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...

Did CHAT GPT write RFK's MAHA Report to the President? Inquiring minds want to know. www.notus.org/health-scien...

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.

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.

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

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:

Butte, Montana residents persist despite a century of setbacks.

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...

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

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"

“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

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...

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!

NEW: Montana lawmakers narrowly vote down bathroom ban for transgender representative nbcmontana.com/news/local/m...

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...

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.