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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026

If you’d asked me to parody how silly and broken legal journalism is, I genuinely don’t think I could have come up with “so the best-known ‘nonpartisan’ Supreme Court outlet is now run by an ex-Trump DOJ flack who had her longtime personal friend Brett Kavanaugh officiate her wedding”

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The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed

SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

brad lander with the threatening parentheticals i love it king who're we doing labor law to next

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Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Out-of-order-8. Whistler, Ann Patchett Finished this beauty, my first AP, on the last morning of a very big life chapter. A perfect book for the moment. Read if: September is your fav month, you love the Met, you want to feel all the cracks of your beating heart. ❤️‍🩹🥹😭

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Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We’re still in love with reading and books and bookstores!!! @peoplesbooktakoma.com

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“A truthful appreciation of Gloria Steinem should not turn a radical human being into a flawless monument. She evolved. She listened. She sometimes reconsidered. She understood that feminism requires the courage to confront not only the world’s failings, but our own.”

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

As a Michigander, I think Josh is exactly right. There's no reason for complacency; I am pretty confident this race will be decided by a narrow margin one way or the other. But Abdul can definitely win, and he's working hard to bridge the divisions the bruising primary left among Dems here.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Perhaps it would be better morally & electorally to make the people you're running against, who are assaulting, abducting, murdering, stealing, putting kids into concentration camps, starting wars & destroying our lives, your opposition. Instead of some streamer dude voters have never heard of.

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Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Is anyone able to inform me how Dolly stayed so good?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Thanks to @aoc.bsky.social for helping give me (and many others, I imagine) the courage to share my maternal health care story. www.thehandbasket.co/p/miscarriag...

While I’ve gotten through the highest high of being pregnant to the depths of despair in miscarriage, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been publicly walking us through her egg freezing journey. Two distinct processes, to be sure, but both with the spectre of motherhood at their core. It is, in my view, a radical act to so thoroughly demystify an otherwise opaque process; and I do believe her radical transparency helped give me some of the courage to share my experience with you. I’ve rid myself of the cobwebs of shame that I hadn’t even realized had been spun around me.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/08/2026

Proud to announce that New York City has registered a record 4,200 New Yorkers in our doula care program. Pregnancy and childbirth are life-changing moments. No one should be forced to navigate them alone.

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Mayor Mamdani Expands Access to Doula Care Across NYC as Citywide Initiative Surpasses 4,000 People Served

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Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is actually the very framing I dislike (besides, obv, anti-choice right wingers). AOC is not "seizing control" of her fertility -- she is making an informed choice about how she wants to treat her body and her fertility right now. When we use the world "control," to talk about our bodies . . .

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Jeff Abbott @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

One year ago today Camp East Montana officially opened as a detention camp for immigrants. The site is the largest detention center in the U.S. and it's first year has been marked by death, abuses, and a served as a symbol of corruption and mismanagement. Here is my story looking back:

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Camp East Montana: A year of deaths, controversy and management woes

Camp East Montana is marking one year of operation on Fort Bliss in El Paso. The year has been marked by criticism and calls for its closure.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

NEW: I spent months trying to understand why a cop who spoke out against Flock faced five internal affairs investigations and was pushed out of his job—only to find himself at the center of an unlikely political fight uniting parts of the American right and left. www.wired.com/story/the-co...

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The Cop Who Took On Flock

After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Honestly this is the right way to look at things

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Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

today's rambling on @aoclover.bsky.social's egg freezing journey (i.e. the only reason I'm temporarily enduring the drudgery of instagram)

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

thread on EggOC complexities

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Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

ughhhh fine I'll redownload instagram to be able to engage on this convo

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. 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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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Maine has no parole, meaning that people with life sentences are almost guaranteed to die in prison. Janet Mills has blocked parole reform for years. This could all change soon, as Maine elects a new governor. Incarcerated voters are paying attention: boltsmag.org/maine-prison...

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Maine Prisoners Organize to Protect Their Rare Right to Vote - Bolts

Maine is one of the only places in the country where prisoners keep their right to vote. But logistical barriers to voting still contribute to their larger exclusion from the political process.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

As I've said before, the Trumpists are *hunting* trans kids. The media is silent. The Democrats are silent. And someday they'll all claim they fought against this. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/anti...

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Anti-trans news site outs Olympic skater's trans sibling - LGBTQ Nation

Women's gold medalist Alysa Liu has a sister competing in track and field in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 06/08/2026

This is Bruce. He prefers his sticks with a little pizazz. 13/10 (IG: brucewaynethegoldenboy)

a golden retriever trots along a cement pathway outside with a city skyline in the distance. his front left paw is suspended in the air as he has been caught mid-step. he looks over at the camera with a little grin. he's holding a long leafy branch in his mouth. can't believe his luck at finding this razzle dazzle stick.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A teenager in North Carolina has been arrested for assault with a "deadly weapon" after taking abortion medication. @kylietcheung.bsky.social has been doing such an incredible job with these pieces on post-Dobbs criminalization

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North Carolina Teen Arrested for Using Abortion Pills As “Deadly Weapon”

The 18-year-old faces criminal charges for trying to self-manage an abortion

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Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

You can’t even tell all the extreme weather indicators from this perfect looking picture from Malibu yesterday!!

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Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Is this a thing? I thought it was a joke but this is now the second public place (RANDOM public place to be clear, not giving NYT vibes) playing jack johnson. It really does transport you.

