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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Loving my copy of @mattsinger.bsky.social’s Funny Business!! Started making a @letterboxd.social list boxd.it/XPqQm of all the movies discussed in the book. Hope to dive into them (even the ones I’ve seen, well, many times) after I finish. boxd.it/XPqQm
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@sickoscommittee.org shout out on FS1!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/08/2026
Juan Benn Jr., a Post reporter, served on a jury for a road rage case. “I expected jury duty ... to feel restrictive, isolating and boring, despite my interest in the criminal justice system,” he wrote. “What I found was the opposite.”
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A crime reporter was picked for jury duty and left with more than he expected
The trial in a D.C. courtroom brought together jurors from across the city for five days.
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Renaldo Balkman
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Bryan Curtis @bryancurtis.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section. This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry. www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...
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Death of a Sports Section
The Washington Post sports department was dismantled before its leaders gave it a chance to change
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Bivens!
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested. It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
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Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
There are obvious parallels between the movement currently fighting mass deportation and the Underground Railroad. In fact, some of the churches currently offering sanctuary to migrants are the very same ones that were hubs of the Abolitionist movement. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/insi...
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Inside the Secret Network Offering Sanctuary to Immigrants Amid Trump’s ICE Onslaught
They call them the “forgotten migrants.” Of the approximately 11 million undocumented...
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Yale - Youngstown State is the Obama coalition bowl
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
We cannot have the barham penalty turn into the Marco Wilson penalty
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Jesse Dougherty @jessedougherty.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Read the story, linked below, from @sam4tr.bsky.social, @jorgeribas.bsky.social and me. These ads tell a story about 2025 and how universities leverage the precious ad space during college football games. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
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190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
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Esther Zuckerman @ezwrites.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Zohran just gave the most millennial answer to this question www.vulture.com/article/zohr...
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Sean McDonough trouble with the snap! Cc: @sickoscommittee.org
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Where can we get @jenlada.bsky.social’s shirt on gameday?!
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Recent panic that the Supreme Court might soon overturn marriage equality is unwarranted—the justices are highly unlikely to take up the case that has people worried. And this freak-out risks diverting attention away from the court's subtler, ongoing attack on gay rights. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The Sudden Panic That SCOTUS Might Overturn Marriage Equality Misses the Real Threat
Kim Davis’ case will not be the vehicle the court uses to eradicate the equal dignity of same-sex couples.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 24/07/2025
Recently ICE agents appeared on a Little League field in Manhattan. Coach Youman Wilder told a group of kids who were being interrogated to get behind him and said to the officers, “You don’t have more rights than they do.”
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ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field
Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Been on trail w Andy Beshear, thought this riff on why inclusive language can be unhelpful was interesting
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Ian Millhiser @imillhiser.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision isn’t as devastating as you think www.vox.com/scotus/41795...
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The Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision isn’t as devastating as you think
This decision isn’t really about birthright citizenship.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The Supreme Court's third decision of the day UPHOLDS the Universal Service Fund—which provides phone and internet access to poor and rural areas—by a 6–3 vote, holding that it does NOT violate the non-delegation doctrine. This is very good news. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The Trump DEI purge is a barely-veiled effort to force as many black women as possible out of federal jobs, as ProPublica details here. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Dismissed by DEI: Trump’s Purge Made Black Women With Stable Federal Jobs an “Easy Target”
The president’s attack on diversity efforts has derailed the government careers of highly educated civil servants — even though the jobs some lost were not directly involved with any DEI programs.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 10/05/2025
David Souter was a good Supreme Court justice, not only because he made conservatives upset, but also because he understood his responsibility to be a good steward of power, and never thought of himself as bigger than the office ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/david...
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David Souter Knew His Role
The late justice understood that part of the job was being a responsible steward of the power entrusted to him.
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Sarah Kaplan @sarahkaplan48.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“Mr. Rodríguez, we’re going to miss you,” a girl told the teacher after singing. 
“I’m going to miss you, too,” he said, fighting back tears of his own. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Fearing deportation, a beloved music teacher gives a final lesson
Jesús Rodríguez, a Venezuelan national whose U.S. humanitarian parole status is set to expire soon, decided to voluntarily leave the United States out of worry of being detained.
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
www.wsj.com/opinion/j-ha...
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
loved this story. and as someone who stutters, the acknowledgement that this isn't something to "overcome" but rather to "live with" is great. Also really appreciated the detail that when Holloman sings he doesn't stutter. This is a real thing, happens to me too!
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Cooper flagg’s gotta get on the Accutane NIL
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Jon Krawczynski @jonkrawczynski.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Behind the scenes on Chris Finch’s decision to start Joe Ingles in a “must-win” game so his 8 yo son with autism could see him play. www.nytimes.com/athletic/622...
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Behind Timberwolves’ decision to start Joe Ingles so his autistic son could see him play
"Sometimes you gotta do the human thing," Timberwolves coach Chris Finch said about the decision in a "must-win game."
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 03/03/2025
"JAG officers are sometimes called the 'conscience' of the military. But Trump doesn’t want a military with a conscience. He wants a pliant military that does what he commands rather than what the law requires." Great piece from @rosenzweigp.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Firing the ‘Conscience’ of the Military
Getting rid of the military’s top lawyers is not exactly a sign that the Trump administration wants to follow the law.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
For what it’s worth, Democrats did refuse consent on Vought. They tried to filibuster him, forced Republicans to jump through hoops and used up all 30 hours of allowed debate time, with an all-nighter on the Senate floor, and all 47 Dems voted NO each time. That’s about all they can do procedurally.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 05/02/2025
Here, I spoke to undocumented immigrants in the restaurant industry, and some orgs who support them, about what everyone is facing right now www.eater.com/24359357/und...
