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From Ashley St. Clair's court filing last night. Elon is aware of it and is fully paranoid about assassination attempts.

submitted 15 hours ago • 70 comments

I've been thinking, a lot, about how the Five Eyes deals with Trump -- in particular whether they (or certain foreign hosts of Big Tech) -- can replace the spying the alliance facilitates, AND ALSO whether Trump can replace his allies w/Musk's satellites. I don't know the answer, technically, BUT

submitted 15 hours ago • 6 comments

Joni Ernst cast one of two pivotal votes to let this happen.

submitted 15 hours ago • 40 comments

When these inaccuracies were first found, they could be called "mistakes." When DOGE took efforts to cover them up, they can no longer be considered "mistakes."

submitted 15 hours ago • 51 comments

It'd be awesome if @whitehouse.senate.gov asked Attorney General Bondi if she has issued some kind of finding that foreign donations are cool now, so long as they're covered up nicely. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

submitted 14 hours ago • 37 comments

🧵 I went to work in Congress with a Member who was raised in South Africa and part of the anti-apartheid movement. She taught me how to optimize the power of the opposition in the House. Like the trimtab on the rudder, members can steer the ship. Here are the six R's of minority power.

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

You told NPR on the record you were removing stuff to comply with the executive orders. This is a lie about planned revisions. The site also removed gender identity from legal services provided. Stop gaslighting us. You erased trans people and only responded when called out.

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

Me: You guys are being really sexist in your attacks on Bondi, rather than focusing on the real problems with her. Response (now blocked): You're just a karen.

submitted 13 hours ago • 19 comments

This is so unconscionable. Elon Musk is personally extorting Ukraine to get access to their minerals for his car batteries. Once again, Elon Musk is an existential threat to everyone on this planet. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 12 hours ago • 49 comments

Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace. If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...

submitted 37 days ago • 22 comments

Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.

submitted 14 days ago • 79 comments

It's Still Not Clear Whether Elon's DOGE Boys Are Reviewing, Taking, or Altering Government Networks www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/08/i...

submitted 14 days ago • 35 comments

NEW: 22 states and DC urge Judge McConnell to enforce his TRO against Trump's funding freeze: "There is no world in which these scattershot outages, which as of this writing impact billions of dollars in federal funding across the Plaintiff States, can constitute compliance with this Court’s Order"

submitted 15 days ago • 29 comments

The Center for Renewing America—founded by Trump’s OMB Director pick Russ Vought, a top architect of Project 2025—has *explicitly* said that it wants the federal govt to “eliminate” Obamacare’s life-saving Medicaid expansion. Here are some stats on the expansion. 1/ www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments

Hey all, there's a lot of litigation going on regarding trans folks. We teamed up with Free Law Project to create a bot to provide all filings in a timely manner in these cases. Give it a follow! bsky.app/profile/lgbt...

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Harvard enacted a institutional neutrality principle last year after October 7th but reserved the right to make statements that about issues that affect university functions. The deafening silence in the wake of the NIH blowing a budget hole of hundreds of millions of dollars is stunning.

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

aging well, sadly

submitted 14 days ago • 349 comments

I think these takes are simplistic. There's something about this relationship -- I'm not precisely sure what (tho suspect it may pertain to Stephen Miller's role as interlocutor, who plays a big role in creating a false reality for Trump), but something abt this relationship is different.

submitted 14 days ago • 131 comments

The authoritarians & oligarchs benefit from us blaming eachother for the massive wealthy inequality in this country. Blame the corrupt billionaires, mega corporations, and big money in politics. Not your neighbor.

submitted 14 days ago • 168 comments

I realized today that Trump, Musk, DOGE, Vance, Miller, Vought and their many collaborators have broken so many laws already that they know they have to destroy our government and entire way of life to stay out of jail. This is all or nothing. We should respond accordingly.

submitted 14 days ago • 890 comments

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

submitted 14 days ago • 131 comments

First they came for trans people, and I did not speak out-
because I avoid 'identity politics'. Then they came for the Palestinians - but I don't do 'purity politics'. Then they came for everyone but me - but I was waiting for the midterms. Then they came for me- and I was quite shocked tbh.

submitted 14 days ago • 64 comments

My heart goes out to colleagues in STEM, and to all of higher ed right now. This admin is Not Good for us. Still, I can't help but wish folks had cared when it was the Rest of Us in the crosshairs. I can't get over the idea that many were OK with us being attacked by the far right because "DEI."

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

It's also complete bs. The order was issued against a party present through DOJ. It was not ex parte.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

submitted 13 days ago • 145 comments

“Trump is furious that his thugs can’t fulfill his promises. But those failures arise not through want of trying. Rather, those failures stem from the fact that reality in no way matches the hellhole Miller pitched…the imaginary hellhole Miller used to get voters afraid enough to vote for Trump.”

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

It’s weird that Harvard has a prominent professor of Constitutional law who openly, loudly advocates overthrowing the Constitution, and lies to the public about the law as a way to advance that project. Seems like a… contradiction.

submitted 13 days ago • 27 comments

Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.

submitted 13 days ago • 1234 comments

One of those racist trolls was affiliated with a child sextortion ring. But I guess Vance doesn't have to worry about HIS kids since they get secret service protection. The leopards will come for him and his family eventually.

submitted 13 days ago • 64 comments

This is critically important. When asked to PROVE the claims that Elon is spewing on Xitter, Trump had nothing. Nothing. Until they present proof, no media outlet should repeat unsubstantiated claim this is about efficiency.

submitted 13 days ago • 24 comments

lol what the fuck that is so much

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

If a general was planning on using the military to illegally go after US citizens in the US, yes the judge would be able to order them to stop. The military is not above the rule of law. They're setting the stage for martial law.

submitted 13 days ago • 37 comments

Again, when Carl Nichols asked DOJ for proof of the claims of fraud right wingers are making, DOJ had none. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/08/t...

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Today the @nytimes.com sought to whitewash its central role in laundering anti-trans falsehoods and turbocharging anti-trans attacks nationwide. My reporting showed that editorial leadership was aware of this depravity which is why this disingenuous piece can’t erase the scale of what they’ve done.

submitted 13 days ago • 65 comments

Any four Republican Senators could stop this at any time simply by threatening to block all action (or even caucus with the Democrats) if Trump doesn't make certain concessions. They won't, but that should be a much bigger story than whether the Democrats are doing everything that *they* can.

submitted 18 days ago • 199 comments

Want to help stop the fall of democracy? Call your representatives *right now* and demand leadership! Step 1: Find your reps using the links below Step 2: Call their offices and share your concerns or leave a voicemail Senate: www.senate.gov/senators/sen... House: www.house.gov/representati...

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

This case is led by five transgender youth (including two who are 18) as well as PFLAG and thousands of member families. Read more about PFLAG v. Trump here www.aclu.org/press-releas...

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

We're suing President Trump to protect gender-affirming care access for trans people nationwide. President Trump, see you in court.

submitted 18 days ago • 38 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 30 comments

Can he feed himself into a woodchipper instead?

submitted 19 days ago • 50 comments

an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine identifying the lackeys: illegal

submitted 19 days ago • 245 comments

seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions

submitted 19 days ago • 25 comments

Really smart thread: Make categories and replace outrage with categorization.

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

this could be stupid question, but if the DNC has a big war chest, what's stopping them from being like, "hey, we're going to support food banks, childcare, and healthcare programs with our money because we know the trump tariffs are going to cause widespread harm?"

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments