Chris Bushnell

Los Angeles Unified School District
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.

TEXT: There is never a wrong time to stand up for what is right. For our professional family, today is the next day. We must all stand for what is right. No more threats against judges, lawyers, law firms and bar associations. No more disregard for the rule of law and due process.

As attacks on judges, lawyers and the legal profession intensify, ABA President William R. Bay calls on the profession to stand up and speak out for the rule of law. Read his full column in the ABA Journal: www.abajournal.com/magazine/art...

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT:      Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court Lawyers

I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy.

Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Cuyahoga River burning from pollution, 1969.

Cuyahoga River today, after 56 years of restoration and clean-up.

Left: Cleveland's burning river, before the EPA. Right: The burning river today, after the EPA.

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Call For Action!

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#StandWithUkraine! 🇺🇦

Rally for #Ukraine in #Cleveland 

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Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.

Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.

We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

Bringing Black Studies to Black People Dr. Adam Banks flies from the Bay Area to Cleveland most weekends to teach. Black studies in a neighborhood cafe.

I really encourage you to read this. It’s so good and important.

wordinblack.com/2025/02/brin...

Democrats: Empty libraries, gymnasiums, lecture halls, anywhere. Book the space and dare these pathetic House Republicans to show their faces.

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@washingtonpost.com ..really feeling good about my decision to cancel my subscription this month. I held off because of the argument that it would be harming good journalism, more than harming the pocketbook of Bezos, but I don't have faith in the integrity of the paper with him as owner.

This....

Hey @msnbc.com ...you should take a page from the Apple shareholders, not the Fox/Trump playbook. It really is hard to respect you as a news source in this day and age when you start removing all the non-white voices. Shame on you.

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

HUGE mistake @msnbc.com At the very moment you should be supporting independent voices, you cancel @joyannreid.bsky.social and @wagnertonight.msnbc.com. I have relied on MSNBC since 2016 to cut through the noise and provide information. I think we're breaking up...It's not me, it's you.

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

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The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Democracy Playbook 2025 Norm Eisen and Jonathan Katz provide actionable steps for democratic actors in the U.S. and globally to strengthen democratic institutions and resist illiberal forces.

We're seeing a level of executive overreach that is unprecedented in the US

But other countries have defeated autocratic forces before—& Americans can learn from their successes

We outlined a pro-democracy blueprint👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

Some pro-science/pro-democracy philanthropists need to quickly fund a way to preserve and make public all the valuable data and scholarship that is being deleted from federal websites. The current administration is trying to delete truth and substitute their own narrative. We can't let them do that

This is why you generally shouldn’t put people without fully developed pre frontal cortexes and without wisdom in such vital positions.

I was thinking....there are going to be a lot of lawyers who are displaced in these federal govt. terminations. Hmm...pissed off lawyers sensing injustice around them with lots of time and legal research and writing skills at their disposal...this should be interesting.

And what will Congress do to stop this??? We need you to act

@kenmartin.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov Democratic leadership...You MUST ACT NOW!! Constitutional crisis does not begin to describe what is happening. Congress MUST act in its role as a check to this massive overreach by executive branch and non-government forces.