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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Can’t hate, this is a great piece from Astead Herndon www.vox.com/politics/505...
But importantly, Clyburn's policy positions - and those of the larger Congressional Black Caucus — are increasingly out of step with public opinion. Voters, including Black ones, want corporate money out of politics. And like much of the Democratic base, Black voters have also shifted left on Israel and are skeptical of things like Big Tech. Meanwhile, CBC members like Jasmine Crockett are awash in crypto-industry money — from the likes of Marc Andreessen and the Winklevoss twins. At the CBC's recent legislative conference, one of the "top sponsors" was Palantir Technologies - the data firm with major ICE contracts - even as the Congressional Hispanic Caucus canceled its financial relationship with the group.
Black Democrats have never lived in a world where corporate cash was this unpopular, anti-Israel sentiment was this high, and their relationship with Big Tech was so under scrutiny. And in talking to Clyburn, I felt that distance.
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The upstart
Contrast that to Angie Nixon, the Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Florida.
After Nixon won her primary — a 12-point victory (56-44) against a candidate who outraised her roughly 17 to 1 — all the focus went to why she couldn't win the general election. She became a DSA member this year, making it easy for Republicans to tag her as a socialist (she says she's not). There was her pro-Palestinian advocacy. Her lack of fundraising. And Democratic commentators used that to write her off on primary night, before the candidate had any chance to introduce herself to the general public.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
newrepublic.com/article/2163...
newrepublic.com
Why Does Gavin Newsom Keep Helping the Oligarchs?
In opposing the California wealth tax and helping push through the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger, the governor is doing the bidding of billionaires.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026
Term limits and an ethics code are as popular as ever, but Supreme Court expansion at 68 percent among Democrats and 56 percent *among independents*?? The first candidates to figure out that "I will vote to add at least four seats on day one" is a winning message are gonna absolutely clean up.
Party ID	Favor or oppose
Favor	Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices
Republican	91	9
Independent	81	19
Democrat	91	9
Limited terms for justices
Republican	71	29
Independent	75	25
Democrat	88	12
Increase number of justices
Republican	35	65
Independent	56	44
Democrat	68	32
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey, Sept. 2-9, 2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Why is there no equivalent anti-Flock movement for more invasive surveillance? wamu.org/story/26/10/...
wamu.org
Flock is catching flak. Experts say other police surveillance tools are more worrisome
Real-time crime-center software is a sometimes overlooked but powerful tool allowing police to aggregate immense amounts of data, significantly expanding their surveillance reach.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The former Fox News host who is the president’s son’s former fiancée and current US ambassador to Greece asked for a $100k bribe from a discredited Kentucky lawyer and pizza restaurant mogul who wanted to get his song lyrics in front of Kid Rock
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/10/2026
ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
404media.co
How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
John Anzalone &
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A combined 45 Biden administration alums now work at either OpenAI, Anthropic, or Meta.
therevolvingdoorproject.org
Tracking the Revolving Door Between AI and Former Biden Officials | Revolving Door Project
This tracker was first published August 3, 2026 and last updated on September 16, 2026.  The artificial intelligence industry is rapidly reshaping every facet of life, from the popularity of chatbots…
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here's David Ellison's statement on his successful Paramount-WBD. Thanks Newsom "for his support throughout this process." State AGs were on track to kill the the merger with litigation and delay. Is Newsom giving up on the presidency and instead pursuing a post-gov career as Friend of Oligarchs?
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution” ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
ballsandstrikes.org
The Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court Orders
Judges have tools for responding to noncompliance. They just have to use them.
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Ironbound @ironbound.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Man this guy sucks
Last September, when an aide told Fetterman that officials with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, known as CHOP, wanted to meet because they were worried about Medicaid cuts, he was dismissive.
Fetterman
Why do I have to keep having to meet with chop
Aide
Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.
Fetterman
Well I'm not
[..]
