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Just a straight-up, brazen, demonstrable lie from the Vice-President of the United States. They have no shame and they seem to be able to get away with it too.
Abrego Garcia is not a ‘convicted MS-13 gang member.’ This is flat false from Vance.
Abrego Garcia is not a ‘convicted MS-13 gang member.’ This is flat false from Vance.
April 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Just a straight-up, brazen, demonstrable lie from the Vice-President of the United States. They have no shame and they seem to be able to get away with it too.
Abrego Garcia is not a ‘convicted MS-13 gang member.’ This is flat false from Vance.
Abrego Garcia is not a ‘convicted MS-13 gang member.’ This is flat false from Vance.
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Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
March 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
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This is why so much whinging over congressional Democrats’ theatrical choices strikes me as both maddening and kind of pathetic. This is on us. It’s not a show we’re watching, it’s a show we’re *on*.
Important piece from @joshtpm.bsky.social.
“We’re in a constitutional interregnum and we are trying to restore constitutional government.
The courts are a tool.
But it’s really about public opinion.”
Scientists take note.
“We’re in a constitutional interregnum and we are trying to restore constitutional government.
The courts are a tool.
But it’s really about public opinion.”
Scientists take note.
March 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This is why so much whinging over congressional Democrats’ theatrical choices strikes me as both maddening and kind of pathetic. This is on us. It’s not a show we’re watching, it’s a show we’re *on*.
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Trump is presenting himself as a born-again corruption fighter rooting out waste, fraud and abuse from all corners of the federal government — even as he is dismantling the government’s mechanisms for fighting corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
Trump and Musk Hunt for Corruption, Very Selectively
Spending that the White House does not like is being labeled fraudulent. At the same time, President Trump is rolling back anticorruption efforts and ethical standards for himself and allies like Elon...
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Trump is presenting himself as a born-again corruption fighter rooting out waste, fraud and abuse from all corners of the federal government — even as he is dismantling the government’s mechanisms for fighting corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
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So petty and ridiculous. Press access being limited because of things like this simply cries out that our country is being led by incredibly infantile instincts.
Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“
February 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
So petty and ridiculous. Press access being limited because of things like this simply cries out that our country is being led by incredibly infantile instincts.
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“We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less.”
The ABA supports the rule of law
It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...
www.americanbar.org
February 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less.”
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Trump Doctrine: Destroy government program illegally, await lawsuit and TRO temporarily halting destruction, watch case move through courts at taxpayer expense, repeat. Meanwhile, we all pay the price in legal fees and chaos.
February 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Trump Doctrine: Destroy government program illegally, await lawsuit and TRO temporarily halting destruction, watch case move through courts at taxpayer expense, repeat. Meanwhile, we all pay the price in legal fees and chaos.
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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
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NEW: The US Treasury claimed DOGE's Marko Elez didn't have the ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending when he actually did.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social and @timmarchman.bsky.social:
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social and @timmarchman.bsky.social:
The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.
www.wired.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
NEW: The US Treasury claimed DOGE's Marko Elez didn't have the ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending when he actually did.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social and @timmarchman.bsky.social:
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social and @timmarchman.bsky.social:
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🚨MAJOR UPDATES🚨
🧵The Capitol Riot Map is an interactive visualization of the 1,500+ individuals involved in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Significant updates coming soon, and a new interactive feature: Pardon Tracker.
Details on updates, and how you can support this project below👇
🧵The Capitol Riot Map is an interactive visualization of the 1,500+ individuals involved in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Significant updates coming soon, and a new interactive feature: Pardon Tracker.
Details on updates, and how you can support this project below👇
January 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🚨MAJOR UPDATES🚨
🧵The Capitol Riot Map is an interactive visualization of the 1,500+ individuals involved in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Significant updates coming soon, and a new interactive feature: Pardon Tracker.
Details on updates, and how you can support this project below👇
🧵The Capitol Riot Map is an interactive visualization of the 1,500+ individuals involved in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Significant updates coming soon, and a new interactive feature: Pardon Tracker.
Details on updates, and how you can support this project below👇
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Democrats need to learn how to treat real scandals with the same intensity and seriousness that Republicans use on bullshit like Hillary's emails and Hunter's laptop. Non-stop circus. Run shifts outside treasury, someone there 24/7. Make them prove they're not breaking the law.
Warren is the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee. Wyden is the same on the Senate Finance Committee. They need to go to the Treasury building with crews from CNN and NBC and demand to be let in. As soon as they're not, hold a press conference right there and explain what DOGE is doing.
February 2, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Democrats need to learn how to treat real scandals with the same intensity and seriousness that Republicans use on bullshit like Hillary's emails and Hunter's laptop. Non-stop circus. Run shifts outside treasury, someone there 24/7. Make them prove they're not breaking the law.
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I think Denmark just told DJT to GFY.🧐
From: @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social newsletter 01/27
From: @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social newsletter 01/27
January 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I think Denmark just told DJT to GFY.🧐
From: @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social newsletter 01/27
From: @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social newsletter 01/27
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
January 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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“Sycophancy has a kind of momentum. ... The first person to grovel is undignified, but each subsequent act of cowardice allows the next person to acquiesce more easily.”
Capitulation Is Contagious
When fear spreads in a society, powerful people who know better are often the first to show their weakness.
www.theatlantic.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“Sycophancy has a kind of momentum. ... The first person to grovel is undignified, but each subsequent act of cowardice allows the next person to acquiesce more easily.”
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Fauci is the latest in a string of former Trump aides-turned-critics to see their federal protection canceled.
Trump ends Fauci's security detail, says he'd feel no responsibility if he was harmed
Fauci is the latest in a string of former Trump aides-turned-critics to see their federal protection canceled.
www.npr.org
January 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Fauci is the latest in a string of former Trump aides-turned-critics to see their federal protection canceled.
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Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
How is this not a blazing headline on all media sites?! This is not normal. This is not a difference of opinion. The is flat out white supremacy and it has only taken days to get here. What have we become?
These emails, sent across agencies, compel all federal employees to snitch on any colleague whose work might have some vague DEIA inflection. Those who refuse to snitch will be disciplined.
Seems designed to put all workers who aren’t white men under a cloud of suspicion. Truly vile stuff.
Seems designed to put all workers who aren’t white men under a cloud of suspicion. Truly vile stuff.
The acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (the feds' H.R. department) is telling federal employees to rat out their DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility) colleagues by emailing "DEIAtruth@opm.gov."
chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...
chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...
January 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
How is this not a blazing headline on all media sites?! This is not normal. This is not a difference of opinion. The is flat out white supremacy and it has only taken days to get here. What have we become?
Holy shit! I have actually confirmed that letters like this are being sent out. If this doesn't chill you to the bone and make you sick to your stomach, we are lost as a country.
Trump has turned the US government into a nest of melodrama and suspicion—exactly what causes an institution to fall apart.
There will be near-term consequences to creating this sort of toxic environment. Our government will begin to fray at the seams—and soon.
(H/t: @kenklippenstein.bsky.social.)
There will be near-term consequences to creating this sort of toxic environment. Our government will begin to fray at the seams—and soon.
(H/t: @kenklippenstein.bsky.social.)
January 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Holy shit! I have actually confirmed that letters like this are being sent out. If this doesn't chill you to the bone and make you sick to your stomach, we are lost as a country.
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Kindness and compassion are such displays of strength in a world where the easy path is to be jaded and hard.
November 24, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Kindness and compassion are such displays of strength in a world where the easy path is to be jaded and hard.
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I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 12:43 AM
I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
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