C. Shilanskis
@shilanskisc.bsky.social
My greatest interest is in the teachings of Neville Goddard. I'm all in for high spiritual principles, not religion at all. I do follow politics and I do have cats but all that is secondary.
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Who can blame them?
May 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Who can blame them?
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“As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls,” Judge Susan Crawford said in her victory speech, “I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.”
April 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
“As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls,” Judge Susan Crawford said in her victory speech, “I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.”
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Trump is deporting people with legal status and no criminal convictions to foreign hellhole’s without due process.
His idiot team is sharing classified attack plans on insecure channels and accidentally including a reporter.
He’s pushing us toward a recession.
He’s threatening to invade allies.
His idiot team is sharing classified attack plans on insecure channels and accidentally including a reporter.
He’s pushing us toward a recession.
He’s threatening to invade allies.
April 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Trump is deporting people with legal status and no criminal convictions to foreign hellhole’s without due process.
His idiot team is sharing classified attack plans on insecure channels and accidentally including a reporter.
He’s pushing us toward a recession.
He’s threatening to invade allies.
His idiot team is sharing classified attack plans on insecure channels and accidentally including a reporter.
He’s pushing us toward a recession.
He’s threatening to invade allies.
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Blatant corruption.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract awarded to Verizon to overhaul a communications system, and awarding the work to Elon Musk's Starlink. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/faa-tar...
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract awarded to Verizon to overhaul a communications system, and awarding the work to Elon Musk's Starlink. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/faa-tar...
FAA targeting Verizon contract in favor of Musk's Starlink, the Washington Post reports
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract awarded to Verizon to overhaul a communications system, and awarding the work to Elon Musk's Starlink, the Washin...
ca.finance.yahoo.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Blatant corruption.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract awarded to Verizon to overhaul a communications system, and awarding the work to Elon Musk's Starlink. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/faa-tar...
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract awarded to Verizon to overhaul a communications system, and awarding the work to Elon Musk's Starlink. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/faa-tar...
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TODAY: A hearing will be held in a lawsuit from USAID employees against Elon Musk and DOGE for unlawfully using extreme power to dismantle agencies and access sensitive information, calling it a “government takeover.”
USAID Workers Sue Elon Musk’s DOGE For Unconstitutional ‘Government Takeover’
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
TODAY: A hearing will be held in a lawsuit from USAID employees against Elon Musk and DOGE for unlawfully using extreme power to dismantle agencies and access sensitive information, calling it a “government takeover.”
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“Warning to Big Law: those who fail to stand up while they can for the rule of law may rue its erosion and regret their silence.” Trump’s petty retribution violates the 1st and 6th amendments, but it still takes guts to ignore his threats and act honorably.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Warning to law firms: Stand up for the rule of law while you can
One by one, Trump is fencing in all his potential opponents. Now he’s sending a clear warning to lawyers to back off.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
“Warning to Big Law: those who fail to stand up while they can for the rule of law may rue its erosion and regret their silence.” Trump’s petty retribution violates the 1st and 6th amendments, but it still takes guts to ignore his threats and act honorably.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.
www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams
Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....
www.commondreams.org
February 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.
www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
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What a crowd at @principlesfirst.bsky.social!
February 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
What a crowd at @principlesfirst.bsky.social!
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YES, we are in our documentary moment! Take your place with us on 3.14 in DC! Demand that this lawless coup end NOW! #NowDC 🇺🇸 🗽➡️ nowmarch.org @janefonda.com @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @markruffalo.bsky.social @johncusack.bsky.social #SAGAwards
February 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
YES, we are in our documentary moment! Take your place with us on 3.14 in DC! Demand that this lawless coup end NOW! #NowDC 🇺🇸 🗽➡️ nowmarch.org @janefonda.com @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @markruffalo.bsky.social @johncusack.bsky.social #SAGAwards
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👏👏👏👏 bravo
Five things I accomplished last week:
1. Sued Musk & DOGE (repeatedly)
2. Got Musk blocked out of Treasury
3. Sued Trump (repeatedly)
4. Helped persuade SCOTUS to leave anti-Trump injunction in place
5. Got booked @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social
Join us at 9 AM ET Sunday morning to discuss!
1. Sued Musk & DOGE (repeatedly)
2. Got Musk blocked out of Treasury
3. Sued Trump (repeatedly)
4. Helped persuade SCOTUS to leave anti-Trump injunction in place
5. Got booked @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social
Join us at 9 AM ET Sunday morning to discuss!
February 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
👏👏👏👏 bravo
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“Remember, I can do whatever I want to whomever I want.”
It sounds like President Trump, to the world. But it was Caligula, to his grandmother.
Megalomaniacs end badly.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...
It sounds like President Trump, to the world. But it was Caligula, to his grandmother.
Megalomaniacs end badly.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...
Opinion | Fail, Caesar!
We can’t let Trump be a cruel emperor.
www.nytimes.com
February 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
“Remember, I can do whatever I want to whomever I want.”
It sounds like President Trump, to the world. But it was Caligula, to his grandmother.
Megalomaniacs end badly.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...
It sounds like President Trump, to the world. But it was Caligula, to his grandmother.
Megalomaniacs end badly.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...