I'm convinced they just want free trips to DC
Source: messages reviewed by WSJ
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Seth Moulton was among the Dems who raced to punch left after the 2024 campaign. Most of those folks are pundits who get to rewrite their takes daily or swing district members. But Moulton tried to get a promotion in Massachusetts---and the voters said hell no. newrepublic.com/article/2150...
newrepublic.com
Good Riddance, Seth Moulton: You Got What You Deserved
The congressman who got drubbed by Ed Markey on Tuesday tried to distance himself from the base. That just doesn’t work anymore.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 02/09/2026
BREAKING: Democratic Sen. Ed Markey defeated Rep. Seth Moulton in the Senate primary in Massachusetts, NBC News projects, in a victory for the party’s progressive wing.
nbcnews.to
Democratic Sen. Ed Markey fends off Massachusetts primary challenge from Rep. Seth Moulton
Markey defeated his challenger, NBC News projects, after he stressed his progressive positions and touted endorsements from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 01/09/2026
this stuff loses a lot of regular people like me, wins no one on the right, and undermines efforts to build unity in a coalition that go back to AOC backing biden. with elections right around the corner, does the dem party have a toxic centrist problem?
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The campus bullshit was years in the making and it’s absolutely correct to say it was a test: can media people detect when they’re being scammed by far right wingnuts? The answer is: No, they cannot. With the kicker: for many, it’s because they love any excuse to kick people they have contempt for.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
interesting that there is no link here. hey chait could you provide a citation for this claim? “He has denied that any Democrat who believes in human rights could have any motive other than money for holding a position on Israel different from the one he prefers.”
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/08/2026
www.engadget.com/2244816/meta... ok yeah the boom's over if this loser has figured it out
engadget.com
Meta reportedly abandoned an AI-focused restructuring plan that would have laid off thousands - Engadget
The problem with Meta's AI restructuring plan is the AI wasn't good enough.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/08/2026
a post from President Trump: "I don't think the GOP fully grasp how badly they are fucking up right now"
cap of a Trump reports on Truth Social of Matt Van Swol dragging Republicans
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
ysph.yale.edu
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed legislation allowing rideshare drivers to bargain collectively. Rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft will be charged 4-cents-per-ride to cover the implementation of the union. The law impacts more than 100,000 rideshare drivers across the state.
capitolnewsillinois.com
Rideshare unionization, drug-pricing oversight, plastic pellet and light pollution bills become law
The governor has signed more than 350 bills that passed in the spring session.
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Michael Pollak @mdpollak.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Every "moderate" group is backed by billionaires, corps & Gulf countries. How do they get the label "moderates?" "Status quo" with heavy irony might be appropriate: the powers who rule under current system who want to stay Usual good piece by @ahjohnson.bsky.social therealnews.com/media-electa...
therealnews.com
The media’s go-to ‘electability’ experts are funded by Wall St., Amazon, and health insurance giants
The media is propping up “centrist” analysts warning voters that the progressive and democratic socialist candidates winning elections are “unelectable.” But they’re not disclosing that those analysts...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I'll go another step further: the research shows that BLM protests causally shifted Americans' racial attitudes leftward and helped Democrats in the 2020 election link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.
from job listing:

As the Director of Anti-Extremism, a typical day might include…

Assembling and updating a database of the DSA’s most extreme ideas and statements and a repository of voting records, affiliations, and issue positions to make available to allies and partners;
Leading public opinion research to identify and test the contrasts that move base voters away from these extreme candidates;
Overseeing the development of memos, talking points, rapid response materials, and other products that make the case against these extreme forces in American politics;
Promoting and marketing our research and materials to ensure they reach decisionmakers quickly, repeatedly, and at scale through a coordinated distribution infrastructure;
Recruiting and arming a group of young, diverse spokespeople to fight the DSA from a center-left perspective and assembling a broad coalition of organizational partners to make the case against extremism;
Running an earned media program to create a drumbeat of our message in op-eds, television appearances, podcasts, and traditional and digital media engagement.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/08/2026
"no one will be normal about AOC if she runs for president" is both true and a bad reason for her not to run. you could run the most milquetoast middle of the road clean cut straight white man alive and the right is still going to act like the deranged freaks they are
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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b @blah5327.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Loser behavior!
