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Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.

The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Someone just called in ICE knocking doors in Uptown and within 5 minutes maybe 100 people had arrived. Probably a false alarm but extremely hard to see how ICE operates with this kind of suffocating neighborhood response. Incredible work Minneapolis. ICE, just give up and get out already.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

"That's one hell of act you've got there. What do you call it?"

"The Kakistocrats!"

Where is Ezra Douthglesias & why is he not banging on constantly about how Republicans must do An Abundance of Popularism? 🧐🤷‍♂️

Progressive Caucus Backs Bill To Redirect ICE Money To Affordable Housing

The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...

here we go

So that people love using it, right?

one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true

Congrats again to the well-credentialed & well-connected Northeast Corridor elites who told us that Scott Bessent was a well-qualified & credible Treasury Secretary because he also had the right credentials & elite connections:

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U.S. citizen mistakenly detained by ICE outside Michigan courthouse speaks out Immigrant rights advocates are concerned what happened outside a Michigan courthouse may be part of a larger problem.

“He told agents they had the wrong guy, but they aggressively ordered him to get on the ground. They didn’t allow him to show ID to prove he’s a citizen and instead they grabbed him, put him face down on the pavement, handcuffed him and took out his wallet.”

www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

Marjorie Taylor Greene makes stock market play days before tariffs US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene made hefty trades days before Donald Trump's tariffs announcement tanked the stock market.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

This is funny. And the serious problem with the NYT is it misinforms about reality. Not with inaccuracy so much as emphasis, perspective, and framing. That makes it a bad news source. Go to the Guardian, or Wired, or others/ independent sources. You don't need the NYT or LA Times, or WaPo.

Totally agree with Osita-ceding Donald Trump anti-institutional energy when enough people are in revolt is just to repeat the original "normcore" mistake of 2016.

This is how it’s done.

If Trump is not planning to comply with the law and send appropriated money to blue states, I don't see any reason people in blue states should have to continue paying taxes to the federal government

The patriarchy's "material basis had a cultural symbiote, and the symbiote endures.… It is a story we tell ourselves about women & men—about what they are for, who they are to each other, what makes a good woman & a good man—and that story has staying power…."
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1. this rules

2. i spit out my drink when i read the order

Judge Dale Ho FTW!

Dale Ho Brings in the Conservative Cavalry - emptywheel Dale Ho just asked right wing superstar lawyer Paul Clement to serve as amicus to assess DOJ's request to dismiss the Eric Adams prosecution.

Dale Ho Brings in the Conservative Cavalry

www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/21/d...

*reading as he heads to DCA to get on a flight*

One reason I found their argument so contemptible is that they treat birthright citizenship as an interesting puzzle to solve, and all of their methodological errors flow from there.

Judges are going to have to start finding people in contempt, issuing fines and probably throwing some in jail.

Staring wistfully into the distance reading this post

Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].

I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people.

wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

Trump spending freeze imperils Minnesota police, farmers and cancer patients, governor says • Minnesota Reformer A Trump administration spending freeze directly imperils $1.9 billion in monthly federal spending in Minnesota, nearly $23 billion annually, according to an estimate from Gov. Tim Walz’s office. “Dona...

Walz: Spending freeze amounts to "amateur-hour cruelty," imperils police, farmers, cancer patients and many more minnesotareformer.com/2025/01/28/t...

One weird thing about M*sk and the GOP is that they’re obsessed with fertility and yet somehow also obsessed with destroying Medicaid, which covers about half of all US births

Seems like the only way to square that circle is with some freaky trad handmaids tale shit