You should clean up your headline. I'm an attorney, and I had trouble understanding it. How about "judge allows DOJ to fire anti-discrimination personnel while lawsuit continues?"

We saw this frustration in Judge Alsup's order in September. He refused to order the rehiring of federal employees because many had moved on and the agencies had been completely gutted. There were no positions left for employees to return to. I anticipate a similar result here. 6/7

Judge Talwani admits that the Plaintiffs have made a "strong showing that they are likely to succeed on the merits." Reason for the RIF was dissolution of the CRS, but only Congress can abolish an agency. 2/7

Judge Talwani has declined to issue a temporary restraining order preventing RIFs at the Community Relations Service---an agency in the DOJ that helps communities struggling with racial discrimination. 1/7 fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

Thread: the judicial reasoning around illegal firings just seems nuts to me. They have the law on their side, but courts say they are not harmed by being fired and can always be hired back. By the time they win the case, courts will conclude it is too late for a remedy. (see probationary firings).

Law firms have an established duty to uphold the integrity of the system they work in, not only for their own benefit but for the benefit of society. If more of them had stood up to Trump, they might have curbed his lawlessness.

A thought I never expected to have: House of Windsor currently beating the US government on transparency and accountability.

✅ YES to Prop 50 🚫 NO to Trump’s attempt to rig our elections @janefonda and @jasmineforus are ready to fight fire with fire. Let’s go, California! Election Day is Tuesday, November 4. #Prop50VoteYes

OPINION | Where we go next in Trump’s acquisition of power is best summed up by one of the first rules of real estate: You don’t modernize a rental.

Correction from the editor: NEVER MIND, my friend lied to me. It’s not the Louvre thief. Don’t worry she’s being dealt with accordingly. *gets out taser*

So Johnson admits he is starving the population as political blackmail. Good to have that on record.

starving people as political pressure is what authoritarians do, but please continue 🙄

BASH: Even Hawley says you should move money around to feed people. Why not consider it? JOHNSON: Because if you deviate from the goal of reopening the entire govt, Schumer & the radicals will continue to play games. If you do just part of this, it will reduce the pressure for them to do all of it

BASH: You all found ways to pay the military and WIC. But why are you drawing the line now on 40 million Americans who literally will not be able to eat with govt assistance? MIKE JOHNSON: If we had a contingency fund we could use, that would be done. BASH: They say that's not what the law shows

"Hitler likes me!"

Mike Johnson desperately wants people to blame the end of SNAP benefits on the Democrats, but given the GOP's longstanding attacks on the program -- coupled with Trump's expensive White House: Extreme Makeover extravaganza -- that's going to be a hard sell.

In other words, they're coming to gut the trucking industry. The goal appears to be to grind the economy to an absolute stop.

I disagree, the guardrail was being “shamed”, which the press decided to give up on when Bezos and Sulzberger decided they prefer money.

And the construction of an effectively siloed yet widely scaled information environment is the necessary precursor to such rampant lying (unbeholden to historically grounded means of public shaming), enabling democracy's destruction.

IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.

🎯 My thoughts come down to weariness over the constant infantilization of white men in their 20s and 30s for doing "stupid sh*t" & get a redemption arc, when I can tell you as a black woman I never got that grace to eff up continuously AS A TEEN. In the end, Mainers will decide. 🧾 is.gd/c8aCk1

"Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them."

consider this part one of what will be an ongoing series making the case for an imperial congress (gift link)

I keep thinking about @michaelhobbes.bsky.social's reporting from Utah in 2019. Even then, the state was retreating from Housing First—after being hailed as a success story—and embracing criminalization. In hindsight, Utah's involuntary "treatment center" is not a rupture but the next logical step.

I posted this after Trump issued his executive order targeting homeless people. This now appears to be happening. Utah is the test case.

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

oh just straight up gutter racism!

I can’t unsee it.

Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold

Also, we are talking about a six year job with virtually no chance at recall. I'm all for allowing people to grow and prove themselves. But we don't test someone with a six year term as one of 100 people in the nation. No wonder we seem to have become a nation of scams.

Like if he can’t figure that one out then he’s not ready for the Senate. I know they’re dysfunctional but most of them know “Nazis are bad”

If he can schedule a podcast to admit hey there’s this bad tattoo… he could have scheduled removal or cover up of said tattoo FIRST. If he wants to represent liberal voters who care about making people’s lives better then he should have known being associated with Nazi symbols would be frowned upon

Nothing will make him prepared if he doesn't lose that attitude of entitlement.

He’s running to unseat a 30 year incumbent who is liked and known, if in the process of getting to know him he can’t handle the obvious questions about his judgement (you got drunk and got a Nazi tattoo, how do we know you wouldn’t get drunk and make Nazi policy?) it’s not good starting point

The tattoo is bad, the response and his ‘the DNC is out to get me because people asked questions!’ is just showing he wouldn’t be up to the task when stakes are higher. Maybe in a few years he could be- but he controlled the timing on this information and waited til AFTER sharing to cover the tat

You can’t annoy people into fascism, li’l Daggatt. And you can’t whine your way out of it, either. bsky.app/profile/gene...

Any other vets kinda of offended by the excuse that it's only natural for someone serving in the Marines to drift Nazi? "Oh you know how those jarheads are -- always getting those swastika tattoos."

I'm not sure what the point of vetting is if *this* isn't disqualifying. Is it only to make sure they're not actually progressive?

Apologists are also making a terrible bet that the guy, who's already had two major racist scandals EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE THE PRIMARY, is not going to have more skeleton. The fact that this stuff came out this early should tell you that the oppo has much better stuff for an Oct surprise.

interesting that people are treating his blue collar aesthetic as equivalent to having a blue collar upbringing

In fact, he's pretty young, Maine has 2 Senate seats, and all the remaining realistic D/R players at the moment are not spring chickens Some raw dog, Marcus Aurelius, atonebro atonemaxxxing, Daily Stoic for ~2200-4400 days... if actually done... would show out well

And we have people asking why can't he go on his own journey of atonement? No one is minding that! That is part is great actually (in good faith) He doesn't have to be doing it in a chase for a publicly elected office position! He is not owed a party nomination in the journey of atonement

People are acting like these are the same thing! bsky.app/profile/dwei...

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

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He’s still repeating that lie. Video link in replies.

this is evil

So masked ICE thugs are essential and being paid during the shutdown. But air traffic controllers are not.

Pritzker makes a direct appeal to Greg Bovino to not terrorize kids over the Halloween weekend