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Pritzker: “ICE is running around the Loop harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States. Now, ICE is making it commonplace.”
September 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Pritzker: “ICE is running around the Loop harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States. Now, ICE is making it commonplace.”
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Pollsters need to start asking the American public whether they think democracy is safe or we’re headed for a dictatorship or we’re already there. We need to know the level of inattention about Trump’s fascist power grab.
August 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Pollsters need to start asking the American public whether they think democracy is safe or we’re headed for a dictatorship or we’re already there. We need to know the level of inattention about Trump’s fascist power grab.
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The Trump administration's proposed budget would slash NOAA's climate research funds.
It still has to pass Congress, but it's already affecting scientists. A program supporting promising new climate scientists furloughed its current cohort and canceled 2025 awards.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...
It still has to pass Congress, but it's already affecting scientists. A program supporting promising new climate scientists furloughed its current cohort and canceled 2025 awards.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...
Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The Trump administration's proposed budget would slash NOAA's climate research funds.
It still has to pass Congress, but it's already affecting scientists. A program supporting promising new climate scientists furloughed its current cohort and canceled 2025 awards.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...
It still has to pass Congress, but it's already affecting scientists. A program supporting promising new climate scientists furloughed its current cohort and canceled 2025 awards.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...
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Trump went golfing today as flooding hit Texas. 20 children are now missing from a girls camp.
July 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Trump went golfing today as flooding hit Texas. 20 children are now missing from a girls camp.
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NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
June 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
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"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice"
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice
Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.
www.lawdork.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice"
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
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"I'd heal you if you were more in favor of taking food and medicine from the poor."
--GOP Jesus
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
--GOP Jesus
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
www.theguardian.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"I'd heal you if you were more in favor of taking food and medicine from the poor."
--GOP Jesus
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
--GOP Jesus
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Target is doubling down on the dipshittery for some reason.
“Target Corp., facing financial headwinds and pushback over its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, has dismissed two executives who have backed DEI efforts, including a chief legal and compliance officer it hired nine months ago.”
Target Lets Go Pair of Executives Who Had Supported DEI Programs
Target Corp., facing financial headwinds and pushback over its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, has dismissed two executives who have backed DEI efforts, including a chief legal and compl...
news.bloomberglaw.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Target is doubling down on the dipshittery for some reason.
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It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.
May 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.
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Welp, the federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage (as in, a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage gets paid less than the poverty line for a single person). www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...
April 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Welp, the federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage (as in, a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage gets paid less than the poverty line for a single person). www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...
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We are here now. 🧪
(The suspension of milk testing by the FDA was announced last week try to keep up)
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
(The suspension of milk testing by the FDA was announced last week try to keep up)
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.
www.seattletimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
We are here now. 🧪
(The suspension of milk testing by the FDA was announced last week try to keep up)
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
(The suspension of milk testing by the FDA was announced last week try to keep up)
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
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Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue:
"Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT."
She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”
"Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT."
She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”
April 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue:
"Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT."
She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”
"Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT."
She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”
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Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?"
Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’”
“I’M PISSED!”
Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’”
“I’M PISSED!”
April 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?"
Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’”
“I’M PISSED!”
Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’”
“I’M PISSED!”
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I suggest everyone become very, very familiar with this piece by law Professor @david.noll.org. I suspect you will be referring to it often. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...
If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders
Opinion | Even a rogue marshal’s service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.
www.democracydocket.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I suggest everyone become very, very familiar with this piece by law Professor @david.noll.org. I suspect you will be referring to it often. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...
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This is something we can all do.👇🏼
File a complaint with the FL and DC Bar to have Pam Bondi disbarred for not complying with the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador.
File a complaint with the FL and DC Bar to have Pam Bondi disbarred for not complying with the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador.
April 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This is something we can all do.👇🏼
File a complaint with the FL and DC Bar to have Pam Bondi disbarred for not complying with the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador.
