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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 4 hours ago • 129 comments

Kash is so amazingly qualified that they’re giving him two agencies to weaponize. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/kas...

submitted 1 hour ago • 11 comments

Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

submitted 3 hours ago • 552 comments

Imagine dedicating your whole life to defending this nation only for this draft dodging Russian stooge & his deranged Apartheid con man to just end your career in a move to make the apparatus a personal defense force

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

submitted 1 day ago • 788 comments

Trump Administration fires top US general and Navy chief in unprecedented purge of military leadership www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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NEW: Judge Dale Ho appoints Paul Clement to present “friend of the court” arguments on the government’s motion to dismiss Eric Adams’s charges.

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We should all applaud Judge Ho’s appointment of former Bush SG Paul Clement to present a perspective distinct from those of the indicted NYC Mayor Eric Adams and the Trumpservient DOJ prosecutor Emil Bove. Well played! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

My latest podcast episode is out! I promised y'all on Bluesky I would talk about the Obama to anti-DEI pipeline. So let's talk about it. Trump's segregationist agenda is a reaction to Obama open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

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Daniel Cameron launches Senate bid in the wake of McConnell's retirement www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Trump loyalist Kash Patel is confirmed as FBI director by the Senate despite deep Democratic doubts apnews.com/article/trum...

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NEW: Judge Dale Ho has concluded the hearing in Mayor Eric Adams’ case. The short of it: Emil Bove & Adams denied the existence of a quid pro quo. An interesting argument from Bove: he claims Ho can’t stop the dismissal even if there WAS a quid pro quo. Judge will issue his ruling soon.

submitted 3 days ago • 224 comments

@blurbette.bsky.social Can you imagine trying to compete with hundreds or thousands of Blackfolks to be one of Harvard Law's Magical Negroes?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Just so you understand the state of play after the destruction of Affirmative Action, there are 109 Black students at Harvard Law of 1769. Last year they admitted 19. It was never a large number, but these numbers are miniscule and dropping.

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Musk's chirren done fired the people that safeguard our nuclear stockpile, and have forcibly seized access to our private data at the IRS and Social Security Administration, and compromised its safety. Sleep well.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office: • 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students • 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence • 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination

submitted 4 days ago • 56 comments

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

submitted 4 days ago • 1196 comments

Judge Orders Trump’s DOJ to Explain Themselves on Eric Adams Reversal newrepublic.com/post/191649/... via @newrepublic.com

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NEW: Despite all appearances, the White House insists that Elon Musk is not in charge of DOGE. US Doge Service employees can't get a straight answer about who is.

submitted 4 days ago • 104 comments

how does this Musk takeover end? do you ever see him relinquishing control of the data that he has without an order from the Supreme Court, and would he even heed that?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

"Unfortunately, rather than be shocked by each time Trump or one of his closest allies utter something openly authoritarian, we need to take a step back and realize that the Republican Party has become an authoritarian political party."

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

I have to ask why the head of the Social Security Administration didn't have a lawyer to intervene on her behalf immediately? She would have had standing to challenge anything DOGE/Musk demanded her to do. Now our socials are unsafe. LifeLock will make billions.

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NEW: Three former U.S. Attorneys ask to file a brief in Eric Adams' case before Judge Dale Ho "in support of the Court’s authority to conduct a factual inquiry" into DOJ's actions leading to its Friday request to dismiss the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 51 comments

Trump is gutting efforts to combat foreign election Interference www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The resignations from New York City’s government are eviscerating the DOJ‘s rationale for dismissing the criminal case against Adams.

submitted 5 days ago • 289 comments

Nick Akerman, an ex-Watergate and SDNY prosecutor, wants to file an amicus brief opposing dismissal of the Eric Adams corruption case—and asking the judge to haul Emil Bove into court and possibly sanction him for "making improper and unethical demands." Doc https://buff.ly/416cCKD

submitted 5 days ago • 82 comments

Headlines we'll never see: Argentine lawyers charge president with fraud over cryptocurrency promotion www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

RFK Jr. guts health agencies even as measles cases surge in Texas www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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the bogus Biden impeachment inquiry seems quaint now.

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Trump Begins Firing FAA Air Traffic Control Staff Weeks After Fatal DC Plane Crash www.huffpost.com/entry/doge-f...

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Trumpism is the cancer that will finally kill American democracy.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

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 5 days ago • 61 comments

Project 2025 is just the culmination of a centuries long game played by confederates & their descendants.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

submitted 5 days ago • 2680 comments