I still cannot stop laughing, full body, about this #LadyLawyerDiaries

Many thousands are marching through downtown Los Angeles to protest the Trump administration. The national guard is outside multiple buildings.

One very small town in western Maryland that’s in Trump land had 6 blocks of demonstrators. Could hardly believe my eyes.

Fact. #NoKings

Huge turnout at the #NoKings rally in Hattiesburg, Missisisppi today, wrapping up and down both sides of the streets around City Hall. I'd estimate that about 300 people showed up, along with 2 pro-Trump counter-protesters.

🧵 I'm heading towards one of the protest sites dotted around DC some distance away from the parade. We're still some distance away, but immediately upon exiting the Metro, the long trail of protests is out and about with honking, supportive drivers passing by.

Stay classy, San Diego. #NoKings

Chicago

A survey of Senate Republicans by Scripps News revealed that at least 41 of the 53 Republicans in the upper chamber are skipping the parade. Trump's expensive, tanks-in-the-street birthday party isn't that popular.

These 75 Democrats joined Republicans to "express gratitude" to ICE agents and call for greater local and state collaboration with ICE. jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...

Perhaps Newsom should have spent less time chumming around with authoritarian buffoons on his podcast and more time preparing and strategizing for the entirely predicable thing that is happening in his state right now.

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Republicans' new pitch for Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill: “Well, we all are going to die.”

NEW: "Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department. And it may already be happening in the US.

Bringing this to Bsky bc @steverattner.bsky.social hasn't posted it yet and it's so critical. The entirety of the cuts to Medicaid and food benefits are to pay for tax cuts for people earning more than half a million a year. Call Congress: 202-224-3121

this is excellent work & contains call/email templates at the end with callouts for the specific legislative mechanisms democratic senators could use to kill this part of the bill. read the piece. make the calls. there’s no earthly reason any senator’s phone should stop ringing in the near future.

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

This quote resonated with me, someone who has been a contingent faculty member for a decade

Ok, I made a Bandcamp. kellycoyle.bandcamp.com/track/290th-... #originalmusictracks #musicsky

June 14 is Trump’s birthday and his military parade in DC — but the biggest story of that day will be the actions we take everywhere else. Join our nationwide day of defiance to show that organized people power is stronger than Trump’s authoritarian aspirations: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Howell drips with disdain for the firms who capitulated to the White House and says of those who resisted "will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

John Yoo once wrote at length in an OLC memo about what size box it was legal to lock a suspected terrorist in (spoiler alert: very small) and for how long, and whether it was okay to put an insect in there with him. So probably it's bad that they've lost him.

We put together a social toolkit that makes it easy to share the truth about Trump’s failures and most unpopular policies: app.sosha.ai/toolkit/trum...

🧵 Essential read

Here’s everything to know about our nationwide day of defiance on June 14. You can sign up for No Kings now.👇

Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption. Breathtaking. Heartbreaking. We cannot let this stand.

Trump already blaming the next quarter on Biden: This is Biden and you can even say the next quarter is sort of Biden

Really fascinating divide happening right now where some of the most MAGA Republican senators like Kennedy, Hawley and Moreno don’t want Medicaid cuts whereas the most MAGA House members in the Freedom Caucus want to make big cuts to Medicaid.

Trump on China: "They made a trillion dollars with Biden selling us stuff. Much of it we don't need. Somebody said, 'oh, the shelves are gonna be open.' Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more."

My take on what’s REALLY happening on these tariffs: He’s totally folding. He lost all his leverage. Americans are furious about the economy and blame his tariffs. He’s capitulating on China, he threw our allies under the bus… he knows he and his party are solely to blame.

NEW: Columbia pro-Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi walked out of court today after a judge ordered his immediate release from ICE detention. His words to Trump: "I am not afraid of you." w/ Liz Crampton www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Pay attention! Amplify this posting by Sandi Bachom in any way you can!

I was on the steps of the Capitol with Leader Jeffries, Sen. Booker and many others to make the case for what’s at stake with Trump’s budget. Medicaid, food assistance, Social Security. It’s all on the line. A moral moment.

Pledging to defend the Constitution right before the country you were about to become a citizen of unconstitutionally detains you

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

The world is more important to the United States than the United States is to the world.

This is straight authoritarianism!

"You should carry your papers with you at all times."

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Uncertainty has increased more than ever, per FT:

The power and pitfalls of protest: how to speak out without falling victim to Trump’s playbook | Jonathan Smucker

This week, there were 7 confirmation votes in the Senate. And after millions and millions of people showed up over the weekend at #HandsOff events around the world, 18 Democrats joined with Republicans to confirm 5 of those nominees. Someone explain it to me like I'm 5.

Pilot puts plane into a nosedive, pulls out at the last minute, saunters back into the cabin looking for high fives from the vomit covered passengers.

This resolution from @meeks.house.gov @neal.house.gov @repricklarsen.bsky.social, which I cosponsored, has privilege on the House floor. We are going to force House Republicans to vote on Trump's crazy tariffs and the destruction they are unleashing on our economy.