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On Democracy Now, Amy Goodman interviews the Guardian’s Chris McGreal about the very unsavory allegiances behind the two authoritarians. 

will win by calling out Musk’s election interference. not to mention, of course, his lawless wrecking of our country.

is now trying to exact Stalinist forced confessions, as an eye witness tells America that the Venezuelans deported to a concentration camp in El Salvador were beaten and told to “Sign this!”

Is this the regime that Columbia University and our major corporate law firms feel comfortable aiding, abetting, and surrendering to? Apparently.

Lisa Needham writes at Public Notice:

“Paul, Weiss’s agreement to provide tens of millions of dollars of free labor to the administration inevitably makes them collaborators in Trump’s agenda and compromises the firm’s integrity. It also puts them in the same position as Columbia, constantly needing the administration’s approval to stave off new shakedowns. But the administration, like any bully, will keep attacking, will keep changing the terms, and no acquiescence will ever be sufficient. That’s exactly why bending the knee is such a bad idea.”

Beyond Nuclear describes how the Breakthrough Institute’s Ted Nordhaus makes it is his business to try and kybash qualified commissioners from being elected to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Always remember: nuclear power is at least as dangerous as burning fossil fuels.

But, oh, she’s just hyperventilating because Rep. Crockett wants to join a non-violent protest against Musk.

Oh the sham! Oh the manufactured outrage!

The entire Trump regime is made up of parodies like Bondi, except they’re also very dangerous and treasonous.

Adam Schiff during one of his recent You Tube bulletins–his channel is surprisingly entertaining, this is what Schumer and Jeffries don’t understand that they need to do–relates that he, too, is concerned about how college administrations handled the recent protests. But he emphasizes that Trump’s shakedowns against Columbia and other universities is nothing other than an attempt to bring these institutions under his control so that they succumb to Trump’s anti-fact agenda. And Schiff showed footage of J.D. Vance spewing fascist propaganda against higher ed. (After, of course, Vance had milked everything he could from the Ivy League.) What the universities must do, Sciff emphasized, is band together and provide a united front against Trump’s war on learning and fact.

Law firms should do the same thing.

I happened to get a glance at the Post’s cover and it is devoted to smearing Columbia, replete with full page color photo. 

Columbia’s trustees must resign for condoning the university’s submission to Trump’s anti-education agenda. It has performed an extraordinary act of cowardice and self-sabotage, refusing to defend academic independence in the face of fascist harassment.

Karp went out of his way to humiliate himself and his firm to propitiate Trump. Why would anyone entrust their legal affairs to a firm chaired by someone like this?

Huge Lowell in the Guardian granulates Karp’s deplorable, completely unnecessary  betrayal. A judge had already ruled that Trump’s similar  persecution of the Perkins Coie firm was probably unconstitutional.

“The deal with Paul, Weiss materialized in recent days over the course of several stunning moves that neither a major law firm of its ilk nor a president has perhaps ever countenanced,” Lowell’s sources said. 

Did Karp really think it was necessary to voluntarily curtail DEI initiatives at Paul,Weiss? Does he have any idea how he has besmirched his firm?

Again, we see how problematic intellectual intelligence can be when uninformed by ethics or emotional intelligence.

Karp is so unprincipled that he penned a statement accusing the firm’s alum David Pomerantz of “wrongdoing” because Pomerantz attempted to hold Trump responsible for his crimes.

“I engaged in no wrongdoing by working as a prosecutor to uphold the rule of law,” Pomerantz said in a statement.

Paul, Weiss has now positioned itself at the cutting edge of Trump’s campaign to eradicate law and order in this country, to put himself above the law.

Paul, Weiss clients should move to Perkins Coie.

in his war on law and order in this country. C.f. the memo that Trump issued Friday night on the heels of the Karp-engineered capitulation by Paul,Weiss, the law firm he is supposed to protect, not betray.Who the hell would now want to patronize a law firm that has agreed to practice discrimination?

Trump’s memo enjoins AG Bondi–who has already violated her oath of office with her attacks on our judicial system–to prosecute law firms on the pretext of ethical abuse, which in his twisted fascistically upside-down parlance, actually means any law firm that has been retained to hold him accountable for his crimes.

Do you still think, Sen. Schumer, that we’re some time away from an existential crisis?