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Emma Steiner

@emmasteiner.bsky.social
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sr researcher @ campaign legal center, views my own. lover of voting rights, birds, ancient rome.

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Emma Steiner @emmasteiner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
reading a book on the RFK-LBJ feud but I'm scared it's the gateway to spending my fall with the Caro series.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 01/10/2026
Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."
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Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In Paris, a new wall may hold some exciting remains of a town mentioned by Julius Caesar in his BG: Gallic Lutetia. And remains of the burnt portions “may correspond to Caesar’s account that the Gauls set fire to their settlement before fleeing the advancing Romans.” (Bellum Gallicum 7.58) (Gift 🔗)
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An Ancient Wall Sheds Light On an Old Question: Where Did Paris Begin? (Gift Article)
A discovery at a Parisian hospital, on an island in the Seine, has given archaeologists clues about the city as Julius Caesar may have found it.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh god, there’s a NEW Boston?’
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Statement from the OSCE ODIHR and OSCE PA: "The decision not to invite the OSCE to observe the 2026 mid-term congressional elections in the United States is regrettable" odihr.osce.org/odihr/667722
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ODIHR and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly regret the absence of invitation to observe U.S. mid-term elections
WARSAW/COPENHAGEN, 23 September 2026 – The decision not to invite the OSCE to observe the 2026 mid-term congressional elections in the United S...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 22/09/2026
WIN: A federal court dismissed DOJ's lawsuit attempting to seize voters' sensitive data in Washington state. Voters are now 25-0 against the Trump DOJ's lawsuits trying to illegally seize voter data.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For all the anti-brown bigotry that emanates from this state, a reminder that this story is so much more consistent with how daily life actually is here
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 21/09/2026
In Austin, ICE shot a 28-year-old man named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez yesterday at Anderson and 183 while he was driving for Door Dash. He was taken to the hospital, but his lawyer says they won't give his wife any information about his health or whereabouts.
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ICE officer shoots Venezuelan man delivering food in Austin, lawyer says
The victim was identified as Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez, 28, by his immigration attorney. He remains in a “serious but stable condition” after the shooting, authorities said.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
this labyrinth is indisputable
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 18/09/2026
“Roy Cohn is a creature from the depths of the American political imagination, too pure in his utter malignity to be entirely credible, too potent in his continuing consequence to be safely interred in the past.” —@fotoole.bsky.social
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Devils in America | Fintan O’Toole
Toward the end of his biography of Roy Cohn, written with his wife, Susan Goldmark, Kai Bird quotes the editor and publisher Jason Epstein: “In a way,
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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Excellent resource from the National Association of State Election Directors with all the key dates for the election in every state: when mail ballots go out, certification deadlines, etc. www.nased.org/2026dates
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2026 General Election Administrative Dates and Deadlines — NASED
2026 Administrative Dates & Deadlines
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the kat from HOUSE (1977) @dogunderwater.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
it's actually pretty awful that the president wants to tear down a giant lauded arts center in my city and has already displaced the national opera.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Kennedy Center joins the Reflecting Pool, Lafayette Park and sort of the White House itself (no tours) where supposed renovations have led to indefinite loss of public access. After taxpayer funded plans/construction, these places are fenced off and closed down, not improved.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sitting on balcony and thought to myself, “I hate George McClellan” for no particular reason. But I’m not wrong.
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: In a victory for voters across the country, the U.S. Supreme Court has refused the Trump administration’s request to allow the USPS to implement illegal mail voting restrictions ahead of the midterms. Mail voting remains safe, secure and unchanged. 1/
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has refused to allow mail-in voting restrictions for the midterms, rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to revive a U.S. Postal Service plan. USPS is expected to continue delivering mail ballots as usual www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Emma Steiner @emmasteiner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Anthropic reports in new release that frontier models have developed the first funny Shouts & Murmurs column
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bayeux Tapestry good but massively upstaged by seeing a cat in a ruff right before
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: We're suing to stop ICE's illegal practice of intimidating and retaliating against Americans who exercise their First Amendment right to lawfully observe and record federal immigration officers conducting their official duties in public.
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Common Cause and Campaign Legal Center Sue Federal Agencies to Stop Illegally Intimidating Americans Who Observe or Record Immigration Enforcement
WASHINGTON — Common Cause and Michael Khalili, represented by Campaign Legal Center, are suing to end several federal agencies’ illegal policy and practice of intimidating and retaliating against Amer...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 09/09/2026
The U.S. Postal Service’s illegal mail ballot restrictions cannot be implemented before the November midterm elections. Point blank. Any attempt to implement this rule would result in chaos and countless voters being disenfranchised.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
FOIAed records show the DOJ accused prominent journals of being “partisans in various scientific debates” & demanded explanations of their editorial processes. www.aip.org/fyi/doj-offi... by @danvergano.bsky.social
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DOJ Official Queried a Dozen Journals on 'Partisan' Views in 2025
The Justice Department fulfilled the public records request for the letters just as their author departed the agency.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hey buddy you got any breakthrough proofs you’re working on? No reason, me and my large corporation are just curious
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 08/09/2026
When our elections and the rule of law are under attack, Campaign Legal Center is there to fight back. As highlighted in @theguardian.com, CLC works alongside our partners every day to ensure we have free, fair and safe elections: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Legal veterans lead fightback against Trump’s ‘full-out assault on democracy’
Advocacy groups expand legal challenges and condemn president’s ‘self-serving attempts to take over midterms’
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Radars across the eastern half of the U.S. States exploded with reflectivity ~22 hrs ago. Most is the result of birds with current estimates now over half a BILLION actively in flight. This is part of the annual fall migration southward and appears to be the busiest night of the season underway.
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
NEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...
