Often when I warned about this attack, people couldn’t comprehend it because it harms the GOP and their supporters.

You never understood: they don’t think dollars are “real.” Do you get it now? This is an effort to kill the dollar and replace it with “hard” currency.

What I want to know is: which non-rich voters who voted for the GOP feel like these policies are working for them? Who is actually feeling better off? (Again, ignoring the rich who profit off of this shit)

In 17th century England they did a whole-ass revolution when the executive started issuing taxes without legislative approval and arbitrarily locking people up without due process

How Crypto Bills Could Hand Big Tech the Keys to Banking Stablecoin bills are moving through Congress. Their biggest beneficiaries could be Big Tech, experts warn.

You may think you don’t need to pay attention to pending stablecoin legislation, but if you’re concerned about increasing power of Zuck, Musk, and Bezos, don’t take your eye off the ball on this one.

time.com/7274507/stab...

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

Great news: Judge Cote just denied the government's motion to dismiss our complaint on behalf of federal employees whose information was disclosed to DOGE. A win across the board

lexlumina-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...

Don’t Believe Data Brokers Saying Data Deletion Is Snake Oil <p>A recent op-ed claiming authorized agent providers are selling “privacy snake oil” is misleading. and shift the focus away from harmful data brokers, EPIC Scholar in Residence Justin Sherman argues...

New for @epic.org: a recent industry op-ed claimed some data deletion firms are “selling privacy snake oil” and that “it needs to stop.”

I break down the misleading arguments here. Let’s not forget which companies are collecting and selling your data without your consent:

epic.org/dont-believe...

Never in my decade of filing FOIA requests have I gotten a response like this. Customs and Border Protection denies my request, saying "Due to law enforcement sensitivities we can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records." No exemption cited, no name of who wrote this.

We Need an Interventionist Mindset | TechPolicy.Press To stabilize and enhance democratic practices, danah boyd advocates for an interventionist approach to AI regulation.

Both technologists & policymakers should shift their approach to AI from "solutions" to "interventions," D&S founder @zephoria.bsky.social argues. “It behooves us to resist closure, eschew determinism, & eradicate 'solution' from our discussions of technology.” www.techpolicy.press/we-need-an-i...

THIS

The fascists running our government are now targeting legal clinics for representing causes they disagree with

drive.google.com/file/d/19ub0...

Trump’s Crypto Venture Introduces a Stablecoin World Liberty Financial, the crypto business created by President Trump and his sons, unveiled a cryptocurrency called a stablecoin, furthering his ties to an industry his administration regulates.

This is Donald Trump’s latest grift to enrich himself.

Congress should step up and fix the current stablecoin bill moving through the Senate that will make it easier for Trump – and Elon Musk – to take control of your money.

Lex Lumina’s Statement on the President’s Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms — Lex Lumina PLLC The President’s recent attacks on lawyers and law firms for daring to have represented the President’s personal enemies or causes that he and his supporters dislike are dangerous threats to the rule o...

While Big Law cowers in fear of Trump, boutique firms are stepping up to condemn his unprecedented attack on the rule of law. Here is Lex Lumina's statement

www.lex-lumina.com/newsroom/lex...

The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?

Volunteers from ‪@datarescueproject.org have come together to save as much of the nation’s public data as possible, before it is gone for good. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

If law schools don’t stand up for the law and train students to do so, it’s a step on the road to “the law is whatever powerful people say it is.”

The Imperative of Solidarity in Response to Assaults on Legal Services, Universities, and Independent Media Author argues that Trump administration's unconstitutional actions against universities, law firms, and independent media requires collective responses.

An important statement on the critical need for collective response to the Trump regime's attack on democracy, and specifically to its targeting of academics and universities, lawyers and law firms, journalists and media outlets. www.justsecurity.org/109439/colle...

Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

Politicizing Science: The National Institutes for Health A merit-based and competitive process will be politicized - or eliminated

New, from @pamherd.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern:
NIH grants are being screened for forbidden words.
Breakthrough techniques (like mRNA) are now off the table.
Do you want scientific funding awards to be determined by political appointees or scientists?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...

How A.I. Is Changing the Way the World Builds Computers Tech companies are revamping computing — from how tiny chips are built to the way they are arranged, cooled and powered — in the race to build artificial intelligence that recreates the human brain.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems...

www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/t...

It is a MAGICAL GIFT FROM THE GODS that the judge they're going full Mussolini on is Kavanaugh's law school roommate who's a W appointee and a two-time Roberts appointee to super-sensitive courts. Please accept that gift.

Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump » Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...

So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

An entirely reasonable and rational response by non-US scientists (and others) will be to stop coming to the US. These sorts of actions will turn the US into a pariah state, where embassies routinely offer warnings about traveler safety.
bsky.app/profile/drje...

What horseshit from DOD that they "mistakenly" deleted pages on the Navajo Code Talkers, black Medal of Honor recipients, Jackie Robinson, and more. They labeled them DEI and deleted them and then got caught and now they're scrambling. Nobody changes a URL by mistake. Constant lies.

Stop pretending that the authoritarian repression is BECAUSE of the problems in {higher education, the media, the law, government, immigration policy, etc.}. This is what authoritarians do. If they didn't focus on these justifications, they'd come up with other ones.

It is one thing to watch a dictator grab power.

It is another to hand it to him.

I’m headed to the Senate floor now.

To cast an emphatic “no.”

Musk Retweets ‘Hitler Didn’t Murder Millions’ Message Amid Ongoing Nazi Controversy Musk and Tesla have faced heightened criticism since the billionaire made a gesture likened to a Nazi salute during an inaugural event in January.

Elon Musk shared a post to his 219 million followers that Hitler didn't murder millions of people. Will the Trump administration search his home, shut down his government contracts, arrest and deport him back to South Africa the way they're going after college students and universities?

Who’s Running the DOGE Wrecking Machine: The World’s Richest Man or a Little-Known Bureaucrat? Insiders tell ProPublica that Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Musk’s top lieutenants really run DOGE. One person who has been in meetings with Gleason described her as having “little to ...

NEW: Insiders tell ProPublica that Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Musk’s top lieutenants really run DOGE.

One person who has been in meetings with Gleason described her as having “little to no actual decision making” responsibilities.

I’m convinced American exceptionalism is a big part of what made us vulnerable to Trump. We’re so used to thinking of ourselves as the Special Freedom Country that a lot of people find it inconceivable we could rapidly collapse into shabby despotism even as they watch it happen.