Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Regardless of your thoughts on Musk, he has significant business interests in China. Why the fuck is he getting this briefing? 1932611621
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Stephen Miller really liked nationwide TROs from district judges during Biden’s term. Now he says they’re unconstitutional. Absolute fucking hypocrite. 862794592
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Congrats to the White House correspondents who failed to stand in solidarity with the AP and now get to stand by their new peer, a dipshit podcaster and Putin stooge. Dont complain, you earned this. 201107912548
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Democracy and Rule of Law, people! - WilmerHale sues over CLEARLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL Trump Exec Order targeting firm (represented by President W. Bush's Solicitor General Paul Clement) - Jenner & Block sues over CLEARLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL Trump Exec Order targeting firm (represented by Cooley LLP) 451689337
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary. 3252757110442
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Witkoff was a fool for joining that chat from Moscow. But the entire charlatan national security team also chose to put him on that chat when they knew (or should have known) that he was in Moscow. A spy novel based on this level of cretinous behavior would be unbelievable. 23772471798
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/03/2025It seems ICE had a quota for Venezuelan gang members & filled it by picking up people with tattoos. Rose, hummingbird, soccer, mother, Autism awareness. For that people are taken from their families & sent to spend the rest of their lives in horrifying conditions. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comThe men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoosThe Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers. 11124801049
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all. 10215588117481
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialstephen fowler @stphnfwlr.com · 26/03/2025NEW: An @npr.org review of thousands of pages of records across more than a dozen federal lawsuits finds an alarming pattern across agencies, where DOGE has given conflicting information about what data it has accessed, who has that access, and most importantly — why. w/@jennamclaughlin.bsky.socialnpr.orgDOGE says it needs to know the government's most sensitive data, but can't say whyDOGE staffers have skirted privacy laws, training and security protocols to gain virtually unfettered access to financial and personal information stored in siloed government databases. 691306538
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialKrassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Make this go viral! Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts. 14012913215614
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/03/2025People are now referring to Pete Hegseth as “WHISKILEAKS" and now I'm sad that I didn't think of it first. #WhiskiLeaks 19038481045
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time. 18263625016131
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/03/2025BREAKING: A high level information security source inside the Department of Defense says they were ordered by political appointees to ignore information security regulations and install Signal on government phones for senior leaders.fpwellman.substack.comEXCLUSIVE: DOD has deployed Signal on government devices overriding their own policyA high level source in DOD has confirmed that they were ordered to approve installation of Signal on government devices by Trump officials last month 51563632814
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Patronage Is a Lucrative Way to Attack Rule of Law www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/26/p...emptywheel.netPatronage Is a Lucrative Way to Attack Rule of Law - emptywheelOne aspect of Trump's Executive Orders targeting law firms has gotten too little attention. The EOs are designed not just to harm the targeted firms. They're designed to gin up business for firms favo... 317855
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialMs. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social · 25/03/2025ICYMI, @propublica.org uncovered Project 2025 training videos last summer. And here’s where they discuss how to evade FOIA & hide their agenda from the public. The “Houthi PC small group” didn’t arise from ignorance of the law or incompetence. They just got caught. 11236831979
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Weird how this was never a concern with Judge Aileen Cannon 602197466
ledishva.bsky.social @ledishva.bsky.social · 26/03/2025All of this - it is all to force women out of the work place and back under the full control of men. 010
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Everything the Senator says is true. By my timeline Witkoff was actually sitting waiting to meet with Putin when he accepted the group invite. 13544361246
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialJacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 26/03/2025This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...leiterreports.typepad.comStanley from Yale to TorontoJason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr... 31587393416
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/03/2025🚨 CBS News has received an internal NSA bulletin from Feb 2025 warning staff NOT to use Signal app for sensitive info, citing vulnerabilities to Russian hackers. These docs were sent pre-Houthi chat scandal with Jeffrey Goldberg.cbsnews.comNSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chatThe National Security Agency sent a bulletin in February warning of Russian hackers trying to access encrypted conversations on Signal. 10402964711228
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialPam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 26/03/2025It is the direct result of seeing Black people and women achieve high levels of education. To the diseased mind of the sexist and racist, if a woman can do it, if a Black person can do it, it’s not that hard and it sure ain’t that valuable. It is the essence of white supremacy for Billy Joe Jim 1111
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialEllen Enders @ellenenders.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Witkoff needs to go today for his lack of judgement for using his personal phone in Russia in the Kremlin & for a sensitive work call. He cannot be trusted to negotiate. 2433
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialJosh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025NEW: As a defense contractor, Elon Musk's SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through offshore secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. Expert: “It is certainly a policy of obfuscation." www.propublica.org/article/elon...propublica.orgHow Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From ChinaAs a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is c... 8324124
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialPam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Guys: Moderate your expectations! Pam Bondi is the AG. There is no rule of law. There is no department of “justice.” There is a department of “attack the people Trump doesn’t like.” And NOTHING else. None of these people will be held accountable in any way. 77119
