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Caleb Yong

@calebyong.bsky.social
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Resident Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School. Thinking and writing about constitutional theory, the First Amendment, and immigration law.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
All the more reason why state courts are so important. The structural redundancies they provide prevent systematic failures. As I wrote about recently, this is one of the issues at stake in Suncor. The Next Anti-democratic Threat From the Supreme Court | Lawfare share.google/t78L4fhUbUhQ...
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The Next Anti-democratic Threat From the Supreme Court
Industry-backed preemption arguments in the climate deception case threaten the federalism safeguards that check an imperial presidency.
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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The NYT has reprinted the gov brief in the press ban case and it is revealing. It makes clear that the admin's central arg for why Trump could kick CNN etc. out of the WH is that access to the WH is not a right but a privilege🧵 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the White House Response to the Lawsuit From CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The Trump administration has defended its ban on the three media outlets in a court filing.
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is some great reporting by ProPublica. SCOTUS has so narrowed our definition of corruption that most corruption isn’t even illegal… but this? Yeah no. This appears to fall squarely within what’s still actually illegal. If the reporting is correct. And they have the actual physical check…!
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Last week, Ohio State students violated the university’s absurd ban on chalking to protest having a weapons manufacturer as the official sponsor of our athletic department. Faculty from @osuaaup.bsky.social were there to support students’ rights to free speech, which is plainly under attack.
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Protestors chalk on campus against Ohio State’s partnership with Anduril and the university chalk ban
Colors covered the Thompson statue and bricks around it after protestors chalked phrases like “Democracy now,” “F*** Anduril” and “Divest now” to protest against the university’s partnership with Andu...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Daphna Renan @daphnarenan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Drawing from our new book Supremacy, @nikobowie.bsky.social and I argue in @slate.com that limiting judicial supremacy is the only way to bind the president with law. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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John Roberts’ New Role Model Demonstrates Everything Wrong With the Supreme Court
If the court is curling up anywhere, it is at the feet of a presidency increasingly unchecked by law.
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Ryan Quinn @ryanquinn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Apropos of nothing in the news, there’s a fascinating old MA SJC case about when Vanessa Redgrave sued the Boston Symphony Orchestra for firing her after third parties protested her position on Palestine and Israel. www.masscasesarchive.com/masscases.co...
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REDGRAVE vs. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC., 399 Mass. 93
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/09/2026
On the Trump administration's "sweeping campaign to control speech in America" through lawsuits, regulation and threats: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...
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How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech (Gift Article)
President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.
"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.
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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is just the weakest shit imaginable. This is the response to the greatest threat to the rule of law the country has ever faced? An administration that commits 20 crimes a day? One that’s fucking throwing immigrants into concentration camps and murdering protestors?!
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Haitian immigrant in Ohio takes his own life after losing temporary protected status, family says
Pierre Damas Bel’s family said he felt humiliated by an ankle monitor ICE officers placed on him after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I want to address what happened over the weekend outside Madison Square Garden. A few loud numbskulls must not deter us from building multi-faith, multi-racial coalitions for justice.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#ELB: “Corporate Spending, Foreign Spending, and the Case for Democratic Interests in Campaign Finance Regulation” electionlawblog.org/2026/corporate-…
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Caleb Yong @calebyong.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Thanks to @rickhasen.bsky.social for highlighting my draft article, “Corporate Spending, Foreign Spending, and the Case for Democratic Interests in Campaign Finance Regulation,” on Election Law Blog! electionlawblog.org/2026/corpora...
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"Corporate Spending, Foreign Spending, and the Case for Democratic Interests in Campaign Finance Regulation" #ELB
Caleb Yong has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Under Citizens United v. FEC , the First Amendment bars restrictions on corporations’ independent expenditures on campaign speech. Yet t...
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Breaking: The Supreme Court, Over the Dissents of Democratic-Appointed Justices Stays the District Court Preliminary Injunction in Trump Mail-In Voting Case; But Another Injunction Against It Remains in Place for Now electionlawblog.org/2026/breakin...
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Breaking: The Supreme Court, Over the Dissents of Democratic-Appointed Justices Stays the District Court Preliminary Injunction in Trump Mail-In Voting Case; But Another Injunction Against It Remains ...
You can find the opinions here. [This post will be updated once I read and analyze the opinions.]
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"I dislike immigration from certain countries because they don’t agree with British liberalism, an ideology and mode of living that I am explicitly hostile towards”.
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John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Rubio just imposed sanctions against ICC President Tomoko Akane, a woman who is currently wanted in Russia because she issued an arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes 1/2
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
ABC is calling the FCC's early license review an "unprecedented" intimidation campaign qz.com/abc-fcc-lice...
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ABC accuses FCC of retaliating over its news coverage
The Walt Disney-owned network filed formal opposition Thursday, calling the agency's early license review a warning to all media companies
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026
Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The post-purge Board of Immigration Appeals, in its effort to take a wrecking ball to every precedent that might allow an immigrant to receive a benefit, effectively ends "advance parole," a pathway for some DACA recipients and others to get green cards without risking a decade of banishment abroad.
Cite as 29 I&N Dec. 830 (BIA 2026) Interim Decision #4233
Matter of Milagro DELCARMEN-LARA, Respondent
Decided August 13, 2026
U.S. Department of Justice
Executive Office for Immigration Review
Board of Immigration Appeals
A departure from the United States pursuant to a grant of advance parole is a “departure”
within the meaning of section 212(a)(9)(B)(i)(II) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(9)(B)(i)(II). Matter of Arrabally and Yerrabelly, 25 I&N Dec. 771
(BIA 2012), overruled.
FOR THE RESPONDENT: Idalis Perez, Esquire, Miami, Florida
FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Milor D. Perdomo, Counsel
BEFORE: Board Panel: GORMAN, Deputy Chief Appellate Immigration Judge;
MONTANTE and GALLOW, Appellate Immigration Judges.
GORMAN, Deputy Chief Appellate Immigration Judge:
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/
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Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC
Our Team
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This democracy is ours for the building. 250 years in, the only thing that has rescued us from some of the worst moral failures in our country's history has been democracy. Can we be better? That's the choice we have now.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚🚨 Prisciliano Trejo, aged 29 becomes the 50th person to die in #ICE custody. He was denied medical care until it was too late. His family was denied the ability to see him when he was finally sent to the hospital. This thread is one you must spend time on. We cannot ignore the atrocities!
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Detention Watch Network is reporting the death of 29-year-old Priciliano Trejo, who had leukemia when he was detained by ICE in NC. ICE initially failed to provide Priciliano with access to medical care. They only released him from custody when he was on his death bed at hospital.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I owe my career to this faculty. Words can’t describe how awful this is.
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Best book I've read in a while! academic.oup.com/book/59843
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I’ve never heard of such a thing: 1. District courts are saying due process demands this 2. three-judge appellate panel says that yes it does 3. Full appellate court says we’ll rehear the case 4. Full court says actually no, and also district courts need to stop doing stuff
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Andrew Russeth @russeth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps
Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.
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Brosephine so scary 🎃 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran was here on a tourist visa from Mexico. He and three others ran for their lives after they were pulled over by ICE/DHS officials last week in St. Augustine. He slipped on some grass when he tried to stop on a median and was hit by a semi-truck.
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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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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
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Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva, 45, is the 22nd person to die in ICE custody this year alone. At least 52 people have died in ICE custody since Trump returned to office — an all-time high. Everyone who carried out this reign of terror must face consequences.
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Venezuelan man becomes 22nd person to die in ICE custody this year
Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva, 45, found ‘unresponsive’ while being transferred between detention facilities in Georgia
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.
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Opinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.
Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics.
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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Re-reading @kimlanelaw.bsky.social 's essential work on Autocratic Legalism. (85 U. Chi. L. Rev. 545 (2018)) Does this (from her introduction) sound familiar?
Passage with two bits of text highlighted:

