@causelawyer.bsky.social
I’ve been working on a case to free a wrongfully convicted man, Douglas Stankewitz, for over 10 years. More info at www.justiceforchief.org
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A new book argues that personal finance is “rigged,” with fees, traps, and complex products that saddle ordinary consumers while the wealthy reap the benefits
Personal-Finance System Is Rigged Against Ordinary People, Two Economists Say
A new book argues that complex and costly products benefit the wealthy at the expense of other consumers.
bloom.bg
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A new book argues that personal finance is “rigged,” with fees, traps, and complex products that saddle ordinary consumers while the wealthy reap the benefits
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TONIGHT: @nickkristof.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
My best Holiday Giving Guide yet, highlighting three superb nonprofits saving and transforming lives abroad and at home. And because of matches from @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social & others, each $1 from you means $4 reaches the nonprofits. Join in! Spread the word. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | Gifts That Save Lives
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
TONIGHT: @nickkristof.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
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At Saturday's No Kings protest in Brighton, a Rochester suburb, I said to a wealthy business owner "glad to see the capitalists are here protesting."
His reply: "There is no capitalism without freedom."
Exactly correct!
Spread his insight, please.
His reply: "There is no capitalism without freedom."
Exactly correct!
Spread his insight, please.
October 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
At Saturday's No Kings protest in Brighton, a Rochester suburb, I said to a wealthy business owner "glad to see the capitalists are here protesting."
His reply: "There is no capitalism without freedom."
Exactly correct!
Spread his insight, please.
His reply: "There is no capitalism without freedom."
Exactly correct!
Spread his insight, please.
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Everyone should read this. Because every word needed to be said. (gift article). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Everyone should read this. Because every word needed to be said. (gift article). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
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September 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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If you or someone you know wants to work at the leading digital news platform covering voting rights, elections, and the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy standpoint — now is your chance!
Open positions:
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🎥 Video Editor
📱 Social Media Specialist
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If you or someone you know wants to work at the leading digital news platform covering voting rights, elections, and the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy standpoint — now is your chance!
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JUST IN: Blistering ruling by Judge Ho on ICE arrests in immigration court. He says the Trump administration has turned attendance at immigration court proceedings into a game of "detention roulette" that violates due process.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
August 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
JUST IN: Blistering ruling by Judge Ho on ICE arrests in immigration court. He says the Trump administration has turned attendance at immigration court proceedings into a game of "detention roulette" that violates due process.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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This Saturday, nationwide “Fight the Trump Takeover” protests will take place with 50 rallies across 20 states to oppose Republican-led redistricting efforts in Texas. “Fight the Trump Takeover” is coordinated by Texas for ALL(@texasforall.bsky.social), the day of action pushes back against
August 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This Saturday, nationwide “Fight the Trump Takeover” protests will take place with 50 rallies across 20 states to oppose Republican-led redistricting efforts in Texas. “Fight the Trump Takeover” is coordinated by Texas for ALL(@texasforall.bsky.social), the day of action pushes back against
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EXCLUSIVE EXTENDED INTERVIEW: “I see my reflection in their pain, because it’s my own,” Narciso Barranco, the father of three Marines violently detained while landscaping, told me about the men he met in ICE detention for my first assignment as MSNBC senior national and political correspondent.
'Don’t separate families': Soboroff speaks with father of Marines, detained by ICE | MSNBC EXCLUSIVE
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtu.be
August 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
EXCLUSIVE EXTENDED INTERVIEW: “I see my reflection in their pain, because it’s my own,” Narciso Barranco, the father of three Marines violently detained while landscaping, told me about the men he met in ICE detention for my first assignment as MSNBC senior national and political correspondent.
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It drives Jonathan Turley crazy when I remind everyone that he is just Mike Lindell with tenure. So, please make sure not to amplify this message.👇
Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure.
Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure.
August 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It drives Jonathan Turley crazy when I remind everyone that he is just Mike Lindell with tenure. So, please make sure not to amplify this message.👇
Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure.
Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure.
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Texas Democrats are standing up in the face of arrest and even expulsion.
Their courage must be amplified around the world.
Repost if you stand with them.
Their courage must be amplified around the world.
Repost if you stand with them.
August 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Texas Democrats are standing up in the face of arrest and even expulsion.
Their courage must be amplified around the world.
Repost if you stand with them.
Their courage must be amplified around the world.
Repost if you stand with them.
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This is serious. Very serious.
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
www.texasobserver.org
July 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This is serious. Very serious.
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The 35 richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $2.5 billion.
They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich.
Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.
They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich.
Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.
June 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The 35 richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $2.5 billion.
They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich.
Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.
They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich.
Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.
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The VA can now deny service to veterans if they are unmarried or registered as Democrats, the British newspaper The Guardian reports, citing a memo it obtained.
It will be interesting to see how much, if any, coverage this gets in major American news outlets. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It will be interesting to see how much, if any, coverage this gets in major American news outlets. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
www.theguardian.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The VA can now deny service to veterans if they are unmarried or registered as Democrats, the British newspaper The Guardian reports, citing a memo it obtained.
It will be interesting to see how much, if any, coverage this gets in major American news outlets. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It will be interesting to see how much, if any, coverage this gets in major American news outlets. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time
June 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time
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Big update! The city of Glendale has officially TERMINATED its contract with ICE. www.glendaleca.gov/Home/Compone...
June 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Big update! The city of Glendale has officially TERMINATED its contract with ICE. www.glendaleca.gov/Home/Compone...
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Every Republican Senator who votes for the budget bill should be voted out of office. Repost if you agree.
June 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Every Republican Senator who votes for the budget bill should be voted out of office. Repost if you agree.
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Odd that those criticizing @gtconway.bsky.social for endorsing Diane Seltzer because he isn't a member of the DC Bar, ignore the fact that I have as well and I am a member.
Vote Diane Seltzer for DC Bar president.
Vote Diane Seltzer for DC Bar president.
If you are a member of the DC Bar, please watch this video and VOTE for Diane Seltzer for DC Bar president.
If you are not a member, please share with others who are.
If you are not a member, please share with others who are.
May 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Odd that those criticizing @gtconway.bsky.social for endorsing Diane Seltzer because he isn't a member of the DC Bar, ignore the fact that I have as well and I am a member.
Vote Diane Seltzer for DC Bar president.
Vote Diane Seltzer for DC Bar president.
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Between 2021 and 2023, California repurposed $13m toward resentencing incarcerated people with lengthy sentences. According to RAND Corporation, their new study suggests that this initiative is both socially beneficial and profitable.
California’s Resentencing Program Shows Financial and Social Benefits, Study Finds | KQED
Of the 50,000 people incarcerated in the nine participating counties, 227 were resentenced and 174 were released, according to a new report from RAND.
www.kqed.org
April 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Between 2021 and 2023, California repurposed $13m toward resentencing incarcerated people with lengthy sentences. According to RAND Corporation, their new study suggests that this initiative is both socially beneficial and profitable.
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are disrupting a breakthrough cancer treatment so they can fund tax cuts for billionaires.
Tell your friends.
Tell your friends.
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are disrupting a breakthrough cancer treatment so they can fund tax cuts for billionaires.
Tell your friends.
Tell your friends.
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
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If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
March 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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I suggest Paul Weiss hire her as its new managing partner.
You can read Cohen's full statement here: www.linkedin.com/posts/rachel...
March 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I suggest Paul Weiss hire her as its new managing partner.
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This is freakishly wrong. Extortion, corruption, submission. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump rescinds executive order after law firm agrees to provide $40m in free services
US president reverses threat to suspend security clearances and cancel federal contracts after meeting with chair of Paul, Weiss
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This is freakishly wrong. Extortion, corruption, submission. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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It’s not the policy….
March 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It’s not the policy….