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Scott @smadin.net · 1h

I dunno, Southern Tier, I think I might take that one back to the ol' branding workshop

A stack of cardboard 4-packs of Southern Tier PumQueen pumpkin flavored imperial hard cider, next to a stack of 6-packs of their long-standing PumKing imperial pumpkin beer

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 8h

Why would a physical search of Omar’s home in 2026 be relevant to or necessary for an investigation into whether her dad filled out a form incorrectly decades ago?

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 1h

i have now seen the straight pride flag for the first time and my jaw genuinely dropped. you're right heterosexuals, strict binarism, black and white thinking, is a kind of imprisonment, 10/10 no notes

straight pride flag, six thick horizontal stripes alternating in black and white

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fulana de tal @soulamami.bsky.social · 10h

All day, every day

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 5h

Gonna be honest, I was not aware U.S. ambassador to Greece was a job you could mess up.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.

Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);

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Tọ́pẹ́ @graceishuman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

IT'S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON MOTHERFUCKERS

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Tọ́pẹ́ @graceishuman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"'Capital punishment is commanded by God in Genesis 9:6 to remind people of the sanctity of human life,' said Jeffress." 🥴

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Kerrie C. @profkerrie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's interesting to contrast Ossoff's sternness with Mamdani and el-Sayed's near-constant smiling. All 3 are gifted communicators, but the Muslim men have to telegraph "non-threatening."

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He has Hollywood leading man looks and he speaks with moral clarity. That's it, really.

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Bitch.io: Don't Play WIth Me @nanicoolj.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

Dear Black People Asking for Sweet Potato Lattes, Go to a Korean Cafe. If they got something called a Goguma Latte that is what you're looking for. It's good, it's comforting, it's Fall as hell and it's DELICIOUS.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

There’s always some mysterious foreign land that is so much more authoritarian than the place that’s happily publicly executed minorities for 400 years

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

The funniest thing on here this afternoon is the people who are responding to news of a televised lynching with “omg, I feel like I live in some foreign country”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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fulana de tal @soulamami.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Stop it. Stop it now.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026

The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Breaking-news graphic featuring a photo of RFK Jr with headline that reads "RFK JR. TO GIVE 1.6M IN CDC FUNDS TO EXPERIMENT ON AFRICAN BABIES IN UNETHICAL TRIAL"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Tọ́pẹ́ @graceishuman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This was a fun but also occasionally frustrating puzzle. Pomegranate

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

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Tọ́pẹ́ @graceishuman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Perfect timing. What more could you ask for.

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Tọ́pẹ́ @graceishuman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Correct me if I'm wrong #Boston but people really do not go anywhere by themselves in this town. Always moving in little packs.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

why does the WaPo print headline on the botched TN execution read like The Onion

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 30/09/2026

Gendered violence is a systemic cultural and societal problem. And when one of these cases boils to the top, you can see that in how many survivors come forward to explain how similar their experiences are, in ways both big and small.

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Tọ́pẹ́ @graceishuman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

would have loved to attend @nkjemisin.bsky.social's BPL talk in person and do the speed meet and greet 🥹

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/09/2026

To quote a @chrislhayes.bsky.social jape at the Roberts Court: "They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one."

Steve Vladeck, a professor a Georgetown Law, writes up breaking developments from the Supreme Court. The last post in the three-post thread is the kicker, for our purpose here.

"#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).

"Link: [URL of a supremecourt.gov PDF]

"By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in."

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

we need chicago pope to step in and say "you will follow the rules or you will get a visit from [pulls down sunglasses] the Batican"

Pope Leo with a black baseball bat. Do not mess with Chicago Pope!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Tọ́pẹ́ @graceishuman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

😬 never thought it would be them. Until we're all safe...

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Tọ́pẹ́ @graceishuman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Quick q can someone tell me what percentage is standing in for "nearly all" here Also "nearly all" of Americans are not straight white men so where is the problem Bret hmm

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...

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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go

The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.

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Tọ́pẹ́ @graceishuman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's one aspect of your life, yes an important driver of success but one piece of a bigger puzzle... and these kids were starting out with SO much and they didn't even know it. and their parents fed into it even as successful people who didn't necessarily go to the "best" schools

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Tọ́pẹ́ @graceishuman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And yea. When I was tutoring I'd have students (kids whose resources ranged from very good to abundant) who clearly believed their entire future hung on their getting into a good college. I really wanted to tell them they would likely be fine wherever they went and also a good school guarantees zero

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