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A strong statement from Sen. Thom Tillis.
September 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A strong statement from Sen. Thom Tillis.
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June 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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ACLU’s Know Your Rights library has great resources for people planning to protest this weekend:
www.aclu.org/know-yo...
Stopped by Police: www.aclu.org/know-yo...
Protestors’ Rights: www.aclu.org/know-yo...
Be safe out there.
www.aclu.org/know-yo...
Stopped by Police: www.aclu.org/know-yo...
Protestors’ Rights: www.aclu.org/know-yo...
Be safe out there.
June 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
ACLU’s Know Your Rights library has great resources for people planning to protest this weekend:
www.aclu.org/know-yo...
Stopped by Police: www.aclu.org/know-yo...
Protestors’ Rights: www.aclu.org/know-yo...
Be safe out there.
www.aclu.org/know-yo...
Stopped by Police: www.aclu.org/know-yo...
Protestors’ Rights: www.aclu.org/know-yo...
Be safe out there.
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What happened to Senator Padilla is not homeland security. This is homeland fascism. This is homeland authoritarianism.
June 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
What happened to Senator Padilla is not homeland security. This is homeland fascism. This is homeland authoritarianism.
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Now that Trump has openly admitted he could bring back Abrego Garcia whenever he wants, his lawyer tells me he will use discovery to determine which officials are advising Trump to defy the Supreme Court.
New piece from me with lots of fresh reporting on this case:
newrepublic.com/article/1948...
New piece from me with lots of fresh reporting on this case:
newrepublic.com/article/1948...
How Trump Accidentally Sabotaged His Own Case Against Abrego Garcia
Trump has now admitted twice that he could bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home, but says his lawyers are telling him not to. This was a very dumb move—and also a very revealing one.
newrepublic.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Now that Trump has openly admitted he could bring back Abrego Garcia whenever he wants, his lawyer tells me he will use discovery to determine which officials are advising Trump to defy the Supreme Court.
New piece from me with lots of fresh reporting on this case:
newrepublic.com/article/1948...
New piece from me with lots of fresh reporting on this case:
newrepublic.com/article/1948...
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Congrats again to John Thune, Thom Tillis, Lindsey Graham, Charles Grassley, & the deeply (un)serious "defense hawk" Tom Cotton (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).
whoever could've predicted putting someone so clearly unqualified in charge of the largest org in the world would end badly
The Pentagon is in "total chaos" and Pete Hegseth is unlikely to remain in his role, according to its former top spokesperson, who painted a scene of dysfunction, backstabbing and missteps at the highest levels of the department.
"The building is in disarray." www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
"The building is in disarray." www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Congrats again to John Thune, Thom Tillis, Lindsey Graham, Charles Grassley, & the deeply (un)serious "defense hawk" Tom Cotton (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).
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Hey, John Roberts? The White House liaison to DHS is saying that you have no understanding of law and its proper function and role.
April 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hey, John Roberts? The White House liaison to DHS is saying that you have no understanding of law and its proper function and role.
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It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.
April 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.
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Where do u sign up for the War Alerts?
March 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Where do u sign up for the War Alerts?
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Thom Tillis casting the deciding vote to confirm Hegseth, and his shameful silence yesterday, should be a major issue in the 2026 NC Senate race.
March 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Thom Tillis casting the deciding vote to confirm Hegseth, and his shameful silence yesterday, should be a major issue in the 2026 NC Senate race.
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From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
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It's very reasonable for normal, upstanding Americans to make clear that they won't stand for unAmerican trash like JD Vance. Everyone has their limits.
🚨 BREAKING: After torpedoing yesterday’s meeting with Zelensky, JD Vance fled to Vermont for vacation—only to be met by hundreds of furious protesters.
Couldn’t have happened to a better guy!
Couldn’t have happened to a better guy!
March 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It's very reasonable for normal, upstanding Americans to make clear that they won't stand for unAmerican trash like JD Vance. Everyone has their limits.
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However much you hate the New York Times, it isn't enough
March 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
However much you hate the New York Times, it isn't enough
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“Run government like a startup,” says a guy who cannot competently run either a government or a startup.
this is even dumber than the "de-duplication" post
March 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
“Run government like a startup,” says a guy who cannot competently run either a government or a startup.
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Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now sitting in a Georgia warehouse.
Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1921...
Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1921...
Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie
We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.
newrepublic.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now sitting in a Georgia warehouse.
Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1921...
Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1921...
