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Reupping: My running list of all the things Trump took away. I need: suggestions on usability, missing links (especially advice on how to deal with the great swath of data Trump stole). But also, if you want to steal my work and do this better, please do!!! www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/18/w...

submitted 15 hours ago • 50 comments

DAMN BREAKING: Judge Howell DENIES the temporary restraining order against DOGE at US Institute of Peace. Judge Howell says there are significant questions about whether or not USIP is an executive agency.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Looking at over 55 national and state polls across six categories of tax reforms, a billionaire income tax garners the most support across party identification (67% average) and a wealth tax had similarly high levels of support: 78% of Democrats, 62% of Independents, and 51% of Republicans.

submitted 17 hours ago • 16 comments

Trump has fired both Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission. The two commissioners — Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter — say they were illegally terminated. They plan to sue to reverse their firings.

submitted 18 hours ago • 39 comments

Mad King Donny fucking loses it when told he can’t disappear Venezuelans www.jefftiedrich.com/p/mad-king-d...

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

This was a warrantless search. A WARRANTLESS search

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

In recent years, Judge Boasberg has: - ordered the release of Hillary’s emails - ensured Trump’s tax returns never became public - restricted disclosure from the Mueller investigation - limited disclosure of grand jury material in the Trump classified docs case. The resistance, he ain’t.

submitted 20 hours ago • 184 comments

D.C.'s Interim U.S. Attorney is dropping an assault case against a convicted seditionist and violent criminal ... while he continues to bully Georgetown Law for allegedly teaching DEI and threaten to prosecute journalists who report on DOGE. A deranged set of priorities that makes us all less safe.

submitted 19 hours ago • 18 comments

Great Substack Live with @adamkinzinger.bsky.social !! open.substack.com/pub/alexande...

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

The “Border Czar” is out of control and needs to be reined in.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Another court victory, this time for fired probationary workers. The administration will take this to SCOTUS no doubt. We’ll see if it bites or passes.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

This is what happens when there’s no due process.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

This feels rather important.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Thank goodness for the ACLU! A big court win today in Ohio for our LGBTQ+ community.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Another court victory!

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

At least there is something on which the political parties and independents agree.

submitted 19 hours ago • 10 comments

FCC boss Brendan Carr (with help from the courts and executive orders) is literally dismantling the ENTIRETY of U.S. broadband consumer protection, and this is how Axios frames it:

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

This is the small but mighty agency that funds my research. Destroying it will be a huge loss for our health care system.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

As Trump attempts to re-segregate America, never lose sight of the fact that Elon Musk stands to financially benefit from the federal government no longer enforcing anti-segregation laws. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 23 hours ago • 43 comments

Again, this is clearly illegal, in violation of the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the Administrative Procedure Act. Universities need to fight back, NOW.

submitted 22 hours ago • 15 comments

Baseball great, Jackie Robinson, also served as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army. This week his military history was removed from the Department of Defense’s website as part of Trump wiping out DEI. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

submitted 22 hours ago • 172 comments

This is how you do it.

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

Sanders: I’m going to be going with my good friend Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who, as everybody knows, has been an inspiration to young people all over this country. She’s a real fighter, she’s doing a great job in the House, and it’s an honor to be hitting the road with her.

submitted 21 hours ago • 127 comments

The President is driving our economy into the ground, damaging our international relationships, breaking the government, and exposing Americans to danger. He owns that. Allowing this CR to proceed puts a Democratic party stamp on it. It demonstrates weakness when the American people need strength.

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

Great chatting with @MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow about how we push back on the weaponization of our Justice Department. Chip in & help us fight back: secure.actblue.com/donate/ev-so...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

“Our red line is the recognition of #Ukraine ’s temporarily occupied territories as #Russian,” – Volodymyr #Zelenskyy “Any negotiations are a fragile attempt to end the war—especially when dealing with the Russians, who have so far shown no readiness to stop it. 1/2

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Schumer’s brain is dead in the water. We need leadership!

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Today's coverage of the Democracy Movement features a billboard in Alabama, protests at the White House + links to local protests and town halls near you.

submitted 22 hours ago • 11 comments

A rare statement from Justice Roberts in response to Trump's post this morning: “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

submitted 1 day ago • 624 comments

This is so powerful! Please tell the Republicans in Congress that when they're burning down this house, there’s people still inside. Call Congress switchboard at (202) 224-2131. #SaveMedicaid

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Lol seriously? Can't be right. Lol

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submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

BREAKING NEWS: Trump reveals that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated JFK 😝

submitted 21 hours ago • 10 comments

Like the Epstein files, Trump releases the exact same JFK files Biden released in 2023. The fucking grift and con against the American people never ends. This was all just a diversion from the insidious shit the serial lying psychopath is actually doing, which is the ongoing Nazification of America.

submitted 22 hours ago • 29 comments

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 5 days ago • 6063 comments

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️ STARTING TOMORROW. Nevada. Arizona. Colorado. You, me, and Bernie. Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙 See you there 💪🏽🌞

submitted 1 day ago • 2482 comments

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

submitted 128 days ago • 5397 comments

Fun fact: Donald Trump’s sister was the federal judge who ruled unconstitutional the immigration law the Trump administration is now using to deport a pro-Palestinian protester www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

Raphaël Glucksmann says it's time for the Statue of Liberty to be returned to France, because Trump has disgraced it. www.lefigaro.fr/internationa...

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“Yet, far from acting in courageous defiance, many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment