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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 13/10/2026

Updated @publiccitizen.bsky.social's "Tracker: Trump Appointees’ Corporate Conflicts of Interest." Removed HHS acting general counsel Robert Foster. Politico reported in Sept. he was expected to return to private sector. Photo came off HHS website this past week. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Tracker: Trump Appointees' Corporate Conflicts of Interest - Public Citizen

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Adm William H McRaven: There is nothing noble about a public display of a government-sanctioned execution. With this decision, the Trump administration continues to undermine our national values. Our current leaders are shameless and ignoble. They have no sense of dignity or honor. They seem to

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Admiral McRaven: Public Execution is Shameless and Ignoble

A government livestream of Nidal Hasan’s killing would put America in extremely poor company.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This morning US Judge Rochon of Manhattan will hold a conference on a temporary restraining order sought to stop Trump's govt-funded partisan campaign ads. @commoncause.org, unions & a DSA candidate allege the ads are “breathtakingly unlawful.” 1/2 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion – #26 in Common Cause v. Department of Homeland Security (S.D.N.Y., 1:26-cv-08882) – CourtListener.com

MEMORANDUM OF LAW in Support re: 25 EMERGENCY MOTION for Temporary Restraining Order . MOTION to Stay Under 5 U.S.C. 705. . Document filed by Common Cause, Empire State 32BJ SEIU PAC, Robert Hunter, S...

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Holy crap. NYC man shot by masked ICE agents and whisked away. 5 year old in car, street crowded w/ families & children. Mamdani now speaking, calls it an outrage. Remember: can't use deadly force w/o imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury. ICS "sows chaos and terror across our country."

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In this insane rant, Trump sounds convincingly like a KKK Grand Wizard from the 1920s... by the way, his father was arrested participating in a KKK riot in Queens in 1927. He was named among the rabblerousers in local newspaper reports.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Did the President of the United States yesterday reiterate that he was fine with Iran launching nuclear weapons at American cities? Did he sit in the Oval & assert he is a Mad King who can do anything he wants to whomever he wants? It's hard to know, with the "Reverse Emails" on the front page:

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Still amazing how few Americans have read key pieces of the Epstein files. Like EFTA01250883.pdf.

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Dave Min @daveminca.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

25th Amendment now.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A link to a database of U.S. citizens who have been detained.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Estonia is shifting toward an "active defense"posture:moving more forces&military infrastructure closer to the Russ border,building a fortified border zone,significantly expanding ammunition stocks,developing long-range strike capabilities,strengthening the reserve,air defense,civil defense systems⤵️

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Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

MSNOW last night. Michael Steele & his knowledge of campaigns: Even just a dollar means more people canvassing & getting to the polls. Just $5 can help a campaign. Gave to a # of campaigns, $5 each. #BlueWave @democrats.senate.gov @michaelsteele.bsky.social @democrats.org @msnownews.bsky.social

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sen Susan Collins (R-ME) chairs an oversight committee for ICE. And ICE contractors just love her, in cash form. It's the GOP police state system, and Collins sits in the middle of it.

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Trump Fills The ICE Prisons. The Prison Companies Fund Nine GOP Senate Candidates.

Every name, from the filings nobody added up. Also: Georgia’s voters, Jerome Powell, and 30,000 prison workers all beat Trump this week.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

POPE LEO: “If we are to avoid losing our humanity amid a ‘paradise of machines’ invading and conditioning our daily lives, there is an urgent need for education in ethical discernment and the capacity to acknowledge the moral good…” (www.vatican.va/content/leo-...)

