Mar 21, 2025 · THERE ARE FEW TOPICS THE LEGAL WORLD loves discussing more than the legal world itself. But even by its standards of self-interest, the chatter about Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison’s decision to reach a settlement with President Donald Trump over his executive order threatening the firm has been immense.

3 days ago · ath the clown makeup lies a hyperactive malevolence. Much has been written about the Trump team’s assault on civil society, universities, public health, the judiciary, and our global alliances, and rightly so—but there is one danger that deserves more attention, because our ability to thwart this attempted revolution, this upending of our constitutional system, depends upon truth itself.

2 days ago · J.D. Vance flew to Greenland—and delivered one of the most embarrassing, confused, and hostile press conferences imaginable. Tim Miller takes on the absurdity of Vance’s remarks, from bizarre threats toward Greenland and Denmark, to a …

5 days ago · VIBE CHECK: Our soul brothers over at Defending Democracy Together have a new poll out this morning checking the public temperature on Elon Musk and DOGE’s war on the federal government. A key finding: Musk is significantly less popular than the government workers he’s putting through the wood chipper. “Fifty-five percent of American voters hold favorable views of federal government ...

Mar 24, 2025 · FRESH FROM HIS VICTORY LAST WEEK bringing the law firm of Paul Weiss to kiss the ring of autocracy, President Donald Trump on Saturday issued an unprecedented memo directing the attorney general and secretary of homeland security to take a series of actions to penalize what he called “abuses of the legal system and the federal court [sic].” ...

Mar 24, 2025 · The rough roadmap for how to proceed goes like this: Demonstrate popular power in the provinces through large-scale rallies. Use these events to organize the resistance into a mass movement that can be called into action.

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Mar 24, 2025 · NOT SURPRISINGLY, THEY ARE ALSO driving up consumer gloom —and the hardest hits could be yet to come. Democrat Martin O’Malley, a former Maryland governor and Social Security administrator, says staffing cuts at the agency have already triggered brief outages and predicts the system will “crater” if thousands more are laid off, as planned. He told CNBC on March 1 that within thirty to ...

2 days ago · Tim Miller and guests discuss the latest political news for the flagship podcast of the Never Trump movement and the reality-based community. Every weekday we provide insightful analysis, political hot-takes, an unabashed defense of liberal democracy and long-form interviews that cut through the "both-sides" BS.

6 days ago · SPEAKING ON MARCH 1 to a group of canvassers for the right-wing youth group Turning Point USA in deep-red Waukesha County, Wisconsin, Brad Schimel explained why it is so important that he be elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. “Donald Trump doesn’t do this by himself, there has to be a support network around it,” said Schimel, who is seeking a ten-year term in the April 1 election.