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The difference between the Paxton scandals vs. the Talarico scandals is that the Paxton scandals are a) demonstrably worse, and b) demonstrably real.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 6h

oh man 😂

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 5h

How ketamine-fueled gang rapes became the latest casualty of the culture war.

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blackbirdchi.bsky.social @blackbirdchi.bsky.social · 4h

A reminder that Patrick Healy and the biased team @nytimes.com ran with the narrative that one of the biggest threats to democracy in the US was that conservative students at colleges were unable to express themselves

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6h

The president of the United States is completely detached from reality. We live in very dangerous times.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

This is a form of retaliation against someone for speaking out. He knew he would be punished, buy that punishment does not include unnecessarily strict confinement (which is barred by military law). www.military.com/air-force-ma...

military.com

Air Force Maj. Jason Watson is in Solitary 24 Hours Daily After Publicly Calling For Trump’s Impeachment

Maj. Jason Watson has been jailed since August after publicly opining on the president and his administration, drawing a big legal battle.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h

We've been boiled frogs for so long this never gets mentioned. But this violates DOJ policies that have been in place for decades, ones that Defense Attorney Todd Blanche said should have extended for the entirety of the time his client had declared his candidacy. (Tho I think this was DHS.)

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 9h

Weird how pretty much everything the tech bros tell us about the impact of data centers turns out to be a lie. And now this:

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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The right's evidence for a James Talarico mental breakdown debuted with a lot of fanfare this afternoon—and imploded immediately. A very special emergency False Flag for @thebulwark.com with @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-james...

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MAGA’s Talarico Mental Breakdown Conspiracy Implodes—Instantly

The holes in this one were evident pretty quickly. Now the big question is will there be lawsuits in response?

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 12/10/2026

Russia lost data centers - MAGA lost its best and brightest.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

Next weekend’s NO KINGS rallies are about more than protesting. They’re about ORGANIZING. With early voting underway, the mission is clear: Know your rights. Make a voting plan. Turn protest into ACTION. And on everyone’s mind: #RepublicanAffordabilityCrisis

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chzboi.bsky.social @chzboi.bsky.social · 11h

East Potomac was a public golf course. When I started at my first job in DC making 14K on the Hill, I could play 9 holes for $9. A bucket cost $2.50. Hes not making a golf course, hes stealing one of the few remaining places where an average person could afford to do something they loved doing.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

Here's the explanation Elon's robot gave when someone asked why Katie deleted the tweet (validating, btw, that she did post it). 😎

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@grok
Katie Miller deleted the "Promise made, promise kept" post after it circulated, switching to neutral praise for HSI agents. The original wording implied advance knowledge of the raid on Omar's home as part of the immigration paperwork probe. Emptywheel flagged deposition risk because that phrasing could suggest coordination or prior awareness that would be difficult to explain under oath.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10h

The government lied to a federal judge to suit the whims of a tyrant.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10h

If you push out a rumor that turns out to be 100% bullshit, you didn't "break a story."

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Jesse SingalO @jessesingal

1/ For the last 80 minutes I've been on a fascinating Twitter Spaces (or whatever they're calling them now) with Rhein Amacher, who broke the Talarico story. I was on the call when everyone found out the hospital was flatly denying it. Some interesting nuggets: 8:24 PM • Oct 11, 2026 • 329.2K Views

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 10h

"Fox News attacks the media roughly every 15 minutes, our study finds." And MSNBC and Fox are NOT simply two sides of the same coin. www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/fox-...

niemanlab.org

Fox News attacks the media roughly every 15 minutes, our study finds. (CNN? Every 140 minutes.)

"Disparaging journalism is a far more central part of Fox News programming than it is of either MSNBC or CNN programming."

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

BREAKING: A judge has ordered an immediate halt to the taxpayer-funded pro-Trump ads, including any slated to run tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

They're also both incredibly clumsy and obvious. Don Segretti, the Nixon operative who coined the term ratfucking, would be embarrassed to see how half-assed this all is.

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Eileen Schuyler @eschuyler.bsky.social · 13h

Citizens United is one of the most damaging SCOTUS decisions in modern history. Allowing this kind of cash to flow into campaigns in order that Musk can demand favors from his purchased lawmakers is the definition of anti-democratic. John Roberts' legacy is going to land him at the very bottom.

