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I think the reason people are frustrated with Democratic leaders is that they expect these elected representatives to act like a real disaster is happening, which it is. Four-day weekends and bratwurst junkets in Munich kind of undercut that

submitted 15 days ago • 135 comments

Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often the avoidance of loss. So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses not averted?

submitted 15 days ago • 69 comments

A great teacher isn’t one who imparts the most facts. The best ones get you caught up in their love of the topic. Like you might not even be that into the topic, but either they got you into it or, if not, now you’re excited about the possibility of loving another topic, too.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

coworker: wow how’ve you been eva it’s been a while THE GOVERNMENT’S OFFICIAL POLICY IS THAT PEOPLE LIKE ME DON’T EXIST LITERAL NAZIS HAVE ACCESS TO THE SSA DATABASE OF NAME CHANGES ITS AMBIGUOUS IF MY VALID DRIVERS LICENSE IS FRAUD AND GROUNDS TO IMPRISON ME me: fine

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

Reminder: If you feel like you're losing everything, remember that even trees lose their leaves every year but still stand tall and strong, knowing that eventually better days will come. Stand tall and strong. I'm proud of you

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️ Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/u...

submitted 25 days ago • 34 comments

I know it's quite minor compared to his other crimes but I'm rather peeved that Thiel mined Lord of the Rings for names while completely missing any moral lesson from them. Does he look to Saruman as a role model?

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

‘I was being groomed to rape’: The young men being taught to hate women by incel culture. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Ask yourself: when is the last time I saw my lawmaker at a town hall? Not on TV. I'm talking you were in the same room as them. When was the last time you actually spoke to them? Asked a question and heard an answer? Maybe we need to bring back town halls.

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

Keep. Making. Art.

submitted 18 days ago • 23 comments

Well I wanted more open government tech. Not like this though.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I resent having to have so much anger in my heart all the time. Because it’s not my default. I’m a happy person by default.

submitted 18 days ago • 64 comments

My love for you is like a peregrine falcon. One more valentine from a past year.

submitted 18 days ago • 24 comments

I moved across the country, uprooting my family, for the promise of a stable future and the chance to serve the country and make weather forecasts better. I don’t even know what else to say.

submitted 18 days ago • 64 comments

In a major reversal, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency said he will try to rescind $20 billion in grants awarded by the Biden administration for climate and clean-energy projects.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos California's beloved national park is on the brink of disaster www.sfgate.com/california-p...

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submitted 18 days ago • 34 comments

NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION! HANDS OFF MY MONEY, MUSK!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The snow is beautiful today.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Just to underscore the tension at DOJ at the moment, here's what one federal law enforcement official told me about the acting deputy attorney general: "I, along with other career FBI and DOJ personnel that I’ve spoken with, really have one message for him and that is, “go fuck yourself, traitor.'"

submitted 18 days ago • 266 comments

Looking for people who were active in the Missouri GOP between 2013-2015.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 19 days ago • 308 comments

tried downloading kafka’s diaries but there was a bug

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

While lawsuits demanding that the government preserve records are a good thing, please realize that no evidence of January 6 is lost. Most is still publicly accessible. This lawsuit covers 3 video exhibits in US vs Glen Simon (21-cr-346-BAH); these are all preserved (see links next skeets). 1/

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

So we sued Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Office of Personnel Management on behalf of the two million government employees whose personal information was unlawfully disclosed. This is a suit for injunctive relief to stop the bleeding. More to come later storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 20 days ago • 28 comments

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

submitted 20 days ago • 1186 comments

Chris Rufo reminds us that moral capitulation wins you nothing under an authoritarian regime. Give authoritarians what they demand and they just mock you for your cowardice. Ducking and covering does not work - there is literally no option other than to stand and fight for one's principles. 1/

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

🚨My nerds: new preprint + data available to you starting now. Plz enjoy what I believe to be (other than tax stuff) the first large scale empirical dataset about the Federalist Society. Have fun! 😘 #LawSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky osf.io/preprints/so...

submitted 29 days ago • 22 comments

Sometimes I let ChatGPT know how we're doing

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Numbers update Of those arrested for Jan 6, 2021 crimes at the US Capitol, the number of those with criminal histories as of 2/10/2025 Cases are still being reviewed!! 1,300 cases reviewed to date

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

The people in this photo are Christians. Own it. They may not practice as you do, but this is a Christian Nationalist coup, and we will not be gaslit into denying it.

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

submitted 21 days ago • 35 comments

NEW: Donald Trump has fired the head of the National Archives, ousting the leader of an agency he has maligned as the cause of some of his greatest legal/criminal woes. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 24 days ago • 35 comments