Reposted by Alysa YoungsonPatent Buddy @patentbuddy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025patentlyo.com/patent/2025/...patentlyo.comU.S. Government: NPEs Deserve Injunctive Relief when their Patents Are Infringedby Dennis Crouch I learned of this significant development from Michael Shapiro's Bloomberg article reporting that the U.S. government took … 011
Reposted by Alysa Youngson🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Every American who cares about democracy will want to spend some disconcerting moments with this.pewresearch.orgHow Changes in Turnout and Vote Choice Powered Trump’s Victory in 2024In 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. 610434
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonMichael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 26/06/2025A 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 ⬇️michaelrlowry.substack.comCritical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly TerminatedU.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts 19523201555
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Last 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. 685169754396
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Just 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.comHegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal ChatThe 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. 1118241
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025That 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. 1503183669
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal: 14505226021409
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonAmanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025The 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. 18380682113
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 24/03/2025NEW: 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... 1312069764
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/03/2025It’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. 24262062250
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonMarti @dogleaps.bsky.social · 21/03/2025The US no longer allows European tourists to travel across its borders. This is some USSR era police state BS. apnews.com/article/bord...apnews.comDetentions of European tourists at US borders spark fears of traveling to AmericaU.S. authorities have arrested and detained Canadian and European travelers at U.S. borders in recent weeks. 298
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 22/03/2025JUST 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... 496172425444
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonBarb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Please 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 1026572
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/03/2025We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us! 12358179614824
Reposted by Alysa Youngsonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/03/2025congratulations to john roberts who is as responsible for the current state of affairs as any single person in the country 677319114778
Alysa Youngson @alysarust.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Agreed! Warner is not the man for the moment. Very disappointing ☹️ 030
Alysa Youngson @alysarust.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Are you voting NO on cloture? I’m your constituent & have voted for you at every Election. But if you vote YES on cloture, I’ll bust my ass to find a trustworthy Democrat to replace you. And I’m confident that I won’t be alone in that endeavor 2141
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025NEW: Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...talkingpointsmemo.comBiggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CRFederal workers obviously don’t like government shutdowns. Most of them are furloughed.... 9550781665
Reposted by Alysa Youngsonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution 1047324704867
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Just 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. 25457132
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonJesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 11/03/2025DOCUMENT 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." 669139886619
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/03/2025If you're a journalist calling this in any form or manner a "clean CR", even semi-clean, you're lying to your readers. 394059870
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 10/03/2025One 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 27999664915969
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonErik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Alright, I got Mahmoud Khalil's full habeas corpus petition now. The whole thing is linked below. ⬇️ 519747
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonCREW @citizensforethics.org · 11/03/2025We 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...huffpost.comDonald Trump Has Already Spent $10.7 Million Of Taxpayer Money Playing GolfSomehow, the expense has flown under the radar of the waste, fraud and abuse experts at DOGE. 19694268
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonBill Schultheiss @schlthss.bsky.social · 26/02/2025This 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. 46719
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 27/02/2025DC 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. 57517
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/02/2025MORGAN 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.” 2026787
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonThe San Francisco Standard @sfstandard.com · 20/02/2025Donald Trump moves to abolish the Presidio Trust through executive ordersfstandard.comDonald Trump moves to abolish the Presidio Trust through executive orderThe federal agency was established by Congress in 1996 to oversee the 1,500-acre San Francisco park. 33203114
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/02/2025As 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.comOpinion | Half of Trump’s first month in office saw him visiting Trump propertiesOn one-third of the first 31 days of his second term, Trump played golf. 1051225460
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/02/2025THR: “.. 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...hollywoodreporter.comParamount Is Starting to Fight Back Against Trump in ’60 Minutes’ LawsuitThe 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 ... 27571201463
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/02/2025When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen. 9513127112334
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/02/2025The 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. 🧵⬇️ 251106174753
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/01/2025ADL before: Never Again ADL now: Maybe Be Less Paranoid? 38076861147
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonDean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 20/01/2025NYT 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. 1116349
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025So much for supporting our troops. 19443194
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonCasey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 19/01/2025A 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. 👇👇 15756932641
Reposted by Alysa Youngsonsouthpaw @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...nytimes.comMusk 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. 5621561
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonJustin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 20/01/2025When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944. 4855941948
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/01/2025the 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 15584114
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonRiley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 19/01/2025I 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. 13561102
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/01/2025How 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? 26097702204
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonNational Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 20/01/2025And the case against DOGE is live. Here's the complaint.storage.courtlistener.com 25979243
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonCongresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 20/01/2025As 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. 611215665490
Reposted by Alysa Youngsonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/01/2025shoutout to the dudes who insisted that a vote for harris was a vote for endless war. you crazy for that one! 15893361232
Reposted by Alysa YoungsonDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025They'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. 812220