago • 121 comments

I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.

submitted 11 days ago • 182 comments

Defund Elon

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Keep the impeachment articles flowing - the point is chronicling the violations of law and unconstitutional acts. It’s what impeachment is for and it’s the duty of the House to act.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

👀💵📈📉

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

submitted 20 days ago • 606 comments

Excellent question. US Treasury note & and bond debt risk has escalated exponentially, and the US Government credit rating is threatened indefinitely. I expect both risks to be systematically underestimated by investors, leaving further downside to whatever market rout happens over the near term.

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

Thanks again Merrick Garland!

submitted 20 days ago • 38 comments

If each Treasury payee is a separate record, and there are, say, 68,000,000 social security payees (as is estimated), then at $5000 per violation, it seems like Elon could be penalized $340 billion if he unlawfully accessed their Treasury records...

submitted 20 days ago • 235 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 20 days ago • 1308 comments

“What started as a purge of the security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup, as technical units aligned w/ oligarch Elon Musk moved to seize key systems at Treasury, block outside access to personnel records, & take offline comms networks.”

submitted 21 days ago • 205 comments

Maybe I'm crazy, but when the new authoritarian leader is executing a blitzkrieg to consolidate power and demolish the pillars of our democracy, maybe the opposing party shouldn't vote for his bootlicking nominees who were selected for their blind fealty. I'm crazy, right?

submitted 21 days ago • 115 comments

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

submitted 21 days ago • 770 comments

Observation: less focus on the elections and more on TELLING THE PEOPLE THAT THEIR DATA IS BEING STOLEN and we are essentially in a coup. Elections won’t happen, if you don’t do that. Will anyone who’s paid to do the work speak up?

submitted 21 days ago • 15 comments

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

submitted 21 days ago • 4939 comments

Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin has dismissed roughly 30 federal prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases in the Washington, D.C., office over the past four years, two people familiar with the matter said Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Seems bad.

submitted 22 days ago • 68 comments

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house." Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

submitted 23 days ago • 289 comments

somebody asked me the other week why business leaders are falling over themselves to pledge fealty when it’s so obviously self-defeating and short-sighted, and I think the answer is “people are stupid”

submitted 23 days ago • 109 comments

BIG TIME THIS. I want one reporter or one senator who is questioning a nominee...ask them flat out "do you think black people are unqualified to be in XYZ position? Do you think women are unqualified to be pilots/doctors/senators?" Just. Ask. Them.

submitted 23 days ago • 13 comments

since extortion is now the norm, they should just skip the lawyers and wire it to his personal acct (where it’ll wind up anyway) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

submitted 23 days ago • 32 comments

I mean, this trend of open settlement bribes is plenty fucked up on its own terms…but exactly how long do they imagine the bribe-based good will will even last? He never pays his debts, and bribes are not indicators of ongoing loyalty, so the next time he has any reason to turn on them he will.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: AOC blames crash on Trump / Elon “I represent LGA Airport as well as workers for JFK. Trump gutted the Aviation Safety committee last week. Air traffic controllers, already understaffed, got Trump’s “buyout” this wk with a 1 wk ultimatum to decide. It’s not DEI - it’s him. And Elon too.”

submitted 23 days ago • 558 comments

Trump put a freeze on hiring air traffic controllers and, on Musk’s instruction, fired the FAA chief early without replacing him. This should be the only thing Dems are saying today. They should all be out on media saying this.

submitted 23 days ago • 432 comments

open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

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When I say that agencies derive their administrative capacity from their workforces, I think some people believe I am only talking about paper pushing and policymaking. What I really mean is things we take for granted in everyday life depend on these people. Without them, things break.

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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

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www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . . www.history.com/this-day-in-...

submitted 26 days ago • 685 comments

It’s official: In the USA The Gulf of Mexico is now the “Gulf of America,” and Denali, the Alaska Native name for North America’s tallest peak, has been reverted to Mount McKinley. But we refuse to accept this change—Denali will always be Denali to us. #IStandWithDenali

submitted 28 days ago • 1789 comments

The 14th amendment is crystal clear, but because I’m a law school professor at a prestigious university, I’m going to pretend that the arguments that other law school professors at prestigious universities are making about its ambiguity have some kind of merit.

submitted 28 days ago • 49 comments

a big HOOT GROWL to all 20,000 of you who joined us for last night’s “dimension 20: gauntlet at the garden.” the last week has been nothing short of surreal. see you tonight for dropout improv at the MGM music hall in boston!

submitted 28 days ago • 69 comments

in a world of Targets, be a Costco

submitted 29 days ago • 41 comments

I’ve introduced a resolution to the 8th Amendment, clarifying that if someone is as fucking stupid as Andy Ogles, launching them into the sun is not considered cruel or unusual punishment

submitted 30 days ago • 336 comments

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

submitted 31 days ago • 2387 comments

Chris Murphy: "Here's the message. If you beat a police officer in this country, you're going to jail for a long time, with one exception. You don't go to jail if you beat the hell out of a police officer in service of Donald Trump ... it put Democrats' lives in jeopardy in particular."

submitted 31 days ago • 159 comments

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

submitted 31 days ago • 321 comments

Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏

submitted 32 days ago • 425 comments

We were so close to having nice things.

submitted 80 days ago • 130 comments