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This is a must-read.
The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...
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I’m just taking such divine pleasure in watching The Wall Street Journal battle the Trump Regime. It doesn’t make up for my existential agony over CBS cancelling Colbert but it helps. Booing JD at Disney helps, too.
Names. Who are they? Seriously, only the guilty hide their identities. They need to come out of the shadows and OWN their identities.
AOC, talking Medicaid cuts — after Rep. Weber chides her for addressing the camera:
“.. There are 13.7 million Americans on the other side of that screen. .. They deserve. To see. What is happening. Here.”
@aoc.bsky.social
This week in the Resistance in Maine.
#MEPolitics #Maine #resistance
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This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.
She’s a Fulbright scholar. She wrote an op-ed in a student newspaper. Guys in masks and unmarked SUVs whisked her away. The crisis is HERE. It’s happening NOW.
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The Milwaukee Bar Association's poll shows that Judge Crawford exceeds expectations on judicial temperament, impartiality, and integrity.
In the poll, Judge Crawford handily leads Schimel in every category, while attorneys raise serious flags about Brad Schimel’s judgment.
Strong stmt today by coalition of 50+ bar orgs-incl the ABA & the NYCityBar (whose board incls BigLaw lawyers)-calling on the profession "including lawyers in private practice from Main Street to Wall Street" to speak out against attacks on firms, judges, etc.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
Screenshot of Times article with headline: "Florida may loosen child labour laws to fill gap left by migrants" The article explains a law has been proposed in Florida to allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts in agriculture & constraction to make up for lost migrant labour. Yes really.
You truly could not make it up.
You could not.
I can't find a spot that lets me convey the size of the crowd, but bodies are packed all the way to the stone building. #FreeRumeysaOzturk
Most of yesterday's intelligence hearing focused on Signal.
Something else not to be missed: this exchange between Sen. King (ME-I) Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence. King asked why the 2025 Annual Threat Assessment did not mention climate change, after doing so for 11 years.
As graduate programs lose spots and labs face shutdowns following Trump administration cuts to science funding, students and researchers are left to figure out what's next.