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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 23h
Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting:
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 22h
This would make it impossible to field smaller beats. If people aren't buying into the idea of a package of reporters, there's not much reason to have someone covering, say, local news.
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Charles Moore @charles-dc.bsky.social · 23h
These rules, and all the fines issued under them, are STAYED. That means that the government cannot enforce these fines while our case moves forward. www.publicjustice.net/federal-cour...
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Federal Court Blocks Trump Administration’s Unlawful Civil Penalty Scheme Targeting Immigrant Families  - Public Justice
October 6, 2026  Contacts:  Public Justice, communications@publicjustice.net   The Legal Aid A federal court granted preliminary relief to immigrants challenging the Trump Administration's unprecedent...
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 23h
Hold up, I'm confused, probably because I'm nauseous. The passports aren't for visitors, they're for citizens. I don't need to be welcomed, because this is actually my home. On a visa, this would make sense, tho still be tyrannical. On a passport, it's incoherent.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23h
Utah has already combed its voter rolls for any noncitizens registered to vote and found it to be a non-issue, but that’s not what the Trump administration and congressional Republicans want to hear, the state’s Republican elections chief said. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Utah’s GOP election head purged noncitizens from voter rolls, but the Trump team didn’t want to hear how few she found
Utah has already combed its voter rolls for any noncitizens registered to vote and found it to be a non-issue, but that’s not what the Trump administration and congressional Republicans want to hear, ...
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 23h
I’d argue the entire media does this consistently
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jaoswald.bsky.social @jaoswald.bsky.social · 23h
I've only heard of two of these people, and have decided that appearing alongside those two is ample justification for despising the other three without further investigation.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23h
My personal "woke" view is that I hold men to standards; those men knew what they were doing and knew it was wrong. Everyone coming up with excuses for it also knows it's wrong but they either (a) cowardly want to avoid dealing with it or (b) want it to be debatable so they can do it with impunity.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The 2nd birthright order isn’t significant bc of its legal impact as an order, but bc in it Trump personally explicitly endorsed a policy vision fundamentally opposed to 14A as interpreted by SCOTUS ICE actions destabilizing the meaning of US citizenship are consistent with Trump’s official policy
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026
What is the IceCube neutrino observatory? Neutrinos are elusive particles that rarely interact, but can create flashes of light when they do. Most neutrino detectors are giant water tanks surrounded by light detectors. IceCube is kilometer-long strings of detectors embedded in the Antarctic ice.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/10/2026
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The AAUP is suing the Trump administration over new policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation. 1/
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This article is an excellent companion to Prof. Chafetz’s Chadha Presidency Where in Chandha SCOTUS pulled the rug on Congress’ formal legislative checks on executive agency action, in Bowsher SCOTUS pulled Congress’ budget audit powers papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The <i>Chadha </i>Presidency
<p><span>Where is Congress? Why hasn’t it reined in some of the worst abuses of the Trump Administration? This Article argues that a significant part of the ans
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 05/10/2026
Here's what's replacing four 200-year-old cottonwood trees, the last of which went down today after a 71-day tree-sit protest ended with aggressive arrests. So bleak. Mason Kumet photo from azluminaria.org/2026/10/05/f...
Double border wall running off to the horizon
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fed. judge accuses ICE agents of "apparently perjurious testimony," fabrication of evidence, false statements, fundamental misconceptions about ICE agents' authority, and more. Case involves the accidental arrest of a U.S. citizen who had to get stitches. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
So, the thought is that after issuing a fraudulent arrest warrant stating that petitioner’s information was part of the system when it was not and indicating that he could be biometrically identified even though they had not collected the information to make a positive match, Cuni attempted to reconcile these falsehoods by subsequently collecting the information, adding it to those systems and, after issuing the warrant, searching the databases again to “find” him.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Another Susan Collins bribery scandal has hit the airwaves theintercept.com/2026/10/05/s...
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Susan Collins’s Committee Bought Trucks the Army Didn’t Want. Then Campaign Donations Poured In.
Appropriations committee members saw an influx of campaign contributions after steering $345 million to a military contractor.
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jaoswald.bsky.social @jaoswald.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Render unto Caesar, but only after I have taken my fair share for my honest work, etc.
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jaoswald.bsky.social @jaoswald.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not sure this Faytuks outfit has any reason to be thought credible, beyond being frequently shared around here.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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jaoswald.bsky.social @jaoswald.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's a practice cross, required of all apprentice tektons to demonstrate their skill before they become full guild members. Still have doubts about how he is using that chisel, though.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 05/10/2026
If you're in Vermont, come out to hear me and some great Holocaust scholars put yet another nail in the coffin of the Clean Wehrmacht. 18 October: The German Army and the Holocaust at the Miller Center for Holocaust Studies Burlington, VT events.uvm.edu/event/the-ge....
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The German Army and the Holocaust
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jaoswald.bsky.social @jaoswald.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seeing a lot of people pre-emptively complaining about Fetterman, but the real Democrat who would need to find a new backbone is Dick Durbin, and I don't see his name in the story.
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jaoswald.bsky.social @jaoswald.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's a less hostile view which is that destroying the source copy is an attempt to legitimize the copy in their corpus as fair use, because they aren't retaining multiple copies. Their attempt might be mercenary in intent, of course, just not any more exclusionary than buying it and keeping it.
