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Alysa Youngson

@alysarust.bsky.social
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Attorney, people mom of 5, dog mom of 3, a curious person...my hobby is learning new things

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Patent Buddy @patentbuddy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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U.S. Government: NPEs Deserve Injunctive Relief when their Patents Are Infringed
by Dennis Crouch I learned of this significant development from Michael Shapiro's Bloomberg article reporting that the U.S. government took …
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Every American who cares about democracy will want to spend some disconcerting moments with this.
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How Changes in Turnout and Vote Choice Powered Trump’s Victory in 2024
In this interactive feature, explore how changes between the 2020 and 2024 elections in how – and whether – people voted helped to return President Trump to office.
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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️
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Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated
U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13. I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Just thinking about how indignant Hegseth was with the media a few weeks ago when it was first revealed he shared secret war plans in a Signal chat -- knowing at the time he'd done the same thing in a separate group chat with his wife, brother and personal lawyer. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
nytimes.com
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
That an alcoholic weekend talk show host cosplaying the SecDef colossally screwed up, isn’t all that stunning. What’s stunning is how republicans will ignore this dangerous breach of security because they’re too afraid to tell Donald Trump he was wrong about Pete Hegseth.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The Signal leak is a prime moment for Democrats to get caught trying. Call for resignations or impeachment hearings or both. Be omnipresent in the media demanding and explaining accountability measures. Don’t let this fade away. Treat this the way the GOP treated Hillary’s emails. Make it a thing.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 24/03/2025
NEW: The Trump administration invokes the state-secrets privilege, saying it will give Judge Boasberg no more information about deportation flights to inform his decision about whether the gov't defied his orders storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NOTICE INVOKING STATE SECRETS PRIVILEGE
The Executive Branch hereby notifies the Court that no further information will be
provided in response to the Court's March 18, 2025 Minute Order based on the state secrets privilege and the concurrently filed declarations of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of
Homeland Security.
This is a case about the President's plenary authority, derived from Article II and the
mandate of the electorate, and reinforced by longstanding statute, to remove from the homeland designated terrorists participating in a state-sponsored invasion of, and predatory incursion into, the United States. The Court has all of the facts it needs to address the compliance issues before
it. Further intrusions on the Executive Branch would present dangerous and wholly unwarranted separation-of-powers harms with respect to diplomatic and national security concerns that the
Court lacks competence to address.
Accordingly, the states secrets privilege forecloses further
demands for details that have no place in this matter, and the government will address the Court's order to show cause tomorrow by demonstrating that there is no basis for the suggestion of non-
compliance with any binding order.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It’s a long “memorandum,” but it’s essentially telling Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem to go after lawyers who challenge the federal government — which is many lawyer’s jobs. It’s basically a catch-all “let’s Paul Weiss whoever pisses us off” memo.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
THE SECRETARY
OF HOMELAND SECURITY
SUBJECT:
Preventing Abuses
of the Legal System and
the Federal
Court
Lawyers and law firms that

engage in actions that violate

the laws of the United States

or rules governing attorney

conduct must be efficiently and

effectively held accountable.

Accountability is especially

important when misconduct by

lawyers and law firms threatens

our national security, homeland

security, public safety, or

election integrity.
Unfortunately, far too many attorneys and law firms have long ignored these requirements when litigating against the Federal Government or in
pursuing baseless partisan attacks.
To address these
concerns, I hereby direct the Attorney General to seek sanctions against attorneys and law firms who engage in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation against the United States or in matters
before executive departments and agencies of the United States.I further direct the Attorney General to take all appropriate action to refer for disciplinary action any attorney whose conduct in Federal court or before any component of the Federal Government appears to violate professional conduct rules, including rules governing meritorious claims and contentions, and particularly in cases that implicate national security, homeland security, public safety, or election integrity. In complying with this directive, the Attorney General shall consider the ethical duties that law partners have when supervising junior attorneys, including imputing the ethical misconduct of junior attorneys
to partners or the law firm when appropriate.I further direct that, when the Attorney General determines that conduct by an attorney or law firm in litigation against the Federal Government warrants
seeking sanctions or other disciplinary action, the Attorney General shall, in consultation with any relevant senior executive official, recommend to the President, through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, additional steps that may be taken, including reassessment of security clearances held by the attorney or termination of any Federal contract for which the relevant attorney or law firm has been hired to perform services.
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Marti @dogleaps.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The US no longer allows European tourists to travel across its borders. This is some USSR era police state BS. apnews.com/article/bord...
apnews.com
Detentions of European tourists at US borders spark fears of traveling to America
U.S. authorities have arrested and detained Canadian and European travelers at U.S. borders in recent weeks.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
JUST IN: Judge Hollander has issued a *second* letter today warning Social Security acting commissioner Dudek not to shut down all operations over her order barring DOGE's access to sensitive systems. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Please join @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social, @KimberlyEAtkins, and me on 3/26 at 7 pm for a conversation about how authoritarians use disinformation to seize power. More here. bigtentusa.cmail20.com/t/t-e-skihja...
bigtentusa.cmail20.com
👀 INVITE: Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Barbara McQuade with Kimberly Atkins Stohr joining BigTentUSA on March 26
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/03/2025
congratulations to john roberts who is as responsible for the current state of affairs as any single person in the country
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
NEW: Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...
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Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR
Federal workers obviously don’t like government shutdowns. Most of them are furloughed....
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025
i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Just as everything is coming down to the wire on Capitol Hill getting fresh round of reports, most of which still trying to confirm, of big new permanent and unilateral shutdowns of whole swathes of the federal government.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION: My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then, "Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
If you're a journalist calling this in any form or manner a "clean CR", even semi-clean, you're lying to your readers.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ? They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses. That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue. The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
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Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Alright, I got Mahmoud Khalil's full habeas corpus petition now. The whole thing is linked below. ⬇️
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 11/03/2025
We have some quick and easy advice for those attempting to cut wasteful government spending: Stop letting Donald Trump make the government pay his own resorts so he can golf. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
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Donald Trump Has Already Spent $10.7 Million Of Taxpayer Money Playing Golf
Somehow, the expense has flown under the radar of the waste, fraud and abuse experts at DOGE.
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Bill Schultheiss @schlthss.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This article sums up how I have been feeling since the day the oligarchs won. Each day just keeps coming and going doing and experiencing the normal things while the cracks in the system slowly grow bigger to eventually suck us down the hole.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 27/02/2025
DC claims up but MD and VA look okay. This is for week of 2/22. Week of 2/15 notes large manufacturing layoffs in KY and TN driving spikes there, no other special notes on state level claims moving.
Table on page 5 from https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
MORGAN STANLEY: “.. Immigration averaged about 3mn per year in 2022-24 .. “We think immigration falls to 1mn this year and only 500,000 next year. .. Slower immigration could pull short-run potential GDP growth down from 2.5-3.0% in 2022-24 to 2.0% this year and 1-1.5% next.”
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The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard.com · 20/02/2025
Donald Trump moves to abolish the Presidio Trust through executive order
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Donald Trump moves to abolish the Presidio Trust through executive order
The federal agency was established by Congress in 1996 to oversee the 1,500-acre San Francisco park.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
As of noon on Thursday, Trump was president for 31 full days. He spent all or part of 16 of those days at four Trump Organization properties. from @pbump.com: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Half of Trump’s first month in office saw him visiting Trump properties
On one-third of the first 31 days of his second term, Trump played golf.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
THR: “.. Paramount now signaling that it’s prepared to go on the offensive .. leveraging the threat of uncovering information about Trump’s financials, including with respect to his social media company .. and the cryptocurrency he launched, in discovery.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Paramount Is Starting to Fight Back Against Trump in ’60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
The CBS News owner's legal strategy has revolved around arguments challenging the President's insistence that it should stay in federal court in Texas, in addition to raising the specter of discovery ...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/02/2025
When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.”
	•	The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives.
	•	The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000.