Pope Leo XIV
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If we are to avoid losing our humanity amid a "paradise of machines" invading and conditioning our daily lives, there is an urgent need for education in ethical discernment and the capacity to acknowledge the moral good. This is indispensable if we are to recognize the genuine good that enables human beings to flourish in accordance with their primordial vocation, with unconditional respect for their interior freedom and their sacred dignity.
#ApostolicJourney #France vatican.va/ content/leo-xi...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1. I suppose we have Natalie Harp to thank.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING MS-NOW reporter still denied access to White House, defying court order.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Carlson's 2024 pitch was that Trump would be the strict father coming home to spank his unruly daughter and Carlson is mad that instead he hit her a couple times then grabbed a few beers from the fridge and turned on the TV. His critique is that Trump is insufficiently authoritarian.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Before midnight, DOJ told Judge Kelly the press ban of CNN, MSNow, Politico is based on their National Security reporting. But examples are core First Amendment protected reporting. First howler: WH says it is b/c POLITICO reported GOP Convention was a political disaster.

"In September 2026, Politico Playbook relied on unnamed sources to paint the Republican midterm convention in Dallas as a disaster."

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trump: “The World’s Diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran.” International Energy Agency: The diesel blocked in the Persian Gulf is 3X as large as supplies missing from Russia compared with before the Iran war. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

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Refineries Are Now the Main Chokepoint for Global Energy Supplies

The Iran and Ukraine wars have exposed the world’s reliance on the Middle East and Russia for diesel.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Judges of all ideologies have issued "facilitate the return" orders, which are now so common that Kilmar Abrego Garcia's attorney has opened a practice area dedicated to them. ICE may not "deport first, litigate later," one judge scolded. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump all the tricks. Take whatever you want. Admit nothing. Deny everything. Turn the tables on your accusers. Both are corrupt villains who have deeply damaged our country. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o...

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Opinion | Somewhere, Roy Cohn Is Smiling (Gift Article)

Trump needed only one teacher.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 04/09/2026

BREAKING: Judge Talwani in MA granted request for preliminary injunction halting Trump’s unconstitutional executive order that would have made unprecedented changes to how USPS operates, and made mail-in voting logistically impossible & disenfranchised millions of voters. Trump will appeal.

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Undaunted

UPDATED: First amendment heroes

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

When you’re too stupid to realize that universal healthcare is about providing healthcare to people for free (other than their taxes), not making doctors work without compensation.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

per the Brennan Center, Trump's deployment of US Marshals to aid immigration enforcement is causing problems for judges, who need the Marshals to protect them from threats (of which MAGA is a major source) www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Another drain on judicial security resources is the Trump
administration’s reported redeployment of marshals to
assist ICE in executing immigration arrests.85 During his
interview with the Brennan Center, Judge Young observed
that these interagency deployments exacerbate existing
staff shortages, noting that marshals “are under great
strain now because they are detailed to support ICE activities, and that has stretched their capacity.” In some
instances, courts have reportedly been forced to reschedule
proceedings to accommodate gaps in protective

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

One clarification: Judge Talwani granted a TRO in *both* the League of Women Voters case *and* the California case (this doesn't really matter, except that I misdescribed it as being in the LWV case, specifically, above).

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As I predicted on Monday (video below) NOW: Federal court blocks Trump/USPS mail-in ballot rule from going into effect. "Plaintiff Organizations’ members are at risk of irreparable harm where they face significant risk of disenfranchisement and interference with their rights under state laws." 1/

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This ruling preserves the status quo for mail-in balloting (i.e., no USPS interference).

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#BREAKING: In the League of Women Voters case, Judge Talwani (D. Mass.) has issued a temporary restraining order freezing the USPS Final Rule on mail-in ballots from going into effect for 14 days (while the parties litigate whether she should enter a preliminary injunction blocking it indefinitely).

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The newly confirmed Attorney General of the United States is speaking at a political rally in support of the Republican candidate for New York governor. I’m pretty certain that the previous time in modern DOJ history (say the last hundred years) that something like that has happened is…..NEVER.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I know that I don’t need to say this. But I can’t help it. We’re getting an extra bonus supply of ridiculous lies coming from the right. It’s not going to get better. Think before you believe.

