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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14h

An attempted attack on a Hindu temple came amid a weeks-long right-wing frenzy over "The Indian Question"; police found a manifesto from the alleged shooter "containing statements expressing white supremacist and extremist ideologies."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

I think that, like every other attempt they’ve made to go after high profile regime enemies through the legal system, this is likely to end poorly for them in court it is also an extremely dangerous escalation and should be treated like the emergency it is by both Dem leadership and the media

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14h

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

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Video: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About Trump

In this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 17h

I wanna quibble a bit with the premise of question 4: 'why court expansion over alternatives' suggests an either/or, but I want a whole suite of reforms But also, court expansion is the most urgent and necessary reform bc it's the clearcut constitutional way to immediately stop the bleeding

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 15h

NBC parent company gave $7.5 million to Trump’s ballroom project. Imagine if they spent $7.5 million on reporting on workers instead

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 15h

So this guy bribes a governor to kill an investigation into his bank, gets convicted, and his daughter bribes Trump to get him pardoned. With any other president, impeachment. With Trump, not even a headline. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom

The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15h

Technically our rapists are independent contractors

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fishrocketshoes.bsky.social @fishrocketshoes.bsky.social · 14h

So many people seem to be *trying* to bring about different sci-fi dystopias, seems this guy's representing freaks that want to live in the actual world of "The Running Man" (Schwarzenegger one, idk others but prob them too)

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 15h

“The ballroom donations are collected by a nonprofit and then channeled to the government and into a White House account the president directly controls.” Um, which account is that account?

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15h

Just remembering how in 2013 I wrote about how Roger's wife, Kristi, was an exec at a defense contractor who stood to benefit from the privacy destroying surveillance laws he was pushing and he threatened to sue me for defamation. Good times.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

The person who trained the officer testified that ICE does not consider pulling a gun on someone a "use of force" and that ICE has no policies expressly banning pointing guns at other motorists. However, he was so evasive on the stand that the judge considered disregarding his whole testimony.

ICE training officer John Parodi, who trained Morgan, testified that displaying or pointing a firearm is not a “use of force,” and standard police restrictions, like not pointing firearms at motorists, do not apply to ICE.

“There is no tit-for-tat matching force; there is no policy that limits or forces the agent to react to a specific defined force or specific defined response,” Parodi said. “Our officers have the ability to judge and deploy a reasonable level of force.”

Under cross-examination, Minnesota offered department policy stating officers may use force only when no safe alternatives exist — exhaustively questioning Parodi on what constitutes force, if a firearm is a lethal weapon and how officers are trained.

Parodi, who noted he is under a Touhy demand, often said he could not comment on agency protocols or insights into training beyond general concepts, though his shifting testimony drew sharp criticism from Brasel.

“This witness is all over the place in terms of what he answers and what he doesn’t,” Brasel said. “I can’t discern any line. I’m really close to just disregarding his entire testimony.”

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Her "immigration status" is that she's been a US citizen longer than either Melania Trump or Elon Musk. The Democrats SHOULD use this opportunity for 100% solidarity with one of their own, and throw the fucking kitchen sink at Trump and his Republicans. I doubt they will but would LOVE to be wrong.

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Michael McAuliff @mcauliff.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The reporter Harris singled out was a student journalist with the Capital News Service.

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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 14/10/2026

Republican Rep. Andy Harris incorrectly told a reporter they were breaking the law as the reporter and others recorded an exchange with him last night. Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It is noticeable that the BBC is prioritizing this story and is not trying to make the white woman Oxford lecturer who has recently been found to have child pornography in her computer into the next face of intellectual misconduct.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No one should be so rich that they never have to solve any of their own practical problems. If you haven’t — bare minimum — changed a lightbulb or touched masking tape this year, I don’t think you can make decisions on a national level.

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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My interview with Yogendra Yadav: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Look, Zelensky signalling that the US has cut off all warning of Russian missile attacks on Ukraine.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“Sir, we are cratering in the polls, please try and not do anything nuts for the next month. Maybe on social, just keep it benign.” “Like what?” “I don’t know. People like animals. A lot of people just post like cat videos and stuff.” “Gotcha, say no more.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."

