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The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

submitted 11 hours ago • 312 comments

It never got a lot of attention, but Aber put a WHOLE LOT of child predators w/ties to law enforcement in prison. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

submitted 4 hours ago • 330 comments

I'm against shipping slave labor to a dictator's concentration camp even if they are gang members. Either convict them of a crime, or else deport them to their own country. Shipping them to a third country where they have no connection and are wanted for no crime is never appropriate or lawful.

submitted 5 hours ago • 58 comments

If a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you? My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.

submitted 2 hours ago • 318 comments

There's a reason why they're freaking out over what's happening to Tesla. It's working. There's a reason they're threatening absurd consequences. They need to scare you back into civility and compliance. As long as we're reluctant to cross the lines they ignore daily, they have the upper hand.

submitted 8 hours ago • 809 comments

Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand

submitted 12 hours ago • 444 comments

We march at dawn

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Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."

submitted 1 day ago • 305 comments

I'm sorry but Jasmine Crockett saying, F"ind a little trans child that is ruining your life!" is well giving me life. She is both very right and very funny.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

submitted 16 hours ago • 690 comments

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

18 Cubans have been detained during their scheduled immigration appointments in South Florida. The Trump administration are not just deporting violent criminals, they’re going after ‘anyone under the sun. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

wait is he confessing that he doesn't even sign these EOs himself

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

In the, apparently increasingly likely, event that someone doesn't receive their Social Security benefit I would recommend that your first stop not be trying to call SSA directly. Report it to your local Congressperson or Senator's office, using their website constituent services form if possible 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Brad Schimel and his staff smiling and laughing before he starts his press conference on rape kits

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Project 2025’s Education Department dismantling plan calls for moving oversight and implementation of funding for students with disabilities to HHS. Trump is using Project 2025 like a checklist.

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

Yes, they are sending the Venezuelans (that Judge Boasberg ordered them not to deport) to Guanatanamo on this flight yesterday. The New York Times confirmed it. And ANOTHER “slave ship” flight to Gitmo left Laredo TX earlier today.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

having their executive order to combat antisemitism be order number "14188" is the kind of thing they do to make us look crazy for pointing it out.

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

It seem insane for a US Senator to say we've all been subjected to "a relentless bombardment of Marxist propaganda." But what he means by this is 1) there was a Burger King ad with an interracial couple and 2) Star Wars Episodes VII-IX had a female lead.

submitted 1 day ago • 908 comments

Majority of white men voted for Trump. Majority of white women voted for Trump. But it’s Black people need to be booed relentlessly? Respectfully, you got this all fucked up.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

U.S. intel, including the CIA, have shared the assessment with the White House over the past week that, contrary to Trump’s claims, Ukrainian troops are not surrounded in western Russia's Kursk region. Yet, Trump has continued to claim otherwise.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Oh yes, surely Elon Musk is desperate for our deepest secrets out of his sheer responsibleness and carefulness.

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Judge Crawford is a former prosecutor, a common sense judge, and a mom. She trusts women to make their own health care decisions. Brad Schimel doesn’t, but she always will. That's what's at stake.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/

submitted 2 days ago • 837 comments

Brad Schimel let 6,000 rape kits sit untested for over two years—and then lied about it. He's as corrupt as they come. www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/p...

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

submitted 2 days ago • 1672 comments

Many Tesla shorts and detractors have questioned Tesla’s accounting for years, but they have never gained much traction – until now. Today, the Financial Times has released a new report pointing to a $1.4 billion gap in assets.

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

We told you it would happen. Trump and Musk are abandoning our veterans because they've never cared about the men and women who serve.

submitted 2 days ago • 190 comments

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

submitted 3 days ago • 956 comments

Elon Musk doesn't want you or his investors to see this video. It would piss him off bigly if you shared it because Tesla's already in something of a death spiral. By the way, it's a fantastically interesting video & includes Space Mountain technology & Disney secrets. youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ?...

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children and gives them to Russians to erase their heritage and demoralize Ukraine. Over 20,000 so far. And the US just stopped helping track these kids and likely deleted the database of all the research. Pure evil, right maga?

submitted 3 days ago • 990 comments

You mean like Bud Light?

submitted 3 days ago • 1095 comments

I'm fighting every day to protect Medicaid. But it's going to take all of us. Call your members of Congress. Share your stories. Tell your friends to do the same. We have to stop this GOP attack on our healthcare.

submitted 3 days ago • 336 comments

The USPS is an incredibly important service we tend to take for granted. Shipping one of my mugs through them is around $10. Shipping them with any private company is more than double that price. Small business need the USPS.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

By popular request, today’s new writing is a return visit to my accidental letterpress project!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Here's the list

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Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks The halt in deliveries comes after the Trump administration separately slashed $1 billion for schools and food banks to buy food from farms. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Everyone always talks about the Navajo Code Talkers, but folks need to know about Tuscarora Code Talkers too 😭 there were several other tribes (including my own!) essential to our success in WWII that still don’t get recognized to this day

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

This is such a great read from @marawilson.bsky.social about growing up, friends, being a child actor, and what we go through when someone close to us dies. www.vulture.com/article/mara...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

One of the best pieces of advice I received when I started a law firm in 2021 was to focus on “the shark closest to the boat.” When you feel overwhelmed, step back and focus on the threats that pose the most immediate risk. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

submitted 3 days ago • 82 comments

Exclusive: Get ready for worse health care and more medical errors unless this ongoing illegal impoundment is stopped and quickly reversed. www.offmessage.net/p/the-trump-...

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Nobody likes waste. But what a lot of people don’t realize is that, in many ways, government is designed to be inefficient. It’s structured with redundancy and complexity both for audit and control purposes and because it tries to satisfy multiple competing societal goals. 1/2

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