Allison Lepp

The most sober, respected, you could fairly say establishment normie academic experts are saying it as loudly and plainly as they can: the Constitution is collapsing right now unlike anything in American history.

Thinking about all the folks like this across DC — the honorable government workers whose years of expertise and dedication have been trivialized and vilified by gleeful sociopaths for whom "public service" is inconceivable

I got death threats in 2014 for a blog about how we shouldn’t slut shame Jennifer Lawrence. Fucking grow up and govern.

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One reason the press is being very cautious about talking about a constitutional crisis is that the top Democrats in the country are talking about high grocery prices. Try to imagine it from their perspective: how do they report on a "crisis" that even the opposition doesn't seem to acknowledge?

AOC: The House is governed by a Republican majority. The Senate is governed by a Republican majority, and The White House has a Republican president. And if they want to pass their agenda, Republicans need to conjure up the votes to pass their own bills.

Justice officials tell prosecutors to drop charges against N.Y. Mayor Eric Adams A top Justice official said New York Mayor Eric Adams should not have to face trial given his reelection campaign and the fight against crime and illegal immigration.

This is — literally — unheard of in federal prosecutions.

We can’t prosecute him because he’s a candidate for office? Wow.

It should not be radical for the American Bar Association to say that it supports the rule of law. But right now, it is. Let's see some other orgs taking a similar stance.

Asked another way, do Democratic leaders need a Formal Declaration of Coup before they start behaving appropriately?

Great example of the interpretation of “journalistic objectivity” that sees lobotomizing yourself as preferable to ever drawing any firm conclusions from any amount of evidence

It takes a little more work and creativity to find other images, but it is worth it.

Yes, expose the coup that is underway & the fascist billionaires who are financing it. But you don't need to use their images (which they love to see) to illustrate every story.

Make the people visible instead.

Request to progressive media/bloggers: Please do NOT use photos of #47, Musk, Miller, etc. as your featured image for every story.

We've never shared their images in our feed, nor will we.

If you write about the harm they do, then feature people they impact & who resist. Don't give hate free PR.

I'd rather continue to fund the banking police (who have returned billions to consumers) rather than giving everyone a check for $2.15

Makes perfect sense to me, can’t have climate change if you don’t have a climate.

Art is, by nature, subversive, revolutionary, defiant. Tyrants always try to conquer it. It never works. There’s no one better in the world at hitting the “Do Not Touch” button than artists. The more taboo you make it, the hotter it gets.

It’s important to pay attention to them trying to take over art and artists. It means they are powerful tools for influence.

Use em to fuck this guy up.

it fucking sucks that substack waited until it had enticed a shitton of very good writers, established a very strong network effect, and created a sense of stability for authors in a time of great precarity before going open nazi. i moved, but it cost me & continues to cost me.

And it looks like it’s official. Trump is ignoring court orders.

The rubicon has been crossed.

We call upon our elected representatives to stand with us and to insist upon adherence to the rule of law and the legal processes and procedures that ensure orderly change. The administration cannot choose which law it will follow or ignore. These are not partisan or political issues. These are rule of law and process issues. We cannot afford to remain silent. We must stand up for the values we hold dear. The ABA will do its part and act to protect the rule of law. 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 American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law."

Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so.

www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Immigration Policy Tracking Project A comprehensive and dynamic catalogue of immigration policies issued by the Trump administration since January 2017.

Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/

to recap:
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country

AI OVERVIEW from Google search: “No, water will not freeze at 27 degrees Fahrenheit; water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. So, if the temperature is at 27 degrees Fahrenheit, the water will still be liquid. Explanation: The freezing point of water is 32 degrees Fahrenheit, meaning that water will begin to turn into ice when the temperature drops below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Key point: Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. “

The amazing part isn’t just the wrong answer, but that the explanation it gives is accurate — and it *simply doesn’t know that 27 is a smaller number than 32.*

Billions of dollars spent to make a black box machine that doesn’t know something elementary school kids know.

I’m trying, and I hope other people will try, to hold onto the simple notion that a US president cannot simply declare a federal law that was passed last year and literally upheld this week to be a nullity—even if it’s a not-so-hot law. The Congress is the body that can amend or repeal federal laws.

World Central Kitchen

If you’re looking to support aid efforts that will hopefully now reach and remain safe in Gaza, I highly recommend donating to World Central Kitchen

“World Central Kitchen’s first-ever mobile bakery is now positioned in Gaza…. capable of producing up to 3,000 pitas an hour”

Canadians less likely to travel to U.S. with Trump in office: poll With a lot of uncertainty surrounding Inauguration Day and what president-elect Donald Trump‘s impact on Canadians will be, one thing is for sure: a new poll suggests Canadians — specifically Atlantic...

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...

I have no idea what this even means, unless they are referring to having conquered the local newspaper. That he seems to have conquered for sure.

And while Zuckerberg throws his former COO, Sheryl Sandberg, under the bus, Miller basks in Elon's warm embrace

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

Not much to see here, just Mark Zuckerberg making sure that Stephen Miller, of all people, greenlights Facebook's new hiring policies.

Gift link to this excellent NYT piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

Support for Trump’s Policies Exceeds Support for Trump A new poll found the public is sympathetic to the president-elect’s plans to deport migrants and reduce America’s presence overseas.

Americans are really committed to learning the hard way and even then they won't learn.

Support for Trump’s Policies Exceeds Support for Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...