Aman George
@amantgeorge.bsky.social
Progressive lawyer, ex-consultant, chain migrant, Native Virginian adopted by DC, e-biker, sci-fi fanatic, dad! All views my own.
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Whoever designed today's NYT connections messed up bad by putting these in here and calling this group a mistake!
Whoever designed today's NYT connections messed up bad by putting these in here and calling this group a mistake!
July 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
CONNECTIONS SPOILERS
Whoever designed today's NYT connections messed up bad by putting these in here and calling this group a mistake!
Whoever designed today's NYT connections messed up bad by putting these in here and calling this group a mistake!
I just got a new Tile to replace an old one that broke, only to find that the battery is no longer replaceable. The company's explanation for this is... Kind of psychotic!
July 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I just got a new Tile to replace an old one that broke, only to find that the battery is no longer replaceable. The company's explanation for this is... Kind of psychotic!
@capitalweather.bsky.social The rainbow here in Sherman Circle
July 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
@capitalweather.bsky.social The rainbow here in Sherman Circle
@capitalweather.bsky.social Sherman Circle about 20 minutes ago
July 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
@capitalweather.bsky.social Sherman Circle about 20 minutes ago
Seems like healthcare lobbyists could kill the Big Beautiful Bill if they wanted to... But I guess execs wants that sweet sweet tax cut even if it means millions of patients lose access to care or a bunch of rural hospitals shut down
June 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Seems like healthcare lobbyists could kill the Big Beautiful Bill if they wanted to... But I guess execs wants that sweet sweet tax cut even if it means millions of patients lose access to care or a bunch of rural hospitals shut down
Fun to see the 15th St bike lanes get a glow up ahead of pride!
May 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Fun to see the 15th St bike lanes get a glow up ahead of pride!
I did not know this about Wisconsin and it is extremely funny and absurd. My favorite thing I've learned this week, easily.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I did not know this about Wisconsin and it is extremely funny and absurd. My favorite thing I've learned this week, easily.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
If you want to be inspired today, come learn about the Rise Up Federal Workers Legal Defense Network. Almost 1,000 lawyers have volunteered to provide pro bono legal support to federal workers who need legal help navigating this moment.
workerslegaldefense.org
workerslegaldefense.org
Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network
workerslegaldefense.org
April 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If you want to be inspired today, come learn about the Rise Up Federal Workers Legal Defense Network. Almost 1,000 lawyers have volunteered to provide pro bono legal support to federal workers who need legal help navigating this moment.
workerslegaldefense.org
workerslegaldefense.org
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Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
Embarrassing that this lawsuit had to be brought by a handful of individual small businesses. What exactly is the point of the Chamber of Commerce if it can't bring itself to fight the single most significant and economically destructive government action of any of our lifetimes?
A group of US businesses filed a lawsuit arguing that President Donald Trump's tariffs are illegal under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Small businesses sue Trump administration over authority to impose tariffs | CNN Business
A group of U.S. businesses filed a lawsuit Monday arguing that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are illegal under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
www.cnn.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Embarrassing that this lawsuit had to be brought by a handful of individual small businesses. What exactly is the point of the Chamber of Commerce if it can't bring itself to fight the single most significant and economically destructive government action of any of our lifetimes?
Thrilling to join so many of my fellow paid protestors this afternoon. In this economy you've got a take whatever work you can get.
April 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Thrilling to join so many of my fellow paid protestors this afternoon. In this economy you've got a take whatever work you can get.
Just catastrophic. The Court is basically saying that the government gets to illegally terminate thousands of contracts at one time, with no individualized determinations, but litigants have to challenge the government's decision in piecemeal litigation. Brutally asymmetric.
SCOTUS cleared the Education Dept. to withhold teacher training money in eight states, intervening for the first time to bolster Trump’s push to wipe out spending he opposes
Supreme Court Lets Trump Halt Teacher Grants Cited as DEI
The US Supreme Court cleared the Education Department to withhold money for teacher-training projects in eight states, intervening for the first time to bolster President Donald Trump’s campaign to…
www.bloomberg.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Just catastrophic. The Court is basically saying that the government gets to illegally terminate thousands of contracts at one time, with no individualized determinations, but litigants have to challenge the government's decision in piecemeal litigation. Brutally asymmetric.
Here's my pessimistic-for-D's take on last night. The D special election overperformance seemed to be in the ~15 point range.
Go back and look at 2017 specials and that number is about the same. It led to winning the House and holding a bunch of dicey Senate seats in 2018. 1/
Go back and look at 2017 specials and that number is about the same. It led to winning the House and holding a bunch of dicey Senate seats in 2018. 1/
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Here's my pessimistic-for-D's take on last night. The D special election overperformance seemed to be in the ~15 point range.
Go back and look at 2017 specials and that number is about the same. It led to winning the House and holding a bunch of dicey Senate seats in 2018. 1/
Go back and look at 2017 specials and that number is about the same. It led to winning the House and holding a bunch of dicey Senate seats in 2018. 1/
I wish we could get Obama to poke his head up and deliver a serious speech right now, warning the country that we are losing things that we can never get back. Allies, scientific leadership, functional government, rule of law, economic stability. America will become unrecognizable. 1/
April 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I wish we could get Obama to poke his head up and deliver a serious speech right now, warning the country that we are losing things that we can never get back. Allies, scientific leadership, functional government, rule of law, economic stability. America will become unrecognizable. 1/
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the legal profession is tightly bound by professional societies, many of which are highly regulated. the fact that the establishment cannot overcome the prisoner's dilemma to uphold rule of law is grim. rule of law is the basis of their jobs! without it, the job turns into glorified bribe broker!
