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These people all have actual conflicts of interest that should keep them from working on any investigations like this. It's a measure of how tainted and corrupt this Justice Department is becoming and it breaks my heart. I hope it doesn't break our country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Victoria DeLano is one of thousands of federal probationary employees fired in recent days by the new Department of Government Efficiency team. At the time of her firing, she said she was the only Office of Civil Rights investigator based in Alabama. www.al.com/educationlab...

submitted 10 hours ago • 60 comments

The Trump administration is canceling presentations including book talks on important civil rights issues at the Carter Center & possibly elsewhere. Let’s celebrate these authors by buying & reading their books. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

submitted 8 hours ago • 108 comments

Members of the military are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not the president. Changing that seems to have been the point of the Friday Night Massacre. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 3 hours ago • 302 comments

Crusades: Trump edition

submitted 11 hours ago • 19 comments

This piece nicely captures the sometimes subtle benefits of legal mobilization in practice—leveraging concessions, building a public record, winning by losing, etc

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

🤬 WTAF @pbs.org ?

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Great thread from @joshtpm.bsky.social.

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This is a wild, WILD situation. The President is at least allowing, licensing these emails though clearly not directing them. Meanwhile parts of the uniformed military are directing civilians within DOD to ignore them. Same at State and according to Dilanian FBI. But DOJ is saying do what the ...

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The Mad King had a bad week - the economy is slowing, inflation is rising, his poll numbers/consumer confidence are falling, cracks are appearing in his Congressional support and folks are starting to rise up against his historic betrayal of America. More 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-mad-ki...

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1124 comments

#ChadKegsbreath

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Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

submitted 5 hours ago • 20 comments

The US government is now nonstop performative idiocracy.

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“Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it—and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so.” —the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...

submitted 11 hours ago • 45 comments

You fire all the JAGs if you don’t want to be held accountable for your actions. The pattern expands.

submitted 2 hours ago • 25 comments

it's Saturday, and it's time for "this week in stupid: February 22 edition" — fake-Donny dances, Proud Boy prances, and so much more... thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

submitted 12 hours ago • 44 comments

A MUST-SEE‼️ The PayPal Mafia—Musk, Thiel, Sacks, and Botha—have ties to apartheid South Africa & a hand in US policy and the election. • Elon Musk – Unelected co-president, dismantling the government for his own gain. FUN FACT: His grandfather wanted to scrap democracy for technocrat rule. 🧵

submitted 11 hours ago • 104 comments

Infuriating! 😡 Don’t Cut My Medicaid! The majority of my son’s medical team are in Austin (1.5 hr drive), some in Houston (3 hrs), one in Dallas (5 hrs). Telehealth appts are needed & necessary! My son has extreme car anxiety, not to mention wear and tear on our car, gas! 🤬 And we’re not alone!

submitted 11 hours ago • 534 comments

KEEP PUSHING! If they won’t do a town hall DEMAND ONE

submitted 12 hours ago • 385 comments

Reminder: Tesla protests are ongoing - check here for protests today Teslatakedown.com

submitted 12 hours ago • 35 comments

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This is how you do it. Other news agencies like Axios and CBS, stop rolling over! Grow a spine, stand up straight and fight!

submitted 9 hours ago • 596 comments

Another Nazi salute at CPAC. These guys have completely given up on hiding who they really are.

submitted 7 hours ago • 22 comments

$200 million taxpayer dollars spent on “tell me I’m pretty” ads to stroke his own ego, while he fires people to “save money.” Sociopathic.

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Firing 7000 IRS agents will make it even easier for the rich to get away with skirting what they owe. But it's also a gift to the multi-billion dollar tax prep industry. Fewer IRS agents to help you file your taxes means more money in the pockets of companies like TurboTax.

submitted 12 hours ago • 171 comments

Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

submitted 8 hours ago • 240 comments

Not content with purchasing the presidency, Elon Musk now wants to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court as well. His PAC just pumped $1M into supporting anti-choice right-wing extremist Brad Schimel. Wisconsin — don't become Musk's latest acquisition! Vote @crawfordforwi.bsky.social.

submitted 6 hours ago • 141 comments

Trump's attacks on the USPS aren't new. For decades, the GOP has been trying to privatize the Post Office and other crucial public services — all to pad the profits of their wealthy corporate donors.

submitted 4 hours ago • 81 comments

The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice. The result is demagoguery and corruption.

submitted 2 hours ago • 166 comments

That guy is Executive Director, Naval Sea Systems Command. He's basically the guy in charge of making sure the boats are good boats. And he has to send a frantic email out telling everybody to treat DOGE like a phishing attack.

submitted 3 hours ago • 34 comments

Trump expected to name Kash Patel as acting ATF director. I'm ready to fucking scream already. This is exhausting. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

While Trump & team claim a mandate, in fact more people voted for someone else in 2024 & early approval ratings were lowest (47%) of any POTUS since 1953…Now 45% approve/53% disapprove of his handling of the job; strongly oppose = 12 pts > favor (39 vs 27%) & 57% think he’s gone beyond authority👀

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Turns out the Dow doesn’t love it

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

I think the most wrong I have ever been as a political scientist was when I said in a public forum in 2020 that there would not be political violence in the US (Jan 6 was 2 mos later). Tonight’s purges are a clear precursor to more future such violence. This is textbook authoritarian abuse stuff.

submitted 22 hours ago • 44 comments

Let's say their names: * General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: FIRED FOR BEING BLACK * Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE * Admiral Linda Fagan, Coast Guard Commandant: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE All replaced by less qualified white guys.

submitted 23 hours ago • 84 comments

“consider this: It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic” @govpritzker.illinois.gov quoted in yesterday’s @hcrichardson.bsky.social post: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

submitted 14 hours ago • 9 comments

My fellow citizens: don’t be the frog.

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

Yeah when????🙄😡

submitted 13 hours ago • 36 comments

A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 13 hours ago • 76 comments

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1902 comments

probably fine right

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Something that's maddening about the cases involving DOGE access to our most sensitive private data and the irreparable harm standard is that the ACCESS ITSELF is the irreparable harm, and some judges just aren't getting that. (Some are, e.g., storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

submitted 12 hours ago • 27 comments

At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

submitted 12 hours ago • 565 comments

On the one side, I do not love being a Jew in a country now ruled by explicit Nazis. On the other hand, this is all amazing ad footage for the Dems in 2026.

submitted 10 hours ago • 62 comments