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialStrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Pentagon warned staffers against using Signal before White House chat leak Bulletin sent on 18 March said Russian hackers could access messages as Trump officials now downplay blunder www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comPentagon warned staffers against using Signal before White House chat leakBulletin sent on 18 March said Russian hackers could access messages as Trump officials now downplay blunder 1213053
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialDrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Oh, well, if a journalist could scheme his way into the signal chat without being noticed, I am sure there is no way a foreign operative could. 🙄 Do these people hear themselves? 531071296
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialPam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Chew on this: The Director of National Intelligence TESTIFIED UNDER OATH that the name of a secret CIA asset was not “classified” information. Do you get what that means for the rest of our CIA assets (if we have any left)? 27273182162
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Has any new drug saved your life or the life of someone you know? If so, you can thank the NIH, which Trump and Musk are illegally destroying, in violation both of the law creating the NIH, and appropriations laws telling NIH what money to spend and how 201278431
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/03/2025I think this was from Chapter 4 of Mein Kampf. 2730242715616
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 24/03/2025A MAGA terrorist attacked Americans who were peacefully protesting oligarchy and Tesla. This is just the latest terrorist attack by MAGA as these radicals feel embolden to attack civilians in latest wave of Trump / Musk inspired terrorism. www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/t... 1982673840
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialDalziel Ball ♿️🕉️♎️🇬🇧🏴🇪🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦☮️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💙 @dalziel71.bsky.social · 16/03/2025 21817345
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialMaca Iglesias @rotterdamvvg.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Now Trump wants to come for anyone, including naturalized U.S. Citizens? Deport traitors to democracies worldwide, Melania and Elon, and keep the hard-working immigrants who love this country and keep it moving. 40734272
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialtmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 16/03/2025#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory Businesses & lawmakers must step up & stop the hemorrhaging of NOAA & NWS data products & personnel before it’s too late. Their activities support fully 1/3 of US GDP. For every $1 spent on weather services it yields $73 in returns. thebulletin.org/2025/03/fore...thebulletin.orgForecast for weaker weather service: Americans will die, businesses will lose billionsThe critical infrastructure provided by NOAA and NWS cannot and will never be duplicated by the private sector. 710771
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025I always hated the "this is the greatest country in the world" refrain, but it is striking to me that the things they are killing in government — an unrivaled scientific research enterprise, incredible public lands, etc — are some of the only things that made such a statement vaguely defensible. 341211214
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialPhil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 15/03/2025A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded in a rooming house surrounded by military guards. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...jsonline.comMilwaukee-area woman deported to Laos though she's never been there, doesn't speak the languageAs Donald Trump pushes the mass deportation of immigrants, Yang believes she is one of the first Hmong Americans to be deported to Laos recently. 821707957
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 15/03/2025I’m amazed how little coverage this story has gotten. They’ve burned well over $16 million to briefly hold 290 immigrants and several photo ops to GITMO. Just a total train wreck and they didn’t even mention it officially. Check out my latest. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...open.substack.comSmoke and mirrors in CubaThey are all lying but they got the pictures and that's what matters 672181758086
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialBrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Republicans cut Democrats entirely out of their process for the CR, didn't want any of our input, and would have been blamed by a majority of the American public for a government shutdown. There was no reason to cave to them. Chuck Schumer has to go. 35393131963
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 13/03/2025DOGE should not be anywhere near NSA www.wsj.com/politics/nat...wsj.comElon Musk Made Secret Visit to U.S. Spy AgencyElon Musk visited the National Security Agency on Wednesday, current and former U.S. officials said, meeting with leadership a week after saying the intelligence and cybersecurity outfit needed an ove... 25744021303
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialBryan Dawson @bryandawsonusa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents. The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint. Help us, Jesus! www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...nbcnews.comU.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parentsThe Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint. 23379147
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/03/2025“Representatives of President Trump’s family have held talks to take a financial stake in the U.S. arm of crypto exchange Binance, … a move that would put Trump in business with the firm that pleaded guilty in 2023 to violating anti-money-laundering requirements.”apple.newsTrump Family Has Held Deal Talks With Binance Following Crypto Exchange’s Guilty Plea — The Wall Street JournalDiscussions for stake in Binance’s U.S. arm come as founder Changpeng Zhao has pushed for the administration to pardon him for his own 2023 guilty plea 35739451644
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialDavid A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 11/03/2025"If the state can deprive an individual of his freedom just because of his politics... then no one is safe. You may believe that Khalil does not deserve free speech or due process. But if he does not have them, then neither do you. Neither do I." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comMahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial RunThe pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last. 5543222
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2025This is also known as invading Panama. 651159324375
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialDr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Precisely. It's also the same reason that USAID's work was so important TO THE US. It's enraging. 212619
Reposted by @ledishva.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/03/2025See how this works? 1333814927
