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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 5h

No Dem is in the race and I do think Alan is a good guy who stands by his principles. He’s giving his district a choice and if there were more people like him in the very red parts of Utah I think we’d all sleep much better at night

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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 5h

Friends, I’m an independent candidate for Utah House 64, going head to head against the Republican candidate. The election is getting close and any donation now will be enormously helpful to reach voters via signs and mailers. Visit electawessman.com/contribute/ to give my chances a boost!

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 9h

Dems’ 2028 platform should include stuff like letting soldiers have beards, letting TSA agents sit down, letting generals get their promotions, etc. The deep state isn’t real but civil and uniformed services are. We need them to know which side respects their human dignity before MAGA’s next coup.

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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 9h

None of the clowns making these decisions should ever be in a position of authority or public trust again.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 12h

these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us

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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 18h

Regardless of the merits of data centers, this is not an appropriate use of public lands, because it monopolizes the land for a single private entity rather than keeping the land as multi-use, defeating the whole idea of public lands. Let Valar purchase its own land if it needs space.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 18h

JUST IN: Judge Aileen Cannon (Trump/FLSD) has denied, for failure to confer with the parties in the criminal case, a motion several ex-FBI agents filed seeking to clarify whether they are gagged about discussing Mar-a-Lago probe as part of 'grand conspiracy' investigation

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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 01/10/2026

JUST IN: Meta is using AI data centers to claim research tax credits, according to the NYT. Its total research credits reached almost $4,000,000,000 in 2025 alone.

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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A clawback of an unconstitutional impoundment ought not to require unanimous consent to move forward in the Senate and should not be subject to the filibuster.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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Tim Lambert @timlambert-pa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a reminder: It is my God-given right to hold this country's leaders accountable to the citizens they represent -- without fear of begin banned, harassed or imprisoned for my actions to carry out a right that is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so.

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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grant us a stay, you’re the Shadow -Men Grant us a stay tonight ‘Cause we’re all in the mood for the liberty To deprive someone else of their rights

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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The problem is, we don’t even know if the majority did consider the harms at all! Their order was silent and opaque, amounting to fiat rather than being a reasoned judgment. The shadow docket is the injustice docket.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have never understood why knowing that Rs will almost certainly fail to do their duty somehow eliminates the responsibility of Ds to do theirs to the extent they can.

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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Schmitt’s attempted maneuver this morning deserves ridicule, but there’s a more serious aspect to it. He was trying to frame Jack Smith. This was no innocent mistake, but part of a calculated effort to bear false witness against a person in order to harm the credibility of his work and character.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 29/09/2026

A police officer stopped his mother last November, named no infraction, and handed her to ICE. She had a work permit and an asylum case pending.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 29/09/2026

ICE is deporting parents without their children. The Atlantic follows a 2-year-old in Mobile, Alabama, left behind when his parents were sent to Venezuela. 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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The Babies Left Behind in America

The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Supreme Court majority once again demonstrates it has no understanding of (or perhaps just no interest in following) the law of stays. "Sure, kill and torture a bunch of innocent people while we decide whether doing so is legal" is NOT how stays are supposed to work. 1/2

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If “irreparable harm” means anything, it means being sent to a country you’ve never seen, where you may well be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, under a policy that (the cert grant implicitly acknowledges!) may well be illegal

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this makes me ill. this isn't some policy dispute. this is a court of v comfortable ppl making a non-decision, avoiding the crushing harm, int'l law violation, & total abuse of power involved in even one of these 3rd party 'removals'. it's sick.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again)

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.

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Gosh Shammgosh @goshshammgosh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think it's important to note Schmitt has staff he relies on from both his personal office as well as the well-staffed Committee's majority office. This *big-Hawks-game-plan* had to have gone through a dozen people first and no one caught it as being, well, the dumbest god damn thing of all time.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026

Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.

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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My heart goes out to Trevor Lee’s kids. I hope they can escape some of the trauma that his misdeeds have caused and will cause, and that they can emerge from this ordeal better citizens than their father.

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Sasha Hupka @sashahupka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: An investigation by Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell found 52 of 60 potential noncitizens flagged by a error-prone federal system known as SAVE are actually citizens. Last week, SCOTUS said President Donald Trump's administration can use the tool. Read: www.votebeat.org/arizona/2026...

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52 out of 60 voters flagged as noncitizens in key Arizona county turn out to be citizens

Maricopa County’s GOP recorder said he had found 60 noncitizens who had cast a ballot. Upon closer investigation, though, the real number is only eight.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 28/09/2026

The Utah Republican Party was a home for him despite his obscene bigotry and they let primary voters oust him rather than force him out.

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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have a novel, even radical idea, that we should elect people of good character to public office and not people whose success hinges on being their worst selves.

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 28/09/2026

NEW: Today, the ACLU and other immigrant rights' orgs filed a new lawsuit — NATHAN V. TRUMP — in federal court in D.C. challenging President Trump's new birthright citizenship executive order by asking a judge to declare it unlawful and prevent the admin from enforcing it.

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 28/09/2026

Just flagging that the two Trump admin staffers now running Oval Office operations who were allegedly involved in mishandling classified documents last term also got $20k and $45k in cash gifts from Trump last year.

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Oval Office operations run by alleged Trump classified documents co-conspirator - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

Trump loyalists Walt Nauta and Chamberlain Harris were implicated in mishandling classified records. They're running White House operations.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup. None of these people were appointed by the Congress to do any of these acts; it was a criminal coup.

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Gary Tuskes @gtuskes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Thou shall not bear false witness” is a rule that, for some reason, people have always allowed exempt from politics, and now because of our highly politicized world, that exemption has seeped into how people live their lives. Religious or not, where are our morals?

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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This piece reinforces a couple of thoughts I’ve been mulling over: 1. “Thou shalt not bear false witness” is far more important than our society values it 2. We are committing untold acts of friendly fire by not being careful when taking our verbal shots at people, wounding those whom we’d protect

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026

I saw that clip circulating yesterday and thought there could be a completely normal, non-sexist, explanation other than the rage bait one. Grateful for this (really well-written!) peek into a loving family, sad she felt she had to write it. themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.

You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.

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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.

Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:

A chart that shows the number of emergency applications filed and granted by the Supreme Court during each presidency dating back to George W. Bush, with the data annualized to show the far-higher frequencies since 2017, but especially during the Trump I and Trump II administrations.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is... troubling. SCOTUS is allowing the Trump administration to use an error-ridden tool that relies on inaccurate data. This tool has already led to false allegations of non-citizen voting. Now, it could "accidentally" remove legal voters from the rolls, causing real disenfranchisement.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This means eligible voters will be wrongly labeled non-citizens due to faulty and unreliable data and be purged from the rolls

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