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If you’re a federal employee who got an email from Elon asking what you did last week, reply, “Not as much ketamine as you did, fuckwad”
February 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If you’re a federal employee who got an email from Elon asking what you did last week, reply, “Not as much ketamine as you did, fuckwad”
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“Something incredibly powerful happened Thursday: Integrity, courage and the rule of law stood up tall and proud amid a sea of corruption and cowards.”
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | These prosecutors just created the blueprint for standing up to Trump
The Trump administration ordered the prosecution of New York Mayor Eric Adams to be dropped, so several assistant U.S. attorneys simply quit.
www.msnbc.com
February 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
“Something incredibly powerful happened Thursday: Integrity, courage and the rule of law stood up tall and proud amid a sea of corruption and cowards.”
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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@sifill.bsky.social has this exactly right. Every law student and practicing lawyer should read it and take it to heart
SKEET THREAD: What happened yesterday holds a powerful lesson. We must give it greater attention.
LAWYERS HAVE A CHOICE. To obey the rules of our profession or to degrade our oath by putting politics above our ethical obligations. In early 2021 I wrote this piece. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/o...
LAWYERS HAVE A CHOICE. To obey the rules of our profession or to degrade our oath by putting politics above our ethical obligations. In early 2021 I wrote this piece. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/o...
Opinion | Lawyers Enabled Trump’s Worst Abuses (Gift Article)
The legal profession must reckon with its complicity in Trump’s attack on democracy.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
@sifill.bsky.social has this exactly right. Every law student and practicing lawyer should read it and take it to heart
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We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...
Elon Musk Hollows Government So Trump Can Refill It
From Marc | In more than 30 lawsuits filed against the new administration, the government has not won one on the merits.
www.democracydocket.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...
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@skyeperryman.bsky.social and the team are doing all the work. All I do is live rent free in MAGA's heads.
www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/06/d...
www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/06/d...
Democrats’ Superlawyer Elias Leads Litigation Fighting Trump’s Buyout of Feds
The Marc Elias group Democracy Forward represents federal employee unions in an injunction over the Trump administration’s buyout plan.
www.dailysignal.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:11 AM
@skyeperryman.bsky.social and the team are doing all the work. All I do is live rent free in MAGA's heads.
www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/06/d...
www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/06/d...
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“It has become ever more apparent that, to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain,” Judge Coughenour said.
February 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
“It has become ever more apparent that, to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain,” Judge Coughenour said.
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Newly confirmed OMB Director Russell Vought has strongly implied that his strategy “is to instill fear in the Supreme Court that the presidency is prepared to resort to outright defiance of its decisions.”
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The Trump Executive Orders as “Radical Constitutionalism”
Much more than “test cases” may be at stake in Trump's aggressive claims of presidential authority
executivefunctions.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Newly confirmed OMB Director Russell Vought has strongly implied that his strategy “is to instill fear in the Supreme Court that the presidency is prepared to resort to outright defiance of its decisions.”
executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
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As of now, every one of us must trust all our personal data, and every dollar we’re entitled to receive from the government, to Elon Musk’s unenforceable assurances and those of some faceless guys he’s recruited to do his bidding and expand his riches.
THIS CANNOT STAND.
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THIS CANNOT STAND.
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Treasury defends DOGE's ‘read-only access’ to payments system
The department told lawmakers its efficiency review “is not resulting” in any suspensions of or delays to disbursements.
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February 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
As of now, every one of us must trust all our personal data, and every dollar we’re entitled to receive from the government, to Elon Musk’s unenforceable assurances and those of some faceless guys he’s recruited to do his bidding and expand his riches.
THIS CANNOT STAND.
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THIS CANNOT STAND.
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@nickkristof.bsky.social: The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
@nickkristof.bsky.social: The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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ALERT TO FEDERAL WORKERS: The Thursday “deadline” set by Musk isn’t a thing. Congress hasn’t appropriated the funds to pay you what he promised should you resign by today — nor has Congress authorized anyone to threaten you with losing anything for staying on.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
DOGE broadens sweep of federal agencies, gains access to health payment systems
Associates of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have fanned out across the federal government in recent days, alarming some career employees.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
ALERT TO FEDERAL WORKERS: The Thursday “deadline” set by Musk isn’t a thing. Congress hasn’t appropriated the funds to pay you what he promised should you resign by today — nor has Congress authorized anyone to threaten you with losing anything for staying on.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Senator Chuck Schumer sums it up
February 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Senator Chuck Schumer sums it up
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We can’t let a mega rich dude shut down the main foreign aid program created and funded by Congress just because he doesn’t like it and has our president by the balls
www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.foreign.senate.gov
February 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We can’t let a mega rich dude shut down the main foreign aid program created and funded by Congress just because he doesn’t like it and has our president by the balls
www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Lights On is your fearless home for ACTION. Trump is an illegitimate president, if he even won. We hold ALL elected leaders accountable, because covering for their spineless platitudes WILL NOT SAVE US. We protest. We DO SOMETHING. Join us. #14thNOW #VerifyTheVote www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjpm...
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February 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Lights On is your fearless home for ACTION. Trump is an illegitimate president, if he even won. We hold ALL elected leaders accountable, because covering for their spineless platitudes WILL NOT SAVE US. We protest. We DO SOMETHING. Join us. #14thNOW #VerifyTheVote www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjpm...