Ruth Sternglantz

So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Just because he's acting like he's never leaving is no reason for you to act like he's never leaving.

He is literally not paying for it.

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I've thought about this a ton over the years. It's become clear that the *primary rhetorical strategy* of reactionaries is to manipulate liberals by appealing to liberal values (free speech, good faith) that they do not share. It works, again & again & again & again.

Exclusive | Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump’s Signature Revealed Lawyers for Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book.

House Democrats fought to bring this sickening letter into the light while Trump and MAGA mouthpieces assured us it did not exist. Trump even sued the Wall Street Journal for reporting on it!

We can't trust a word MAGA says. Release the full Epstein file NOW!

I wrote about this, oh, yes, I did. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru...

I cannot wait for Vance and Miller and Hegseth to get everything that's coming to them.

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law.

May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’ Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent It was a sharp rebuke to the prosecutors who were assigned to bring charges against those arrested after President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents to Washington.

Jeanine Pirro is such a failure when forced to work in the courts and not just on TV that she *cannot* indict a ham sandwich. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.

Your father was such a good guy. I feel like I knew him through you. May his memory be a blessing and may your good memories of him comfort you. Hugs, Lisa.

Are You Laughing Yet? Everyone can say exactly what they want, free of the fear of censorship, except by the government.

comedy is legal again, folks!

I had such a wonderful time at the @goldencrownls.bsky.social annual conference in Albany. I got to teach a workshop, talk editing on a panel, and most of all spend time with people I love. We are going to take care of each other and we are going to keep fighting.

Yeah, Democracy was rough. Not having neighbors rounded up & sent to concentration camps, not wasting $200 mn on a futile bombing raid, not forcing the military to put on a parade for his birthday, not kicking millions off healthcare so oligarchs could pay less tax, not killing cancer research ..

Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone.

A breakthrough preventive drug that offers total protection from HIV was to be rolled out across parts of Africa this year. But the Trump administration’s foreign aid cuts derailed those plans.

I’ll say this and then I’m gonna step back b/c 2026 IS THE ONLY NATIONAL ELECTION THAT’S IMPORTANT NOW.
No Dem presidential candidate wins w/o high Black turnout & vote.
So stop making it like Black voters are expendable or that you can serve up any candidate chosen by Pelosi, Clooney or MSM & win.

More than 9,000 American service members are buried at Normandy, where they died to protect democracy. We owe not just gratitude, but eternal vigilance to them and all who have sacrificed their lives for our country. #MemorialDay

Chris Murphy: "Let's be clear what this trip is all about. This is President Trump's corruption tour of the Middle East. He is going to the gulf to collect tribute. What's happening here is an extraordinary level of corruption. We shouldn't pretend this is business as usual."

Ugh - they're increasing your teaching load too?

The Trump administration has begun firing at least some of former President Joseph R. Biden Jr's appointees to the board that oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, including Douglas Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris, and other senior Biden White House officials. "Today, I was informed of my removal from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council," Mr. Emhoff said in a statement on Tuesday. "Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized. To turn one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue is dangerous - and it dishonors the memory of six million Jews murdered by Nazis that this museum was created to preserve."

Deeply disturbing and unprecedented politicization of the Holocaust Museum by Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...

I am not attending parties with the White House tonight. If you want someone that mingles with Trump officials as if we are all part of a DC club, I'm not your guy.

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Or for some of us — protesting is easier than finding an attic to hide in

Bonus 133: Due Process and the Rule of Law Too many Americans don't understand, at a basic level, *why* the Constitution requires due process when the government deprives anyone of their life, liberty, or property.

If a non-citizen has no right to contest their removal because the government claims that they’re in a Venezuelan gang, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *we’re* in a Venezuelan gang?

That’s the most elementary reason why due process matters:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...

My Open Letter to Elon Musk From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” This is my response.

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath.

I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

Defiantly,

ME

Unbelievable turnout in this ruby red district for the Darrell Issa empty chair town hall!

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