Why Commanders Don’t Sign NDAs Existing rules and laws applying to military secrecy are sufficient—and asking officers to sign NDAs is deeply inappropriate.

People who have a constitutional duty to be frank and honest with the American people cannot sign NDAs. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-milita...

YouTube video by Katie Phang Top Lawyer QUITS Over Trump’s SHADY Legal Moves

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Presidential Seal Now Accepts Meme Coins When the President moonlights as a crypto pitchman, democracy isn’t just for sale; it’s being auctioned off, one meme coin at a time, under cover of “personal time.”

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3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

In solidarity with Ukraine.

Peace and God-realization come with a price: giving the time necessary to their cultivation. Mahatma Gandhi, one of the great modern spiritual and political reformers, a man of intense activity, nevertheless spent one day a week in complete silence.

Paramahansa Yogananda

When someone, instead of condemning others, tries to help them with love, then the laws of God, being conscious forces, will treat that compassionate person in a similar way... What you measure, will also be measured to you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Every morning, remind yourself that you are God’s child, and that no matter what the difficulties, you have the power to overcome them. Heir to the cosmic power of Spirit, you are more dangerous than danger!

Paramahansa Yogananda

City of Baltimore Sues to Stop Dismantling of Nation’s Financial Watchdog Agency Read more here.

Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit on behalf of the city of Baltimore, Maryland and the economic justice organization Economic Action Maryland Fund on Wednesday to block President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — the nation’s financial watchdog agency.

Day Seven of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: “Yours and WIRED's Reporting is Actually Doing Something” Notes on the Crises pivoted over the weekend into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025 Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4 If you are a current or fo...

EMERGENCY PIECE: My piece, out at 6 am today, is the exclusive source for the information that Marko Elez HAD fully read & write access and his access got downgraded to "insert only" a "read and limited write" access according to the best available understanding

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YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen BREAKING: Federal judge takes action AGAINST Elon Musk

Whew. Fast-moving legal education on how this plays out. Big thanks to Brian Tyler Cohen and Marc Elias.

FEDERAL WORKER AT A VIRGINIA TOWN HALL: “And to top it all off one of Musk’s top lieutenants and his wife and young child have shacked up on the 6th floor.” 🤔

Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2r7Y3V7/

Next step. ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyXo6lR1vD0

Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at...

A 25-year-old DOGE worker named Marko Elez who has admin privileges on Treasury dept systems that control about 95% of payments made by the gov, including Social Security checks, tax refunds and contract payments "has already made extensive changes to the code base for these critical payment system"

Nobody voted for Elon Musk A self-interested, erratic megalomaniac has seized control of the US government.

How many Republican Social Security recipients are ecstatic that Elon's 25-year-old DOGE operative Marko Elez has made changes to Treasury's code base?

From Robert Reich: www.facebook.com/share/p/1ygS...

February 2, 2025 Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually a...

Nebraska friends: please read this essay by @hcrichardson.bsky.social and contact our NE representatives (also included a link to my doc with contact info. and what I am asking them)

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-2...

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I just went to my bank's local branch and asked about how my data would be protected from the breach. This is one way to spread the news to people legitimately and just be calm and informative. I told them to google "Elon Musk treasury access."

More Dangerous than Watergate It’s like every past constitutional crisis rolled into one.

Trump is like Nixon on steroids. The country, and Nixon's own party, did the right thing after Watergate. Are we up to the task now?

Today's Morning Shots, from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social, @martynwendell.bsky.social, @samsteindc.bsky.social, and Ben Parker: www.thebulwark.com/p/more-dange...

Illegal Actions, Missing Consequences Trump is capitalizing on a two-century-long trend of consolidating power in the executive branch.

"Donald Trump has done one salutary service for the nation: He’s obliterated the myth that there is anything politically or morally redeeming about concentrated presidential power." It's taken us two centuries to learn.

New from Patrick Eddington:

What you need to know about Trump’s tariffs and the rest of Trump’s madness The art of the deal, with him as dealer

What you need to know about Trump’s tariffs and the rest of Trump’s madness robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-n...