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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 16h

Musk has funneled more than $276 million into Republican groups and his PAC since July, building a huge turnout operation for the midterms. “The staggering amount of money makes Mr. Musk, the richest person in the world, by far the largest known donor in the midterms” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

nytimes.com

Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans

The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10h

Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch

Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda

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blackbirdchi.bsky.social @blackbirdchi.bsky.social · 10h

Oh yes, @toluseo.bsky.social who nitpicked and distorted every headline against the Biden administration for 4 years on behalf of his oligarch owner is saying something about disinformation

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 11h

The Iran War is costing Americans $2,000 per household according to analysis by Moody's Analytics and Brown University.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say

Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 11h

"The amount of fuel Russia could export is too small, the impact on pricing too slight, the narrative too late to shape electoral outcomes: This looks, instead, like something very different: an abrupt, Hail Mary attempt to force Ukraine to surrender" www.theatlantic.com/idea/2026/10...

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Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear

The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11h

This blog post by John Gruber is embarrassing and lame and proudly advertises he's a political halfwit journalists that validate and normalize usage of a white supremacist's right wing propaganda website are feckless cowards who prioritize engagement over ethics

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X Once Again Marks the Spot

If you returned from exile on a desert island and took a look at X today for first time in a year, you might reasonably guess that Elon Musk got bored and sold it while you were away.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

Zelensky on bombing the Russian data centers: “It’s pretty clear where the bots were coming from.”

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blackbirdchi.bsky.social @blackbirdchi.bsky.social · 13h

Journalists and particularly those @nytimes.com who have provided the kid glove treatment of Trump since 2015 have created this out-of-control govt

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blackbirdchi.bsky.social @blackbirdchi.bsky.social · 13h

Didn’t Ivana Trump write in her book that she had overstayed her Visa? So what would Don Jr, Ivanka and Eric be?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14h

Ilhan Omar’s home was raided today, weeks after border czar Tom Homan cited an “ongoing criminal investigation.” It reportedly involves immigration paperwork when she was a child. There is NOT an ongoing investigation of Homan taking $50,000 in an FBI bribery sting because Trump killed that probe.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR A 14-DAY STAY UNDER SECTION 705 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Plaintiffs hereby move the Court to enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, for a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705.
Despite the Court's admonitions not to "get to a point where someone is telling me, from
the government, that it's too late, too many things have happened and now we are, like, moving
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forward and we can't, you know, stop the trains," Status Conf. Tr. ("Apr. 13 Tr.") at 18:15-19:10,
Apr. 13, 2026, Defendants have begun irreversible damage to East Potomac Golf Course. At
4:55 p.m. on Friday preceding the holiday weekend, Defendants announced their intent to
begin-barely 12 hours later—a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf
Course. Decl. of Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks,
National Park Service 920, ECF 74-1. Although they initially represented that their work would proceed in stages, Defendants in fact took down 529 trees on Saturday alone and have confirmed
to Plaintiffs that they intend to take down hundreds more.
Defendants' surprise tree-razing operation constitutes classic National Environmental
Policy Act segmentation: undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review of the entire
project. Defendants cannot circumvent their NEPA obligations in this manner. Delaware
Riverkeeper Network v. F.E.R.C., 753 F.3d 1304, 1313 (D.C. Cir. 2014).

Therefore, and for the reasons explained in the Memorandum accompanying this Motion
and supporting exhibits, the Court should enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705, enjoining Defendants from any further tree felling at East Potomac Park. In addition, the
Court should order Defendants to provide the Court and Plaintiffs no less than three business days' written advance notice before any irreparable modification to any permanent forms or
features of East Potomac Park.
If the Court believes a hearing would be appropriate, Plaintiffs request a hearing on this
motion at the Court's first availability. At the parties' meet and confer on Sunday afternoon, Defendants represented that the tree-clearing operation would continue this week until
completed. Defendants indicated during the meet and confer that rain foreclosed any work on
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Sunday, and that the possibility of doing work on Monday depended on weather and the course's
condition. Depending on Defendants' plans, then, it is possible that no work will occur on
Monday.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14h

The 287(g) program teaming local cops with ICE has created an American secret police Check out what happens in Carroll Twp., Pa. when Sgt. Terry Williams spots a resident filming an immigration arrest It's legal to film traffic stops. This is unconstitutional (full column in 2nd post)

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They lie over and over and over

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

every time the media gets to ask Abdul El-Sayed a question they ask him to answer for something Hasan Piker said because they once did an event together. Yet the media never asks Republican candidates to answer for Elon Musk, the #1 Republican fundraiser this cycle and of all time. It's odd!

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 15h

Maybe this is what kristen welker and stephen miller were laughing about at the correspondents dinner

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h

Judges whose orders are ignored by the Trump regime need to do more than complain from the bench. They need to throw people in jail.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17h

My probe into how local cops in Pa.'s York County teamed with ICE to bust 500-plus immigrants on busy highways, terrifying the Haitian community and shattering families over a busted headlight 287(g) has made York the worst place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...

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How York County became the most dangerous place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. | Will Bunch

Local cops working with ICE in York County, Pa. have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's always true that David Brooks should shut up.

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