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"Security committee members [of the Judicial Conference, a policymaking body for the federal judiciary] worried that Trump could order the marshals to stand down in retaliation for a decision that didn’t go his way." A real statement about the President in 2025. Why democracy is in grave danger.

submitted 18 hours ago • 27 comments

Congrats, everyone.

submitted 20 hours ago • 72 comments

I have no doubt that I, a man, have experienced misogyny all my life. "Woman" or "girl" was the most common insult I faced in childhood. Anti-gay slurs, too, but homophobia is simply misogyny again.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

If it was a “personal” and not a “presidential” meeting, why the presidential seal?

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The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the U.S., according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times.

submitted 1 day ago • 671 comments

Trump's West Point commencement audience is totally silent as he rants about trophy wives and yachts

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My latest: DOJ abandons effort to address Phoenix's treatment of homeless people www.propublica.org/article/phoe...

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"The Court has decided that it gets to make policy on its own. Independent regulatory agencies aren’t okay; independent banking regulatory agencies are. Because that makes sense to them." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-c...

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SLC Trib [cont] -- Report also found that "Patients that were seen at the gender clinic before the age of 18 had a lower risk of suicide compared to those referred as an adult." In other words, withholding care increases adolescent deaths. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

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It's wild to see this erosion of America's scientific leadership

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NYT: “Justin Sun was there — Singapore-based crypto exec spent $100 MILLION+ to buy into Trump ventures… an SEC investigation into him is now put on hold… an inflection point — You can now personally pay a 🇺🇸 president to gain an audience…” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

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In our survey from Feb: Among those with a view, 58% of Republicans say presidents should be able to enact policy without congress. Just 10% of Dems agree. (25% of all respondents neither agree nor disagree) Full breakdown + analysis in my piece @ConversationUS: theconversation.com/trump-treats...

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“One administration official described the personnel and money funneled to Homan's security detail as ‘extravagant’…The border czar at times travels in a four-vehicle motorcade — more cars than the two-car package cabinet members typically use.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-b...

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Just weeks before, Trump slashed nearly $1B in disaster aid meant for Black and low-income neighborhoods. capitalbnews.org/st-louis-tor...

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Kennell Staten filed a complaint with HUD, saying he was denied an apartment for being gay — a complaint the agency had long taken seriously. Two days later, HUD informed him that it did not view allegations like his as subject to federal law.

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Stunning. May was brutal for Trump in federal court: 96% loss rate ⚖️. Even GOP-appointed judges have ruled against the admin 72% of the time. District courts are doing their job defending the Constitution. Soon the Supreme Court may be the only court unwilling to defend the rule of law.

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

Note that NWU has received zero communication from the administration about this. No explanation, no rationale, no demands. Nothing. They're not even paying on grants that were already awarded and budgeted. It's tyrannical

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

He got a REAL ID, is a citizen and was arrested and told his real id was fake. ICE is a disgrace.

submitted 1 day ago • 421 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of “O.C.G.,” an immigrant deported without a credible fear assessment to Mexico, where he had previously been raped and targeted for being gay. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Unreal: To sustain his lie about a "genocide" of "white farmers" while meeting with the South African president, Trump used a photo of war deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I looked into this a bit more. It's worse than it first appeared. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1956...

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BAKER: “.. universities are actually a major source of export earnings for the United States. Last year, we got over $56 billion from tuition and other expenses paid by foreigners to U.S. colleges .. This number is likely to fall sharply ..” @deanbaker13.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

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NEW: Judge Burroughs GRANTS Harvard's requested TRO against the Trump administration, blocking it from revoking Harvard's ability to enroll international students during early court proceedings.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

The most corrupt administration in American history by far, we are only 4 months in, and he hasn’t come close to the depths of depravity he is mining. But tune into CNN for updates on a dinner party in 2023 where Biden used the wrong fork.

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NEW: In remarks to a private audience in 2023, Russ Vought — the Project 2025 leader who is now Trump’s budget chief & the driving force behind Trump’s unprecedented power grab — said he championed the term “invasion” because it “unlocked” extraordinary presidential powers. By @mtredden.bsky.social

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What began as Elon Musk’s personal vendetta against Media Matters has now escalated into a full-blown government-backed campaign, with Donald Trump’s FTC launching a probe into the non-profit group. Details in Status: www.status.news/p/ftc-invest...

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Trump undermined Biden’s FEMA in North Carolina. Now the cleanup is lagging on his watch. As a candidate, Trump spread misinformation about the Hurricane Helene recovery efforts, convincing many survivors that the federal government was out to get them. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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"Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his AI chatbot Grok in the US federal government to analyze data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially violating conflict-of-interest laws and putting at risk sensitive information on millions of Americans."

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Republicans Harness Tax Code to Punish Trump’s Political Nemeses www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

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in addition to being brazenly unprincipled, this is evidence that the conservatives KNOW trump is a mad king, but still want to imbue him with royal authority — against the well-documented history and tradition of the united states — out of their blinkered devotion to a narrow ideological project

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This is a really important read for many people out there, as this has been erroneously reported. The spending bill DOES ban HRT from Medicaid, which is horrific. It does NOT ban ACA/Private plans from covering it, as Gillian Branstetter of the ACLU lays out in her thread here.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

👇 zero patience here for this. Well-said.

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Is “sidestepping laws” the same thing as committing crimes? Seems like it is, right?

submitted 2 days ago • 190 comments

It's like Republicans have never heard of externalities. Or you know, just don't care.

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Both things can be true

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RFK Jr is already walking back his claims about figuring out the cause of autism by September

submitted 2 days ago • 788 comments

I've never seen it so well put before.

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This is so depressing www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

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Update on my prediction: some states have started to choose to give up sovereignty www.npr.org/2025/05/22/n...

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A Harvard international student was just detained for hours and had her devices confiscated by CBP at Logan airport. She was released but this comes hours after DHS ended the ability for international students to enroll at Harvard. Absolutely terrifying time for colleagues and classmates.

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Comment the fuck out of this one, folks. The advisory committee is meeting Thursday without the typical 15 days' notice because of "technical" issues but comments you submit by May 23 must still be taken into consideration by the FDA.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

The global demand for oil will collapse as EVs become strictly cheaper than ICE cars in the next few years. The American oil industry is cooked (the industry knows it and has all but halted new exploration and investment). This is a giveaway to Trump's Saudi paymasters who'll still need a market

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

What I'm hearing is that his attendance at this dinner where people hand him bribes is not an official presidential action, as designated for absolute criminal immunity in Trump v. United States

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

when my flight to my friend’s wedding in Kansas City took off a few hours ago I drafted a post that read “every time I get on a flight or go to a wedding some big legal news breaks so godspeed everyone” I lost service before I could send it three hours later….this is what I see when I land

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Any Democrat who doesn't support this needs to be fired out of a cannon

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NEW: Trump’s new head of Social Security says he had to Google the job when he was offered it: “What the heck's the commissioner of Social Security?,” per audio obtained by ABC News More: abcnews.go.com/US/new-head-...

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Again, why do they dress like a band of highwaymen instead of a properly constituted police force? They’re inside the security envelope of a public courthouse.

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Keep an eye on this one. Sounds like Govt, DHS specifically may have again stepped in it getting caught lying to federal judge and judge wants an explanation by 8 pm tonight. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69938...

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“Kratsios may have things exactly backward. Our growth has slowed down over decades—the same decades where we have been funding science less and less as a share of GDP."

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