File a complaint with the FL and DC Bar to have Pam Bondi disbarred for not complying with the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador.
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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
April 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
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Trump health layoffs include staff overseeing bird flu response.
Among those fired on Tuesday were leadership and administrative staff at the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine.
#MomSky
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Among those fired on Tuesday were leadership and administrative staff at the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine.
#MomSky
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Exclusive: Trump health layoffs include staff overseeing bird flu response, source says
The Trump administration has fired staff who were working on the Food and Drug Administration's bird flu response as part of its mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a source familiar with the situation.
www.reuters.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Trump health layoffs include staff overseeing bird flu response.
Among those fired on Tuesday were leadership and administrative staff at the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine.
#MomSky
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Among those fired on Tuesday were leadership and administrative staff at the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine.
#MomSky
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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...a “pointless, ill-advised move that will hurt U.S. science and pandemic readiness,” says Charles Rice, a Nobel Prize–winning virologist at Rockefeller University
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Saying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH institute starts cutting COVID-19 research
Grant terminations halt research on improving vaccinations and preventing future pandemics
www.science.org
March 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
...a “pointless, ill-advised move that will hurt U.S. science and pandemic readiness,” says Charles Rice, a Nobel Prize–winning virologist at Rockefeller University
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul Weiss, didn't just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession.
March 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul Weiss, didn't just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession.
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We’re Finally Seeing the “Evidence” Against the Migrants Deported by Trump. It’s Unbelievable.
flip.it/w9I3VK
Folks with ANY tattoo were lawlessly deported & imprisoned in El Salvador—under “color of law”.
This DOJ won’t obvi prosecute these 18 USC 242 crimes…but states could (for state crimes)!
flip.it/w9I3VK
Folks with ANY tattoo were lawlessly deported & imprisoned in El Salvador—under “color of law”.
This DOJ won’t obvi prosecute these 18 USC 242 crimes…but states could (for state crimes)!
We’re Finally Seeing the “Evidence” Against the Migrants Deported by Trump. It’s Unbelievable.
The Trump admin said a soccer player had a gang tattoo. It’s a tattoo of Real Madrid’s logo.
flip.it
March 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
We’re Finally Seeing the “Evidence” Against the Migrants Deported by Trump. It’s Unbelievable.
flip.it/w9I3VK
Folks with ANY tattoo were lawlessly deported & imprisoned in El Salvador—under “color of law”.
This DOJ won’t obvi prosecute these 18 USC 242 crimes…but states could (for state crimes)!
flip.it/w9I3VK
Folks with ANY tattoo were lawlessly deported & imprisoned in El Salvador—under “color of law”.
This DOJ won’t obvi prosecute these 18 USC 242 crimes…but states could (for state crimes)!
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Something I haven't seen covered extensively with regards to the Department of Education is the fact that the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) funds early intervention services, along with Medicaid. EI is usually free, or very low cost for families.
Federal Cuts Threaten Babies and Preschoolers with Disabilities from All Angles
Slashing the U.S. Department of Education, Medicaid, and more hurts young children with delays and disabilities.
www.newamerica.org
March 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Something I haven't seen covered extensively with regards to the Department of Education is the fact that the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) funds early intervention services, along with Medicaid. EI is usually free, or very low cost for families.
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for the one millionth time, the dept of education just monitors access to education. civil rights, title ix, disabilities, making sure everybody gets a fair opportunity.
this is not about curriculum. states design those standards. this is an attack on the idea of fairness in education.
this is not about curriculum. states design those standards. this is an attack on the idea of fairness in education.
if a senile old man can wave his little marker and say the department of education is gone we don’t really live in anything remotely like a democracy do we
March 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
for the one millionth time, the dept of education just monitors access to education. civil rights, title ix, disabilities, making sure everybody gets a fair opportunity.
this is not about curriculum. states design those standards. this is an attack on the idea of fairness in education.
this is not about curriculum. states design those standards. this is an attack on the idea of fairness in education.