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Retired Cali public policy guy, recovering academic. Proud literacy tutor at my #PublicLibrary #CarletonCollege grad. #UCSD #PoliticalScience #PhD Long-suffering Minnesota sports fan No bio, no follow back.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h
"It's important for you all to stay on the same team as Ken Paxton," says the woman who filed for divorce and ended their marriage
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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 04/10/2026
The fact there are people —who have cats in their pfp— arguing about this in this thread is taking me out. It’s not just taurine supplementation. All of a cat’s biology evolved to convert meat into complex vitamins & proteins, & they don’t have the enzymes needed to process plant/synthetic sources.
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doc brianS @docbs.bsky.social · 18h
Angela Paxton with the Stockholm Syndrome advertisement
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h
More Democrats need to be telling the online casino owners behind Polymarket to shut the fuck up
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
HAPPENING NOW: Anti-Trump demonstrator in Ohio holds up protest sign that reads: “Hey Trump — We aren't paid to be here. We all hate you for free!” 📍Vandalia, Ohio
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Chevron @lachevron.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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doc brianS @docbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You know he's lying because his lips are moving.
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Of course it was all lies. All the fuckers do is lie
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In Springfield, OH, nearly 1,400 workers were laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally. Layoffs were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
President Donald Trump is trying to rally voters in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday. But days ago, 1,400 workers were laid off from a truck factory there.
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White Plains Rich @whiteplainsrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
She can't tolerate living with this lying philanderer, but wants you to spend the next six years with him.  If that isn't the essential essence of the GOP, I don't know what is. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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As She Divorces Ken Paxton, His Wife Urges Texans to Vote for Him
In a new ad, Angela Paxton tells voters to focus on the “whole team,” not “individual players.”
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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump Urges Republicans to Vote By Mail After Criticizing Practice
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Trump Urges Republicans to Vote By Mail After Criticizing Practice
It was the latest mixed messaging from President Trump, who regularly votes by mail, but has made baseless claims that the practice is “inherently corrupt.”
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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In New Mexico it was not uncommon to see dead raptors, road runners, & other birds and animals who had tried to drink water in stocktanks & drowned bc they could not escape It‘a a simple & easy solution to prevent animals drowning in stocktanks
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doc brianS @docbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Leopard complains about face-eaters in his party.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"If House Republicans are going to pull off an upset in November, they say it would come down to the party’s massive cash advantage and its aggressive gerrymandering push." Eg, not on policies or the will of a democratic electorate. www.cnn.com/2026/10/03/p...
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A growing number of House Republicans privately believe they won’t win the House | CNN Politics
Four weeks to Election Day, a growing number of House Republicans privately fear their chances of holding onto the majority are vanishing and have begun focusing on how to limit the size of a potentia...
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doc brianS @docbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It says "not quite Star Trek." Everyone knows that this is a still from the best Star Trek movie.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Brazilian intelligence says it confirmed interference from both the US and Russia ahead of Sunday’s presidential election, rated the risk of US influence on the vote “critical.” Brazil is now investigating foreign interference.
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Brazil votes as intelligence agency finds US and Russian interference; US backs the right wing
In the final week before Brazil votes, the US government put money behind opponents of the Supreme Court, closed its consulates over a threat Brazilian police could not find and was reported to have t...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is Justice Alito's way of letting Republicans know that he's certain they are going to get a shellacking in the midterms.
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keven-pittsinger.bsky.social @keven-pittsinger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not to repeat the obvious, but this is literally lawless behavior that makes a mockery of the Constitution and judicial system, should result in contempt prosecution for anyone involved, and disbarment of any lawyers
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 02/10/2026
Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)
On September 9, 2026, Respondents permitted Pablo F. to exit the building where 
he was detained, but he was immediately swarmed by four ICE officers and handcuffed as 
soon as he stepped outside. (Doc. No. 25-3 at 4:48:45–4:49:26.)3
 The officers drove him
to the back of the Whipple building and returned him to a holding cell. (Doc. No. 21 ¶¶ 8–
9; Doc. No. 25 ¶ 5.) During this encounter, officers dislocated Pablo F.’s shoulder. (Doc. 
No. 21 ¶ 7.)4
 Pablo F. now bringsthis Motion seeking to enforce the Court’s Order granting 
the Petition.Again, Respondents make no attempt whatsoever to support their assertion that 
Pablo F. was released. Absent any such argument, the Court cannot agree that a reasonable 
person would have felt free to leave when exiting the detention facility and immediately 
being stopped by ICE officers. Likewise, absent some argument, the Court necessarily 
concludes that Pablo F. was subject to restraints not shared by the public generally when 
he took one step outside of the detention facility and was immediately stopped by ICE 
officers who forcibly returned him to a detention cell. Because Respondents do not make 
any legal argument that Pablo F. was ever meaningfully released from custody, the Court 
grants the motion and orders Pablo F.’s release.6
6 To be clear, Pablo F. is not arguing, and the Court is not concluding, that an order of 
release in a habeas matter renders unlawful any future arrests. Rather, the Court reaches 
the narrow conclusion that because Respondents advance no legal argument in this case to 
support their assertion that Pablo F. was released from custody, and because the 
uncontested facts show that ICE officers immediately swarmed Pablo F. as soon as he 
stepped out of the building, Pablo F. was not released from custody.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Personal information of most of the FBI’s agents and staffers," was stored UNENCRYPTED? NIST publishes security requirements. 2024 rules to protect Controlled Unclassified Information.👇🏼 Rule: encrypt stored data. Why? If an intruder steals it, they can't use it. nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Spe...
NIST SP 800-1713 

Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information
May 2024

03.13.08 Transmission and Storage Confidentiality

Implement cryptographic mechanisms to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of CUI during transmission and while in storage.

DISCUSSION
This requirement applies to internal and external networks and any system components that can transmit CUI, including servers, notebook computers, desktop computers, mobile devices, printers, copiers, scanners, facsimile machines, and radios. Unprotected communication paths are susceptible to interception and modification. [start highlighting] Encryption [end highlighting] protects CUI from unauthorized disclosure during transmission and while in storage. Cryptographic mechanisms that protect the
confidentiality of CUI during transmission include TLS and IPsec. Information in storage (i.e., information at rest) refers to the state of CUI when it is not in process or in transit and resides on internal or external storage devices, storage area network devices, and databases. [start highlighting] Protecting CUI in storage does not focus on the type of storage device or the frequency of access to that device but rather on the state of the information. [end highlighting] This requirement relates to 03.13.11.

REFERENCES
Source Controls: SC-08, SC-08(01), SC-28, SC-28(01)
Supporting Publications: FIPS 140-3 [38], FIPS 197 [68], SP 800-46 [14], SP 800-52 [69], SP 800-56A [73], SP 800-56B [74], SP 800-56C [75], SP 800-57-1 [15], SP 800-57-2 [16], SP 800-57-3 [17], SP 800-77 [18], SP 800-111 [51], SP 800-113 [19], SP 800-114 [20], SP 800-121 [21], SP 800-124 [28], SP 800-177 [70]
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doc brianS @docbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Led by "Christians"
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doc brianS @docbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is Communist China shit right here.
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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
theintercept.com/2026/09/30/i...
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ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of ill detainees.
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doc brianS @docbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Translation: "I don't care about the Constitution or basic human rights."
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doc brianS @docbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In case people are STILL complaining about Dems threatening to expand SCOTUS when they can. It's an imperative.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵On Feb. 26, 1931, the INS under the orders of Herbert Hoover deported up to 1.8 million people to Mexico. An investigation in 2004 revealed 60% were U.S. citizens. Pull up a seat🪑. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.history.com/articles/the...
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The Long History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America | HISTORY
School segregation, lynchings and mass deportations of Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens are just some of the injustices...
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robertnm.bsky.social @robertnm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Never again. We need laws protecting Latinos from these periodic pogroms that happen in this country.
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Alison Frankel @alisonfrankel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Evil.
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doc brianS @docbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The cruelty and racism are the points.
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doc brianS @docbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dimestore Kevin Costner did what?
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Starting to think this is a Deep State op
Can the president unilaterally impose tariffs on foreign countries?

No inherent, unlimited power. The Constitution gives Congress the power to lay duties and regulate commerce with foreign nations. The president may impose tariffs only when a statute authorizes it, and then only within that statute's limits.Who pays tariffs levied on other countries by the United States?

The U.S. importer pays the tariff to the U.S. government. Foreign governments do not send that check.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 30/09/2026
The NYTimes scans crowd footage and finds Jack Smith at the Hawkeye game. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
Photo of fuzzy photo of crowd in near-outside seats.  A white man with a beard is circled. The text in the photo is:

College Park, Md.
Feb. 3, 2024
The New York Times analyzed footage from the game and identified Smith in the crowd.
Fox Sports
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doc brianS @docbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Even Utah has collapsed!
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ben-Gvir, the minister of national security, literally had a portrait of a mass shooter of Palestinians on his wall, it’s literally the equivalent a U.S. Senator having a portrait of Timothy McVeigh or Dylan Roof in his living room
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ep46er.bsky.social @ep46er.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Love to see campaign adds calling the republicans “full of Schmitt”.
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This has been an expensive, failed presidency…🗳️💙🗳️
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doc brianS @docbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Mrs Potts and Chip Potts from Beauty and the Beast
Alt: Mrs Potts and Chip Potts from Beauty and the Beast
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doc brianS @docbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
OFFS.
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doc brianS @docbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still. Count da Ringz.
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Mitch Jackson ⚖️ @mitch.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans in Congress got hours of free airtime in front of the American people. They spent it stating false facts as true and calling Jack Smith a dirtbag and a villain. Here's all you need to know, under oath.
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🇺🇸**°•.𝐅𝐀𝐅𝐎.•°**🇺🇸 🌊🌊🌊 @fafo-ez-one.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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doc brianS @docbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nebraska, you good with this?
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.
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