In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026

Q: You said Zacharia is an attorney. Where did she pass the bar exam? What state? ZACHARIA: When I moved to China

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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Gonna be a lot of this

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/10/2026

i dunno if i were a member of the press or punditry with a national platform, in the wake of this fascist government attack on Ilhan Omar, i would start asking all kinds of questions about and doing deep investigations into Melania Trump's and Elon Musk's immigration issues

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 13/10/2026

Judge's orders are suggestions at this point. You need escalating fines and other sanctions

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Wall Street Journal reported on a 2024 New Year’s Eve celebration where Ken Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives and a woman who wasn’t his wife www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"As fireworks exploded over the Burj Khalifa skyscraper to welcome 2025, Paxton and his girlfriend Tracy Duhon watched from a luxury high-rise balcony full of people, according to a video of the gathering reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, details of which were contained in court filings and confirmed by people familiar with the matter.

Among those at the event with Texas’ top law-enforcement official were two Americans who had been indicted months before on federal healthcare-fraud charges but failed to return to the U.S., Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail, according to the court records and people familiar with the matter. Ahmed, a healthcare executive, had donated $190,000 to Paxton, campaign finance records show, including $25,000 days after he was indicted."

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The only thing this headline lacks is the phrase, “in a chainsaw-involved incident.”

After 500 trees fall at D.C. golf course Trump wants remade, foes ask judge for halt
Preservationists said they were told the East Potomac Golf Links operation went "faster than anticipated" and "hundreds of additional trees" are now slated for removal.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something.

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 12/10/2026

This is one of the most authoritarian abuses of power Trump has ever perpetrated. Any member of either party who holds allegiance to country over must denounce it and fight back to hold the people who did this accountable. I stand with @repilhan.bsky.social.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 12/10/2026

I’m outraged by this attack on Representative Omar. Trump and his DOJ have a bizarre obsession with tearing down Minnesota, our leaders and our communities. This latest action, even as voting has already started in Minnesota, is a transparent attempt to interfere in our elections.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Doing a pre-dawn house raid is obviously being done as thuggish intimidation and as a literally violent assault on her and her family. Overaggressive raids happen in other contexts but in this case it's going out of their way to do politically targeted state terrorism.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 12/10/2026

Jesus Christ look at how big that tree is

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

FL: D.C. Safe and Beautiful we've really worked hard to turn this city around. JR: Name me another project within a week FL: Have to go back and think JR: I've got all the time in the world. Why don't you sit back and think about it

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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

JR: Trying to understand what required so many people to be working on this on such an urgent basis. Is it typical that everyone from director to head of parks in D.C. to lawyers to you, your staff, everybody? I can tell you that as a D.C. resident this seems fast to me.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026

before this is over i will not be surprised if trump cuts down every cherry tree he can find just to spite DC

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

An irony of this era is that Trump’s opponents and Trump share the same exact opinions about Trump supporters bsky.app/profile/acyn...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/10/2026

Protesters from across India met walls of security forces in New Delhi on Saturday. The leaders of the Gen Z movement known as the Cockroach Janta Party, which had called for the protest against the expunging of millions of names from India’s voter roll, said they were detained. Follow live updates.

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India Protests Live Updates: Cockroach Janta Party Leaders Rounded Up as New Delhi Is Locked Down

The Cockroach Janta Party said senior members of the youth activist group had been detained by police. Thousands defied a police ban to to rally against the expunging of millions of names from India’s voter roll.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10/10/2026

The START of this clip made me do a double take: new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia sits on the board of White Rose Resistance, an organization that wants to *prosecute abortion patients for homicide* www.ms.now/opinion/abor...

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This looks like a carjacking. I think any reasonable person would hit the gas.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Didn't anyone tell Zelensky that America's midterms should be his focus right now.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Selling out Ukraine to side with Russia in order to marginally reduce the negative impacts of his dumb war with Iran

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Your boss was trying to incite a racist pogrom yesterday, Markwayne

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The fugitive slave acts were laws too

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Does John Roberts consider insider trading an "official act?"

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

every senate democrat voted to confirm marco rubio.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 09/10/2026

The Norwegian Nobel Committee is sending a message to Trump by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, judge of the International Criminal Court, and the Commissioner of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is an excellent point. When pro-democracy, anti-corruption forces get power, they won't need elaborate new laws to start getting Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, Peter Thiel, and other tech oligarchs out of government. They've almost certainly committed fraud and other already existing crimes.

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