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Asha Rangappa

@asharangappa.bsky.social
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Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine. asharangappa.substack.com

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UncleMark🦅🇺🇸 @unclemark.bsky.social · 14m
Gretchen,
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 15m
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Google: Because of that executive order today, the proper corporate names for OpenAI and SpaceXAI will effectively function under the OpenSI and XSI umbrella in official government documents and the broader industry rebrand.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 17m
I need a Mean Girls “stop trying to make SI happen, it’s not going to happen” meme
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JD303 @sjdco-xblows.bsky.social · 28m
GOP really “Schmitt the bed” today
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RollsRoyceMerlin61 @rollsroycemerlin61.bsky.social · 46m
An absolute "Schmitt" show
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Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 45m
“The Schmitt has hit the fan”
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 39m
also not getting enough attention: these texts are between one of the lawyers on Jack Smith's team and a US Marshall tasked with keeping people fueled by Republican conspiracy theories from murdering Jack Smith in public because he tried to prosecute the president for crimes that he did
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 49m
But they would have been in the SAME STATE. Illuminati confirmed!
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 49m
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 7h
🚨Exclusive🚨: I have exculpatory evidence in what is easily the dumbest congressional oversight episode of the year...maybe the decade. I was at the Iowa v. MD game & just looked at my pics & sure enough, someone who looks like Jack Smith is sitting in Sec 109, Row 1. Complete & total vindication!
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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1h
Obviously not this senator’s staff…
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h
"Hunter Biden was on a board in Ukraine" was enough to whatabout away Trump family corruption And "Twitter made exceptions for Trump but got a request from a Dem they rejected" was enough to "prove" bias *against* the right So "Smith was in Georgia, where Fanny Willis is" should've been enough too
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4h
It was literally just to prove that he was in the Atlanta area within a 24-48 hour timeframe. That's it. That's all Schmitt needed to weave his Deep State conspiracy theory about Jack Smith making a secret trip to visit Fani Willis and collude with her on jailing Trump and his allies.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1h
This Eric Schmitt thing is a reminder that even now we can occasionally have nice things.
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Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social · 7h
Def. Sec. Hegseth signed a memo today that CBS News obtained two months ago eliminating civilian tenure at military service academies. The Daily Wire was first to report on Tuesday that Hegseth signed the memo CBS News first reported on. Story: www.cbsnews.com/news/dod-pen...
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 1h
i’ve been busy most of the day but i’d be remiss if i didn’t mention eric schmitt, who took a faceplant so hilariously legend that even the NYT couldn’t sugarcoat it (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 1h
Come to see Eric Schmitt try to chuckle his way through his obvious humiliation. Stay to watch Amy Klobuchar dunk on Eric Schmitt for a *2nd* time today.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2h
Dude screwed up so badly, he is getting murdered on the other site.
Screenshot of an X post by Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt), timestamped 6:54 PM on Sep 29, 2026. The post reads: “Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?” Below it, a Readers proposed context note says: “Still gathering ratings” and “Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury during his congressional testimony because Eric did not know the difference between the Hawks and Hawkeyes,” followed by a truncated NBC News link.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h
“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 5h
The law and order party, folks
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 9h
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 5h
Also, what was the alleged link between the Hawks game and Willis? Was she there?? Or was the allegation that he went to see a game in Atlanta so it must have been a secret meeting with Willis? I’m so confused on the evidentiary logic
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 15h
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 7h
The case at Cornell is the kind of higher ed issue in which the DOJ or DOE *should* open a Title IX investigation. In a normal world that’s whst would happen. Instead, we are in the upside down world where you won’t hear a peep from this administration
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY…
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...
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Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns
Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
😍😍😍
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is akin to what Putin did via the GRU fronts in the Prigozhin network in the Sahel. Especially Dagalo's/Hemedti's controlled parts of southern Sudan. They took the gold out through MERO-Gold & MERO-Invest & then laundered them through the UAE. Because no one legit will touch it.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.
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Me fail English @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the person who the New York Times has made its education expert
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
FBI fires two stars: “Both Burgwald, a West Point graduate, and Rae have served in high-profile posts in which they received attorney general’s awards over the past two decades. Rae supervised the FBI’s response to the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.” news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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FBI Ousts Officials Probing Threats to Stephen Miller’s Family
FBI leadership removed two counterterrorism leaders due to dissatisfaction with their investigation of allegedly threatening phone calls made to senior White House aide Stephen Miller’s wife, said thr...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27/09/2026
Tapper: "Would you support subpoenaing Don Jr.?" Tillis: "I'm going to leave it to the chairman of the committee…Maybe Don Jr. can give us a reasonable example for why tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars from an oligarch went into a wedding…But boy, I'd sure like to see the rationale."
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If Black voter turnout in Georgia had approached 60%, Kamala Harris would have won the state. There's a lot of noise out there among vibe-based pundits, but that's the number that determines a double-digit Ossoff win versus something smaller and a Democratic governor versus a Republican one.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US midterm polls fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcoming elections, Human Rights Watch said today." www.hrw.org/news/2026/09...
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US: Trump Administration Rejects External Election Observers
The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US midterm polls fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcomi...
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Danny Miller @danielmilleresq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm proud to have helped organize this. If you're a lawyer or law student, sign up for this nonpartisan rally next Tuesday. You'll hear from @meiselasb.bsky.social and @normeisen.bsky.social among other champions of the rule law about what YOU can do to protect our free and fair elections.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 24/09/2026
"Paid for by the US Government" just means paid for at the expense of American taxpayers. Trump is setting your tax dollars on fire for ILLEGAL political propaganda.
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Trump ad airing with government funding despite law against ‘propaganda’
A TV ad boosting President Trump and saying that it was paid for by the U.S. government is airing in two major markets despite a federal law against using tax funds for "propaganda."
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
😍😍😍
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a very good thread.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump now straight-up disobeying a judge’s orders
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You've heard about Erica Chenoweth's groundbreaking research on nonviolent people's movements—how just 3.5% of the population engaging in sustained protest can topple an authoritarian regime. Join us at 3pm ET to talk with Erica about No Kings 10/17, and what we need to prepare for after that.
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NHATional Scissoring Day ✂️ @nhathanielh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Justified “FUCK ICE” Chants: Fishers, Indiana Edition #AEWDynamite #AEWCollision fun fact: a few WBD execs are in attendance
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Siri, how can I take that Boston Globe headline and make it worse
Prior to entering law school, in an email to a friend, Velchik described Hitler's
autobiography Mein Kampf as "my favorite book I've read this year" according to correspondence obtained by The Boston
Globe.
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