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Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

How does one find the sub community On Here discussing Sheila Heti’s (!!!) latest short for the @newyorker.com 🎢

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Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Loooved this book, love this list!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/08/2026

Reposting.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A few additional highlights from the feds’ Broadview 6 filing: U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros was emailed a transcript of the 10/9 grand jury session in October but says he didn’t review it and problematic conduct was not brought to his attention until late April:

As to the other grand jury issues, the United States Attorney informed the Court that he first
learned of the “vouching” and ex parte conversations in late April 2026.9 Id. at 51-53. The United
States Attorney noted that he moved to dismiss the indictment based on his discovery of the
vouching and ex parte communications because “we wanted to moot whatever had taken place in
the grand jury.” Id. at 51-53, 57-58.
Since that time, the AUSAs on the trial team as well as Experienced AUSA 1 have self-
reported this Court’s comments—and the entirety of this matter—to the Department of Justice’s
Office of Professional Responsibility (“OPR”), which is the component of the Department
responsible for conducting an independent review of allegations of misconduct. 28 C.F.R. § 45.12;
Justice Manual § 1-4.200, et. seq. Moreover, as discussed in detail below, the United States
Attorney conducted a root cause analysis of the underlying issues giving rise to the dismissal of
the indictment and information in this case and has taken numerous remedial steps to help ensure
that the missteps that occurred here do not happen again.
9 The United States Attorney was emailed a copy of the transcript from the October 9, 2025, grand jury
presentation on October 14, 2025, but has no recollection of reviewing the transcript at that time, and is
quite certain he did not review the transcript at that time. The United States Attorney did not receive a copy
of the October 16 or October 23, 2025, transcripts until late April 2026, shortly before the Government
moved to dismiss the indictment. At that time (late April 2026), the United States Attorney reviewed
relevant portions of all three transcripts. Irrespective, no one ever brought the vouching or ex parte issues
to the United States Attorney’s attention until late April 2026, nor was the United States Attorney aware of
the vouching or ex parte issues until late April 2026.

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Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This forever and ever on repeat.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Very excited for this new essay at "Can We Still Govern?": The key claim is that planning for a progressive future cannot just focus on new policies. It also has to include - to start with - political power. What does a power-shifting perspective look like? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...

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Rebuilding Democracy Requires Rebalancing Power

What does a power-shifting agenda look like?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

One year $150M contract to a small Texas firm that lacks immigration law experience

Now that responsibility will fall on a law firm with 26 employees spread across eight offices. The firm bills itself as a "boutique" firm "known for elite counsel in high-stakes litigation, environmental, regulatory, and corporate matters." None of the lawyers for the firm list immigration law as an area of expertise, per a POLITICO review of the firm's site.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 31/07/2026

In a new interview with David Remnick, Abdul El-Sayed discusses money in politics, rebuilding broken systems, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/BEgyEX

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Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Update: I'm doing a Bad Job of keeping this updated and also a Bad Job of migrating off goodreads. But an OK Job at reading, so, shrug!

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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Smart people: You should sign up to be a local election worker this year

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Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I often feel astonished at the times we live in, but then feel equally (?) grateful (?) that Shaul Magid -- among other Jewish scholars -- can bear witness and language to the absurdities. A very worthwhile read on absurd and worrisome times. shaulmagid.substack.com/p/the-hate-a...

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The Hate at the “United Against Hate” Jewish anti-Mamdani Rally, NYC, Sunday July 26: A First-Hand Reflection

When anger turns to hate it knows no borders: The impermissible becomes permissible

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Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Re tis the season, from Judith Butler's Giving an Account of Oneself: “We are a comic and forgivable community, we who tend to falter in giving an account of ourselves in a language that, strictly speaking, belongs to none of us and does not always have our best interests at heart.”

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Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Dispatches from the politics of grief and mourning—been pondering grief and futurism lately—and Shaul Magid’s piece on Tisha b’av hits (obv). Wishing depth and reverence, gentleness & interrogation, for all stepping into our calendar’s grief container tonight. May it lead us toward justice 🖤

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

if you have feelings about SCOTUS after today, and after the last week, and after the last months and years, remember that at least you can vote for state supreme courts in many places this year, and those matter a ton too my state-by-state guide to every state supreme court contest:

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Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts

Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

NEW: You should know about this lawsuit in Maine. Basically, it's testing whether states can pass laws that'll allow you to sue ICE agents (even in federal court!). Learn more, it's fascinating and complex — but at bottom, it's all about whether there are basic mechanics of accountability.

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This Maine Lawsuit is Testing the Boundaries of Suing Federal Immigration Agents - Bolts

One morning in late January, civil engineer Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was driving to work in Portland, Maine, when federal agents in town for the so-called Operation Catch of the Day... Read More

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

lol I just went back and looked at my substack from December, when Barbara was granted cert, and this was my closing prediction *even as I predicted 7-2,* a less-horrific scenario:

The Court’s decision to grant certiorari in Barbara legitimizes the administration in asking the question at all, normalizing the idea of birthright citizenship as a question as opposed to a foundational piece of our country’s history.9 The Court’s likely eventual preservation of birthright citizenship will allow pundits desperate for evidence that the current moment is not as dire as it is to celebrate a win, gaslighting a public similarly desperate for reassurance. It focuses people’s attention on a legal issue that isn’t really a legal issue at all, no matter how much the Court wants you to believe it might be. Meanwhile, the government will continue grabbing people off the street regardless of citizenship status, blocking pathways to legal immigration, and losing people it detains.
Stay focused, stay angry, and protect your neighbors.

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