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It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.” – James Thurber All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
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🚨 FBI Director Kash Patel says federal agents have just arrested a sitting judge.

submitted 2 days ago • 1155 comments

Trump’s executive action targeting ActBlue is a “brazen attack on democracy in America." Beware the erosion of the traditional separation between the White House and the Department of Justice. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

submitted 2 days ago • 126 comments

“Run he’s got a gun”

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NEW: Here is Harvard's lawsuit against the Trump administration, filed today in federal court in Massachusetts (Docket No. 1:25-cv-11048): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

UC Davis appealed, and Grant was reinstated. FIGHT BACK calmatters.org/education/hi...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Why Abrego Garcia? Why now? Here’s why. Trump’s deportation numbers are actually less than Biden’s, even with all this noise. The high profile cruelty and defiance of court orders is a distraction tactic to cover up his low deportation numbers. With Trump it’s always a sleight of hand Ponzi scheme.

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

My article in @plosglobalpublichealth.org on some immediate things we can do journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

"Absolute Nonsense": As Measles Cases Soar & Kids Die, Expert Slams RFK Jr. on Vaccine-Autism Link

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

My comments with @reuters.com @jsteenhuysen.bsky.social www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

The idea that the U.S., a global superpower with the biggest military on Earth, could not make El Salvador give him back is a laughable level of intellectual dishonesty. The Trump admin is not only vicious with these policies, they’re also complete cowards when called on them.

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

Rubio: “I don’t know what the confusion is. This individual is a citizen of El Salvador. ... That’s where you deport people - back to their country of origin. Truth: A 2019 court held he must not be sent to El Salvador due to persecution risk. Trump admin has admitted was wrong to send him there.

submitted 12 days ago • 129 comments

“He’s already got his predetermined framework for what he says causes autism when it’s actually none of those things, because autism begins in early fetal brain development before kids ever even see vaccines,” he said.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin. I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social Follow along for updates

submitted 16 days ago • 311 comments

Any "client" other than the government could/should be held in contempt.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Many thanks @yahoofinance.com for hosting me today discussing my recent @plosbiology.org paper on navigating your science career in lieu of declining U.S. government cuts to science and universities, a few thoughts…

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Who's getting rich off this engineered volatility?

submitted 17 days ago • 196 comments

This is a tremendously foreboding Supreme Court analysis from @stevevladeck.bsky.social. www.stevevladeck.com/p/140-the-di...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Kash Patel, FBI Director & acting director of the ATF, has repealed the “zero tolerance” policy - which revoked “the licenses of gun dealers who willfully committed serious violations such as failing to conduct background checks.” This boosts violators greatly. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 19 days ago • 34 comments

1) Ouch. I mean, OUCH. 2) WTF.

submitted 19 days ago • 229 comments

Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies. They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.

submitted 20 days ago • 522 comments

"This has got to be a moment in America." @corybookerusa.bsky.social is correct. However, as my book Find The Helpers makes clear "what matters more than the moment is how you respond to it. How you react to your moment when it comes is what will define you." DEFEND DEMOCRACY & AMERICA.

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

The 60 Minutes segment is worth watching, even beyond the topline finding that 75% of those sent to CECOT have no U.S. criminal records. That said, I wrote a week or two ago: “Regardless of how many are mistakes, it would not matter.” immigrationimpact.com/2025/03/20/w...

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

As I describe in an infographic in my new @plos.org article, given the massive size of our awful 4-state measles epidemic that began in West Texas, a second measles death is sadly predictable and >50 hospitalizations. This is so sad and was totally unnecessary journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

As I detail in the book about my daughter, we have overwhelming scientific evidence showing vaccines don’t cause autism + equal information about the 100+ autism genes in early fetal brain development linked to neurodiversity. But watch out for RFK Jr and MAHA: they have another agenda

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

I am gifting this superb piece today, “President’s Third Term Talk Defies Constitution and Tests Democracy,” by Peter Baker of The New York Times. Looking back over the past four years from the President’s latest reckless talk that he is serious about serving a third term in office,

submitted 21 days ago • 153 comments

This is a huge win for our community, Dr. Hotez is a brilliant researcher.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

submitted 24 days ago • 511 comments

It's not left or right. It's right or wrong. Let's get in Good Trouble. Thank you @booker.senate.gov You gave us 25 hours and 5 minutes of FIRE ❤️‍🔥

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments

This. Indeed this. My friends lost their jobs today. Our health and public health will be harmed.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Trump Admin Sued Over Decision to Rescind Billions in Health Funding www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Commissioner Slaughter and I just sued to clarify that we're still FTC commissioners. But this is bigger than us. This is about economic stability. If the President can break a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling to fire us for no reason, he can do it to the Fed, the FDIC and SEC.

submitted 31 days ago • 72 comments

JUST IN: Judge Boasberg orders a 4pm hearing in the Signalgate lawsuit by American Oversight

submitted 31 days ago • 280 comments

Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.

submitted 32 days ago • 2184 comments

The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...

submitted 35 days ago • 824 comments

I joined Ali Velshi last night on MSNBC’s The Eleventh Hour to discuss the Chief Justice’s rebuke of the President. I explained that America is in a constitutional crisis when, rather than faithfully executing the laws, the President of the United States is defying the laws.

submitted 39 days ago • 191 comments

A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place. Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.

submitted 41 days ago • 904 comments

Not long…

submitted 41 days ago • 32 comments

Kennedy Center Bottoms Out: Ticket Sales Plummet, No Donations, Cancellations

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JUST IN: Judge William Alsup declines to stay his order requiring rehiring of probationary employees at 6 federal departments, calls OPM acting chief failure to testify 'violation of this court's order.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 42 days ago • 192 comments

“What President Trump is doing is insane. It is absolutely insane.” @steveliesman.bsky.social @cnbc.com

submitted 46 days ago • 82 comments

Nixon's crimes, once again, were middle school pranks in comparison to the scope & scale of the high crimes & misdemeanors now taking place on a daily basis. A total, comprehensive failure of Article I.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

.@ClaraJeffery convinced me to put my many incoherent thoughts about the German election (and what it might tell us for US politics) into a slightly more coherent form. Warning: I cried writing this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 62 days ago • 25 comments

I am grateful that so many people found my open letter to Elon Musk moving and want to share it. Some well meaning people are just cutting and pasting it on their social media feeds. I would appreciate it if people would link to the version posted on @democracydocket.com instead. Thanks. Marc

submitted 63 days ago • 187 comments

Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename "Krasnov", claims a former Soviet intelligence officer. uk.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump...?

submitted 63 days ago • 56 comments