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See the attached letters (at link below) from 14 House Democrats to the Capitulating Law Firms. The letters are truly extraordinary and should cause the firms to re-think their surrender, notify their malpractice insurers, and hire criminal defense counsel.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 29 days ago • 28 comments

Isn't the purpose of a military base to defend, not to need to be defended? But also the logic of "our aggressive incursion will save you from aggressive incursions" is pretty War Is Peace. Also Greenland's hatred for Vance is a beautiful thing.

submitted 31 days ago • 50 comments

BREAKING: A high level information security source inside the Department of Defense says they were ordered by political appointees to ignore information security regulations and install Signal on government phones for senior leaders.

submitted 34 days ago • 545 comments

Hard to overstate how mean and misguided this is.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

This will be Paul Weiss' most enduring shame. Performatively denouncing an honorable man and a former partner in order to please an autocrat. "Paul Weiss has acknowledged the wrongdoing of its former partner Mark Pomerantz."

submitted 38 days ago • 913 comments

Is the Government Shutting Down? Here's what’s happening. youtu.be/Vobvw7JLuEM?...

submitted 47 days ago • 352 comments

I will not be voting for the partisan bill coming before the Senate that will further cement the Trump Administration’s chaos and reckless actions that are hurting working families and our economy. Read: substack.com/@senschiff/n...

submitted 48 days ago • 952 comments

Today in Rhode Island, a federal judge told Trump to stop impounding funds allocated by Congress. It’s about more than just the money; it’s about making sure the president doesn’t make a grab for powers that belong to Congress under the Constitution. joycevance.substack.com/p/courts-to-...

submitted 53 days ago • 177 comments

DC’s interim US Attorney Ed Martin is now demanding to know about the curriculum choices of Georgetown Law Center, part of a Catholic university.

submitted 53 days ago • 80 comments

Let's break down... whatever that was. youtu.be/s74Sr0JLUE4?...

submitted 55 days ago • 153 comments

I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.

submitted 56 days ago • 8583 comments

Trump’s murderous freezing of aid that Congress enacted a law to send to Ukraine unconstitutionally usurps the power of the purse, violates the 1974 Impoundment Act, and is an impeachable “high crime and misdemeanor” akin to the extortion for which the Senate should have convicted Trump in 2020.

submitted 56 days ago • 268 comments

Just an FYI: Medicaid fraud is rarely perpetrated by beneficiaries. The fraudsters are almost always the doctors and CEO's that administer Medicaid. For example: when a doctor charges the government $600 for an $8 breast pump and pockets the cash and the third party administrator takes a cut.

submitted 61 days ago • 1131 comments

by @rbhubbell.bsky.social 1/2 "Current & former federal workers are distressed, fearing for their jobs, mortgages, children, aging parents, & savings. Trump mocks them. What an *******. Federal workers are the government, & 'Government is simply the name we give to things we choose to do together'

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Selecting another right-wing Fox personality and internet troll — Dan Bongino — as Deputy FBI Director means two things: Trump installs another loyalist who won’t say no to any immoral or unethical act. And our law enforcement agencies — and the public safety — are further degraded.

submitted 64 days ago • 360 comments

The most shameful betrayal of an ally by a U.S. President in modern history.

submitted 64 days ago • 252 comments

Putin should be pressed to agree that $300 billion of sovereign Russian assets frozen in Europe be used for Ukraine’s reconstruction. I’ve previously explained why those assets must be seized to offset the devastation Putin has wrought by his illegal war of aggression: search.app/MjfJQp23UWEu...

submitted 64 days ago • 53 comments

“Musk is causing people to turn on Trump. Political gravity is real, and Elon Musk is a gravitational wave of karma that is finally pulling Trump back to political accountability.” — Robert Hubbell (Feb. 24, 2025).

submitted 64 days ago • 120 comments

Okay crowd, help me crowdsource the most meaningful protests/resistance going on against this administration and its wrecking balls. Thanks!

submitted 71 days ago • 43 comments

So smart. Use all the tools. Don’t let Trump fill the vacuum.

submitted 78 days ago • 150 comments

It could mean that the world financial system melts down when investors realize that Elon Musk may selectively default on US debt. Just saying.

submitted 78 days ago • 420 comments

The moment we say it's ok to violate the law to shut down one agency – we say it's ok to violate the law to shut down anything.

submitted 81 days ago • 379 comments

The Guardian view on Trump and the international criminal court: following the law of the jungle | Editorial

submitted 81 days ago • 19 comments

If you want to know about the legal efforts fighting against Trump’s anti-democratic and illegal actions, your HAVE to subscribe to @democracydocket.com. There’s no better source for this news: www.democracydocket.com/me-newslette...

submitted 82 days ago • 75 comments

Will Bunch provides the analysis that is missing from the NYTimes lengthy article detailing Musk’s actions. “ You can’t stop a coup until you call it for what it is.” Essential reading in The Philadelphia Inquirer by Will Bunch.

submitted 84 days ago • 4 comments

Where are the American counterparts of these protesters?

submitted 86 days ago • 331 comments

This is such a terrible headline, I hesitated to share because I don't know what to say other than legacy media is broken. Games and puzzles have replaced fearless journalism. Support independent media.

submitted 87 days ago • 564 comments

It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....

submitted 87 days ago • 36 comments

I did this identical post on twitter, threads & Bluesky. Only Zuckerberg’s threads warned me not to use such a mean word to describe Trump.

submitted 87 days ago • 280 comments

BREAKING: 88 FBI agents who worked on Trump cases were just physically escorted out of the Washington Field office per a source.

submitted 87 days ago • 1260 comments

Hi that was a coup last night in case no one mentioned that to you. The executive branch seized the power of the purse the Constitution gave to Congress, which is a pretty authoritarian / illegal consolidation of powers move. Time to go yell at your reps, the media, etc.

submitted 91 days ago • 65 comments

I'm exhausted by all the people out there who are trying to prove they're each the most cynical world-weary disillusioned person who's not gonna ever do a fucking thing ever except dump on everything and expect to be admired for that. Wrote about that in 2016:

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments

The TikTok EO orders the Attorney General "to issue a letter to each provider stating that there has been no violation of the statute and that there is no liability for any conduct that occurred" in the 75-day window. Anyone worthy of being AG would resign before carrying out such a lawless order.

submitted 96 days ago • 15 comments

A fascist wannabe authoritarian flanked by the richest men in the world. Is it Russia? Nope! The danger to our democracy grows, and the voters are sleepwalking straight into the danger.

submitted 104 days ago • 18 comments

Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen have launched The Contrarian on Substack — a good day for democracy and all those who care about the rule of law as the legacy media fail to live up to the moment! Check out The Contrarian!

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

"Trump is a bully and bullies prey on the weak. They understand the power of fear and exploit it. Capitulating to Trump now — even before he has been sworn in — makes you more vulnerable, not less."

submitted 106 days ago • 24 comments

Democracy Docket and Marc Elias are quickly becoming leading voices in opposing the Trump agenda. If you are anxious or looking for leaders to follow, Marc Elias and Democracy Docket are for you:

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

I have had the opportunity to interview each of the leading candidates for DNC Chair. Today @democracydocket.com posted my interview with Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler. Watch, enjoy and share! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MynF...

submitted 112 days ago • 58 comments

Bezos has really upped the ante for billionaires debasing themselves to gain favor with Trump.👇 Cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit the Washington Post because it refused to print a cartoon mocking tech and media billionaires for sucking up to Trump. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 115 days ago • 232 comments

This Philadelphia Inquirer reader really nailed it in her LTE

submitted 115 days ago • 33 comments