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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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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🇮🇸 Iceland is also moving to end commercial whaling for good. The government will submit a bill next February rewriting the 1949 whaling law to ban the practice permanently, backed by a governing majority likely to pass it. 🐋
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Icelandic government to introduce bill to end whaling - Whale and Dolphin Conservation
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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BIG D GRANDROYAL @bigdgrandroyal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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❌👑 @cablethompson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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All time is local: Against a permanent daylight saving time | Opinion
Making daylight saving time permanent would only further institutionalize a state-controlled and sanctioned system of artificial time, extending a temporal framework that has long been tied to war.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Boom 💥
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 12/10/2026
BREAKING: Federal agents searched Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say.
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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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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The planet isn't "dying" of natural causes. Forests don't just disappear. They are logged. Oceans don't just choke. They are polluted. Rivers don't just dry up. They are diverted. This is not a tragedy. It's ecocide. And ecocide should be a crime. #StopEcocide
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
….aaaand they’re OFF 🏁 #ASMR #OddlySatisfying IG: @marblebrosasmr youtube.com/@marblebros-...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Starting tomorrow on Indigenous Peoples’ Day federal contractors are scheduled to begin removing thousands of saguaros and other desert plants from Tohono O’odham land in Arizona for Trump’s border wall, according to tribal officials.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Again. Impeach him.
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026
Regardless of the legality of posting armed national guard members at drop boxes, whether the boxes were open yet, or whether drop boxes qualify as polling sites under the law; the optics are what matter. Lawful or not, it’s overt, intentional voter suppression.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A win for voters! A judge ruled that the DOJ’s policy of collecting states’ unredacted voter rolls and urging states to remove voters flagged as ineligible is illegal.
democracydocket.com
Federal judge shuts down Trump DOJ’s nationwide voter roll crusade, even in states that cooperated
The ruling also reaches voter rolls that states voluntarily turned over. By vacating the policy itself, the court barred DOJ from continuing to use those already-obtained files as part of the nationwi...
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Attn: The Trump administration has declined to invite independent international observers to monitor the November midterms, breaking a practice dating back to 2002.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don't know how but we have to teach people to be better at detecting bullshit. Instead we have this ersatz skepticism where people are suspicious about the wrong things and find their way to conclusions that are worse than if they just blindly accepted conventional wisdom
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pretty Awesome 👍
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Free Cats Daily😻 @freecatsdaily.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fire breathing cat #Cat #Caturday
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🦋🐕‍🦺🌺LadyWillow💚🐾🦋 @ladywillow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Truth! #DitchDST
Still from the 1970s “Wonder Woman” TV show. Our hero’s eyes are wide, her mouth slightly smiles, she holds a raised finger. Caption: “Daylight Saving Time is a trick to make you set your alarm an hour earlier than Standard Time. You can do that on your own without changing the clock.”
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Ellsworth Green @greenellsworth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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🤎💛 Duchess 💛🤎 @duchessofdis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The White House today prohibited Politico from traveling on Air Force One.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pay teachers a fair wage. Pay paraprofessionals who help support our kids a fair wage. Make sure our schools are safe, clean, warm, and dry.
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LifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There can only be ONE void in this yard. #LifuX #Cat #Cats #Catsofbluesky #Caturday
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Of course. The Supreme Court kicked off its new term today by hearing oil companies’ attempt to throw out a lawsuit seeking to make them pay for climate damage they caused. The outcome could determine whether similar lawsuits brought by cities and counties across the country can move forward.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is not “just fine”.
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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Alt: Centaur
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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s 2026. We really need to learn to live with other species on the planet. To even contemplate culling a shark that is only sexually mature at 120 y and is migratory is absurd and absolutely bonkers
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To cull or not to cull: Greenland debates fate of world’s slowest shark
As trawlers compete with Greenland sharks for halibut and cod, conservationists and fishers clash over what to do about misunderstood species
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good news from the Badlands! Today, October 6, Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, a Lakota nonprofit based on the Pine Ridge Reservation, plans to return 50 bison to nearly 40,000 acres in the Stronghold area of Badlands National Park.
dakotanewsnow.com
Lakota nonprofit returning bison to 40,000 acres in Badlands National Park to restore native prairie
Thunder Valley CDC will release 50 bison across 40,000 acres in Badlands National Park on Oct. 6, restoring native prairie ecology and Lakota stewardship.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Daylight Saving Time makes us set alarms an hour earlier than we would on Standard Time. Morning is when sunlight is most essential to health, safety, and prosperity. #DitchDST
Two photos from Flowery Branch, Georgia, on October 6. The first was taken at 7am Eastern Daylight Time, and the sky is very dark. The second was taken at 7am Eastern Standard Time, and the sky is sunny.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Crash was shortly after 6am EDT, which is just when nighttime darkness ended. Sunrise came over an hour later at 7:21am EDT. 😔 With permanent Standard Time, sunrise would have been 6:21am EST, everyone would’ve had more light and likely more sleep. We see crashes every October.
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2 people killed, including a student, after Florida school bus rolls over in crash, sheriff says

Photo: A school bus flipped over onto its roof during a multivehicle crash in central Florida on Monday morning, killing two people including a 10th grade girl and injuring several others, authorities said.

Updated 10:36 AM MST, October 5, 2026

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — A school bus flipped over onto its roof during a multivehicle crash in central Florida on Monday morning, killing two people — including a 10th grade girl — and injuring several others, authorities said.

Some 39 people were on the school bus that was headed to Winter Haven High School in Winter Haven when an oncoming car crossed the center line and caused the crash, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a news conference.

“It was a horrible crash,” Judd said. “It was a terrible, tragic morning. We had a beautiful 10th grade girl lose her life.”

The bus had been traveling along a Winter Haven road shortly after 6…
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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