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Thinking about how we've come to find ourselves in this mess.
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However stupid you think the times we live in are, you're wrong. They're stupider.

submitted 12 hours ago • 22 comments

Honestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges. Good luck! 🫡

submitted 13 hours ago • 361 comments

Gotta do some more work on covering up their data exfiltration/ (likely) backdoor app installation activity. Stay tuned for some ugly fireworks on this issue. Fingers crossed the wb disclosure gets lots of public scrutiny.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: The Trump administration is ordering a halt to Empire Wind, threatening already issued permits during active construction on an offshore wind project *crucial* for New York to reach its climate goals. w/ the immaculate @emilypont.bsky.social

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

"Team Trump [does not want] every fight. They want weak acquiescence." See: Rule #1 of Prof. Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny."

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Twitter phasing out DMs the day after it comes out that Elon has been using them to arrange drive-through bastards with ladies who were fired from podcasts is so fucking funny

submitted 13 hours ago • 33 comments

Trump, his inner circle of informal "advisors", his adminstration, and his appointees are, for all intents and purposes, a wholly owned subsidiary of Putin-Russia, Inc. That this has been plain to see since 2017-18 and yet wilfully ignored by nearly half the voting electorate is mind boggling.

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submitted 16 hours ago • 13 comments

Now if it were a Tesla dealership...

submitted 16 hours ago • 126 comments

per Van Hollen, El Salvador wouldn't let him into CECOT, which seems notable given that multiple House Republicans have photos of themselves inside grinning and giving a thumbs-up Abu Ghraib-style

submitted 16 hours ago • 53 comments

NEW: Wow. In a calm & measured tone, Fed Chair Jerome Powell just annihilated Trump’s economic plan. Says tariffs will slow economic growth and increase inflation & unemployment. Also says research cuts mean layoffs & impacts on productivity and health. Trump is going to lose it…

submitted 16 hours ago • 39 comments

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in ... Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

@kyledcheney.bsky.social posted this yesterday but seeing people who're unaware of it. CIA revealed yesterday that John Ratcliffe had deleted his Signal messages. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

I'm a lawyer and this is correct. Straight line of "blatantly illegal constitutional end-runs to violate human rights" from Iran–Contra to Gitmo to CECOT paved by the only consequences the perpetrators suffering being more money, more power, and more prestige.

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

Essential reading

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

And there it is, as expected --- exploitation of the "facilitate" vs. "effectuate" loophole some folks anticipated at the outset of the SCOTUS ruling.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The reason I have been unwaveringly NeverTrump from the beginning is it’s always been obvious to me that Trump is a bad person whose personal values are fundamentally at odds with the values of American liberal democracy. Not a flawed person, as we all are. But a bad person.

submitted 9 days ago • 65 comments