Post by Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social that reads: Everything is dumb and terrible, and it's gonna be dumb and terrible for a while. It's important to do what you can to make it less dumb and terrible, and it's important to find a way to make some contentment for yourself in spite of everything being dumb and terrible. January 15, 2025 at 8:10PM Everybody can reply

Dumb and terrible.

#Meme

Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series The documentary was produced by a filmmaker tied to Russian propaganda efforts.

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is murder.

👇👇

Today’s front page of the largest newspaper in Quebec, Canada and they nailed it 🤣🎯

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article) A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

And it begins.

FBI class action lawsuit against the retaliatory purge.

First Amendment
Violation of Due Process
Rights to Privacy

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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

Oklahoma Moves to Require Schools to Ask Students’ Immigration Status The rule would not block undocumented students from enrolling, but it would supply the Trump administration with information to aid immigration enforcement.

Oklahoma education leaders approved a plan on Tuesday to request proof of citizenship or immigration status from families when they enroll their children in public schools. The rule would supply the Trump administration with information to aid immigration enforcement.

You can read the letter for yourself 👉

I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it.
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

Trump says military 'turned on the water' in California. State officials say that's false. Donald Trump said the U.S. military entered California and opened a large flow of water to fight fires, but state officials denied those claims.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Geez; 500 pages of known mammal deaths.

Lindsey Graham Says Trump Was Wrong to Pardon Violent Jan. 6 Rioters The South Carolina Republican told CNN that he “did not like” how Trump pardoned people who “beat up cops,” and suggested he would be open to curtailing the presidential pardon power.

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a key Trump ally, spoke out Sunday against President Trump’s pardoning of violent rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, several of whom were convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers.

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

Senate confirms Kristi Noem as Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security Noem will be in charge of executing one of President Trump's biggest priorities in his second term: cracking down on immigration.

BREAKING NEWS: Noem will be in charge of executing one of President Trump's biggest priorities in his second term: cracking down on immigration.

Amazon’s Fight With Unions Heads to Whole Foods Market Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia are voting on whether to form the first union in the Amazon-owned chain. The company is pushing back.

At a Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia, roughly 300 workers are set to vote on Monday on whether to form the first union in Amazon’s grocery business.

Two Capitol Rioters Go Viral After Refusing Trump Pardon: 'I Broke The Law' This is what integrity looks like.

Taking responsibility for your own actions.

Idaho Lawmakers Want Supreme Court to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Decision A state legislative committee has advanced a resolution asking that the power to regulate marriage be returned to the states.

Breaking News: An Idaho House committee passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to undo the landmark 2015 case that legalized same-sex marriage.

Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI

Amazon
Boeing
Brown-Forman
Caterpillar
Ford
Harley-Davidson
John Deere
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
McDonald’s
Meta
Nissan
Stanley Black & Decker
Target
Tractor Supply
Toyota
Walmart

Support who supports you ✨✊

A Trump Executive Order Sets Out What Could Be a Road Map for Retribution The order is titled “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” but it asserts that the Biden administration might have acted illegally and directs agencies to seek evidence.

President Trump signed an executive order on Monday purporting to end government “weaponization” that calls for investigations of the Biden administration, a possible road map for retribution.

Seattle Judge Blocks Trump’s Executive Order to End Birthright Citizenship A federal judge in Seattle has issued a temporary order halting the president’s plan.

“Judge Coughenour emphatically agreed with the states: ‘I’ve been on the bench for over four decades …. I can’t remember another case where the question presented was as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order. Where were the lawyers when this decision was being made?’”

Amazon Closes Operations in Quebec, Laying off 1,700 Workers Unions had gained a foothold in one of the company’s warehouses in the province, though Amazon would not say if there was a connection.

Amazon on Wednesday said it was closing all of its warehouse and logistics operations in Quebec, the Canadian province where unions gained a foothold in one of its facilities, and would lay off 1,700 employees.

"There was no justice done here... Violent criminals are now being returned to their neighbourhoods."

Former Capitol police officer Winston Pingeon says President Trump's pardoning of January 6 rioters means "political violence has effectively gotten a free pass".

#Newsnight

AOC Explains Why TikTok Thanking 'President Trump' For Restoring App Is So Outrageous She's absolutely right.

Exactly.

Trump's executive order resumes executions, after Biden dialed them back The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this country." Lawyers say the order could be difficult to enforce.

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this country." Lawyers say the order could be difficult to enforce.

SCOTUS Declines to Hear GOP Request in Montana Voter Suppression Lawsuit Read more.

BREAKING: In a victory for voters, the U.S. Supreme Court denies an appeal from Montana officials seeking to reinstate two voter suppression laws. The state wanted SCOTUS to use the radical independent state legislature theory to overturn a decision from the Montana Supreme Court.