Margarita Dritsas

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[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Any lawyer who files a motion like this should be instantly sanctioned, if not disbarred.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

JUST IN: The TX Supreme Court has killed Gov. Abbott's effort to eject state House Democrats who broke quorum last summer in an attempt to derail redistricting.

The quorum was restored in two weeks without court involvemnet, the justices note.

https://t.co/pmLe9ErWGz

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

REP. @VoteGloriaJ: “I was like this can’t be real, but it is. I went to the website… House Republicans are just big ol’ racists and don’t care who knows it.”

Gloria confirms what we said — White male Dems (except Powell) still have committees, Black & Female Dems were removed.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

I am absolutely devastated
Men who claim to be women have more rights than actual women in Australia.
It is women who are being discriminated against, not the men who claim to be us.

But in a sense, nothing has changed: we will all wake up tomorrow & men will still not be women.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

"@realDonaldTrump sucks people into this permission structure or this world that he occupies, and people deceive themselves into thinking that it's good and true, and then he does the next thing that's bad. And people go and they look aside. ... If you admit one thing about him that's bad, then you start having to admit other things. And that's a tall order emotionally because everyone wants to think of themselves as a good person. ... That's what happens, you become indebted. There's kind of this debt to morality that's built up, and you realize you don't want to admit how far you've gone—how far you've strayed from what is right."

[Texas Democratic Party @texasdemocrats]

Taking a page out of Trump’s authoritarian playbook, Governor Abbott has proposed appointing a “Statewide Prosecutor”. This will not make Texans any safer. It’s nothing more than an attempt to steal power from locally elected District Attorneys and give it to an unelected ally of the Governor who will advance his political agenda.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

He is not just accompanying the president, he is (once again) acting as a kind of co-president, making sure US policy benefits his commercial interests.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) today on Trump nominees:

The nominee for US Atty for Wyoming "was on Capitol grounds on January 6… and made the reprehensible claim that the police officers who risked their lives that day were guilty of ‘massive incompetence."

US Attorney nominee for Northern District of Alabama, "called the prosecutions of January 6 rioters who attacked police officers, ‘the Salem witch trials on a national scale.’ There are videos—there is no question about what was happening here… Supporting nominees like this does not ‘back the blue.”

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

CASAR: For the $1 billion we're being asked to spend on Trump's ballroom, we could fund 217 million free school lunches and 15,000 more teachers. As secretary of education, which do you think helps our nation more?

McMAHON: I think those are incredibly weird comparisons

[iaini10 @iaini10]

@stephbastiaan

[Stephanie Bastiaan @stephbastiaan]

The Full Federal Court has handed down its judgement in Giggle v Tickle.

In a shock to women across the country - Sall Grover not only lost her appeal, the Court set aside the original finding of indirect discrimination and replaced it with direct discrimination, upholding Tickle's cross-appeal.

The damages were doubled from $10,000 to $20,000.

It’s important to note the Court expressly said it was only applying the Sex Discrimination Act as it is written- it is "not empowered to give effect to its own view" about whether that law is desirable.

In 2013, @JuliaGillard’s @AustralianLabor government amended the Sex Discrimination Act- stripping the meaning out of "man" and "woman" and adding gender identity as a protected attribute to be pitted against biological sex.

Today's outcome is proof of what those amendments have done: women are left with no meaningful rights or recognition under the Sex Discrimination Act - a bitter irony, given that protecting women was the very purpose of the Act under our commitment to CEDAW.

In my opinion, this is a verdict on the law, not on Sall. The judges found that the law - as that government amended it - left them no other conclusion.

These amendments must be repealed.
The Sex Discrimination Act must once again recognise biological reality and protect women's right to single-sex spaces.

What a dark and devastating day for Australian women and girls.

#RepealTheSDA2013 #IStandWithSallGrover
#GigglevTickle
#Auspol

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: The White House has been quietly meeting with leaders from the DOJ, DHS and USPS to advance plans to build a national voter database ahead of the 2026 midterms.

The discussions stem from Trump's recent order targeting mail-in voting, which officials are reportedly finding ways to implement. https://t.co/SSbNpAjjIM

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

THERE IT IS: Another Truth Social-style court filing by Justice Dept

Arguing for Trump Ballroom, feds claim plaintiffs have "Trump Derangement Syndrome"

They say ballroom needs "state-of-the-art hospital & medical facilities, Top Secret military installations, bomb shelters"

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

Eric Trump is running his father's business & his father is running the country — w/ no blind trust separating them

Crypto has seen some of the largest sums flow in— totals we still don't fully know

More on Trump’s corruption @DeadlineWH @jonlovett 👇 -TN

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

One of the most troubling things about Trump’s second presidency is that the fraud & corruption has been completely normalized. There’s no call for accountability, let alone criminal investigation.

[ProPublica @propublica]

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
https://t.co/PrH5TdrVAQ

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

Real story:

Judge was about to throw out the case bc Trump controls both parties.

Before it’s dismissed, Trump tells both parties to reach a “settlement.”

Settlement shields Trump from any future audit and creates a secret slush fund that can dole out money to anyone with no transparency.

Mind-boggling corruption.

@SpeakerJohnson - you may not know it, but your job is to conduct oversight of the admin. You can’t run away from this one.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

President Trump unloading on @SangerNYT reflects a combination of anxiety, insecurity and desperation about the Iran war. David is the dean of national security reporters: experienced, meticulous and fair. Blaming the messenger underscores that the reality itself is pretty bad.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Eric Trump is joining Trump's trip to China.

Meanwhile, Eric runs the Trump Organization, the family business that has 25 international projects under development, which President Trump still owns and profits from. https://t.co/H818C7lRhg

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Trump did this.

Everyone knew that a war with Iran would cause a global price crisis and he did it anyway, because as he told us yesterday, "I don't think about Americans' financial situation".

It's not complicated.