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Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

submitted 3 days ago • 238 comments

Yeah, these federal workers actually understand what they do for us and how devastating these cuts are for us. It'd be great if the media could explain that clearly instead of taking Elon Musk's word that he's magically produced "savings" that come with no downside.

submitted 22 hours ago • 24 comments

General Brown is a brilliant, amazing leader. I worked at the Air Staff for three years and it was known that he read everything the staff wrote for him. He believes if an analyst took the time to write it, it’s his responsibility to read it. Very few generals do this.

submitted 22 hours ago • 201 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 21 hours ago • 418 comments

Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

submitted 21 hours ago • 514 comments

Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

submitted 20 hours ago • 124 comments

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be legislators right now. We need them to be politicians. There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

submitted 20 hours ago • 136 comments

Good insight from Stancil

submitted 20 hours ago • 15 comments

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

submitted 20 hours ago • 200 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 19 hours ago • 327 comments

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 19 hours ago • 48 comments

"These kinds of shocks are going to lead to a mass exodus … for minorities in particular.” For my latest @science.org story, I spoke with early career researchers who have been affected by the federal upheaval and are concerned about what it means for their future. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 23 hours ago • 19 comments

JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 23 hours ago • 38 comments

Holy shit! You’ve got to see this town hall. Republicans are starting to get torn apart by their own constituents. Rep. Rich McCormick: “You don’t think I’m going to stand up for you?” Woman in the crowd: “You need to stand up.” Another woman: “Don’t bend over.” 🔥

submitted 1 day ago • 1007 comments

Trump has been president for 31 days. He only slept at the White House for 19 of those days. The other 12 were at his properties, among his customers. Gift link: wapo.st/434l8fD

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 2 days ago • 3420 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 985 comments

Look I know it's a cliché, but call your fucking reps. They don't get scared unless they hear from an overwhelming number of us all the time. Call them every damn day. Tell them to fight the hell back and protect us from Musk and Trump. It matters and it makes a difference, right now. reps.fyi

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

This is excellent.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 512 comments

Shoot it right into my veins, Pritzker!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Yes

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

I keep saying that he is NOT popular. I'll add that some of these polls show him underwater on the economy which even when he was at his lowest in the first term folks who were Apprentice pilled still gave him good marks on the economy.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

A. Book. Tour.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

As a historian, I just to make the stakes really, really clear for you. Every dollar you cut from higher education is a direct investment in authoritarianism. – @melanienewport.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

all your calls are working, i can't remember a senator ever apologizing for a confirmation vote

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 2592 comments

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 432 comments

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

submitted 1 day ago • 227 comments

@jamellebouie.net inspiring lecture at Brooklyn College, "A Post-Inauguration Reassessment of U.S Democracy, "hosted by @unlawfulentries.bsky.social, is now posted on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/z1Scxtd... 🗃️

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is even more unconstitutional than usual. Article I gives Congress the power to establish the post office. It cannot be "dissolve[d]" by the Executive.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

Again I am begging people in the media to note the legality of these actions in their headlines or blurbs. A post office is literally written into the constitution.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

Birthright citizenship 3: My letter to editor of NY Times on Barnett and Wurman’s misleading essay They’re not publishing it, so I’m self-publishing. Now y’all know what to do: shugerblogcom.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Keep pressuring Republicans. Call them. Write them. Visit their district offices.

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

Airbnb’s billionaire co-founder embraced DOGE. Now hosts are quitting the site

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

submitted 1 day ago • 828 comments

NEW: The Education Department is “lifting the pause” on investigating civil rights complaints in schools — but only for disability cases. Race and gender investigations largely are still sitting idle. (Exceptions are the few priority cases such as one re: an all-gender bathroom in Denver)

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Great letter from my colleagues @sbagen.bsky.social, @mjschlanger.bsky.social and other legal scholars across the country explaining why it is not necessary to start eliminating university programs because Trump

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

submitted 2 days ago • 1420 comments