DSMcIntosh
@dsmcintosh.bsky.social
Boston-based consultant, teacher, rower, runner, grandfather, and liberal 🏳️🌈
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DOGE will have serious consequences—but as an effort to reduce federal spending, Elon Musk’s project is laughable, @jessicabriedl.bsky.social writes.
DOGE Was Never About Saving Money
If you thought Elon Musk was really trying to cut costs, you weren't in on the joke.
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May 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
DOGE will have serious consequences—but as an effort to reduce federal spending, Elon Musk’s project is laughable, @jessicabriedl.bsky.social writes.
If JD Vance ever goes back to the town where we both grew up, my sister Dorothy would like to have a few words with him.
April 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
If JD Vance ever goes back to the town where we both grew up, my sister Dorothy would like to have a few words with him.
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“Federal courts can’t tell the executive branch what to do, but they can tell it what it can’t do, and they can provide powerful incentives for the executive branch to choose to take specific steps on its own,” Stephen I. Vladeck writes:
What the Courts Can Still Do to Constrain Trump
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation case is a test for the rule of law.
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April 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“Federal courts can’t tell the executive branch what to do, but they can tell it what it can’t do, and they can provide powerful incentives for the executive branch to choose to take specific steps on its own,” Stephen I. Vladeck writes:
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This letter from the Harvard president bows to the fiction that the attack on higher education is about antisemitism
April 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This letter from the Harvard president bows to the fiction that the attack on higher education is about antisemitism
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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he is SOOOOO good at this
March 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
he is SOOOOO good at this
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shouldn't there be a special counsel??
OH. MY. GOD. Shouldn't heads roll for this? CLOWNS. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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 5:52 PM
shouldn't there be a special counsel??