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Rabbi- Believer in justice, Jewish pluralism and the power to repair the world/ tikkun olam. Conservative Rabbi but liberal
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Here's the AP lawsuit against Taylor Budowich and Karoline Leavitt. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Great! Fire them each month! Maybe even better than the Democrats ever actually doing anything… Now do this with the cabinet https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-leadership-changes-trump-deportations-1856e1bb

BREAKING NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing First Amendment.

Because what NYC really needs is another round of Mayor Adams https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/21/nyc-council-speaker-adrienne-adams-powerful-unions-challenge-mayor-adams-election-cuomo/

Groundhog Day is late this year

Great news for now! But how long until Governor Hochul undercuts this as she did to congestion pricing, in furtherance of her re-election 10, 9, 8… https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/nyregion/hasidic-yeshiva-education-closure.html

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

Unsurprisingly, it turns out that hate is hate and haters deny being haters. “This idea that some people make a distinction between good Jews and bad Jews in and of itself is absurd,” Segal said. “How are they making that assessment?” https://forward.com/news/698038/elon-musk-jewish-nazi-salute/

musk's private security deputized by u.s. marshals service -- potentially clearing the way for his personal bodyguards to be carrying weapons on federal grounds. um... www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

One other brilliant aspect of Judge Ho appointing Scalia clerk Paul Clement as his amicus: It'll make it FAR HARDER for Emil Bove to conduct his "weaponization" witchunt targeting (among others) Scalia clerk Danielle Sassoon.

To explain: Judge Ho has said, "I'm canceling the trial for now, eliminating one thing DOJ was complaining about, and instead I've asked a super conservative judge who can argue this to SCOTUS successfully to argue against the govt for me." Brilliant move.

NEW: House Republicans representing large shares of Medicaid, SNAP beneficiaries face tough budget test These GOP-held districts have the most Medicaid recipients, as Republicans eye spending cuts in their budget plan. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

This is how Mitch McConnell should be remembered: Without him, there’s no President Trump right now—he had the chance to convict during impeachment and end it, but he didn’t. Without him, there’s no stacked conservative Supreme Court—you’d have more rights today.

Look people. Democrat? Republican? It doesn't matter. No one wants their wealth plundered by nazis. Push your members of Congress to impeach these motherfuckers and throw them prison.

French far-right leader cancels CPAC speech over Steve Bannon’s ‘Nazi’ salute

Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

Democrats, and all allies who support maintenance of rule of law and constitutional order, need to be thinking about town halls as pressure points. www.ajc.com/politics/mcc... o

Dear business owners that voted for Trump, You could have had $50K in capital and a robust SBA. Instead, DOGE is cancelling all your government contracts and putting you out of business so he can have the contracts for himself.

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

He’s going to lend (?) IRS workers to DHS to round people up for extraordinary rendition. I assume this alludes to non-probationary employees he hopes will quit when their duties shift from billionaire audits to, say, crimes against humanity.

My local sheriff is under attack from Trump administration for following the law

Important overview about the actual state of charges and potential charges against Mayor Eric Adams. TLDR: there’s a lot more potential to prosecute him than you might have thought.

There are many mysteries and ambiguities in life but the nature of this gesture is not among them. It's a Nazi salute.

‘Developing a friendship with him…’ Wow.

Front page of today’s NY Post. Good start. Now let’s see the Murdochs be even half as bold on Fox - where it actually might make a difference.

More of this. Do not give in.

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

Add up the claimed savings on the DOGE website and (right now )you get $7.19b from contract savings, and $0.14b from real estate, for a total of $7.3b, or $21.47 per American. Trump is talking about giving a "DOGE dividend" of 20% of these savings. Enjoy your $4.29.

Urge people to listen to this to help see how Trump has no mandate and is more vulnerable by the day if Dems can shake their slumber and organize the anti-authoritarian majority.

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

We all think this is good news but what it really means is that Trump is acting like a man who will never leave the White House and does not care what you think.

“The Justice Department said it would dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning it could not be brought again.”

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

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

Every Jewish person is a parent of every Jewish child. Yes, it can sometimes be weird when a total stranger who happens to be Jewish comes up to you and tells you how to take care of your Jewish child. But it's who we are. So today, we are all mourning the loss of our very own children.

This is who Republicans just made FBI Director. Kash Patel calls for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.” “We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media”

“What’s the point of fighting cybercrime if we’re just going to give access for government networks to people with cybercriminal gang affiliations?” www.wired.com/story/doge-c...