NBC wants you to trust its coverage of the East Wing demolition even though NBC's parent company helped pay for the destruction.

It looks like they're attaching a fucking Walmart to the White House.

Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings

Office of the President Dear Dartmouth community, As many of you know, Dartmouth was one of nine universities asked by the White House to give feedback by Oct. 20 on a draft of its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” I am deeply committed to Dartmouth’s academic mission and values and will always defend our fierce independence. You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves. Best, Sian Leah Beilock President

It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

Neil Young started his Farm Aid set with his anti-Trump fascism in the White House song.

That was my view! We must have been in the same section. Amazing night.

On FCC Chair's threat to ABC/Jimmy Kimmel

Executive Order 14149 (Jan. 20, 2025):

Purpose: "The First Amendment ... essential to the success of our Republic..."

Purpose: Stop "coercive pressure" to advance "Government's preferred narrative."

Policy: Ensure no federal officer abridge free speech.

The need to silence your critics only reveals how weak and fragile you are.

Weird right? He used to support the first amendment

Sotomayor rebukes calls to ‘criminalize free speech’ in apparent swipe at Pam Bondi The justice, in public remarks, didn’t name the attorney general, who has come under fire for comments to target people over “hate speech.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to rebuke calls to target “hate speech” in an apparent swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi.

“Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” said Sotomayor.

For those of us in Minnesota, this is even more painful.

Kavanaugh: Under this Court's precedents, not to mention common sense, those circumstances taken together can constitute at least reasonable suspicion of illegal presence in the United States. Importantly, reasonable suspicion means only that immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status. If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter. Only if the person is illegally in the United States may the stop lead to further immigration proceedings.

Among myriad problems with this ruling, can we pause to appreciate the childlike naïveté exhibited by Cavanaugh on the barely-worth-mentioning inconvenience of being detained and interogated by ICE? We are approaching Plessy levels of obtuseness, or feigned obtuseness.

SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.

Olympic Museum - Olympic Museum in Lausanne - Exhibition, Restaurant (TOM Café), souvenir shop Everything you need to know about the Olympic Museum: calendar of exhibitions, opening hours, entrance fee, Olympic Museum Restaurant, and more.

The Olympic Museum in Lausanne. www.olympics.com/museum

America, meet your actual AUTOPENS

TASK FOR TODAY:

Do one thing to improve the day of another person. I recommend choosing a person in one of these categories of people being targeted:

- civil servant
- veteran
- immigrant
- medically vulnerable
- undernourished
- underrepresented

Share here (if appropriate) to promote positivity!

Are we starting a pool?

Opinion | What the University of Virginia Should Have Done The university should have stood up to the Justice Department.

“Instead of presenting facts and law, the board waved the white flag of surrender,” writes Timothy Heaphy, the former university counsel for the University of Virginia. The resignation of Jim Ryan, the university president, “is a victory for intimidation and fear over the rule of law.”

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."

Members of Congress must serve their constituents, not their own financial interests. We need a stock trading ban on Congress, and I cosponsored legislation to do it.

BREAKNG: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from ending "temporary protected status" for 350,000 Venezuelan nationals — which was slated to expire next week.

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Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary.

I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

DeWine’s legacy = destroying Ohio’s public education and higher ed at a breathtaking pace.

Played golf for three days.

What if the answer is played golf 3 days?

Here’s a description of the rejected ad. Does anyone have the actual copy? It should be disseminated widely.

So we are worried about protecting women in sports, but we don’t want to pay them the same. Thanks Trump, very on-brand.

Science is important. DOG-E is being irresponsible with haunting and slowing important scientific research. Please stop the madness.

YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer Don Beyer Speaks About Trump's NSF Censorship on the House Floor

The Trump Administration's list of censored scientific terms that get NSF grant proposals flagged contains "women” and “female”, but no mention of “men” or “male.” There is “black” and “indigenous” on this list, but no “white.” The only identity not censored is mine.
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