John CoatesMTG is an awful person, but her reported fear of MAGA death threats is a reminder that our FBI and DOJ have real work to do to help keep us all safe from harm and fear of harm. Too bad they aren’t doing it.
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Rob Hague
Casey LissThis is hard to properly describe without experiencing it.
When you are immersed — when your vision and your hearing is completely overcome with what you see and hear from the headset — it hits different.
This moment with the fan is so incredible, and instead of cutting to a different angle immediately, they let the shot linger for a while.
It’s incredibly moving. Much more so than makes sense, to be honest. https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/115480207021234466
“It has always been possible to hypothesize a bad faith, lawless presidency that seizes on constitutional authorities to commit abuses of power.”
B Bauer
Private law profs have long taught through the lens of OW Holmes’s “bad man” approach to law - if law is X, how would a bad man respond/evade/exploit it?
Not sure the Con Law and Ad Law folks have used that lens with the right intensity. And here we are.
https://open.substack.com/pub/executivefunctions/p/the-comey-indictment-and-its-aftermath
Here is what’s about to be shut down:
national parks
national museums,
food safety inspections
government loans to small businesses
permits to build on federal land
Women, Infants & Children program (groceries for low-income families)
paychecks to military families
paychecks to most government workers
Texas ObserverIn 2024, the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program’s 208 students co-authored more than 180 peer-reviewed publications. Those students regularly work more than 12 hours a day conducting and repeating experiments in laboratories followed by reading, writing, and coding at home. https://www.texasobserver.org/lindale-to-harvard-trump-nih-grant-cuts/
#science #education #healthcare #politics #USpol #news #Texas #rural
Kim PeralesTrump's weakened NWS,🚨warnings from May & June:
"Staff vacancies hit Texas weather offices as they brace for a busy hurricane season.
In Houston, 44% of #NWS positions are vacant."
“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life,” wrote 5 former NWS directors from both Democratic & Republican admins in an open letter on May 2nd."
#Climate #TrumpRegime #FEMA #Protest #USPol
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/09/texas-noaa-hurricane-season-forecast-nws-trump-cuts/
I have a chapter on the Trump attacks on the rule of law in a new book out today:
The Economic Consequences of The Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment
==> REVISED & EXPANDED EDITION The Economic Consequences of the Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment delivers a timely, expert analysis of the economic shifts unfolding following President Trump’s return to office. Amid sweeping tariffs, sharp breaks in global alliances, assertions of presidential supremacy, government downsizing, deregulation, and risks to the rule of law, this volume offers thoughtful, evidence-based insights into how these policies may affect growth, trade, investment, inflation, stability, and the role of the dollar.
Steve HermanJapan Times - Eighty-seven Japanese universities announce support measures for international students in the US. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/07/japan/society/harvard-ban-japan-universities/