As I ar-
gue in this Essay, democracies are not just failing for cultural or economic or political reasons. Some constitutional democracies are being deliberately hijacked by a set of legally clever autocrats,
who use constitutionalism and democracy to destroy both. Buried in the story of decline, then, is a story of constitutional
malice.

They use their democratic mandates to launch legal reforms that remove the checks on executive power, limit the challenges to their rule, and undermine the cru-
cial accountability institutions of a democratic state.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A White House report has defended the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, pushing back against its characterization by a Smithsonian Institution exhibit that the law was racially motivated. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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White House Defends 1882 Immigration Law Excluding Chinese Immigrants
The Trump administration is defending the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act against the charge that the law had a racist intent.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Nothing in the agency cases held that Trump could simply shut down an agency of Congress’s creation. That’s what he has done with the election Assistance commission which now lacks commissioners to act. It’s taking the courts cases to the ultimate conclusion and just disabling an important agency.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.
Chuck Schumer: "The founding fathers called America God's noble experiment. I believe in all three words to this day: we are one nation under God, we have clung to noble ideals for longer than any other nation, and we are an experiment always changing, trying to make ourselves better.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Haley Stevens voted to:






— Stop the Lebanon War Powers Resolution

— Send Israel $26 billion more in aid after it killed 34,000+ people

— Send Israel another $17.6 billion in aid (a failed bill Biden would've vetoed)

— Ban the State Department from citing Gaza Ministry of Health death tolls

— Sanction ICC officials as they sought justice against Israeli war criminals

— Express "disgust" at South Africa's suit accusing Israel of genocide & praise Biden spokesperson John Kirby calling the case “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without basis in fact whatsoever” (Israel had already killed 25,000+ people at this point)

— Express "gratitude" for ICE

— Force through the TikTok sale, or ban it in the U.S. if it wasn't sold
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The AC is out at ICE's detention facility in Newark, where it currently feels like 107 degrees. Detainees say not even the ventilation is working, and that the water is dirty. Health inspectors recently tried to inspect the facility. They were turned away. www.nj.com/politics/202...
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Delaney Hall’s air conditioning goes out during N.J.’s worst heat wave in 15 years
Air conditioning failed at Delaney Hall during a major heat wave, prompting concerns for detainees as advocates cite ongoing complaints and inspection disputes.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Thank you Donald Trump for terrorizing my kid and a bunch of other toddlers at the pool this morning with the endless sonic booms of military flyovers
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