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FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 10/08/2026

FiftyPlusOne is very excited to release our polling averages for Senate and governor elections today! There's a new page on the website just for general election averages, and a blog post with some takeaways on the current state of the race here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/general-el...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/08/2026

El-Sayed: "It means holding people like RFK Jr accountable for the DOGE-ing of our public health, for which we now need to be dodging lettuce across the state of Michigan for fear of getting explosive diarrhea, which nobody ever thought you be a consequence of electing Donald Trump, but here we are"

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Don makes an important point here about the dismantling of the administrative state. The institutional damage is to: 1.) destruction of *expertise,* honed by credentialing, research, experience, and *tenure* in job

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on - if your position is that the president of the United States and his family should be immune from IRS scrutiny, you’re unqualified to be the Attorney General. It’s an indictment on our entire system that 50 GOP Senators don’t agree.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The Kremlin is operating a large-scale disinformation campaign aimed at influencing the French elections in favor of candidates on the far-right and far-left—the usual Russian formula. How exactly can a modern democratic state counter these efforts? A new government proposal is anticipated shortly.

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Présidentielle 2027 : Glucksmann, Attal, Philippe… les ingérences russes s’invitent dans la campagne

Même si les récents actes de désinformation, souvent invraisemblables et à très faible retentissement sur le débat public, semblent inoffensifs, le candidat de Place publique et celui de Renaissance s...

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Blanche should be blocked for IRS/slush fund AND - targeting Comey, James, Hearn, Powell, Walz, Frey, MOCs - Epstein - payouts to Flynn, Page, Babbitt, Vaughn - rejecting ethics advice to recuse from Trump cases - “war” on judiciary - “cleaning house” of DOJ personnel who worked on Trump cases

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Blanche’s focus on immigration enforcement has been a fool’s errand. Going after quantity over quality of targets is all for show. Protecting public safety requires investigating people who pose a real danger over trolling the parking lots of Home Depot stores to catch day laborers.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A meaningful resolution of Blanche’s IRS deal would have been: - Immunity is rescinded: Trump can refile his lawsuit when he leaves office to avoid conflict of interest; - Blanche agrees DOJ will make no payouts to J6 defendants and other criminals prosecuted by Biden DOJ without court oversight.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Like rats from a sinking ship: “Last month, Pirro offered prosecutors in her office a $25,000 retention bonus to stay for the next two years, according to people familiar with the matter.” The office is irredeemably screwed up and will stay that way as long as she’s in charge

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

GOP senators have lost the plot.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 04/08/2026

Right now, the Senate Judiciary Committee is voting to advance the nomination of Todd Blanche as U.S. Attorney General. A vote to confirm Blanche is a vote against Epstein survivors, and a vote for Trump's corruption. Remember that in November.

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Donald Trump has regularly: ✅cheated on his wives ✅ cheated on his taxes ✅ cheated his business partners ✅ cheated his donors ✅ cheated at golf Cheating is all he knows, and our elections are his next target. The media needs to wake up and stop spreading his lies.

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is the equivalent of him saying "Russia, if you're listening," but this time it's about critical water supplies in blue states. And who knows what else. Republicans should be condemning this dangerous rhetoric, but they also prioritize politics over national security.

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

People have been rightly focusing on how Trump blaming Walz for the cyber attacks from Iran is disgusting & unpatriotic. But a bigger problem is that it signals to our adversaries that they can attack Americans with impunity, as long as Trump sees them as political enemies.

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Bruce Feldman @brucerfeldman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Remove “was” and for once he’s telling the truth.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's a death cult. During the pandemic, the US had the highest death rate among large, rich democracies. There were tens of thousands of avoidable deaths, per a Lancet study.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/07/2026

GM CEO Mary Barra is introducing Trump at his rally. Something to keep in mind if you're in the market for a vehicle anytime soon.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

After 9/11, the U.S. didn't reach 600 casualties in Afghanistan until mid-2005, nearly four years into the war

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