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For Undocumented Restaurant Workers, Everything Is in Question
President Trump’s threats against undocumented immigrants put America’s entire food chain at risk.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
In a disgraceful act betraying millions of their own residents, Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming all write to oppose birthright citizenship.
INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE For the past four years, disastrous immigration policies transformed every State into a border state by flooding them with illegal aliens, including criminals convicted of crimes in their home country, violent international gang members, and suspected ISIS terrorists. Illegal immigration imposes significant costs on the States and their people. And creating incentives for illegal immigration puts lives at risk. Allowing virtually anyone born on American soil to claim American citizenship creates incentives for illegal immigration and exacerbates States’ costs. Amici Curiae are the States of Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming which submit this brief in support of Defendants.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
It's not just in regard to college enrollment that we don't talk about misogyny, it's pretty much everything. Many of us bloggers talked about Dobbs and the fury of women during the runup to the election. There was much less in the news and practically no notice in the polls.
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Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?
We would rather talk about literally everything else.
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CNN @cnn.com · 22/12/2024
Eight years ago, a budding scientist gave a commercial airline pilot a gift that would link the two for life. Since then, they'd met in person and linked up on social media. But when she boarded a flight a week ago, she didn't expect to see him. Then an announcement came over the PA system.
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A pilot raced through the airport to surprise an old friend: the woman who saved his life | CNN
When Allie Reimold boarded Flight 2223 in Houston a week ago, she didn’t expect to see the pilot whose life she had saved.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
What are the rules of litigation? The conservative justices on the SCOTUS are shredding what we’ve known. What I heard in the Skrmetti (gender- affirming care case) oral argument. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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I’m a Seasoned Litigator. Sam Alito’s Recent Questions Have Made Me Cringe.
I am still enough of an institutionalist that it pains me to hear Supreme Court justices embarrassing themselves on the bench.
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Gus Bova @gusbova.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Very proud to publish this wonderfully written essay: www.texasobserver.org/uvalde-trans...
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My Happy, Normal, Trans Life in the Heart of Texas
While I struggle with the hateful rhetoric and policy of our state's leaders, my community has mostly accepted me with surprising ease.
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Marin K. Levy @marinklevy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
This letter from Adeel Mangi (who was nominated to the Third Circuit) to President Biden is worth reading. "The unfortunate fact remains: we have a fundamentally broken process for choosing federal judges. This is no longer a system for evaluating fitness for judicial office." aboutblaw.com/bgA0
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 15/12/2024
typically excellent eli saslow piece (🎁) www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...
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His Family Voted to Support Trump’s Deportation Plan. That Includes Him. (Gift Article)
His friends and family members in Rome, Ga., voted to support mass deportation. Now he’s scrambling to stay in the country.
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Matt Debenham @debenham.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
An upsettingly concise reading of Where We Are Now
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The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector
I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “...
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... Really smart analysis here by @harrystevens.bsky.social and think this particular section is really emblematic of some communications & messaging challenges faced by Dems.
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
www.theregreview.org/2024/12/02/g... Smart piece by @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social in the Regulatory Review
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The Administrative State in a Project 2025 World | The Regulatory Review
President Trump’s Project 2025 vision requires progressives to provide an equally compelling alternative.
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Am curious what Jeff Connaughton thinks of the Hunter pardon
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Does anyone know why the FOX CFB game presentation is so much worse (I.e more commercials) than the other stations?
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
clarifying, essential @irincarmon.bsky.social reporting on the upcoming Supreme Court case challenging Tennessee's ban on transgender youth healthcare nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Trans-Rights Showdown Heading to the Supreme Court
In a case on health care for minors, the justices could undermine decades of anti-discrimination law.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Today’s “One First” looks at the Fifth Circuit’s ruling that the way Congress and the FCC administer the Universal Service Fund violates the non-delegation doctrine—and why #SCOTUS’s taking up the dispute may say more about the Fifth Circuit than the doctrine: www.stevevladeck.com/p/110-the-un...
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110. The Universal Service Fund and the Non-Delegation Doctrine
Friday's major new cert. grant raises the question whether the justices are poised to reinvigorate the non-delegation doctrine, or whether they're just going to slap the Fifth Circuit down again.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Excellent @astra.bsky.social piece that argues the Republicans have a strong "ground game" (well-funded groups working year-around and not exclusively on elections) that is a match for the Dems door-knocking, ads and text messages each election cycle. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Democrats’ much-touted ‘ground game’ was a disaster. Here’s how to fix it
Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for change
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
the Marta interview is on par with 2015 Leandro Barbosa post warriors championship
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
@espnplus.bsky.social it should not take this many scrolls to find TV info about the @nwslsoccer.com @nwslbot.bsky.social championship!
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Avi S @avisholkoff.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is a great point. Why is this the case?
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Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Carol Moseley Braun was the first Black woman elected to the Senate in 1993. Jesse Helms once followed her into the Senate elevator singing "Dixie." He told fellow Senator Orrin Hatch, "I'm going to sing Dixie until she cries." Thinking about that today. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Rep. Mace introduces measure to ban trans women from Capitol’s female bathrooms
The South Carolina Republican’s resolution comes two weeks after the historic election of Democrat Sarah McBride, a trans woman, to Congress.
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