Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

Trump orders investigation of two first-term administration aides who criticized him The president signed executive orders targeting Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor, an escalation of his retribution campaign.

“A president ordering investigations of specific individuals whom he considers to be his political enemies is a remarkable breach of the traditional wall of separation between the White House and the Justice Department.”
Trump wants to be a dictator.
We must stop him.

Bad Bunny: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

Bad Bunny’s Tiny Desk Concert on @npr.org: come for the music, stay for anti-colonization messaging 🇵🇷 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuP...

Relevant thread re: online privacy (with links!).

#MOMSky

This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one

The United States has experienced a long rise in anti-trans legislation. Now it's surging. shows 2015-2025

There's something about seeing it visually over time that chills the blood. It's hard to process that when we made the jump from 2022 to 2023, it still wasn't enough to convince people this was serious. Before Trump was re-inaugurated gender-affirming care was banned in more than 50% of the country.

Graphic: "Our Laura Bush Planning grant for $150,000 for 2024-2026 is likely to cease without funding. It would have developed a model five-year strategic plan to restore school librarians to Philadelphia's 218 public schools—only 5 of which currently have any librarians."

"Our Laura Bush Planning grant for $150K for 2024-26 is likely to cease without funding. It would have developed a model five-year strategic plan to restore school librarians to Philadelphia's 218 public schools—only 5 of which currently have any librarians."

www.slj.com/story/Cost-L...

There he is.

Opinion | Democrats Can Stop Trump and Save America The Democratic Party can’t stop America’s spiral into autocracy and oligarchy unless it casts off its stale talking points and reimagines what it stands for.

“You are meant to feel powerless. That is what a strongman wants: to make you feel as if nothing can stop the takeover of your country.”

But we are not helpless — unless we act that way, as too many of us are sadly doing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...

It’s not just impeachments. Republicans are eyeing other ways to rein in federal judges. GOP leaders are seeking a release valve for the fury building over recent court rulings.

House Republicans don’t have the votes to impeach any federal judges.

The reality has prompted GOP hard-liners to back-channel with Trump allies on alternatives they could push across the House floor.

What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!

USPS announces workforce cuts of about 10,000 workers YouTube video by KVUE

-Layoffs through ‘volunteer retirement’
-Shipping costs increase
-30 day notice
-Reduction of services in rural areas
-Closing of post offices in rural communities

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgDV...

Author alert! Pls check, share with friends.

Jeremy and colleagues, Many deals I work on have concepts of conditional notice. This is mine. Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment, which should include at minimum (i) signing on to the firm amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie in its litigation fighting the Trump administration's executive order against it, ii) committing to broad future representation, regardless of whether powerful people view it as adverse to them, (iii) refusal to cooperate with the EEOC's request for personal information of our colleagues clearly targeted at intimidating non-white employees, (iv) public refusal to fire or otherwise force out employees at the Trump administration's directive or implied directive and (v) public commitment to maintenance of affinity groups and related initiatives. This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration on DEl, representation and staffing has forced my hand. We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not continue to work here.

Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email:

"Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."

Thread: the premise of the EOs aimed at Paul Weiss and other law firms is that it’s based on national security concerns. Yet nothing in the “settlement” had anything to do with addressing such concerns. It was extortion pure and simple.

Paul Weiss didn't bend a knee, he bent over.

I'm helping organize nationwide #HandsOffUSPS teach-in events in late April/early May (exact date tbd very soon). We will need folks to #volunteer to host an event in their neighborhood/community. Resources will be provided - we just need people to spread the word & step up to host! Stay tuned! 💌📬

this is a golden age for walking out of your lab with a USB key in your pocket getting on a plane and going to Luxembourg

mikeyshackwriting I saw a post talking about how Terry Pratchett only wrote 400 words a day. how that goal helped him write literally dozens of books before he died. So I reduced my own daily word goal. I went down from 1,000 to 200. With that 800-word wall taken down, I've been writing more. "I won't get on tumbir/watch TV/draw/read until I hit my word goal" used to be something ! said as self-restraint. And when I inevitably couldn't cough up four pages in one sitting. I felt like garbage, and the pleasurable hobbies I had planned on felt like I was cheating myself when I just gave up. Now it's something | say because I just have to finish this scene, just have to round out this conversation, can't stop now, because I'm enjoying myself, I'm having an amazing time writing. Something that hasn't been true of my original works since middle school. And sometimes I think, "Well, two hundred is technically less than four hundred." And I have to stop myself, because - I am writing half as much as Terry Pratchett. Terry f king Pratchett, who not only published regularly up until his death, but published books that were consistently good. And this has also been an immense help as a writer with ADHD, because I don't feel bad when I take a break from writing - two hundred words works up quick, after all. If I take a break at 150, I have a whole day to write 50 more words, and I've rarely written less than 200 words and not felt the need to keep writing because I need to tie up a loose end anyways. Yes, sometimes, I do not produce a single thing worth keeping in those two hundred words. But it's much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all.

"it's much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all."

"despite" is one way to say "in violation of," I guess

This is only going to get worse. Much, much worse.

Screenshot of a press release from the Untied States Institute of Peace, dated March 15th, 2025: DOGE VISIT TO USIP: On the afternoon of Friday, March 14, 2025, several members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), arrived at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) unannounced accompanied by two FBI agents. They were met at the door by the Institute’s outside counsel who informed them of USIP’s private and independent status as a non-executive branch agency. Following that discussion, the DOGE representatives departed. As an independent, non-profit organization established by Congress, USIP remains committed to the cooperation and comity with the Trump Administration it has exhibited in its work with seven administrations since its founding under President Ronald Reagan. This includes ensuring the responsible use of taxpayer funds, aggressively pursuing its ongoing efforts to modernize and make all aspects of its operations more efficient.

All, DOGE tried to visit the United States Institute of Peace with FBI agents (!) and were turned away.

You know what a good call is right now, if you have Republican reps? Asking them how they're okay with the FBI being used like this.

Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside

NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...

The opening of Hair: Unbraiding Identity! Uptown support, Uptown shine, Uptown vibes—it was everything!!!

i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution