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joyful swimmer, avid reader, lover of coffee and cats. not a morning person.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h
BREAKING: SCOTUS allows the Trump admin to restart third-country removals under a policy found by lower courts to violate federal law. The Democratic appointees dissent. The deportations will be OK'ed at least through the next several months, with SCOTUS agreeing to hear the case in December.
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026
order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of
certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether
the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the district court had authority to enter classwide declaratory relief and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252(f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U.S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or FARRA/CAT and its implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the application for stay.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 8h
Wile E Coyote had better luck with his ACME purchases
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h
Awful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece:
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h
Texas, the voter registration deadline is coming up next week. If you live in Texas and want to vote, be sure to check that you are registered properly — even if you you think you did what you had to. A statewide database to check: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...
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Carolleisa @carolleisa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sometimes it’s Amazon. Sometimes it’s Google. Sometimes it’s a company you’ve never heard of. They want your land, your water, your power grid, your tax base. #Datacenters are a supercharged corporate attack on the public good. www.theframelab.org/mps-data-cen...
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Data Centers Isuse Hurts Trump—If Democrats Pounce
AI. Crypto. Trump. All three are the same con with different wigs.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h
I repeat:
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 13h
57 men were in that group chat and did nothing and said nothing to help that girl and they are all cowards
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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 8h
New Yorkers deserve to understand how our judicial system works. Every day, judges make decisions that can dramatically impact everyday New Yorkers’ rights. Today’s ruling rightly reaffirms that we deserve a judicial system that is transparent, accountable, and responsive to the public.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: Trump's lawyers filed their Eleventh Circuit brief fighting the sanctions order in Trump v. IRS tonight. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-irs-... The best way I can describe the brief is showing you their statement regarding whether they believe the court should hold oral arguments:
STATEMENT REGARDING ORAL ARGUMENT
Appellants respectfully request oral argument. This appeal presents substantial questions concerning Article Ill adversity and the limits of the district
court's sanctions authority. In this case, the court erroneously imposed (i) an unprecedented and unconstitutional restriction on the speech of the sitting President of the United States, as well as other government officials, and private persons, in every official forum in the country, and (ii) career-altering sanctions on the President's attorneys for advocating a legitimate legal position with which the court
simply disagreed. Even worse, the district court did so without a show-cause order,
a hearing, or individualized findings. Oral argument will assist the Court in
resolving these important constitutional and procedural questions.
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Chris Kluwe, Candidate for Assembly District 72 @kluweoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Proud to be endorsed by California Environmental Voters! I look forward to working with California Environmental Voters and community members to tackle the issues that matter most to our coastal communities, including access clean air and water, and standing up to polluters.
Chris Kluwe for Assembly is proudly endorsed by California Environmental Voters!
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 29/09/2026
He is deformed, crooked
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. Today, at Law Dork:
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Breaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison
Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love a one-sentence letter from the clerk after cert grant and briefing to announce recusal!
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The response to the below application came in today before 4p, as Justice Jackson requested. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/26... Two amicus briefs were also submitted, both supporting the Trump admin's request: www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026
An Oklahoma family was forced to abandon their home after it filled with slick, black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite ample evidence of oil and gas pollution, state regulators say they cannot help. (Published May)
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Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help.
The Merediths were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act li...
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 29/09/2026
Some sack, Francis.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
OAN: "The GOP chair of the GA Peanut Commission backs Ossoff ... Donald Chase said Ossoff has his vote, adding he likes to support people he believes in. Chase said he's still a conservative R, but claims character matters, and he wants someone in the Senate who will take the institution seriously"
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What would the world be like if Peter Thiels racism had been enough for folks to actively divest from the SV model? What would happen if we didn’t treat “advocacy orgs” who allowed casual racism and Years of misogynoir so much time to do better
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
one thing I like about KBJ is that she's not only calling the Court out in her dissents, where it will be seen primarily by nerds like me who then try to bridge the gap to the public she's going straight to the public and denouncing the Court in speeches, too ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses
The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you adopted a feral cat to the inside and he keeps meowing maybe he just really wants to smoke real cigarettes. You don’t know what he was up to before
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i predict that someone is going to make some money insider trading off of whatever this is
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 28/09/2026
bezos wrecked a lot of good work at the post, but the op-ed page has always been fucking trash. i am not even sure mcmegan is worse than fred hiatt and i fucking hate her work both because i don’t agree with it and because it’s incredibly boring.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Run on the platform of “public goods shared in common and distributed to everyone.” That's it.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
50,000 South Dakotans have health care coverage because voters expanded Medicaid in 2022. The initiative passed with 56% of the vote. So this year the GOP has put 2 measures on ballot: —one to roll back Medicaid expansion —another to require future initiatives like this get 60 percent.