Each point represents a federal agency:
	•	Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs.
	•	Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs.

Key Observations:
	•	Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates.
	•	Notable targeted agencies include:
	•	HHS (Health & Human Services)
	•	EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
	•	NIH (National Institutes of Health)
	•	CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
	•	Dept. of Education
	•	USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development)
	•	The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies.
	•	A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size.

Takeaway:

The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology.

Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
ADL before: Never Again ADL now: Maybe Be Less Paranoid?
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
NYT goes Trumpian too. nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u... The duties are NOT on Mexico and Canada. They are taxes that we pay on goods imported from Mexico and Canada. It's not hard, it's us, not them.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
So much for supporting our troops.
WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Nearly 1,660
Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending
U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.
The group includes unaccompanied minors awaiting reunification with their families in the U.S. as well as Afghans at risk of Taliban retribution because they fought for the former U.S.-backed Afghan government, said Shawn VanDiver, head of the #AfghanEvac coalition of U.S. veterans and advocacy groups and the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
A German citizen on Tiktok warns US users about the similarities between Hitler’s rise to power & Trump’s collision with Tiktok, goes viral, then when her prophecy comes true, the video is removed for community guidelines violation. Draw your own conclusions. I grabbed a screen recording. 👇👇
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“Elon Musk is likely to be given office space in the West Wing” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...
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Musk Is Likely to Get Office Space in the West Wing (Gift Article)
The world’s richest man had been expected to be situated in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, but a West Wing office would give him closer access to President Trump.
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.
Never believe that anti-
Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
the message for the next four years is that the three richest men in America, who control all of your communications, are propping up a corrupt dictator so they can loot the country
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I just came back from one of the most amazing D&D sessions I've ever run in my life. For context, in the last year I've been working as a professional DM, and one of my gigs is running games for kids in a camp setting here in LA. My table has been known as the most chaotic of the bunch.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
How much media coverage was devoted to a false allegation that Joe Biden supposedly received a $5 million bribe from Burisma before becoming president? How much media coverage was devoted to whoever around the world pumped many billions into Trump’s new Crypto this week, & why?
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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 20/01/2025
And the case against DOGE is live. Here's the complaint.
storage.courtlistener.com
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 20/01/2025
As the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wisely said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Today and every day, I pledge to never silence my voice in the fight for what is right, and I will continue to march in the path he forged toward justice.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/01/2025
shoutout to the dudes who insisted that a vote for harris was a vote for endless war. you crazy for that one!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
They're going to be in every shot of the swearing-in. Good. I'll have a shot to go back to for the next four years.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
[blink]] [blink] When there's something *John Yoo* says a *Republican* president can't do...
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Paul Glastris @glastris.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Good historical context in this essay on the emerging Trump oligarchly by @carterd.bsky.social @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social, including this quote: “The rich,” Aristotle writes, “if the constitution gives them the power, are apt to be insolent and avaricious.” washingtonmonthly.com/2025/01/20/o...
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Our American Oligarchy | Washington Monthly
Extracting, defending, and sanctifying the wealth of—and rule by—the few
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I’m glad President Biden did this. What a horror that this preemptive action is necessary. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...
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Biden in Final Hours Pardons Cheney, Fauci and Milley to Thwart Reprisals
Acting on the day he leaves office, President Biden used his executive clemency power to protect people targeted by his incoming successor, Donald J. Trump, who has vowed “retribution.”
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