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anyone who claims to "know what Zionism is" doesn't have enough context to speak about it at all.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
dick morris - predicted romney would beat obama in a "landslide" - said young voters were surging to mccain - said hrc and condi would be the 2008 nominees trump: this guy says the gop is going to win, so it looks good www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Trump turns to disgraced pollster for proof GOP will win
President Donald Trump is now making the argument that Republicans will do well in this year’s midterm elections by citing a pollster with an amazingly bad history of election predictions, Dick Morris...
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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jaoswald.bsky.social @jaoswald.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm trying to ask a technical expert on copyright law a technical question about the operation of that law in today's courts, engaging with novel issues, not asking about morals or ethics.
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jaoswald.bsky.social @jaoswald.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How effectively can the law cope with "copies" that are opaquely encoded matrix elements nominally generated by "training" and not designed to be faithful replicas? Is "it reproduces a particular source when prompted to do so" the "I know it when I see it" operational test satisfying courts?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Noem demanded personal control over all DHS contracts over $100K and should be held responsible for the waste and (likely) graft that followed, which conservatively ran into the hundreds of millions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...
From what we know of Kristi Noem, the head of DHS at the time, she was focused on micromanaging some aspects of government operations. Not workforce planning, but — you guessed it — the flow of grants and contracts. Any contract worth more than $100,000 had to be personally signed by her. And some of that spending was pretty questionable, such as a $200 million ad campaign prominently featuring Noem. There was no competitive bidding process and Noem directed money to Republican firms with long-term personal and professional ties to her. (The fact that Noem had previously led a “Meth: We’re On It” campaign did not seem to stop anyone from questioning her public relations skills).

DHS also bought 11 empty warehouses that it said would serve as detention centers, overpaid for them, and has since sold seven of them. Apparently Noem told officials to buy the warehouses within 30 days, leading to a rushed acquisition process. After the DHS spent nearly $500 million via no-bid contracts on 10 jets, officially for deportations, the planes are mostly unused, or reserved to ferry Trump officials around. So more likely to be incompetence than corruption in this case.
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jaoswald.bsky.social @jaoswald.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This erases Jim Crow, which is still within living memory.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Missouri's is such a con. Same amendment number as the initiative that legalized abortion, but now a "Yes" vote will ban it.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record
According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Really sophisticated look at what the loss of state capacity gets you. prospect.org/2026/10/05/a...
IN TECH TERMS, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT operates what an engineer would call a “sovereign stack,” the layered infrastructure of measurement, reporting, and verification that lets a state see itself. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) measures employment and wages. The Census Bureau counts people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracks disease. Each agency is a sensor, and together they make up the instrument panel through which the state and the electorate read the consequences of policy.

What Trump is doing to these agencies is not deregulation, the marketing-savvy term conjured up by the modern right. It is something narrower and stranger. He is switching off the sensors. The law itself is left untouched, but the conditions the law was written to address can no longer be measured. The statute stays on the books, but the capacity to enforce it quietly disappears.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For those who haven't been following, the Green Party's motion expressly called for the replacement of Israel with a single "Palestinian state", endorsed "armed struggle", and voted down an amendment that aimed to clarify that Jewish Green Party members were free to attend the synagogues they chose
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m still floating from this by @leahlitman.bsky.social: “Every once in a while, a book comes along that is so transformative and so persuasive that it has the potential to shape our institutions and our democracy. Supremacy is one such book.”
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"No fat plumbers, no shy guys, no birdos, no goombas, no turtles, no cloud boys throwing eggs. Just Warios."
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Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️ @miamurphy.com · 05/10/2026
The true origin is the legislature itself, which recommended that UM be given autonomy and an elected board in an 1840. Prior to that, the corrupt frontier legislature nearly killed UM. The independence allowed UM to flourish, and it was deemed good for the other major state-focused universities.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Updated this piece about abuses in grants/contracts: Noem gave $900 million in no-bid contracts to the company of a donor, Salus, which in turn was telling other contractors they had to pay her boyfriend tens of millions if they wanted to get govt contracts. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...
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Governing without Accountability
Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@amandacarpenter.bsky.social with a great article explaining why the ballroom is just sitting there as an Apportionment Black Hole, no-one has any idea of how it is being funded. It has a great link to: openomb.org, which @protectdemocracy.org is using to track apportionments.
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OpenOMB | Tracking apportionments just got easier
OpenOMB is the easiest way to find and track apportionments. Apportionments are legally binding plans issued by the White House Office of Management and Budget that set the pace at which federal agenc...
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Weekend scoop from me for @votebeat.org: Two GOP members of Georgia’s State Election Board say Executive Director James Mills sent letters to DOJ and DHS without telling the board or getting approval — and that the letters went beyond what the board voted to request. www.votebeat.org/national/202...
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Georgia election board director allegedly goes rogue, asks feds to crack down on state voting equipment
Two members of the Georgia State Election Board say their executive director sent unauthorized letters to the Trump administration.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026
we are going to have to find an alternative to meta products for local communities and advertising, right now, it’s almost impossible to do any kind of local business or art project without it, but both their rules and support are so arbitrary and capricious that you can’t rely on them
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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