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I've been waiting for this piece. If the administration decides to flout court orders, what--concretely and specifically--can the courts do about it? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...

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This is absolutely insane information to give to a private businessman.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Obviously forget standing on principle, but there weren't three additional Republicans who could say, "This guy just ran for president as a Democrat, so I'm not going to confirm him to a cabinet position in a Republican administration"? There was MILES of cover available for even the most craven R.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Of the 50 hardest-hit schools on this list, 32% are in states that voted for Trump. Losses range from $36.2 to $129.7M—per school. We can organize around that. Electeds, even Republicans, don’t want mass layoffs in their districts. (NB: If you reply by celebrating people’s pain, I’ll block you.)

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

How much funding would public schools in your state lose if Title I programs were cut? Use ELC's new advocacy tool to explore the impact of potential federal revenue losses. edlawcenter.org/research/tru...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Second Amendment on track to nullify the entire rest of the Constitution

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

“By the state’s own estimate, 95 percent of current students projected to participate in the proposed voucher program will have already been in private or home school.” @chloesikes.bsky.social www.texasobserver.org/texas-defund...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

A federal judge has just ordered Musk to get out of Treasury’s computers. We are fortunate there are good lawyers representing democracy. Normally that would end the matter, but in this era there are legit questions about compliance & enforcement. We live on the edge of a constitutional crisis.

submitted 16 days ago • 865 comments

New and important: we built a federal expenditure tracker. All expenditure line items that are available on the Daily Treasury Statement. USAID was zeroed out on 1/28 and has been at zero ever since. www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin... #EconSky

submitted 19 days ago • 38 comments

I, on the other hand, would prefer members of Congress to bellyache quite a bit about what they believe to be unconstitutional exercises of presidential power vis-a-vis the execution of Congress's spending decisions. www.notus.org/congress/tru...

submitted 19 days ago • 37 comments

Trump's fentanyl thing is obviously bogus. But for what it's worth, the Conservatives in Canada are campaigning on a promise to "secure the border" against a public health threat coming in from the U.S.: guns.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Why are posters on here suggesting that people call their members of Congress at the local district office rather than the DC office? It's been a while, but when I interned on the Hill it was understood that policy calls should go to DC; constituent service inquiries should go to district offices.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

submitted 20 days ago • 745 comments

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

submitted 21 days ago • 166 comments

Efficiency is a secondary constraint for a government in a wealthy society. Profit isn’t a constraint at all. You shouldn’t run government like a business.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Most people don’t know much about or engage with capital P public policy. They do see when there aren’t enough teachers, or their prescription prices go up. Politicians, public scholars, scientists, and college leaders need to make these things relatable at a granular level.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Elon musk can hold payments hostage that help disabled kids in your community go to school. Elon musk wants to reduce payments by $4 billion a day, that equals $x special ed teachers, $y prescriptions for grandma etc etc. This things need to be relatable and simple

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The thing I can’t wrap my head around is that your average local school district has much tighter wraps on their money than this. Who let these guys in the buildings? Gave them the log-in’s? Does it not take more than a single guy’s say-so to get into the U.S. Treasury?

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Okay, but serious question: is it legal to impose tariffs without congressional approval?

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 23 days ago • 2304 comments

As a New Jerseyan, this is so much more embarrassing than the actual conviction.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Charter schools are public schools. So just to be clear, vouchers already fund religious schools using parents as the pass-through. Now, SCOTUS is about to decide whether the government itself can create religious schools. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireS...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Trump's freezing of all civil rights cases at the DOJ is not part of an anti-DEI agenda, but an anti-civil rights agenda. DOJ was founded to protect Black rights during Reconstruction. That this difference is unclear speaks to the success of conservative propagandists and the failures of liberals.

submitted 30 days ago • 61 comments

This is completely bananas on its face, but also, it reads like a first salvo in an effort to strip citizenship from anyone perceived to have "dual loyalties." Immigrants, holders of multiple citizenships, and of course, Jews, whose loyalties Trump has been questioning for ages.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Students who applied to the METCO program and were admitted were: 13 pct pts more likely to graduate from high school on time 22 pct pts more likely to enroll in a 4-year college 16 pct pts more likely to graduate from a 4-year college ...compared to peers who applied but not offered a spot

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Absolutely this, from Jill Filipovic. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

the idea that affirmative action was ever about getting those who are "undeserving" into an institution or position has always been a racist lie. the root of the matter has always been, as Justice Blackmun wrote in Bakke, "among the qualified, how does one choose?"

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

I’m the son of Jewish refugees that fled the Nazis. I know exactly what I’m looking at.

submitted 32 days ago • 257 comments

Desperately hoping that there is enough incompetence to temper the malevolence.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

A second Trump inauguration. .אוי, מה היה לנו

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

This BS about cutting funding for students with disabilities goes hand in hand with RFK jnrs nonsense about ADHD being fake

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Oh happy day!! @propublica.org just launched a new tool that lets you look up the demographics of private schools across the country and see how they compare to the public schools nearby.

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

A record number of districts passed construction measures in a post-Covid vote of confidence. Take a look at the numbers: bit.ly/4jnP6Bd

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The idea that government aid at a time of national disaster depends on the victims' perceived politics is an epitome of dictatorships.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Rohit Prasad, AGI team at Amazon: “Hallucinations have to be close to zero. It’s still an open problem in the industry, but we are working extremely hard on it.” GenAI output is a prediction against a non-existent reference. These efforts are akin to fact-checking dreams.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Somebody googled where Canada's oil is...

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