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The planet will be fine; it’s the people that are f*cked. ⚖️ 🐶mama 🌉 🏔️ go blue 💙💛

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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
With respect, it’s not just about stealing an election — it’s about the racism first. @elienyc.bsky.social
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 24/01/2026
may his memory be a revolution
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Fire🔥
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Thorough takedown of "trollish, ill-informed pseudo-intellectual" Curtis Yarvin (who wrote for a while as "Mencius Moldbug") by @cathyyoung63.bsky.social.
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The Blogger Who Hates America
Curtis Yarvin’s popularity keeps growing. His intellectual rigor, not so much.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I know it's not the most important thing here but this story also corroborates one of my biggest theories about these tech guys: they do zero hours of work in a day. They do no work no matter how much they claim to work 14 hours a day. They're just on their phones.
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This opinion on an Alien Enemies Act case on Petition for Habeas is 🔥🔥🔥 and also contains the background of Venezuelan immigration status and actions under previous Trump Admin. Interesting read:
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
1 Wish I had a larger following because everyone should listen to this podcast. A great explainer of the historical background of neoliberalism and its intersection w/libertarianism that has led to far right global movements. Local bookstore was out of his new book, but recommend Crack-Up Capitalism
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
These guys are willing to be fired by making this statement. A lot of brave people out there — and a lot who aren’t (and are revealing themselves).
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
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Harvard professor offers a grim assessment of American democracy under Trump
Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime."
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
A relief to finally see this spelled out like this. It ought to be an orthodoxy. @quinnslobodian.com great new book, Hayek’s Bastards, also helps to clarify the alliances and possible shared interests between capital and ethnonationalism www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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It’s not poverty that’s breeding the new populism. It’s wealth | Phillip Inman
Analysts trace a link between financial security and a troubling, increasingly devil-may-care, attitude to political risk
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Watch the full interview with @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov here and subscribe for more:
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GLOVES OFF: Governor Newsom drops SURPRISE bad news on Trump
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
A must-read. Ties tech bros, Musk-Mars endeavor, 2025, Bannon, possible Opus Dei together in these current gov’t machinations.
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Representing!
Photo of protesting penguin at Hands Off in SF with protest sign that says Hands Off Penguins McDonald.
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#HandsOff SF Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only live can do that. MLK
Protester with MLK darkness quote.
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#HandsOff SF
Protesters in SF
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gamesharkey.bsky.social @gamesharkey.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
#trump #elonmusk #penguins #tariffs
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Richard Primus @richardprimus.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Proud to be among the amici supporting Perkins Coie (along w/@umichlaw.bsky.social colleagues @leahlitman.bsky.social, Len Niehoff, & Rebecca Scott). The Trump Administration is trying to subvert the rule of law by denying lawyers to its opponents. It's that simple. law.stanford.edu/publications...
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BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE 363 LAW PROFESSORS IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND FOR DECLARATORY AND PERMANENT INJUNCTIVE RELIEF | Stanford Law School
Amici 363 law professors submit this brief in support of Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment and for Declaratory and Permanent Injunctive Relief
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Glad the magazine brought this up. Perfect entree/time to watch The Penguin Lessons out in theaters now, which portrays academic life under fascism in 1970s Argentina. And the secret police only had handguns.
Poster from the movie The Penguin Lessons, set on 1976 Argentina, on the  eve of political revolution under fascism.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The next ante by the admin won’t be withholding even more gov’t funding, it will be hand over your endowment. It’s in Proj. 2025.
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads:

"BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Must-read for strategies to thwart/reverse autocratisation and authoritarianism! #democracy #savedemocracy
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Thank you for bringing this up because I see a parallel between the unbreakable Maga cult and the unbreakable Scientology cult. Amazing that the DOJ successfully broke up gangs, mafias, but could never break up the criminal enterprise cult. Also, Dark Enlightenment guys reminiscent of L Ron H.
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 26/03/2025
CEOs are freaking out that Trump is doing exactly what he told them he would do if he won. They supported him anyway because, for reasons that look quite stupid in retrospect, they didn't believe him. www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/trump-prom...
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Trump Promised Disaster. His Supporters Didn’t Believe Him.
Many assumed Trump was all talk, but his return to power proves he meant every word.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
BREAKING NEWS: A high level source at the DOD has informed me that the Trump Administration authorized deployment of Signal onto government phones last month and it is a primary means of communicating with the White House. Read my exclusive story: open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
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EXCLUSIVE: DOD has deployed Signal on government devices overriding their own policy
A high level source in DOD has confirmed that they were ordered to approve installation of Signal on government devices by Trump officials last month
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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 24/03/2025
I thought the apocalypse would be way cooler this is horrible
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Columbia University agreed to establish a political commissioner to oversee its Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies department to make sure that the faculty comply with the Trump administration demands. How did German professors respond to the demands of authoritarian power in 1933?
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If there is not enough courage to resist the emerging tyranny, standing up to tyranny after it consolidates will require even more courage. Americans will learn from experience.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I’m quoted in this article. Tl;dr, universities should not acquiesce in these lawless and damaging funding cut-offs.
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Trump Admin Pauses $175M to University of Pennsylvania
The university is facing an investigation related to transgender athletes’ participation in sports, and a White House official says the freeze is “just a taste of what could be coming down the pipe.”
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 18/03/2025
🚨 NEW: VoteVets is launching a six-figure ad blitz across TV, streaming, digital, and billboards—exposing GOP Veterans dodging constituents while Musk’s DOGE fires thousands of Veterans. They promised to fight for Veterans—now they’re silent. Stop Elon’s war on Veterans. Demand Congress act!
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18/03/2025
If any creators want viral content on the tech takeover, read John Robb. He is a respected military analyst who is pro-Elon. The NYT, Wired, etc., have quoted him for years. He explicitly describes what's happening as a "prototyping" of the Network State. www.thenerdreich.com/network-stat...
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Military Analyst: Network State Takeover of U.S. Government
The United States is currently evolving into a Network State, says a military analyst who writes regularly on the subject.
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Atom Corolla @knollie.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The Community Prepardness website for FEMA has been taken down. The site provided a range of advice for communities from natural disaster preparation to active shooter response. community.fema.gov/Preparedness...
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Go Rep Casar
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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High Notes @gothedistance49.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Been doing a lot of reading and thinking lately and based on everything I've looked at this logic is where I'm at with things. The movement back towards sanity should be wrapped in the flag. 🇺🇸 www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...
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Roadmap to American Reconstruction
A roadmap for retaking power and laying the foundations for American Reconstruction.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 13/03/2025
On Amanpour & Co. yesterday… youtu.be/I3JtZlSRMAw?...
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Scott Galloway on Markets, Musk, and Trump’s “Weapons of Mass Distraction” | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Black folks, women, lgbtq and the disabled are literally being ERASED from public life and are losing all of our rights. The outrage should be hurricane level. Instead, it’s Eeyore. The experts on authoritarianism, especially Levitsky, say this is worse than they expected. It was a COUP.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I’m sick to death of people saying we’re “descending” into fascism. The fascism is ALREADY here. THIS IS WHAT IF FEELS LIKE. And if you’re not feeling it, it’s probably because you’re one of the “good Germans.” @michaelharriot.bsky.social explains
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The 'Threat to Democracy' Is Over
It's time to admit that the fascism we feared is already here.
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
So well said and issue cogently presented.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The PERKINS COIE law firm spits hot fire in its suit against Trump’s executive order aimed at punishing the firm. Strongly recommend reading the first 10 paragraphs of the “WHAT THIS CASE IS ABOUT” section. (h/t @mikescarcella.bsky.social) fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...
Case 1:25-cv-00716 Document 1
Filed 03/11/25
Page 1 of 43
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PERKINS COIE LLP,
Plaintiff,
V.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT, GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and, In their official capacities, PAMELA J. BONDI, BRENDAN CARR, RUSSELL T. VOUGHT, ANDREA R. LUCAS, CHARLES EZELL, STEPHEN EHEKIAN, and TULSI GABBARD,
Defendants.
Case No.
COMPLAINT
Plaintiff, the law firm of Perkins Coie LLP, brings this case against the U.S. Department
of Justice, the Federal Communications Commission, the Office of Management & Budget, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Office of Personnel Management, the General Services Administration, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the United States of America, and, in their respective official capacities, Pamela J. Bondi, Brendan Carr, Russell T.
Vought, Andrea R. Lucas, Charles Ezell, Stephen Ehekian, and Tulsi Gabbard, and states as
follows:
1Case 1:25-cv-00716 Document 1 Filed 03/11/25 Page 2 of 43
WHAT THIS CASE IS ABOUT
1. This case concerns an Executive Order issued on March 6, 2025, entitled,
"Addressing Risks From Perkins Coie LLP" ("the Order"). The Order is an affront to the
Constitution and our adversarial system of justice. Its plain purpose is to bully those who advocate
points of view that the President perceives as adverse to the views of his Administration, whether
those views are presented on behalf of paying or pro bono clients. Perkins Coie brings this case
reluctantly. The firm is comprised of lawyers who advocate for clients; its attorneys and
employees are not activists or partisans. But Perkins Coie's ability to represent the interests of its
clients and its ability to operate as a legal-services business at all— are under direct and imminent
threat. Perkins Coie cannot allow its clients to be bullied. The firm is committed to a resolute
defense of the rule of law, without regard to party or ideology, and therefore brings this lawsuit to declare the Order unlawful and to enjoin its implementation.
The Order's peculiar title betrays its oddity as an Executive Order, for its purpose
is not executive in nature. Rather, the Order reflects a purpose that is judicial-to adjudicate
whether a handful of lawyers at Perkins Coie LLP ("Perkins Coie," "the law firm," or "the firm") engaged in misconduct in the course of litigation and then to punish them by: (I) terminating government contracts with firm clients, thereby driving away current and prospective clients; (2)
denying all members and employees of the firm access to federal buildings and meetings or other
engagement with federal employees; and (3) immediately suspending, and possibly revoking, security clearances for all firm employees.
3. The Order imposes these punishments on the entire law firm even though the
attorneys involved in the purported misconduct numbered a mere handful of the more than 1,200
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
There's two aspects of Trump's EO directed at Perkins Coie which I feel aren't getting sufficient attention: ➡️It targets not only the firm but any federal contractors working *with* the firm. ➡️It directs DOJ/EEOC to investigate *all* large firms which are trying to diversify the profession.
whitehouse.gov
Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. The
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Another must read article to understand Palantir’s reach into government, defense, intelligence.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
NEW: I helped Brian Krebs trace the background of one of Elon Musk's top loyalists, Branden Spikes, head of IT at X, who spent 2 mo at DOGE. Spikes and his ex-wife were involved with Russian diaspora websites and groups linked to pro-Kremlin KSORS players, Russian state media while he was at SpaceX.
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AJ @planetabsurdia.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Another day of tyranny of the majority by the minority here. Absurd.
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