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"Disrespectful for Voters": The Dakotas Weigh Raising the Bar for Direct Democracy - Bolts
Frustrated that voters are bypassing the legislatures they control, the GOP is pushing two ballot measures this fall in North Dakota and South Dakota to require a supermajority to amend the state cons...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/b...
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After the Drug Laws (Gift Article)
We look at what happened when New York changed its policies on marijuana.
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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Icon.
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Calypso legend Mighty Sparrow dies aged 91 - Soca News
Calypso legend Mighty Sparrow has died aged 91. The Calypso King of the World leaves behind a legacy that shaped Caribbean music and culture.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...
ctmirror.org
They served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.
Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"I still believe the guy who created the department of homeland security and ICE and did war crimes and passed legislation that built the single largest surveillance program of American citizens in history loves democracy but I can't believe he's fundraising for the fascists he paved the way for."
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New whistleblower account: Former employees of the Kennedy Center say that center officials canceled a plan to start overhauling its leaking infrastructure months ago, despite those officials now asserting the leaks posed an urgent safety risk requiring the building to close.
nytimes.com
Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say
In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026
It’s amazing how our culture still largely just pretends that awkward women who struggle to talk to or attract the attention of men don’t exist.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 28/09/2026
This sums up my own experience in recent years. My theory is that there are so many genuine existential crises right now that people's instinct is to treat even low-stakes issues (movies! fandoms! personal preferences!) like existential crises. Makes having a normal conversation almost impossible.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kelly Lytle Hernandez has a new book out called "Racist By Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control." wwnorton.com/books/978132... - I'm looking forward to reading it when I have chance in a couple of months.
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Racist by Design
A revolutionary new history that exposes the "whites-only" roots of the American immigration regime., Racist by Design, Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control, Kelly Lytle Hernández, 9781324117094
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Diesel at record high prices and why no trucker convoy in DC?
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/09/2026
The conditions in President Trump and Stephen Miller’s detention facilities remain inhumane. Demand immediate action from our elected leaders to prevent further loss of life at aclu.org/stop-ice_killings
"1 person died in ICE detention every 10 days from January 2025 through August 2026. Source: NPR." Image of a barbed wire fence against the sky. ACLU logo.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AI Is run by a problematic sex cult.. that’s terrible We are as a country destroying social work, trauma informed therapy and applied communications and pedagogy Because people who want to do that work can’t afford to and the ones that do it best work for AI
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 27/09/2026
The King has done you wrong
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/09/2026
Run, don't walk, to vote.nyc/page/register-vote. Register to vote by October 24 so that you can vote on faster, more efficient government.
vote.nyc
Register to Vote | NYC Board of Elections
You can register to vote online, in-person, or by mail.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
so called free thinkers when mommy takes the warm soft sheets out of the dryer
orange cat asleep under a navy blue pillowcase
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 27/09/2026
You taught me language, and my profit on’t Is, I know how to curse.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Update your measles vaccine if you need it and make sure to vaccinate your children.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This profile says it all in one sentence: “Amy wasn’t worried, believing herself to be different.” (Do read the whole piece though, it’s really good)
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The community room at Capitol Hill Station is PACKED this afternoon with folks who want to talk about turning Capitol Hill into a low pollution neighborhood. Turns out there's a lot of momentum around creating more people oriented places.
Folks hanging around a map of the neighborhood that they're writing onLittle signs on a map talking about pedestrianization
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminism has been a net positive. Period. Let's move along.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 27/09/2026
Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck! Buck, buck, buck! Ay, buck!
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 27/09/2026
Apropos of nothing, but I see via LinkedIn that the same people who were my counterparts / antagonists at Meta who were there to pay lip service to ethics while trying to prevent the company being held accountable for genocide are now at the Frontier Labs.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is really, really depressing to learn how many people do not in fact find that obvious.
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