Trump administration fires more January 6th prosecutors – terrible move

They have it backwards. Trump supports the criminals and punishes the prosecutors.

Let me just get this completely straight.Pardon all the January 6 criminals.Fire all the prosecutors who secured over 1k J6 convictions?This is a criminal & corrupt administration from top to bottom. And the Supreme Court is locked in & fully corrupt.Uh huh. 💩🤢www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus…

— Steve (@stupotus.com) 2025-06-28T14:58:53.238Z

Trump’s Justice Department launches sweeping cuts targeting Jan. 6 prosecutors, FBI agents

Pam Bondi just fired more than 20 Justice Dept. employees who worked on Jan. 6 cases and Trump's handling of classified documents.The firings are part of a massive purge aimed at clearing DOJ of attorneys and staff who took part in Jack Smith's prosecution of Trump. http://www.axios.com/2025/07/12/p…

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2025-07-12T17:40:05.535Z

Law firms were wrong to cave in to Trump

They will regret it,

BREAKING via ABC News “Judge permanently blocks Trump executive order that targeted the law firm Susman Godfrey, describing it as "unconstitutional from beginning to end."Law firms who have fought back are now 4/4 in securing permanent injunctions. DOJ has not yet appealed any of the rulings.”

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) 2025-06-27T22:01:52.301Z

BREAKING: The American Bar Association has sued the Trump administration on behalf of its members to put an end to Donald Trump's law firm intimidation project, calling Trump's efforts "unprecedented and uniquely dangerous to the rule of law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us…

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T17:33:21.099Z

Glad to see this—Paul Weiss deserves to go extinct after its cowardly capitulation to Trump. Every partner and associate with any integrity should flee ASAP. The firm is irredeemable. http://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/b…

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) 2025-05-23T22:04:14.051Z

“Many clients see the deals as a weakness and, increasingly, are pulling work away from the firms that [capitulated] to the Trump administration. … Attorneys are leaving the firms that caved to Trump, hoping to get the stink of capitulation off their resumes.”

— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-05-09T22:26:18.966Z

The law firm caved. The lawyers didn’t. “The agreement now is pushing more lawyers to leave…spurred by anger that the firm capitulated to Trump instead of fighting back against an administration campaign that many in the industry believe to be unconstitutional.”www.wsj.com/us-news/law/…

— L’Etat C’est Moi (@letatcestmoi.bsky.social) 2025-05-08T22:12:08.284Z

The five big law firms that caved to Trump—Kirkland, Cadwalader, A&O Shearman, Latham, and Simpson—are trying to defend themselves against the indefensible.They chose to collaborate with tyranny.Any new clients are suspect too.They’ll be known as cowards always. http://www.law.com/nationallawj…

— L’Etat C’est Moi (@letatcestmoi.bsky.social) 2025-05-06T19:53:16.522Z

What Republican, Democratic judges said about Trump’s law firm orders reut.rs/45PXNjq

— Reuters (@reuters.com) 2025-06-30T15:35:08.548Z

A shameful display of cowardice by the nation's largest law firms. This article should be required reading in every law school ethics class in the country.If you are a partner at one of these firms, know that the money will never be enough to wash away the stain. http://www.reuters.com/investigatio…

— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-08-03T20:53:04.072Z

“If every single immigrant who has a baby in the U.S. has to sue to obtain citizenship, we are happy to create an army of lawyers to represent those people," Mr. DiBianco saidobvi they shouldnt have to but I really appreciate people whose response to hurdles is, aight bet, watch me clear that shit

— Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) 2025-07-22T16:12:06.340Z

ProPublica: Trump’s War on Big Law Means It’s Harder to Challenge the Administration

Chairman of the law firm that initially caved to Trump’s demands is in the Epstein files… imagine that…

— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2026-01-31T14:45:54.729Z

Roadside architecture photos available from the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress has a collection of photos by John Margolies

Roadside America Photographs by John Margolies in the Library of Congress – Introduction

John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive

Free to Use and Reuse: John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive

Recent articles on SSA

all bad news

tired: 'Big Balls' outWIRED: 'Big Balls' is back and now at the Social Security Administration, we have learned from a White House official. SCOOP:

— WIRED (@wired.com) 2025-06-26T22:06:01.473Z

NEW: SSA has lost 3,700 employees this year and plans to shrink its workforce by 7,000 in total.Leadership appears to wants to use tech to make up the difference, but experts I spoke to are skeptical. http://www.nextgov.com/digital-gove…

— Natalie Alms (@almsnatalie.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T20:13:48.994Z

Social Security Has a ‘Maddening’ New AI Phone Bot. Here’s How to Deal With It

SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano promised he'd run a "fact-based, rule-based org that can count." But something's not adding up.1,244 fewer Social Security staff serve in field offices as of 5/1, per SSA.But Bisignano testified that "the reality is we have more people in field offices"

— Kathleen Romig (@kathleenromig.bsky.social) 2025-06-25T21:54:03.853Z

This is the kind of thing we could develop a volunteer service for — people who work from home who just call and test (since SSA has shut down their own reporting).Same for VA. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p…

— emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T21:36:05.436Z

✨New✨: Over the past five months, the Trump Admin has forced the Social Security Administration (SSA) through a radical transformation that threatens to disrupt services for the largely older and severely disabled people who most rely on the agency. 🧵w/Devin O'Connorwww.cbpp.org/research/soc…

— Kathleen Romig (@kathleenromig.bsky.social) 2025-06-23T20:52:16.402Z

Paramount should not cave in to Trump on his CBS lawsuit

Trump should lose in court.

WSJ ed board warning Paramount not to pay Trump’s bribe!“The better alternative for Paramount: Win the legal case, vindicate its CBS journalists and 1st Amend & trust FCC has enough integrity to operate as something more than the President’s personal protection racket.” http://www.wsj.com/opinion/para…

— Ian Bassin (@ianbassin.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T03:54:34.789Z

That sentence is so insane

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T01:23:24.203Z

Sen. Wyden tells me that if Shari Redstone settles Donald Trump's "bogus case" against CBS News to push the Paramount-Skydance merger through "is illegal and offensive to anyone who values the First Amendment."More in @status.news: http://www.status.news/p/senators-w…

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy.bsky.social) 2025-05-21T02:41:45.777Z

partisan sorting, especially once one side becomes authoritarian, is simply incompatible with a business model for news that pursues attention from as many people as possible to sell advertising. as i told Semafor, once you're writing stories "for everyone," you're writing stories for no one

— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) 2025-05-20T13:19:11.268Z