Multiple agencies are now also doing the same thing. I find it unlikely this was planned by DOGE as it is massively embarrassing to Musk and makes him look weak

Them fighting each other also give them less time to do horrible things. Yes, they will still do some bad things while they fight, but it takes up some of their time and hurts their sense of unity. It reduces the damage a bit. It also inspires other outside the government to fight back too

Every little bit of delay and harm reduction is something we’re going to need

EDIT: also worth mentioning that now other agencies are also pushing against musk now that Patel is. Resistance is often something that spreads once it is normalized

You can hold mid to lower level officials in contempt without as much pomp and circumstance as holding the president in contempt. They can be held in civil contempt (can include fines, asset seizures, and or jail time) which is not a criminal charge and thus not pardonable

If everyone below Trump gets the brunt, they’re going to feel obliged to actually follow the courts rather than what Trump says

Yes, just gets 10x less coverage than all the horrible things

For instance

The Trump administration restores federal webpages after court order

My point is more so to fight every damn fight

Assuming that it’s all worthless is exactly what Trump wants from everyone

For what it’s worth, there are threats of contempt of court in some of those deliberate misinterpretations of the court

Media coverage of any good news is pretty minimal lately, but he has largely (though not entirely with some deleberate misinterpretation of them) been complying with court orders for the moment

Fight every fight with every tool you have

He’s mostly followed rulings so far, so yes

Edit: and to clarify, I mean this in a “fight every fight” kind of way. Don’t give in and assume all fights are hopeless. That is exactly what Trump et al want from you. Use every tool to fight back

NY is taking them to court over it - just as a note. States do have the ability to enforce things themselves, so a court ruling in their favor can be enforced by the state itself

Specifically in a few months on April 1, 2025. This will determine if Wisconsin keeps their 4-3 liberal-conservative split. The races are technically non-partisan but one candidate is an insane republican-endorsed figure. The other, Susan Crawford is already on the court and she has previously ruled to do things like stop gerrymandering in Wisconsin and helped give them fair maps

Make sure you are registered to vote - especially if you want a mail ballot! The deadline to register online is March 12th. Wisconsin also has same in-person registration available through election day via same day voter registration (not all state have this)

Indivisible is also doing some good work with traction too. Local branches have been an organizer of some of those 50501 protests and they also do directed pressure on lawmakers

SCOTUS is insane, but they haven’t been a pure rubber stamp for him in the past even recently. They’re much more selective about when to be insane than people who don’t watch the court closely think

It also takes time to get up to SCOTUS even if they do rule in his favor. The name of the game for opposition is delay delay delay, so even just slowing him down a lot is helpful

He’s created that in large part because of the media environment around him. Many republicans were upset and outraged on Jan 6th until they heard the fox news, rogan, etc line

Change the media consumption and a lot will follow from there. Changes to which media are more dominate are going to matter more than people think

Notably those other platforms are all views that Joe Rogan isn’t getting. They just add to the total. You don’t have to top each platform individually to get to the overall highest

The article cited a source on overall views where you can see exactly what they described

https://app.podscribe.ai/series/top?months=1&orderDirection=desc&orderName=monthlyDownloads&pageIndex=0

So you’re saying that looking at Spotify is going to be even more misleading because 100% of Joe Rogan’s listeners are there vs not all listeners of other podcasts?

Spotify is not the only way to listen to podcasts

Protests organize people to fight for more

A hell of a lof of people just signed up to do work with groups like Indivisible who are putting in the less flashy work

Protests are a first step, not a last

Then keep up the pressure on them. Make sure they see this all the time and make it hard to ignore

You don’t need to win on every issue to get them to bend a little on some

Republican majorities are slim in the house and senate. They can only afford to lose 3 votes in the house and 4 votes in the senate (Vance is the tie breaker if 50-50). Make every one of them feel the pressure

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I don’t understand what else you are asking? The margins are unchanged in the Delaware state senate which that line in the article states. Dems maintain the same amount of seats as these were Democratic holds

Oops fixed the title

Special elections have low turnout typically. Many people don’t know they are happening