Wall Street apparently does not understand that it is proving that unregulated capitalism advocates a vengeful and cruel culture. I suppose Wall Street supports slavery.

Fonda: In the face of what’s happening, we need our industry to be unified, activated, and unwilling to engage in anticipatory obedience. We stand together in defense of our right to free expression. If they come for one of us, by God, they come for all of us.

Hitler had lawyers, also.

“The United States was forced to accept an end to the war,”

The Lake Mead crisis is impossible to ignore.

Republicans cannot win without widespread cheating. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

You can't have a truce if you bomb the other guy.

During a fascist regime, an electoral majority means nothing because it could easily be an electoral majority of fascists. John Dewey advocated for a universal free public education as a prerequisite to democracy. Nota bene: My elementary school Principal, Joseph Ratner, was Dewey's secretary.

On the science front, GATTACA coming to the real world is a nightmare. White supremacists would undoubtedly weaponize a reality where genetics perfectly dictate destiny. Herbert Spencer and Francis Galton on steroids. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/s...

I've recently written that, if Lincoln were alive today, he would be classified as radical for supporting enforcement of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the US Constitution. If John Dewey were alive, he would insist that an educated public is a requirement for democracy. Trumpers hate these ideas.

@jamellebouie.net you understand that all these high falutin' democrats lack Courage??? I went to High School with David Axelrod (Stuyvesant) and Jack Lew (Forest Hills). Neither of them have the courage to step into a fight with say, Ross Douthat. Barack Obama's lack of courage led us here.

These lawyers are too meek to file disbarment proceedings against their former federal colleagues. So, they just quit and try to find something useful to do: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/u... 1/2

@grahamformaine.bsky.social, you are apparently too young to have attended the feminist encounter groups of the 70s. With a criminal President, his mob will try everything they can to assassinate any Democrats' character. But it is stupid to make yourself a target.

Huge diversion @asharangappa.bsky.social : You are a lawyer. It is imperative that lawyers (like you) move their state bars to disbar all these crooked lawyers in DOJ. No amendments or changes at the Federal level needed. Every American lawyer not participating in a mass movement is culpable.

I will continue to complain that ALL AMERICAN LAWYERS are RESPONSIBLE for our CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT because they *REFUSE* TO BEGIN STATE DISBARMENT PROCEDURES AGAINST ALL THE CRIMINAL LAWYERS. GOVERNMENT LAWYERS CANNOT BE CRIMINALS AND MAINTAIN THEIR LAW LICENSURE. PERIOD.

If American lawyers cared about democracy, they would be filing complaints with the State Bars against the corrupt, criminal practices of lawyers at DOJ. It is nonsense that America is a nation of laws, and American lawyers make American law a travesty.

When we have a real president again, he or she will have to waste inordinate amounts of time cleaning up the terrible mess created by this awful mistake of a human who never should have been allowed near the levers of power.

"We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.” - Edward R Murrow

We live in a military dictatorship.

Hint: New US Attacks on Iranian targets suggest peace is not about to break out any moment. As Bandy Lee has been saying: 'the President needs his head examined'

In the 60s-70s, most sociologists I knew put their faith in the counter-culture. Just as today, the most trustworthy future is from the left counter-culture. Build your own if you can't find one locally. I am lucky to live in blue Massachusetts, having moved here from blue San Mateo.

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

more proof (if any was needed) that Netanyahu's government and Trump's government have no idea what they are doing. Can't we somehow get better leaders in the US & Israel? Not that the Arab leaders are so great. What a fucked up world!!! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

My point is that it is unethical to ask jury members to say anything about a case that they sat in judgment on. It is a violation of journalist ethics. I do not question the free will of ex-jurors. Suborning ex-jurors to violate any semblance of confidentiality destroys faith in our legal system!

It is thoroughly un American to try to unmask jury members. @peard33.bsky.social Often what is legal is not necessarily ethical. Integrity is almost impossible to gain once it is lost.

Only Republicans believe that the Supreme Court is non-partisan. Roberts’ SCOTUS has demonstrated time and time again that they are republican power mongers. SCOTUS’ emergency docket is as respectable as Trump‘s executive orders. Which is to say that they are a farce.

