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Trump Administration may be on track to put its thumb on critical GDP data: “Doing so could potentially complicate or distort a fundamental measure of the U.S. economy’s health.” Via AP.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Yes! When people admit they made a really stupid mistake in their vote and say they got burned, the best thing to do is to say "I'm sorry to hear about what happened, and I hope you'll reconsider your support moving forward and join us in preventing this harm coming to more people."

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President. I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH. /1

submitted 3 days ago • 91 comments

This is a First Amendment question combined with a practical question. The answer is as follows. First, the First Amendment protects advocating the moral and practical necessity of breaking the law in the abstract. /1

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

submitted 8 days ago • 672 comments

This is Dick Durbin, @whitehouse.senate.gov, and @amyklobuchar.com, allying themselves directly with Josh Hawley, Lindsey Graham, and Marsha Blackburn to attack free speech. Catastrophically ignorant and it makes obvious those Dems aren't consulting anybody who knows what they're talking about.

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 9 days ago • 2233 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 8 days ago • 1016 comments

NEW: The importance of being litigious. Lawsuits matter — even when they might not "win." This afternoon, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/the-import...

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

I wrote about how particularly ridiculous it is that Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, think the priority should be repealing Section 230 and undermining the very open internet we need more than ever right now. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

submitted 10 days ago • 111 comments

If you’re looking for something concrete you can do, give money to Susan Crawford in Wisconsin who is about to get hit with a ton of Musk Bucks. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

submitted 11 days ago • 2872 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 14 days ago • 2291 comments

As is being noted, the acting heads are not random people. They were selected by the Trump administration. Even they are resigning.

submitted 18 days ago • 43 comments

Truly, we are at a moment when we need organizations — the ABA, ALI, law firms, law schools — speaking out. As Judge Coughenour said, “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?” It’s time for the lawyers.

submitted 22 days ago • 48 comments

I said what I said. www.thewrap.com/chris-hayes-...

submitted 23 days ago • 846 comments

So Trump hurt America's relationship with Canada and made markets wobble all to "get" Canada to do things Canada had announced back in December in coordination with the Biden administration, do I have that right?

submitted 28 days ago • 390 comments

It’s important that we all encourage and support people who are staying on the job in a difficult time and discourage Trump’s ambition of encouraging everyone to self-purge and do his job for him. www.slowboring.com/p/civil-serv...

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

Feeling good vibes on the ground here in National Harbor! This vote for DNC chair will reverberate for years—and even decades—to come. To turn the tide against MAGA extremism, we need to out-organize, out-communicate, and out-fundraise the GOP. And it has to start right now.

submitted 30 days ago • 403 comments

Mainstream media outlets and social media platforms have found a way to legally bribe the President of the United States. Surely this won't encourage him to file more meritless lawsuits against anyone who dares speak against him. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

submitted 31 days ago • 16 comments

I do!

submitted 42 days ago • 17 comments

Most people don't know that TikTok has one of the worst compensation systems for musical artists of any platform. You don't get paid for how many times your song is played, you get paid for how many videos use your song. So 1 million views on one video = still 1 fee. Pretty bad!

submitted 397 days ago • 4 comments

Sunday reading: Three questions to help us engage Trump’s dangerous outlandishness. We need to resist the temptation to constantly rage against Trump’s latest antics – while making sure the silliness and buffoonery of Trumpism doesn’t obscure how dangerous the situation is. This week’s piece:

submitted 50 days ago • 7 comments

Jack Smith was my law school classmate. I did not know him during school. To me, he is an American hero. He did everything in his power to bring Donald Trump to justice. There are many people to blame for the failed prosecutions. He is not one of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...

submitted 51 days ago • 95 comments

If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane. We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵

submitted 83 days ago • 2158 comments

The "Great Firewall" of positivity. What convenient timing.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

My new deep dive on how Trump “won” the popular vote. I put “won” in quotes because it wasn’t his win, but Harris’s loss. The results were not a “swing right” embracing Trump/MAGA, but a vote of no confidence in Democrats (and in our system as a whole). www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-...

submitted 58 days ago • 101 comments

I wrote about how the Trumplican court attack on net neutrality is about way more than just "net neutrality" It's about completely dismantling whatever's left of already feckless U.S. corporate oversight and consumer protection

submitted 59 days ago • 9 comments

Okay, I'm in a nice and cranky mood today, so let's go with the blunt truths #BadActorBingo thread I've been meaning to write for a while so I have something to point people to when they whine at me: why "but they're a good person" doesn't, and can't, mean shit in T&S.

submitted 64 days ago • 28 comments

"You idiots don't understand H-1B visas," explained the rich tech exec. "It's easier to exploit foreign workers, telling them to put in 100 hours a week or they'll get deported." "Americans think they deserve things like 'rights' and 'weekends,'" he went on. "And that's, like, really unfair to me."

submitted 65 days ago • 66 comments

🚫 We'll continue taking a stand against the Kids Online Safety Act in 2025 by making this harmful legislation unpopular and unpassable. The Trump administration may censor critical information so we’ll focus on expanding our anti-censorship coalition.

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

A nonpolitical short THREAD: Yes. It's about the harassment. That was clear from the start. There will likely be several years, or more, of hardcore lawfare as both a tool for both punishment and as a means of extorting (in the colloquial sense) change not obtainable through lawful means.

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

OK - I'm at 35,000 feet, and I didn't get enough sleep on my first flight to do work. Y'all want a thread on litigation risks? Doesn't matter. A lot of you need one right now. Because a lot of you have been talking about doing a lot of things that come with litigation risk. That's not a bad thing.

submitted 89 days ago • 58 comments

Public opinion is mostly not people deciding what they think on their own. It's mostly regular people taking cues from trusted elites, often overcoming their first impression. Hegseth gaining support among Republicans is because right-wing elites are defending him. Similar shift happened re: Jan. 6.

submitted 79 days ago • 9 comments

1/ Jon makes the mistake of believing that the First Amendment issues with KOSA have been resolved, leaving no principled reason for opposing it. But that's just not true. KOSA remains a free speech nightmare, and presuming anyone opposing it must have a financial incentive is deeply disingenuous.

submitted 82 days ago • 20 comments

i have plenty of thoughts on why it matters that this is an illegal order but here i’ll just comment that i think liberals who throw their hands up and say “it doesn’t matter” have self lobotomized themselves into thinking that trump is god king of america

submitted 85 days ago • 584 comments

For no reason at all, Justice Black in the Pentagon Papers case.

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

This sort of democratic backsliding, where Republicans seek to overturn the effect of an election by reallocating powers away from positions they have lost, has become almost routine now. But it should remain shocking.

submitted 92 days ago • 108 comments

It goes without saying that this is stupid, and I wonder what set it off. Was there a segment on Fox News? But I thought it might be worth a thread explaining what Trump (and, to be fair, some other international leaders) don't get about international money 1/

submitted 92 days ago • 230 comments

Hi, Bluesky Peeps, I have my blog post ready. terikanefield.com/chapter-1/ Last month, I talked about a philosophical journey for perspective on today’s politics. Plato is always a good place to start. I’ll also talk about TV lawyers and the spirit of liberty because . . . it follows. 1/

submitted 93 days ago • 17 comments