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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: Rep. Beatty is challenging the Kennedy Center's invocation of the qualified "presidential communications privilege" in refusing to turn over a vast array of communications with Trump & even documents "touching on" Trump communications during discovery. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When Defendants filed their motion to vacate the preliminary injunction and for summary
judgment, they initially relied on evidence of what Trump told Defendant Matthew Floca. See,
e.g., Defs.'s Mem. in Supp. of Mot. 4, ECF 88-1; Defs.'s Statement of Undisputed Material Facts 14, ECF No. 89-2; see also Suppl. Decl. Charles Matthew Floca 1 6, ECF No. 29-3. But after
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Plaintiff served written discovery, the Department of Justice pivoted to a sweeping claim of
presidential communications privilege to bar any inquiry into those communications, or indeed
into any inputs and instructions the Kennedy Center's staff received from its board chair. The
Department now refuses to provide any documents held by the Kennedy Center even touching on
communications between the Chairman and management and intends to block all inquiry into those
communications in depositions. Plaintiff does not bring this motion lightly. The Department's sweeping assertion of privilege, however, appears to be unprecedented. Donald Trump is the chair of a non-profit corporation's board, and his decisions and directions lie at the heart of that board's
actions which, in turn, are the subject matter of this case. Allowing Defendants to hide behind this unwarranted assertion of privilege would obstruct the search for the truth, frustrate the Court's discovery order, and undermine public confidence in these important proceedings.

Having appointed himself to the Kennedy Center's board and having assumed the office
of Chair, Donald Trump undertook the obligations placed on him by the Center's organic statute
to safeguard and protect this sacred memorial to a fallen President. Trustee and board chair are
not roles that must be performed by the President of the United States and, indeed, never have been
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in the Center's history before now. Nor are the staff at the Kennedy Center anything like the close presidential advisers whose conversations executive privilege protects. The Court should not
permit Defendants to evade accountability as trustees by abusing a privilege constructed for other
purposes, not the chairmanship of this non-profit entity. Plaintiff therefore respectfully requests the Court compel the production of responsive documents and written production Defendants improperly withheld.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Ciara RayneCloud 🏳️‍⚧️ @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 10h

Hi everyone, as you saw already, I departed the Pride Caucus. (After only six to seven days in it sadly.) My friend Arienne Childrey, now follows me in departing. She has officially resigned and left the cacus as well. If anyone wants to poke the bigger accounts, please do.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11h

Very saddened to say I won’t be able to headline Tim Pool’s student event in Chicago this week. I unfortunately have other plans.

Hi Katherine,
Timcast Media is partnering with the Chicago Thinker to host a student event in Chicago on October 9 at 4:00 PM.
The event will feature a one-on-one conversation with Tim Pool followed by a live student Q&A. To create a dynamic and balanced dialogue, we are specifically seeking a featured guest to represent a left-leaning perspective.
Timcast Media will fully cover and arrange all travel and accommodations.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Sincerely,
[REDACTED]

Hi Lisa,
Sorry, I'll be too busy slamming my hand in a car door that day to talk with Tim. Hope you understand.
Kat

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 10h

Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇

Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.

Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey

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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 9h

The fact that sororities are prohibited from having alcohol in their houses also gives frats a lot of power, and the fact that this is still the case in 2026 is absolutely bonkers.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11h

Holy shit.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h

The Trump administration wanted NYC to explicitly turn away trans veterans from a shelter so NYC was forced to turn down funding for it because it would violate city and state law. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

cbsnews.com

NYC turns down $1.3 million for homeless shelter due to dispute over transgender veterans

The city says the federal government would have required them to exclude transgender veterans from seeking shelter beds at the Borden Avenue Veterans' Residence.

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ChloEEK! 🧟‍♀️ @friendofdax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I famously suck at both committing to primary candidates early and finding time/energy to to do things. But, assuming Newsom runs, I may feel like there isn't much choice. I will absolutely do what I can, purely out of both spite & selfish motivations, to prevent that man from becoming the nominee.

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ChloEEK! 🧟‍♀️ @friendofdax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This feels unanimous or 6-1. Honestly deserved. #bb28

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

"What? Filing a lawsuit with the Supreme Court?" It's rare. But when states are bitch slapping each other, that's how it gets sorted. Abortion-ban states are really angry that abortion-friendly states won't extradite doctors providing care to patients in the ban states. Shit just got real.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I believe the MA and NY shield laws explicitly protect both abortion care AND gender-affirming care. (CA possibly also - not sure if it's one law or two in that case.)