March 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
the legal profession is tightly bound by professional societies, many of which are highly regulated. the fact that the establishment cannot overcome the prisoner's dilemma to uphold rule of law is grim. rule of law is the basis of their jobs! without it, the job turns into glorified bribe broker!
Our alliance with Canada is over. I guess we aren't far from leaving NATO altogether.
Our investments into scientific research (and bringing the best minds in the world to help us be global leaders) are evaporating.
We're purposely ending millions of jobs and exiting global trade. 1/
Our investments into scientific research (and bringing the best minds in the world to help us be global leaders) are evaporating.
We're purposely ending millions of jobs and exiting global trade. 1/
March 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Our alliance with Canada is over. I guess we aren't far from leaving NATO altogether.
Our investments into scientific research (and bringing the best minds in the world to help us be global leaders) are evaporating.
We're purposely ending millions of jobs and exiting global trade. 1/
Our investments into scientific research (and bringing the best minds in the world to help us be global leaders) are evaporating.
We're purposely ending millions of jobs and exiting global trade. 1/
Maybe the easiest place to start - Congress could, tomorrow, turn off the tariffs.
Huge majorities of the country are concerned about Trump demolishing US trade for no reason. Every day these tariffs are in effect it is because Congress is *making a choice.* Hold them accountable!
Huge majorities of the country are concerned about Trump demolishing US trade for no reason. Every day these tariffs are in effect it is because Congress is *making a choice.* Hold them accountable!
March 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Maybe the easiest place to start - Congress could, tomorrow, turn off the tariffs.
Huge majorities of the country are concerned about Trump demolishing US trade for no reason. Every day these tariffs are in effect it is because Congress is *making a choice.* Hold them accountable!
Huge majorities of the country are concerned about Trump demolishing US trade for no reason. Every day these tariffs are in effect it is because Congress is *making a choice.* Hold them accountable!
The town hall & Bernie/AOC energy is great. We need to channel it into concrete demands for action in Republican-held districts & Senate seats. It needs to be clear what we are asking Congress to do in this moment. Because right now I worry about America making it to 2026.
March 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The town hall & Bernie/AOC energy is great. We need to channel it into concrete demands for action in Republican-held districts & Senate seats. It needs to be clear what we are asking Congress to do in this moment. Because right now I worry about America making it to 2026.
Very biased here obviously, and views 100% my own but...
Independent multi-member Commissions are Congress's attempt to design some government institutions that force a degree of bipartisanship and provide some stability and continuity. 1/
Independent multi-member Commissions are Congress's attempt to design some government institutions that force a degree of bipartisanship and provide some stability and continuity. 1/
BREAKING: Trump fires two Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), challenging a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling that protects FTC members and other independent agency officials from presidential removal for political reasons.
Trump Fires 2 Democrats from Federal Trade Commission
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Very biased here obviously, and views 100% my own but...
Independent multi-member Commissions are Congress's attempt to design some government institutions that force a degree of bipartisanship and provide some stability and continuity. 1/
Independent multi-member Commissions are Congress's attempt to design some government institutions that force a degree of bipartisanship and provide some stability and continuity. 1/
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I'm going to work here in a minute, and I've started just not looking at socials during the workday because it just doesn't help. But before I go, I need you to know what's going to happen in DC today, in all likelihood.
The Senate's going to vote on a continuing resolution to fund the US govt.
The Senate's going to vote on a continuing resolution to fund the US govt.
March 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I'm going to work here in a minute, and I've started just not looking at socials during the workday because it just doesn't help. But before I go, I need you to know what's going to happen in DC today, in all likelihood.
The Senate's going to vote on a continuing resolution to fund the US govt.
The Senate's going to vote on a continuing resolution to fund the US govt.
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Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.
In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership, President Donald Trump fired the top US general just moments before his defense secretary fired the chief of the US Navy and the vice chief of the Air Force.
Trump administration fires top US general and Navy chief in unprecedented purge of military leadership | CNN Politics
In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership Friday night, President Donald Trump fired the top US general just moments before his defense secretary fired the chief of the US Navy and...
www.cnn.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.
Any DC politician who votes for surface parking lots at RFK has lost me as a supporter
February 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Any DC politician who votes for surface parking lots at RFK has lost me as a supporter
Really great, humane reporting about the senseless and brutal situation our nation's civil service is being put through. Warning that it may trigger tears.
One was fired by email at 12:47 a.m. Another wept as security escorted her from the office. A third frantically tried to fill a prescription after she got a 24-hour notice that her health care was ending. These workers are grappling with the Trump administration’s war on the federal bureaucracy.
Federal Workers Grapple With Trump’s War on Bureaucracy
One thing lost in the Trump administration’s war on the federal bureaucracy is the collective voice of the employees. But some have begun to speak out.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Really great, humane reporting about the senseless and brutal situation our nation's civil service is being put through. Warning that it may trigger tears.
As someone in the legal / good governance movement who was here in 2017 too, here is another thing that feels *very* different this time around: many law firms are sitting the fight out, too scared to be seen fighting Trump. 1/
February 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
As someone in the legal / good governance movement who was here in 2017 too, here is another thing that feels *very* different this time around: many law firms are sitting the fight out, too scared to be seen fighting Trump. 1/
Omg. After the Google algorithm created the problem of recipe sites needing to post long ass articles with their recipes, Google has finally decided to fix it.... By just extracting the recipe from the site and placing it directly into search results
January 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Omg. After the Google algorithm created the problem of recipe sites needing to post long ass articles with their recipes, Google has finally decided to fix it.... By just extracting the recipe from the site and placing it directly into search results