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Either you find this disgusting, or you are disgusting. There is no in between.

submitted 4 days ago • 75 comments

The same way (I’ve noticed) that people who have only ever acted in bad faith/for self-aggrandizing purposes cannot engage with left policy agendas without starting from the premise that they have some similar set of ulterior motives

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

what a time to be alive www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 4 days ago • 72 comments

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

submitted 8 days ago • 1175 comments

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

submitted 8 days ago • 1568 comments

yeah I am not exactly the kind to offer uncritical support to biglaw associates, but here you gotta. she's taking a stand that needs to be taken in defense of principles and rights we all rely on, consciously or not.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Will Stancil said it best: people are not choosing who to vote for based on policy preferences, they're choosing a team to join. The big tent strategy is bad because it makes us look weak and unmoored from any larger principle, so people don't want to join our team.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

I also think Paul Weiss did a terrible thing but it’s funny to see the biglaw community suddenly discover and announce it can distinguish between doing good things and bad things

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Solidarity with Columbia law profs, who are doing what they can. This is a hell of a statement. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you

submitted 15 days ago • 833 comments

The @democrats.senate.gov need a new leader. Schumer is unable to meet this moment. He cannot be the opposition leader when he’s a spineless collaborator.

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

make america great again, healthy again, etc.

submitted 17 days ago • 147 comments

been giving a lot of thought to the whole "primary every democrat" thing and decided that I support it and would give money to an org and even help found one but I cannot do it on my own. if you are connected to dem politics and interested in collaboration on something like this, tho, hit me up

submitted 18 days ago • 42 comments

whoa. “I’m the villain,” he said in the recording. “I’m not going to have a job after this. I get it.” www.propublica.org/article/reco...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

This week I left The Washington Post after 40 years, 6 months and 6 days. Today I have a piece in the New Yorker explaining my heart-breaking decision, and including the column that was spiked. I wish I never had to write it. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...

submitted 18 days ago • 180 comments

More generally, Democrats and the left need to start using moral language again. It’s not just “shocking” or “unhinged” that Trump lies as easily as he breathes—it’s wrong! And it’s okay to say so!

submitted 20 days ago • 28 comments

Me, after this Perkins Coie shit, looking for all those Jones Day defenders who were adamant that no lawyer should be attacked because of their clients

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

For decades, Republican lawmakers and industry lobbyists have tried to chip away at the small program in the Environmental Protection Agency that measures the threat of toxic chemicals. They may be on the verge of succeeding. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

Attn: DC #lawsky: FYI, Trump/Bondi loyalists are currently making a bid to take over the DC Bar: Her brother is running for President and Alicia Long (who I believe is US Attorney Ed Martin's chief deputy right now) is running for Treasurer.

submitted 25 days ago • 95 comments

Can’t wait for all the free speech people complaining about the stifling safe space atmosphere of colleges for the last 10 years to say absolutely fucking nothing 🇺🇸🇺🇸

submitted 26 days ago • 22 comments

Media/academia/Serious Thinkers are collectively being held hostage by fidelity to an heuristic of reasonableness—people are rarely as evil as their detractors say—and their belief that their peers will disapprove stronger reactions as unrigorous or alarmist under that same heuristic.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

the attack on government contractors - employees of private businesses - feels in complete opposition to the right’s dedication to free market capitalism it almost feels like they are coming for people with specialized knowledge/degrees and/or who lives in a major city

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

submitted 27 days ago • 248 comments

From my DMs, generalized to protect the employee: More cuts to the National Wildlife Refuge System, as demanded by the recent EO and follow up OPM/OMB memo, will be the death of many refuges and destroy the whole system.

submitted 31 days ago • 26 comments

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

submitted 31 days ago • 345 comments

Air traffic controllers are required by law to retire at 56. It is a high-stress, high-intensity job that requires intense focus. The retirement rules are there to keep us all safe. This fucking guy has no clue what's he's doing.

submitted 31 days ago • 467 comments

NEW: Career DOJ spokesman — a Marine Corps vet — is resigning, saying “basic decency” has come to an end and there’s a “hostile and toxic work environment” inside DOJ. Reporting from NBC News:

submitted 31 days ago • 64 comments

Again, folks seem not to grasp how much this is a total collapse of the Constitutional order. A random private citizen is running the "Cabinet" meeting of POTUS & the Principal Officers of the Executive Departments, & going around unplugging large portions of the government. And we're all just 🤷‍♂️

submitted 32 days ago • 187 comments

Trump, Musk, and Zeldin are gutting the EPA because their entire administration is bought off by large fossil fuel companies. How do we know this? Because slashing 65% of staff means no one to stop them from poisoning our air and water. Take action: go.savepublicservices.com

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

The jobs and their functions are what the federal revenue is FOR

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Greene: Those are not real jobs producing federal revenue. Federal employees do not deserve their jobs. Federal employees do not deserve their paycheck

submitted 33 days ago • 3321 comments

Important post from @jfallows.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/fallows/...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

submitted 34 days ago • 209 comments

For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

submitted 35 days ago • 863 comments