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Musk’s hackers burglarized "a vast trove of information about the entire federal workforce” on OPM computers even as Trump was being sworn in — that is "hours before Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was officially created by an executive order.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside DOGE’s Clash With the Federal Workforce
With a surprise incursion in the first minutes of the Trump presidency, Elon Musk’s programmers seized control of a key personnel agency; ‘rogue bureaucrats’ fight back.
www.wsj.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Musk’s hackers burglarized "a vast trove of information about the entire federal workforce” on OPM computers even as Trump was being sworn in — that is "hours before Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was officially created by an executive order.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Again, folks seem not to grasp how much this is a total collapse of the Constitutional order. A random private citizen is running the "Cabinet" meeting of POTUS & the Principal Officers of the Executive Departments, & going around unplugging large portions of the government. And we're all just 🤷♂️
This man is barely even a formal government employee, let alone elected or Senate-confirmed. A total failure of the Constitutional order, just broadcast & normalized by every major media outlet.
February 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Elon Musk has fired an estimated nearly 6,000 Veterans from their federal jobs, including many who are disabled.
In Trump's America, the world's richest man gets to kick thousands of our nation's heroes to the curb. punchbowl.news/article/wash...
In Trump's America, the world's richest man gets to kick thousands of our nation's heroes to the curb. punchbowl.news/article/wash...
Thousands of veterans likely fired under DOGE
Democrats estimate that nearly 6,000 veterans may have already been fired from their federal jobs as part of the DOGE initiative run by Elon Musk.
punchbowl.news
February 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Elon Musk has fired an estimated nearly 6,000 Veterans from their federal jobs, including many who are disabled.
In Trump's America, the world's richest man gets to kick thousands of our nation's heroes to the curb. punchbowl.news/article/wash...
In Trump's America, the world's richest man gets to kick thousands of our nation's heroes to the curb. punchbowl.news/article/wash...
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This new EO is a doozy, clearly written to test the constitutionality of independent agencies at the SCt. It purports to effectively bring all independent agencies - including the Fed Election Cmsn and the Fed (in part) under presidential control. Irreconcilable w/existing law full stop. /1
ATTN: Since the White House only posted the Fact Sheet of his ~only the president and AG can say what the law is~ EO, I moved the email of the actual EO, which was sent to the press list from the Office of Communications, into a PDF and posted it.
NEW: Here is Trump's executive order purporting to end the independence of multi-member head independent agencies. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
February 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This new EO is a doozy, clearly written to test the constitutionality of independent agencies at the SCt. It purports to effectively bring all independent agencies - including the Fed Election Cmsn and the Fed (in part) under presidential control. Irreconcilable w/existing law full stop. /1
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Above quote was from something I wrote this week, anticipating precisely this op-ed.
Law school culture offers disproportionate rewards for coming up with legal justifications for whatever the very wealthy and powerful want to do.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-laws-j...
Law school culture offers disproportionate rewards for coming up with legal justifications for whatever the very wealthy and powerful want to do.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-laws-j...
Are laws just vibes now?
The defunding of university health research is one more example of a pattern of illegality
donmoynihan.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Above quote was from something I wrote this week, anticipating precisely this op-ed.
Law school culture offers disproportionate rewards for coming up with legal justifications for whatever the very wealthy and powerful want to do.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-laws-j...
Law school culture offers disproportionate rewards for coming up with legal justifications for whatever the very wealthy and powerful want to do.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-laws-j...
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them
1/N Inequality in college graduation rates
Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education
www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...
1/N Inequality in college graduation rates
Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education
www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...
February 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them
1/N Inequality in college graduation rates
Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education
www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...
1/N Inequality in college graduation rates
Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education
www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...
An excellent primer on what Texas vs. Beccera will really do and how the states involved aren’t being clear about what they are really asking for. @realsharonmcmahon.bsky.social www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2...
TX v Becerra = @sharonsaysso
See Instagram 'TX v Becerra' highlights from SHARON McMAHON (@sharonsaysso)
www.instagram.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
An excellent primer on what Texas vs. Beccera will really do and how the states involved aren’t being clear about what they are really asking for. @realsharonmcmahon.bsky.social www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2...
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the thing about the civil rights movement is that they weren't a mass movement, not really. the freedom rides and the freedom summer were a few thousand people. but they understood that despite lacking all formal power, they could create confrontations that advanced their narrative.
it worked.
it worked.
“We live in an era where the tactical aspects of resistance are studied intensively, even as they become increasingly disconnected from effective strategy.” www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...
How To Win A Rigged Game
The Civil Rights Movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
the thing about the civil rights movement is that they weren't a mass movement, not really. the freedom rides and the freedom summer were a few thousand people. but they understood that despite lacking all formal power, they could create confrontations that advanced their narrative.
it worked.
it worked.