Having listened to Sarah Isgur today during Robert Siegel's NYTimes roundtable with EJ Dionne, I understand why I have NEVER had an entry I submitted published on SCOTUSblog. Conservative Republicans like Isgur feel no obligation to tell the truth or allow opposing arguments. She's backwards

Bay Area KPFA is reporting $6.00 per gallon gas.

I am a lifelong Democrat. That said, an enormous number of Democrats, who have brough butter knives to a gunfight, are surprised about tonight's SCOTUS ruling about Virginia redistricting. I guess that Republicans do not have a patent on stupid.

The Nazis showed us that science does not need democracy as a prerequisite. The doling out of funds does not need to be fair. Science has no intrinsic morality. Authoritarian Trump and his regime have been catastrophic. Reversal of the abominations is not on the horizon. @rbreich.bsky.social

Yes, Trump leads a lawless, authoritarian regime that has been a catastrophe for democracy @rbreich.bsky.social Civil disobedience, protest, and petition are unlikely to defeat the erasure of 150 years of American progress. Racism is manifest. A kind of civil war has already begun.

Frederick Douglass knew. "If left to their own devices," he said in 1866, "white Southerners, by unfriendly legislation, could make our liberty a delusion, a mockery." @sifill.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @esglaude.bsky.social

I am ashamed of my country because the President has called for the impeachment of Hakeem Jeffries and for the arrest of Barack Obama. Is there anyone who is sane who can be proud to call this man the President?

It now appears to me that the MAGAts want humanity to retreat 500 years, into tribal warfare. At the moment, they look to be succeeding.

The path to power for the Democratic Party runs through @sanders.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social and @govpritzker.illinois.gov That so many Dems are fearful spells doom for the @democrats.org @rbreich.bsky.social has been telling this to you for years!

One Felon President poisoned American Democracy and was supported by six fools and scoundrels on SCOTUS. And, all the Republican Senators and Congressmen pray for a messianic solution, aside from white supremacy and a return to Jim Crow. The reason for the birth rate crash is obvious.

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

John Roberts will retire someday as one of the worst, most destructive Chief Justices in the nation’s history

A country where such a thing as Dilley Detention Center can exist but equal representation cannot is an inherently violent and white supremacist country. It is certainly not a democracy.

As a matter of fact, the state has such a compelling interest in gerrymandering that it means that any effort to restrict gerrymandering to ensure representation of historically excluded groups is in itself the Real Racism. And yet, we're supposed to sit here and pretend they are Serious Thinkers.

SCOTUS is in the business of cutting the wires that hold up society and use "society is being held up, do we really need the wires?" as some sort of bizarre, reverse engineered explanation that completely ignores why things like the VRA were necessary in the first place. It's madness.

It's amazing how the Supreme Court just hallucinates hypothetical problems with existing statutes to get to their desired conclusion. Alito and Roberts, both in Rucho and Callais, argue that there is a compelling state interest to gerrymander, and this interest requires gutting the VRA? 1/2

Institutions depend heavily on public confidence, and confidence weakens when people perceive a widening gap between official messaging and direct experience. The war in Iran is not over Computer farms indeed can cause harm to their neighbors Insurance companies are not experts in healthcare

Jack Smith is an honest man who rightly scorns the liars and thieves and felons in the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

My take is that Gorsuch is just another Trump administration liar: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o... Let him explain why Corporations are people and Money is free speech. So much bs.

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social The TV film of the book by Mitch Albom, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven", with Jeff Daniels, helped me grieve through the loss of my dad. It might be hokey for you, as my dad grew up in Coney Island amusement park. But I hope you might relate and get some healing.

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social My dad was a WWII vet, born in Brooklyn in 1915. I suffered many painful losses in my life that he helped me through. One of the things he told me was that the pain would fade. I have always taken some solace from that. My dad died in April 2010.

At a difficult moment for science, Woods Hole offers a different kind of possibility. A reflection on independence and institutional memory. anotherperson.substack.com/p/money-memo...

SCOTUS is more Catholic than the Pope! The Conservative 6 will never ever clear Mifepristone for sale in the US ever again. What a backward country!!!!

Mainstream media did not adequately cover the May Day strikes & demonstrations. Until the left movement is moderately loud & widespread, nothing will change. I hope that the anti-fascists will succeed in an effort to reinstate a democracy in the US in my lifetime. Right now, it doesn't look good.