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Serena Williams was on the field longer today than Harrison Butker.
February 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Ayanna Pressley: "Elon Musk is a Nazi nepo baby."
February 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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February 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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If you are looking for the guardrails on MAGA extremism, it does not reside in government institutions or norms. Nor will you find any courage in the boardrooms of large corporations as they bow and scrape before Trump.

That leaves only the courts.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/cour...
Courts Are the Last Guardrail
From Marc | If democracy is to survive the next four years, the courts will need to perform each of these functions.
www.democracydocket.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Each time I have sat down to write something since the election, I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I simply cannot get out of my head.

So, I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
We Are on Our Own
From Marc | Our institutions are not going to save us. Only we can do that.
www.democracydocket.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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As someone who works with the a federal agency, OIG has been a last resort when things begin to go haywire. This move by the White House is unwise as best and authoritarian at worse. someone needs to hold agencies accountable. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
Trump Fires 17 Inspectors General in Late-Night Purge (Gift Article)
The internal government watchdogs were believed to have been dismissed at several major agencies, though the Justice Department’s was not said to have been among them.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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“The rich people are gonna learn from this and maybe even change their ways”.

Honeychild, give me your hand. The only thing they are going to learn is to book future investor meetings in buildings with helicopter landing pads.

The oligarchs will stop using sidewalks before they stop abusing us.
December 5, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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Literally......
November 25, 2024 at 6:13 PM