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I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

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“As the clock ticks toward the scheduled 2 p.m. start time, Bove’s solitary presence at the prosecution table is both conspicuous and telling. ‘Is he really going to do this alone?’ I hear someone in the gallery wonder aloud. He is, as it turns out.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-lo...

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trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 431 comments

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

submitted 2 days ago • 96 comments

Republicans are going along with stuff AMericans hate. 2026 will hold them accountable. ("More than 8 in 10 oppose the pardons for those who were convicted of violent crimes, and 55 percent oppose the pardons for those convicted of nonviolent crimes")

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Zelenskyy should not sign, because Donald Trump is not trustworthy.

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A federal judge finds the Trump admin has "not complied" with his TRO blocking the blanket suspension of foreign aid funding, but stops short of holding it in contempt. Doc https://buff.ly/3ENrGoY

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

A prosecutor who works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Dallas, Texas. has been outed as running a racist, white supremacist X account.

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We need to remember what we’re capable of. Every day let your mind be blown by something you do, read, listen to, or create. That is one way we get through this—to remain open to everything that is wondrous in the world. www.marytrump.org/p/what-it-co...

submitted 6 days ago • 292 comments

“The DOGE people are coming in with absolutely no knowledge of what these departments are responsible for,” said Daryl Kimball, exec. director of the Arms Control Association,“They don’t seem to realize that it’s actually the department of nuclear weapons more than it is the Department of Energy.”

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When you call your representatives, you can ask them about DOGE’s access to IRS information: 1. What’s stopping the DOGE employees from accessing people’s records and using it??? 2. What safeguards are in place to protect the public??? 3. How does this access have anything to do with the “audit”???

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from /fednews From a 20 year employee of the IDRS (Integrated Data Retrieval System) / IRS (Internal Revenue Service)

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Another emergency hearing scheduled for 5pm today on Trump’s firing of inspectors general

submitted 8 days ago • 35 comments

NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

submitted 8 days ago • 543 comments

🚨Spread the word: Any separated federal personnel may need to submit an informal grievance. Details here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has rejected a Republican-backed request to extradite a doctor charged with prescribing abortion pills online to a Louisiana resident last month. "I will not be signing an extradition order that came from the governor of Louisiana, not now, not ever."

submitted 8 days ago • 62 comments

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't.

submitted 8 days ago • 561 comments

I should think that being able to breathe is a consummately basic human right.

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Good afternoon from New York. Protesters showed up outside federal court in Manhattan for today's hearing from a 19-state coalition of AGs challenging DOGE and Elon Musk's access to the Treasury's payment system—temporarily blocked by a federal judge. Arguments for an injunction at 2 p.m. ET.

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

“I’m disillusioned and tired. Send me to a country that will accept me since my country doesn’t” "I’m not going to grovel my country for the privilege of living in it, a privilege I thought I earned in blood."

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NEW: Over a dozen states filed a lawsuit Thursday to nullify the unconstitutional actions of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and prevent them from performing any future actions like freezing federal funding, accessing agency data and taking over agencies.

submitted 8 days ago • 147 comments

"Leavitt might as well have turned the microphone over to Big Brother to let him say, 'We have always been at war with Eurasia.'"

submitted 8 days ago • 100 comments

Eventually the Adams case will trickle down to someone who will just follow orders and dismiss it. Make that person historically infamous. (Recall it was Robert Bork who eventually followed Nixon’s order to fire Archibald Cox)

submitted 9 days ago • 147 comments

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

submitted 12 days ago • 487 comments

🚨Sen. Elissa Slotkin: “There is no king in this country.” Trump’s billionaire pals are accessing sensitive info without checks or disclosures. It’s illegal—and a threat to our democracy. “History will watch what we do.” Congress must stand up and defend the country we love.

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JUST IN: USAID employees say the administration is not complying with Judge NICHOLS' order to prevent the immediate dismantling of the agency. They say employees he ordered reinstated have not been and other actions cut against his order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 179 comments

Susan Collins: these cuts are going to do terrible things for science in America RFK Jr eating a live panda: no they won’t Susan Collins: alright sounds good

submitted 12 days ago • 76 comments

Jared Kushner is not only enriching himself by managing billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar and he is also investing in many controversial deals worldwide - my latest: newstracs.com/jared-kushne...

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"If the 'DOGE' endeavor is working, why can’t the White House just tell the truth about what it's doing?" www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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A DOJ lawyer says the DOJ has no "present intention" to disseminate a list of FBI agents assigned to the Jan. 6 investigation—but says he can't make the same commitment for the federal government. Judge Cobb snaps: "Why? You’re the attorney for the United States government."

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The next Democratic President (if we survive) is gonna have to spend their entire first term just trying to rebuild the federal government — and voters are gonna hate them for it.

submitted 17 days ago • 416 comments

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 17 days ago • 617 comments

Cutting the NOAA would directly impact you, your kids and their generations to follow potentially put lives at steak of many Americans

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A new Congressional Research Service report says plainly that "the president does not have the authority to abolish [USAID]; congressional authorization would be required to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID." punchbowl.news/in12500/

submitted 17 days ago • 157 comments

Got a tip? I oversee five reporters looking at the Trump Administration, conflicts of interest, & abuses of power. And I am eager to give them more work. Get in touch here:

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

A second judge rules against Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship: "No court in the country has ever endorsed the president’s interpretation. This court will not be the first," the judge said. (via my colleague Daniel Barnes)

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What exactly was the deal Trump made with Elon Musk for his $250 million to buy him the election? He fucking sold us down the river (including his own followers)—whatever that deal was. This is a hostile government takeover!!! www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 18 days ago • 297 comments