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

submitted 4 days ago • 240 comments

No single person did more to end democracy and roll back civil rights in America than this white supremacist right here. Now and forever, that is how he should be remembered—the 21st century white supremacist who returned the United States to Jim Crow America.

submitted 2 days ago • 63 comments

above all else the current crop of republicans in congress are the most pathetic cowards to ever serve in washington www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 570 comments

Today (2/17/25) at 11am Judge Tanya S. Chutkan will conduct a TRO (temporary restraining order) hearing in a challenge to the constitutionality of DOGE under the Appointments Clause (Art II, §2, cl 2). I’ll try to live-blog here for @lawfare.bsky.social . You can also phone-in yourself. ... /1

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

Now would be a good time for the president of the University of Michigan to take a deep breath and realize he leads an institution that began in 1817---we are older than the State of Michigan and our origin is nearer in time to 1619 than it is to 2025---and then to act like it

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Management of the Army’s X account clearly changed around 2 PM ET on Friday. For the last month, content was standard fare. But a series of posts made clear someone new was managing the account. It began with the renaming of Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg. Bizarrely, Elon Musk was tagged directly. 🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 55 comments

If you're in district w/ GOP rep, call or write—202-224-3121 main Capitol #, but just go to individ web site—and say you want your elected rep to stand up for Congress as co-equal branch, to determine spending, etc They take this seriously. (For each person who calls, 10x are thinking that.)

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

@aoc.bsky.social We’d like your help organizing a March on Washington to ensure protester safety and secure permits. We’re aiming for a Saturday at least two weeks out to allow for travel planning.

submitted 11 days ago • 522 comments

The closure of CFPB highlights the grand lie at the heart of DOGE. CFPB is cheap to run & delivers billions to victims of corporate scams. It’s the definition of value for money. But X & Meta hate it because it targets big tech fraud. DOGE is not about waste. It’s about enriching the oligarchy.

submitted 13 days ago • 41 comments

Performing Be Humble while standing between an split American flag tearing itself apart

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

ASL interpreters who work in the arts (concerts, opera, theatre, etc) deserve to be valued as artists too. it takes so much skill to be this good at capturing the FEEL of music beyond just translating the meaning of the text and it’s an invaluable accessibility service

submitted 13 days ago • 69 comments

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submitted 37 days ago • 10 comments

Curtis Yarvin’s lunatic fantasies are being used as a blueprint by President Musk

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

"But why didn't Obama/Biden do this?" Because the illegal, uniletaral executive actions that have dominated Trump 2.0 are far more useful for reactionary purposes than for progressive ones www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/02/the-...

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

Wow, NIH just dropped a nuclear bomb on all biomedical research in the US: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... The indirect rate has been knocked down to a blanket 15%, which will put a HUGE number of research institutions out of business. This is definitely NOT making America great!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 16 days ago • 6590 comments

"Efforts to keep potentially disease-ridden meat out of the UK are being undermined by post-Brexit border checks." Brexit is an unsustainable, enfeebled position for this country. Its frameworks simply don't work well.

submitted 18 days ago • 26 comments

Late last night, with about 15 minutes notice to the Union, the NLRB’s HR sent an email adopting the terms of the forked-up resignation scam. HR also provided us a contract that appears to be drafted by AI or LegalZoom. As labor lawyers, we’re happy to go over this in detail. 🧵

submitted 19 days ago • 18 comments

Nearly all #fentanyl is smuggled into the U.S. by American citizens, not by migrants seeking asylum. I explained this a year ago in @newrepublic.com. Nothing has changed since then. @dceiver.bsky.social @extremearturo.bsky.social @capitol.press newrepublic.com/article/1786...

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

As the parent of a disabled kid it is zero fucking surprise. Folks hate disabled people and will actively work towards making their lives more difficult. The lack of empathy that even disabled kids experience is shocking and will change the way you think about people and what they're capable of

submitted 19 days ago • 34 comments

What a horrifying doozy these first two weeks of the Trump administration have been. YOWZA. I’ve been pacing myself by focusing on climate policy, since it’s nearly impossible to keep up with everything. Here, in @rollingstone.com, is what I’m thinking so far: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

I think countries around the world should levy tariffs specifically on Tesla in response to US tariffs, as well as banning Twitter as a national security threat driving a wedge between our co-dictators may be the most effective thing they can do

submitted 22 days ago • 741 comments

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

submitted 21 days ago • 6202 comments

“given how dry it has been in the region this winter, there was no need to make such a release. In fact, he said, farmers were counting on that water to be available for summer irrigation” “This is going to hurt farmers,” Vink said. “This takes water out of their summer irrigation portfolio.”

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

As in THIS Supreme Court said it was federal law. Trump-appointee Gorsuch wrote the opinion! It was a 6-3 vote!

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

In my world, “the talk” is what Black parents have w/our kids, about how to survive an encounter w/police who see them as a threat because of our skin color. Latino families have their talk, w/kids even younger, about ICE who see them as criminals: “If we disappear…” Different fear. Same America.

submitted 23 days ago • 587 comments

This is how YOU FUCKING DO IT

submitted 23 days ago • 19 comments

"Gwynne Wilcox, a member and former chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), described her dismissal as “unprecedented and illegal” and pledged to challenge the move." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

submitted 25 days ago • 994 comments