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Excellent thread here by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social summing up just how dangerous this current moment is for our country.

Large swaths of (largely Brown & Black) people standing around is not inherently violent. In fact, such a gathering of people is actually the very thing our First Amendment was written to protect: assembly.

This is a reasonable suggestion. Anyone who wants to be a Democratic leader should be willing to be in LA now.

And I don’t mean with a TV crew, or behind a lectern, or giving interviews, but simply to stand with the community and engage in congressional fact-finding.

And to tell any reporter that.

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

Crawford: Today, Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections, and our Supreme Court.. Wisconsin stood up and said that justice does not have a price, our courts are not for sale

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KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.

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Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.

The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.

Call retiring Senators too!

@schumer.senate.gov If Sen. Kelly and others can vote no on this, surely the leader of the opposition party can vote no! (Thank you Mark Kelly!) Sen. Schumer, a yes vote will do far more harm than a temporary gov shutdown. We must use this leverage to check trump/musk and protect [all the things]!

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Watching @pbsnews.org Newshour tonight and a woman in Greenland told the reporter, “We don’t want to be a part of the U.S.A. for obvious reasons, like health care and <big sigh> Trump.” Girl, same.

Courts doing the thing (aka upholding the rule of law) today! ✊🏽

Defendants next argue that the testimony of Acting Director Ezell should not be compelled because to do so would "inappropriately intrude on the workings of a coordinate branch of government and pose avoidable and unnecessary separation-of-powers concerns" Case 3:25-cv-01780-WHA Document 89 Filed 03/10/25 Filed 03/10/25 Page 2 of 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (Dkt. No. 75 at 12). The problem here is that Acting Director Ezell submitted a sworn declaration in support of defendants' position, but now refuses to appear to be cross examined, or to be deposed (despite, it should be added, government counsel's embrace of that very idea during the TRO hearing). See In re Cheney, 544 F.3d 311, 313-314 (D.C. Cir. 2008). The Court's order that he appear or be deposed will not be vacated, nor will the hearing on March 13. If Ezell does not appear in violation of that order, then the Court will have to decide the sanction, including whether or not to strike or limit his sworn declaration.

BREAKING: Judge William Alsup — in the case in federal court in California over the probationary employee firings — rules that Acting OPM Director Chuck Ezell had better show up for a hearing on Thursday (or be deposed) or there will be a sanction.

Dear US colleagues,
In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France.
There are several M$ in the budget.
www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...

We speak today on behalf of the legal profession and its members who seek to live by the oath each took upon admission to the bar. We reject efforts to undermine the courts and the profession. We will not stay silent in the face of efforts to remake the legal profession into something that rewards those who agree with the government and punishes those who do not. Words and actions matter. And the intimidating words and actions we have heard must end. They are designed to cow our country’s judges, our country’s courts and our legal profession. These efforts cannot be sanctioned or normalized. There are clear choices facing our profession. We can choose to remain silent and allow these acts to continue or we can stand for the rule of law and the values we hold dear. We call upon the entire profession, including lawyers who serve in elected positions, to speak out against intimidation. We acknowledge that there are risks to standing up and addressing these important issues. But if the ABA and lawyers do not speak, who will speak for the organized bar? Who will speak for the judiciary? Who will protect our system of justice? If we don’t speak now, when will we speak? The American Bar Association has chosen to stand and speak. Now is the time for all of us to speak with one voice. We invite you to stand with us.

The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

For me, fighting fascism has nothing to do with thinking I’ll win. I don’t fight because there’s an inevitable outcome, I fight because I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t do something.

With Vance and Johnson behind him smirking like boys in the schoolyard playing sidekick to the class bully

Trump directive ‘dangerously’ conflates gender-affirming care with a human rights violation Groups that work to end female genital mutilation and cutting worry about an executive order that co-opts anti-FGM/C laws.

Trump calling gender-affirming care "genital mutilation" takes away from the activists who are actually fighting to stop female genital mutilation and cutting, an extreme form of gender-based violence affecting young girls 19thnews.org/2025/02/trum...

Pure fascism: the put down of the freedom of assembly.

This is authoritarianism in real time.

This is not normal.

Trump Isn't Actually Focusing On Deporting Criminals Trump’s immigration agents seem to be arresting whoever they can get their hands on.

Data from around the country indicates that many people arrested or deported by federal agents under Trump don’t have any serious criminal history at all, let alone any record that would raise fears about public safety. #SOTU2025 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I agree with Donald Trump that an unelected bureaucrat should be fired.

Let’s start with Elon Musk.

Adding to this the long list of debunked, false claims about so-called “fraudulent” Social Security payments. Disinformation tolerated—no, celebrated—from the highest office in this land, delivered in the People’s house. What a stain on this country’s reputation.

Republicans laughing with the president of the US saying no one knows what sedentary migrants are and that no one has heard of Lesotho, disparaging efforts to expand gender equity, voter info, etc… What an embarrassing display of ignorance and arrogance. I’m so sorry for this abomination, world.

It’s been six days since Chief Justice Roberts’s “administrative” stay in the foreign aid cases. That almost certainly means (1) someone’s dissenting; (2) the Court is trying to reach a compromise; or (3) both. Hard to be sure which it is, but the continuing pause is itself producing plenty of harm.

RIP U.S. Department of Education. Education Secretary Linda McMahon introduced herself to department employees with an email calling on them to join her in a “historic final mission” to downsize the agency and shift control to the states.

Trump Guts Enforcement, Greenlights Corporate Crime Spree - Public Citizen WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration has dropped or halted more than one out of five prominent investigations into and…

According to a new report by @publiccitizen.bsky.social, the Trump administration has already shut down at least 20 investigations and cases under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. That's the law that bans US citizens and entities from bribery of foreign officials. www.citizen.org/news/trump-g...

Remember this: Tyranny cannot prevail over people who refuse to succumb to it.

Democrats hold the line. Do NOT agree to fund DOGE.

Donald Trump is not fit to be President of the United States of America. His presence in the Oval Office is a stain on the legacy of this country.