Pinky Weitzman

Serious question: have any high-profile evangelical or tradcath leaders spoken publicly about the moral imperative of funding SNAP?

By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23

Bike fest in Brooklyn

Bike fest in Brooklyn

Bike fest in Brooklyn

Bike fest in Brooklyn

I ❤️ NY

Times Square

Today’s NYT spelling bee with letters m o b i l z e

Sam Ezersky understood the assignment for today’s pangram.

State and local officials can take steps now to prepare for federal interference in the midterms.

Canada. Australia. France. Brazil. Germany. The UK. Spain. Romania.

Trump says ‘I don’t know’ when asked if he’s required to uphold Constitution The president also downplayed fears of a recession and spoke of potential successors when his four-year term ends in an NBC interview.

Yes, Presidents do have to uphold the Constitution. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The dream is dead

Call Congress: Reject the SAVE Act The SAVE Act could block millions of American citizens from voting.

🚨 The House will vote on the SAVE Act - a vote suppression bill that could block 21 million American citizens from voting - this morning 🚨

Call your members of Congress and tell them to vote no: secure.brennancenter.org/content/call...

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Don’t dismiss the power of mass protest to rein in an authoritarian leader whose power depends on individuals remaining passive.

A masterclass in public speaking.

The administration's executive order and the SAVE Act could both have the same effect: *blocking millions of eligible U.S. citizens from voting*. Get informed and get involved:

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

Bluff: called. Well done, @theatlantic.com

My feed is increasingly looking like the pre-credit montage of headlines in a post apocalyptic action movie.

History will not look kindly upon this.

This won’t stop at green card holders.

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.

I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

Don’t let the fox guard the henhouse.

While we were sleeping:

A federal judge in New York issued an aggressive order against the DOGE goon squad at the Treasury Department barring them from any and all access to the Bureau of Fiscal Services and ordering them “to immediately destroy” anything they may have downloaded from the systems.

Lawyers Working for Elon Musk’s DOGE Include Former Supreme Court Clerks

The fix continues to be in.
www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Trump’s cronies can’t shut down the Internet Archive. Donate here: archive.org/donate

Federal employees make this country function and keep Americans safe. This administration is putting us all at risk.

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

Talk of rescinding birthright citizenship is just that: Talk.

Presidents can't rescind it, because the Constitution expressly guarantees it. The Constitution's text reflects a basic American principle: Being born here comes with citizenship. Any executive order won't survive the court fights.

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The new president swore to uphold the Constitution, and within minutes, he began to undermine it. Declaring a national emergency at the southern border is an abuse of emergency powers. 1/2

Would that it weren't so 😔

"Audio problems in the rotunda" = incredible array of awkward glances