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Attorney. Chemist. Former ballerina. Occasional dinosaur. The opposite of despair is not hope, it's action. Don't believe everything you think.
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🚨 NEW bills not in this Weekly! These are NOT vetoable. Use #RTS to OPPOSE by Thurs AM 👇 HCR2025 requires a 60% supermajority vote on citizen's initiatives that amend the Constitution HCR2057 forces initiatives to have signatures from 10-15% of voters in each of 30 AZ districts

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

LAW DORK: On Monday night, the Justice Department doubled down and refused to answer U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s question from a hearing on Monday morning about how many people were fired from the federal government this past Friday.

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

A few further thoughts on DOGE accessing the IDRS database at the IRS: I led the Treasury Office of Tax Policy and have spoken to a number of former career and political appointees at Treasury and IRS. None can recall a political appointee ever having access to this database. 1/5

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

This is a bit wonky because it's a law review written for lawyers, but it explains why this Supreme Court case is so important. Independent agencies provide stability and oversight. Stability is the basis for our freedom and economy. It's why we believe we can do business. It's the social contract.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Arizonans: if you need training on using the legislature's Request to Speak system, CEBV is doing a training today at 6:30. Bit.ly/RTS-2025

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

A commenter added later in the thread that it's true that what we say is protected by the first amendment in that the government can't come at you for what you say. But the original poster is also right that the platforms can allow or promote whatever they will.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Arizonans, here's an opportunity to act locally. Use the Request to Speak system to tell your Legislators how you want them to vote on bills in committee. If you're not on RTS, CEBV or Secular Arizona can help you get your account activated.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Anytime a storm is brewing, your local forecasters are getting the latest data from NOAA. As the agency faces an uncertain future, one thing's for sure: for-profit companies would struggle to replicate NOAA's weather-forecasting prowess.

submitted 6 days ago • 109 comments

It is very much in the national interest to ensure the civil service is a merit-based, apolitical workforce. Here's why.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

So this is what I think is happening wrt Trump's treatment of judge's orders, based on this post. 1) He's appealing three things (RI grants TRO and SDNY Treasury, both with states as plaintiffs, and Hampton Dellinger's firing) w/plaintiffs who have real injury. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/11/d...

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

If you're looking for an accessible way to learn about history, here are some options. If you want to investigate one of the origins of the critical (x) theory movement, check out A People's History of the United States.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments