I’ve struggled with how to refer to the U.S. Supreme Court, which no longer functions as a genuine court. The European Court of Human Rights faced the same problem when discussing Poland’s high court. ECHR had a good solutions. They referred to it as “the issuing body”.
Very good comment on legacy media’s current failure to call for government investigations into possible criminal conduct by Trump during the course of his association with Epstein.
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Credible Charges
Today’s deluge of Donald Trump-Jeffrey Epstein revelations reminded me of a January 1994 Washington Post editorial in which the Post called for t...
I’m so tired of the misogyny and the disregard for women’s civil rights. The Republican Fascists in Congress will now pressure their Dem counterparts for what is in effect, a national abortion ban, as the Dems try to save face on healthcare.
Senate Republicans tie healthcare subsidies to abortion limits - UPI.com
The government shutdown is on track to end with no resolution for expiring healthcare subsidies, and Democrats say Republicans want an abortion ban.
Wholly unsurprising, the Supreme Court as whole has extended by a week Justice Jackson’s administrative stay of a judicial order requiring the Trump regime to pay SNAP benefits. 1/ #LawFedi
Last night I was at a meeting where I heard an obviously ambitious incumbent Democratic officeholder speak as if he has no understanding of the actual state of affairs in this country. He kept saying that what is threatening democracy is the Democratic Party’s failure to respond to the interests of white and Hispanic working class men. He claimed that for twenty years the party has been too focused on “other groups”. 1/
Very good column from Will Bunch on the Senate Dems decision to appease Trump and the contrast with ordinary Americans who are actually fighting Republican Fascism.
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A nation of heroes, a Senate of cowards | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, Cheney didn’t save us from Trump. He created him.
It has been an especially tough couple of days in a very rough time. I needed to remember beauty, so pulled up some photos of the aspens in their fall glory, from several weeks ago here in #NewMexico. Maybe they can provide a moment of tonic for you too.
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👀 @npub1u0qa...9mcc has launched an all out fight to make the Democratic Party a robustly oppositional force to fight Republican Fascism.
Indivisible 2026
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it
Continuing to Fight for Full November SNAP Benefits: Attorney General Bonta Co-Leads Multistate Coalition in Filing Motion for Temporary Restraining O...
State of California - Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney General
Continuing to Fight for Full November SNAP Benefits: Attorney General Bonta Co-Leads Multistate Coalition in Filing Motion for Temporary Restraining Order
Motion challenges Trump Administration for issuing conflicting guidance on November SNAP benefits and seeking to intimidate states for starting to ...
Follow up to late night/early am 🧵re Rhode Island State Council v. Rollins (
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Heidi Li Feldman (@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)
While the Senate Democrats were busy caving, the First Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in Rhode Island Council of Churches v. Rollins....
), here’s where we are this morning. Justice Jackson has ordered the Trump regime to inform the Supreme Court of whether it intends to seek review of the 1st Cir’s denial of stay of order to fund SNAP fully in Nov. 1/ #LawFedi