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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...

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Cries of Defiance and Songs of Joy in Los Angeles

The protesters are being called unspeakably violent by the Trump administration. I mostly saw clergy sit-ins and Tejano bands.

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NPR @npr.org · 26/05/2025

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

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A small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cuts

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 24/04/2025

This 🧵 is diving into Head Start as its currently on the chopping block in the proposed budget. Head Start is an incredible program that is much more involved and influential than people may realize. And if the regime gets its way, this cut would result in generations of harm.

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Phish Phashion @phishphashion.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Leo-pard. Page letting the cat out of the bag in Endless Joy’s Leopard Print Camp Shirt. This is a full-on debut. By gar, it’s been a while. Show your fangs: bit.ly/42ky28D 4/20/25, Portland, OR #phish

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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

The new revelations about DOGE's activities at the labor agency come from a whistleblower in the IT department of the NLRB, who disclosed his concerns to Congress and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel in a detailed report that was then provided to NPR. Meanwhile, his attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone, according to a cover letter attached to his disclosure filed by his attorney, Andrew Bakaj of the nonprofit Whistleblower Aid.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a
new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in
such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate
manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604
U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at
1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it
left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See,
e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With
more and more of our most significant rulings taking place
in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court
leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We
are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with
similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are
now less willing to face it.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

An excellent emendation to Paul, Weiss’s Wikipedia page. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul,_W...

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Sen Tim Kaine (D-VA) speech about Trump Admin. "buyout" idea for federal workers "He's tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign, he'll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn't have any authority to do this. Do not be fooled by this guy"

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The Daily Montanan @dailymontanan.com · 28/01/2025

“You cannot legislate us back into the closet, into the grave or out of existence.” - Faye Wilde, a transgender woman, against a bill that would criminalize certain types of medical care. By @keilaszpaller.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2025/01/27/m... #montana #mtleg #mtpol

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Montana Senate Judicial committee takes up bill that criminalizes care for transgender youth • Daily Montanan

Montana Senate Judicial committee takes up bill that criminalizes care for transgender youth

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The Montana Supreme Court says the framers who enacted the state's constitution refused to "grant the State a free pass to pollute the Montana environment just because the rest of the world insisted on doing so." A lot here about climate change in Montana. juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

TRUMP: I’m going to use the FBI illegally to go after my political enemies! BIDEN: Um, I guess I’ll pardon my son then because fuck that. MEDIA: Biden is breaking norms!

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Whenever you hear Nancy Mace talk about wanting to "protect private spaces for women and girls," please remember she & Marjorie Taylor Greene literally threatened to beat up trans people if they find them in the women's bathrooms at the Capitol. @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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House Speaker Johnson announces transgender bathroom ban—on Trans Day of Remembrance

He and Nancy Mace team up on their transphobia ahead of the arrival of the first openly trans member of Congress, Sarah McBride.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/11/2024

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

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