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Bondi can concoct Rico charges against some group of anti-ICE activists within the two weeks. Not sure how likely this is but if Trump drums up something like this in the next two weeks, I will not be surprised.

What would you do if a gooner was sitting next to your kids on a plane, scrolling through explicit photos on an iPad? I’d tell him to put it away. If he didn’t, I’d take it, report him, and have him removed. This is shameful. Brad Sherman must resign. #CA32 #GoonerBrad #AhujaCongress2026

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

AI generated image of US supreme Court justice John Roberts as a marble chess pawn piece.

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

LA City Council member Blumenfield brought out Tim Gaspar at a Concert in the Park at Warner Center Park. Tim Gaspar sponsored DJ QUIK's performance today at the park. Blumenfield made sure to mention that Gaspar was running to replace him.

This seems like kind of a big story and it's frustrating that we're still getting "it's time for liberals to consider the lab leak" think pieces. The two best pieces of "evidence" come directly from the Trump Administration and have completely fallen apart under scrutiny!

Trump committed a crime today. Interesting to think about whether even the Court that decided Trump v US would create immunity from a federal statute that by its terms applies criminal liability directly to sitting presidents.

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Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.

An attorney of a pro-Palestine protester was stopped & detained by federal agents while returning to US. Amir Makled was questioned at Detroit Metro Airport about his clients and asked to surrender his cellphone.

Targets are on many of our backs. Stay prepared. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Here are the 15 Senators—all Democrats—who voted to stop arming Netanyahu:

Murphy (CT)
Hirono (HI)
Schatz (HI)
Durbin (IL)
Markey (MA)
Warren (MA)
Van Hollen (MD)
Smith (MN)
Kim (NJ)
Heinrich (NM)
Ray Luján (NM)
Merkley (OR)
Kaine (VA)
Sanders (VT)
Welch (VT)

The other 85 voted to fund genocide.

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill.

They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451

I cannot emphasize this enough: no one will remember the shutdown even happened when it’s time to vote next year. One way or the other!

BREAKING: The U.S. Treasury Department has said it would not enforce an anti-money laundering law that obliges millions of business entities to disclose the identities of their real beneficial owners, per Reuters

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EMERGENCY PIECE: Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous. Worse, exclusive new information revealed here explicate how Musk’s actions relate to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

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... uh, if you're a federal employee considering this, let me strongly recommend you retain your own lawyer to prepare an opinion letter to you saying they think you will actually get all of this.

So at least then you can sue the lawyer when Trump & Musk inevitably pull the rug out from under you.

tweet from @hearinladotcom Today is a good day to remember, last year LA City Council approved the mayor's budget to cut $23 million from the LA Fire Dept as well as cuts to many other departments, so they could give the LAPD a $138 million increase even though crime has decreased and there's fewer cops.

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The Hyde Amendment has blocked abortion access for programs like Medicaid (30% of Black women & 24% of Latinas aged 15 to 44) & Indian Health Service(60% of Native ppl) SINCE 1976. A world with Roe was never a world with access for all. Ever.

The Supreme Court Forgot to Scrub the Metadata in Its Trump Ballot Decision. It Reveals Something Important. What happened? Most obviously, the Supreme Court rushed out this opinion and forgot to check the metadata.

Always scrub your metadata!!!
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What if I told you that I’m sexist? Well, I am. Yes. I said it and I mean just that. I have watched my male students squirm in their seats when I’ve asked them to identify and talk about their sexism. There are few men, I suspect, who would say that they are sexists, and even fewer would admit that their sexism actually oppresses women. Certainly not publicly, as I’ve just done. No taking it back now.

To make things worse, I’m an academic, a philosopher. I’m supposed to be one of the “enlightened” ones. Surely, we are beyond being sexists. Some, who may genuinely care about my career, will say that I’m being too risky, that I am jeopardizing my academic livelihood. Some might even say that as a black male, who has already been stereotyped as a “crotch-grabbing, sexual fiend,” that I’m at risk of reinforcing that stereotype. (Let’s be real, that racist stereotype has been around for centuries; it is already part of white America’s imaginary landscape.)

Yet, I refuse to remain a prisoner of the lies that we men like to tell ourselves — that we are beyond the messiness of sexism and male patriarchy, that we don’t oppress women. Let me clarify. This doesn’t mean that I intentionally hate women or that I desire to oppress them. It means that despite my best intentions, I perpetuate sexism every day of my life. Please don’t take this as a confession for which I’m seeking forgiveness. Confessions can be easy, especially when we know that forgiveness is immediately forthcoming.

As a sexist, I have failed women. I have failed to speak out when I should have. I have failed to engage critically and extensively their pain and suffering in my writing. I have failed to transcend the rigidity of gender roles in my own life. I have failed to challenge those poisonous assumptions that women are “inferior” to men or to speak out loudly in the company of male philosophers who believe that feminist philosophy is just a nonphilosophical fad. I have been complicit with, and have allowed myself to be seduced by, a country that makes billions of dollars from sexually objectifying women, from pornography, commercials, video games, to Hollywood movies. I am not innocent.

Alright cis-dudes, and by cis-dudes, I also mean queer cis-dudes as well, here is the philosophical justification why you should accept the L of being lumped in with “all men.”

But first, some necessary reading from George Yancy.

We don’t deserve the consequences, but Biden deserves to lose

The entire piece is just a bunch of tedious ligitation of terms used by activists. Whether or not Israel is *technically* white supremacist or *legally* committing genocide isn't relevant to the obvious fact that it is committing mass atrocities and needs to stop.

It is our loss that Aaron Bushnell is no longer with us | Moira Donegan A person of such profound commitment and depth of feeling could be much more useful to the world alive than dead

An insightful and heartbreaking piece by @moiradonegan.bsky.social. Please read.
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In 1965 Norman Morrison set himself on fire outside the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War. His 1 year old daughter, Emily, was in his car not far from the scene. 5 Days after Norman's death, a vietnamese poet wrote these words that generations of Vietnamese children have now learned by heart.