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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.

Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 6h

Trump is such a pathetic demented little baby

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 15h

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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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 6h

Important info for California residents given Prop 40. Make sure your CA friends and family see this so they don't get tricked into opposing 40. Our state is awesome and only a handful of crazies would want to live elsewhere because of this initiative.

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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 6h

I wrote about OpenAI’s Dots agent, whose proactive approach to AI has been great so far. www.fastcompany.com/91620082/openai…

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Agentic AI just got very real

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 9h

300,000 tons isn’t even a day of diesel, lol.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 6h

If the republic survives this era, history will record the Trump presidency as the most corrupt, reckless, incompetent, and damaging in American history. Every new scandal reveals that the bottom is always lower than we thought.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 13h

New documents reveal Ken Paxton has grown his net worth up to $27 million since taking office. His yearly salary is just $153,000.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 6h

Trump isn’t good at keeping secrets, Marc Elias says. “Donald Trump usually tells us exactly how he is going to try to subvert democracy.” Your vote is a target. Keep watch: demdock.com/3TOn1e8

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10h

So @gtconway.bsky.social and I talked about alll the bankruptcies

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h

PSA: Years ago, I kept coming home sick after attending sourcing shows. I finally realized it was from shaking so many hands. So I made a rule: Shake with your right hand, but only touch your face with your left. Worked like a charm. Haven’t had that problem since.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h

Paxton has been trying to turn Talarico’s absence into some weird scandal. The man had the flu. Good grief. I’m sure he caught it from shaking so many hands. Which brings me to a PSA…

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 6h

These incidents get reported drip by drip lately but I'm guessing there are thousands of them.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 14h

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump is turning into a centaur. Look at the hindquarters on this thing. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)

Trump and his gigantic ass walking out of the White House with [checks notes] Mike Tyson

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 8h

U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjolique Lett granted the BBC's motion for alternative service in Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit, allowing the network to deliver the subpoenas by certified mail to their home and business addresses and by email to Trump's lawyers. www.rawstory.com/trump-family...

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Judge crushes Trump bid to protect Don Jr. and Ivanka Trump from his own lawsuit

A judge cleared the BBC to serve subpoenas on Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner after Secret Service protection thwarted in-person delivery.On Friday, Politico senior legal affairs repo...

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Teri Dudley @jebsmom86.bsky.social · 6h

A polar bear would do a better job as president. Please donate to protect wildlife. www.facebook.com/share/p/1efp...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 16h

“I love my Somali friends and neighbors,” said one former Democratic official in the state. “If Trump tries to come for them, he needs to come through all of us.” www.commondreams.org/news/trump-f...

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‘This is Incitement’: Minnesotans Reject Trump's Call to 'Fight Back’ Against Somali Americans | Common Dreams

"The president is trying to foment a race war here in Minnesota."

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 10h

Well the bad news is that we're selling out our allies and helping our enemies and planning to execute someone by firing squad on live TV. But on the upside we gave a no-bid contract to the UFC to train FBI agents to fight, and we all know how real professional wrestling is.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7h

Of course Kash Patel wants to hand the UFC a NO-BID contract to train FBI agents. The UFC is a sports entertainment business. The FBI already trains agents in defensive tactics. And we’re supposed to believe Dana White, Trump’s buddy, runs the only organization in America qualified to do this.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

Rep Michael McCaul (R-TX) is a buffoon who never understood what Trump was up to and had no inkling that if Trump were given complete authority over sanctions, he would, of course, use that authority to make friends with Putin and end sanctions. The whimpishness of this post is comic.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 5h

Hey, Keisha Lance Bottoms can win this race. Instead of making empty excuses why she can't win, focus on making excuses on why she can pull this off. The gap in polling is razor thin. The ruling party is unpopular. Ossoff is kicking ass. Enough with the self-defeatism. Find an excuse to win.

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GRS @crs8765.bsky.social · 8h

How are these people just now catching onto the fact that he’s a liar?

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 9h

The Blue Angels halted their Fleet Week performance midway through Friday’s air show as low clouds and poor visibility over San Francisco Bay complicated flying conditions.

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Foggier than expected conditions threaten Blue Angels air show

A full performance Friday by the Navy's popular Blue Angel is looking less likely amid stubborn low clouds

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David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I mean, quite aside from the barbarism of live-streaming this, I actually can't think of anything more stupid from a counterterrorism perspective. Showing this online - where it will likely be replayed for many years - has no deterrent value and would be useful only as anti-US recruitment tool.

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: State courts remain a powerful bulwark for democracy when Donald Trump, Republicans, and the federal courts seek to undermine fair elections, civil rights, and the rule of law. We detailed 8 states with key supreme court elections to watch next month: www.the-downballot.com/p/how-voters...

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16h

Pete Hegseth is treating death and cruelty as entertainment. The news of a livestreamed execution for the Fort Hood murderer is beneath our military. I have no sympathy for Nidal Hasan, he massacred 13 innocent people in '09, but justice is solemn, it shouldn't be a spectacle. Link below ⬇️

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 20h

Didn’t @upenn.edu do the same last year to Kariko for her RNA vaccine Nobel prize? Shame on @princeton.edu

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9h

Trump announced a diesel deal with Putin as Zelenskyy’s team met with Witkoff and Kushner in Miami. Ben explains why the deal won’t meaningfully lower prices, but could signal protection for Russian refineries as Trump pressures Ukraine to surrender territory.

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Jerrad Christian @jerradchristian.bsky.social · 9h

I know we always say "this is the most important election," but this time the U.S. government is about to start live-streaming public executions, so...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9h

WTF is happening to this country? We've asked that every single day — and watched a movement of millions rise up refusing to sit it out. So we wrote a book about it. Preorder WTF America?!

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WTF America?!

From the founders of MeidasTouch, the independent news network that helped redefine how millions of people consume news, WTF America?! is an unflinching look...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9h

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA): "At this point in time in 2022, a little over 200,000 Virginians had voted. At this point in time in 2026, approximately 450,000 Virginians have voted early."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

The vast majority of the Republican candidates for office in the area do not want to go anywhere near the Trump rally in Syracuse tonight.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 9h

🎉 WIN: The DOJ demanded unredacted voter rolls from 49 states and D.C., seeking sensitive information such as addresses and Social Security numbers. Now, a judge has ruled the department doesn’t have a right to any of it — even the data states handed over voluntarily: demdock.com/4hCYiCO

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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 9h

This was a necessary stream; lots of people are appalled. Thanks to @samsteindc.bsky.social

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 19h

Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.

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Andrew Chung @andrewchung.bsky.social · 9h

NEW - Pres. Trump has just asked the US Supreme Court to revive his dismissed lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, his 2016 Democratic rival, accusing her of conspiring with others to rig that year's election by linking his campaign to Russia.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 14h

Blue Cross Blue Shield is being sued as a monopoly after the state found it's been in a conspiracy to restrict access to healthcare. Corporations should not have this much power. We need money out of politics, money in our pockets, and Medicare for All.

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Michigan attorney general sues Blue Cross, alleging illegal monopoly

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel sued Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in "arguably the most consequential antitrust case" of its kind.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

And here we are, with Trump and Putin colluding to tamper with another American election again.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

Excellent news for Mary Peltola.

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