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

don’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

fucking hell

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lost in the discourse about where Dems are is the fact Republicans know the anti-trans ads aren't helping them but, as Terry here openly admits, hurting trans people is all they have left. They'd use their dying breath to ruin one more trans kid's life.

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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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026

Also like we're five years into a conservative cultural project to keep kids from learning that LGBTQ even exist in the first place.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The defense of the new BOP policy has been met with a brick wall over the past year and half from Lamberth, an 83-year-old Reagan appointee who first blocked the second Trump administration’s anti-trans prison efforts 15 days into Trump’s second term." A story you know well if you read Law Dork.

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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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Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD @dogfishwalker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It finally happened.

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ChloEEK! 🧟‍♀️ @friendofdax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nice to see a red state Dem office holder say stuff like this. The idea that Dems in red states/toss ups "need" to abandon trans people to win is just such laughable nonsense.

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ChloEEK! 🧟‍♀️ @friendofdax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ah we are in the "make up terms to try and shame people for taking annual vacation time" portion of things I see.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026

If you're not from Western Mass, you will completely miss the dynamic that the Greater Boston area has been exploiting the western part of the state since literally the founding of the country. The Globe writes these stories about WM and the Pioneer Valley on a regular basis.

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ChloEEK! 🧟‍♀️ @friendofdax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Like it genuinely just came up in the middle of this #bb28 episode and had "paid for by the US Government" on the bottom in block letters.

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ChloEEK! 🧟‍♀️ @friendofdax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

...did I just see a pro Trump ad paid for by the feral government? What the actual fuck?

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance.

BREAKING NEWS
UT cuts all Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses from core curriculum

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ChloEEK! 🧟‍♀️ @friendofdax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wild that "enjoy the camps" is explicitly ok to say according to trust and safety on this app, but wishing for the events of a cartoon to happen is too far. It literally makes 0 sense.

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[a]lex @lexlophii.queersplaystuff.org · 24/09/2026

as a reminder "enjoy the concentration camps" said to a trans person by a cis person, is explicitly and specifically allowed under bluesky's nazi paedophile head of trust and safety's edicts

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: Judge Timothy Kelly grants CNN, MS NOW, and Politico’s TRO against the Trump administration, ordering that the reporters affected “immediately” have their White House hard passes reinstated. The TRO is in effect for 14 days. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For all these reasons, it is hereby ORDERED that:
1. Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order, ECF No. 2, is GRANTED.
2. It is further ORDERED that Defendants (except for President Trump) and their agents, representatives, and all persons or entities acting in concert with them shall immedi-
ately return, reinstate, and restore the White House "hard pass" press credentials held by employees of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO that were revoked on or about September 18, 2026, until further Order of the Court or the expiration of this Temporary
Restraining Order.
3. It is further ORDERED that this Temporary Restraining Order shall remain in effect for 14 days.
4. It is further ORDERED that Plaintiffs shall post a $1.00 bond in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) by October 1, 2026.
SO ORDERED.
Is/ Timothy J. Kelly
TIMOTHY J. KELLY
United States District Judge
Date: September 24, 2026

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ChloEEK! 🧟‍♀️ @friendofdax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Already feeling more like an old school season but with some new era flare and I love that. What a premiere! #survivor #survivor51

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

America needs to get serious about trust-busting again.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

2 things, in ascending order of importance: 1) Polls are Possibility but they don't vote; don't stop working. 2) El-Sayed has Massive support in a mid-west rust-belt state while vocally supporting transgender kids & adults/directly Dismissing claims that trans people are "dangerous." Learn from that

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

incredible — some Missouri ballots have already been mailed (off of the 6-2 map after two SCOTUS rulings) but the 8th Circuit just intervened to order the the 7-1 GOP gerrymander reinstated. via Politico: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 21/09/2026

not *great* that a military coup has almost a supermajority of support

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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Any democrat who fits this description will never have my support.

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pretty significant news, especially getting a preliminary injunction in a state like Alabama. Comes from the lawsuit filed by Leonardo Garcia Venegas, the U.S. citizen and Alabama resident detained three times by immigration agents. www.propublica.org/article/immi...