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If AIPAC's commitment to arming a rogue state isn't enough for you, I cannot emphasize enough that this organization is just a slush fund for GOP donors to influence Dem races. Their donor base is mostly conservatives who want Republicans to win.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed has won, NBC News says. And there are other wins for the left in Michigan: —William Lawrence wins his U.S. House primary. —A DSA-backed candidate is leading a Democratic incumbent for state House. —Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of Uncommitted, leads for state Senate.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 05/08/2026
thus do we understand half the reason for the NYT’s seething anti-Mamdani grudge
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Unfortunately for David Ellison this is transparently laughable after what Bari Weiss has already done at CBS and it will be very funny if her genius moves fuck up a $100 billion merger www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"“We need to revisit the point of expanding the court to 13 justices like we have 13 district courts,” Harris said at the National Urban League’s annual conference...also calling for a review of the Electoral College and statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington, DC." www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p...
cnn.com
Kamala Harris says the US Supreme Court should expand to 13 justices | CNN Politics
Former Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that the United States should consider expanding the Supreme Court to be made up of 13 justices, a popular idea among Democrats who have increasingly pu...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The president took on a vanity project, gave no-bid contracts to contractors who screwed it up, made up a story about vandals to cover it up, and then fomented a felony prosecution against an innocent scapegoat. You could impeach for anything he's done but "This asshole is out of control" is a layup
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It is very weird that they just lie about normal people and then it’s not a scandal when they admit it
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
it’s depressing how many dems turn to gutter racism when their backs are against the wall
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Politico is a gop op
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 26/07/2026
A rare perfect match of product and spokesperson
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 26/07/2026
Genuinely funny that Senate Democrats waited 18 months for the historically unpopular sex pest president to become an electoral millstone around the GOP’s neck, and THEN decided to greenlight Trump judges right before the midterms. Unmatched political instincts.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
I Am Begging Senate Democrats to Do Anything Other Than Help Confirm Trump Judges
Four months before the 2026 midterms, three Democratic lawmakers have decided to give a historically unpopular president a little boost.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
do you know how stupid you have to be to get community noted with a link to project gutenberg
Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
Nolan's obsessions with the non-linear storytelling gimmick really hurts this film. It jumps around so much, and spends so little time on any one particular moment or scene, that you never really feel like Odysseus is on an epic journey spanning many years. When he makes it home, you never feel like he's been gone for 20 years. The film does not capture the grandeur and scope of the original epic. That's why it feels rushed and too long simultaneously. The movie comes off like a rough draft. Nolan was searching for the actual story but never quite found it.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Odyssey, the original work by Homer, is told non-linearly.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/07/2026
NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...
newrepublic.com
Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home
The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Really really enjoyed this interview with Mamdani - as always, a masterclass in communication. His answer on creating a big tent party is both excellent and low key savage. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/m...
There are moderates in the Democratic Party who've called to expel the D.S.A. from the Democratic coalition. And I want to flip that around. Is there room in the party you want to create for moderate Democrats?
Yes. Full stop. I'm not interested in expelling people from parties. I think that's what you do when you can't win the debate within the party.
Even if they work with AIPAC? If they are Democrats and they run as Democrats and they win as Democrats, then they should be a part of the Democratic Party. There are people with whom I have vehement disagreements with on any number of topics. But if we can find a place of agreement, that's what I'm going to focus that relationship on. If you're just looking for people who you agree with on everything, then you might as well just stay home and look at a mirror.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17/07/2026
"the only way to win" [hurriedly commissions some push polls] "is to adopt all my substantive preferences on hot button cultural issues"
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
really says something about the state of the nominal left that someone like Prelogar, who was probably the most sought-after Democratic lawyer at the end of the Biden administration, would go straight to working for Kalshi. absolutely pathetic.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/07/2026
I dunno man. If I were a law student of Prof. Wurman's at UMinn Law... I'd be asking for my money back. What happened wasn't "sue and settle." It was "sue an agency you control & have them provide you a massive economic win as a 'settlement.'" If I can figure that out, so can Wurman
Law professor Ilan Wurman tweeting about a federal court calling out Donald Trump's bullshit "settlement" with his own DOJ/IRS as not just invalid, but where the lawyers should be reviewed for professional discipline by saying: "Wait, sue and settle is now bar-discipline worthy? If so, all the Obama and Biden lawyers are in big trouble. 

Just kidding. These rules apply only to Trump and his lawyers."
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