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For Fired DeSantis Campaign Staff Member, a Second Chance at State Dept. (Gift Article)
The hiring of Nate Hochman, who lost his job amid an uproar over a video containing a Nazi symbol, underscores the administration’s willingness to overlook past transgressions.
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026
This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...
a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 04/09/2026
The court extensively cited the expert report we submitted from a mail voting expert who concluded that “[n]one of the Rule’s requirements can feasibly be implemented before the November 3, 2026 General Election.” 4/ campaignlegal.org/press-releas...
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Federal Judge Blocks Unlawful New USPS Rule on Mail Voting
BOSTON — Today, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued a new order blocking the United States Postal Service (USPS) rule that would have implemented last-...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 04/09/2026
did you guys know john erlichman of watergate transcripts infamy popularized but did not coin the phrase "the big enchilada" barrypopik.com/blog/big_enc...
Big Enchilada, n., the person in charge, the most important person or thing. Coined by Nixon's Domestic Policy Advisor John Erlichman in March 1973 in reference to former Attorney General John Mitchell. The term follows in the tradition of big cheese, big fish, and bigwig. Erlichman claims he used enchilada because of his fondness for Mexican food.GLAMMER YAMMER: Susan Hayward and husband Jess Barker wolfed potato pancakes unglamorously at Joe King's Rathskeller ... Who stated the expession, "the whole enchilada?" It'ss around now ... Marlene Dietrich's dtr. Maria has bloosomed into one of the purtiest gals around ... Clark Clifford's becoming a grampa via dtr. Jerri.Newspapers.com
22 October 1951, San Francisco Examiner, "Earl Wilson" (syndicated entertainment columnist) pg. 22, col. 3
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
On Day 1 of voting season for the 2026 midterm general election, mail-in voting is still available to all eligible voters. And we are still waiting for a Supreme Court ruling on the USPS plan for President Trump's attempt to restrict voting by mail. You probably have questions — a thread:
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Trump asks Supreme Court to lift block on USPS plan to restrict mail voting
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a temporary block on the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump's attempt to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election.
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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is the endgame for TX "core reform": wiping out any traces of the last 100 yrs of scholarship in the humanities, but also wiping out the humanities. This is coming to every system in the state. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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UT proposes cutting more than 100 'narrow' courses from core this spring
UT courses on slavery, race, sexuality and environmental history are among those that could stop counting toward UT's core.
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Emma Steiner @emmasteiner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
struggling not to tell everyone in my life the fun fact that many of the pics of Roy Cohn in the new Cohn biography are credited to Michael Stipe of R.E.M. because he bought part of Roy Cohn's personal archive to make sculptures and visual art.
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 01/09/2026
Read the full expert report from a career election administrator we just filed with the court: campaignlegal.org/document/dec...
campaignlegal.org
Declaration of Tammy Patrick
On August 28, 2026, Campaign Legal Center on behalf of Plaintiffs filed a motion for preliminary injunction to enjoin USPS’s Final Rule, which unlawfully empowers USPS to shut down any State’s mail ba...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 01/09/2026
🚨NEW: A whistleblower alleges USPS is defying court orders to implement Trump's mail voting EO. We just filed an expert report with the court detailing exactly HOW implementing this rule would cause "irreparable harm" to voters and election officials. 🧵
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 27/08/2026
We sued to prevent the U.S. Postal Service from implementing new illegal barriers to mail-in voting based on President Trump's unconstitutional executive order. campaignlegal.org/update/campa...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: We're suing to prevent the U.S. Postal Service from implementing new barriers to mail-in voting based on President Trump's unconstitutional executive order. 1/
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Pro-Voter Coalition Files New Complaint Against Illegal USPS Rule on Mail Voting
WASHINGTON — Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and Democracy Defenders Fund (DDF) took another legal action to prevent the United States Postal Service (USPS) from implementing new barriers to mail v...
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 25/08/2026
"This is not the Supreme Court saying yes, 'this order is legal and constitutional, and you definitely can do this by November.' This was really just a technical ruling about the timing of the district court's order," says CLC's @jonathandiaz.bsky.social in @axios.com.
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America's elections are getting caught in a fight over the mail
New USPS ballot rules could force states into an untested federal system weeks before voting begins.
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Ryan Dunlavey > NYCC table L-24 @ryandunlavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.
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rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
i profiled interpol, a band which came to define a post-9/11 NYC darkness early in its career in its latest album, Interpol grapples directly with feelings of anxiety over technology and the surveillance state — but leaves room for the light www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Interpol Comes Full Circle on ‘This Mirror Weighs a Ton’ (Gift Article)
The band that emerged in post-9/11 New York grapples with the surveillance state on its anxious but hopeful new LP, “This Mirror Weighs a Ton.”
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Emma Steiner @emmasteiner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
got sad when my census bureau field interviewer said my household was on a required pause for eight months...felt like we were developing a good rapport...
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest surviving major piece of written literature and recorded narrative. Originating in ancient Mesopotamia, its earliest Sumerian predecessor poems date back to around 2100 BCE.
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Emma Steiner @emmasteiner.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
been meaning to subscribe for a while and this just got me. the FOIA work here is so good
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Emma Steiner @emmasteiner.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
absolutely critical to spend part of vacation lecturing my husband about pete schoening's 1953 belay and other such events in mountaineering history
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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from me and the NYT's Texas team, reporting across the state: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...
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Islamophobia’s Rise in Texas: ‘I Won’t Rest Until Every Muslim Is Gone’
Muslim communities have been growing for decades, particularly around Dallas. Now, conservatives want to roll up the welcome mat.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 17/08/2026
"10 months into fiscal year 2026, the U.S. has accepted refugees from only two countries: 10,258 people from South Africa and three from Afghanistan."
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