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I think about this line and another one from Harry Potter, when Dumbledore says “we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy “

Here's why they are dismantling the FDA, NIH, and CDC An honest answer to an honest question

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A LETTER TO HARVARD LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS March 29, 2025 To our students: We are privileged to teach and learn the law with you. We write to you today—in our individual capacities-because we believe that American legal precepts and the institutions designed to uphold them are being severely tested, and many of you have expressed to us your concerns and fears about the present moment. Each of us brings different, sometimes irreconcilable, perspectives to what the law is and should be. Diverse viewpoints are a credit to our school. But we share, and take seriously, a commitment to the rule of law: for people to be equal before it, and for its administration to be impartial. That commitment is foundational to the whole legal profession, and to the special role that lawyers play in our society. As the Model Rules of Professional Conduct provide: "A lawyer is ... an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice." The rule of law is imperiled when government leaders: • single out lawyers and law firms for retribution based on their lawful and ethical representation of clients disfavored by the government, undermining the Sixth Amendment; • threaten law firms and legal clinics for their lawyers' pro bono work or prior government service; • relent on those arbitrary threats based on public acts of submission and outlays of funds for favored causes; and • punish people for lawfully speaking out on matters of public concern. While reasonable people can disagree about the characterization of particular incidents, we are all acutely concerned that severe challenges to the rule of law are taking place, and we strongly condemn any effort to undermine the basic norms we have described. On our own campus and at many other universities, international students have reported fear of imprisonment or deportation for lawful speech and political activism. Whatever we might each think about particular conduct under particular facts,…

From 91 professors at Harvard Law School: a letter to our students.

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Pete Hegseth Blows Into Breathalyzer To Unlock Phone WASHINGTON—Grumbling to himself as he repeatedly dropped the device, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was reportedly blowing into a Breathalyzer Thursday in an attempt to unlock his phone. “Stup...

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Noticed some notable absences. Is this still an on-going thing, more law schools signing?

More from @martinomalley.bsky.social on potential cuts to Social Security: "This cuts into who we are as a people:"

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So good!

TFW your husband’s news agency goes viral. The shares on this article are wild.

In an age of performative cruelty, kindness is punk as fuck. Be punk as fuck.

Punk it up

Bannon is naturally desaturated

This looks like a promo for a 90s buddy comedy.

I am in shock at the stupidity of @gavinnewsom.bsky.social inviting Steve Bannon on his podcast. Many of us on the right sacrificed careers to fight Bannon, and Newsom is trying to make a career and a presidential run by building him up. Unforgivable and insane

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CALL NOW: Tell Senate Democrats to Hold the Line Against the Extreme MAGA Continuing Resolution

House Democrats held strong against the Musk-Takeover Spending Bill Yesterday. We need your help to ensure that the Senate Democrats do the same. Follow the link and script below to make calls. This vote happens TODAY!

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We won’t be in town tomorrow, but we’ll definitely be at the next one, and the one after that, and the one after that, infinity or bust

Maryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD order Strict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month.

“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said.

Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging?

Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

Damn right! Proud of that grunge!

Graphic from United for Medical Research showing that NIH funding produces $2.46 in economic activity for every $1.00 awarded

Graphic from United for Research showing that NIH funding produced over $92B in economic activity in FY 2023

Graphic from United for Research showing that $914M in NIH grants to Florida institutions supported 14,688 jobs and produced $2.78B in economic activity

Cuts to the NIH are a strategy to strangle research universities not “reduce waste”

In a shocking turn of events, academics are now in the cross hairs.

If this cut to indirect costs goes through, universities won't be able to close the gap. Not even close. But they will do what they can. And I expect "less profitable" departments -- humanities, women's studies -- will take big hits, if not get shuttered completely.

That's a feature, not a bug.

Every state legislator and every academic should take a minute to look at this interactive map. Fear factor level: very high.

And now is the time when we see what companies REALLY gots women’s backs,,, the world is watching 👀