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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
There was some strange system where they all got their food and shelter and education and medical for free, no matter what job they did.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
By the power invested in me, I hearby proclaim this woman, "White Woman of Next Month!" (sorry, you cant have February.) Not all heroes wear blue jeans
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The Oaklandside @oaklandside.org · 30/01/2026
Rev. Jorge Bautista was hit in the face by a projectile device while protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Coast Guard Island. He’s seeking $5 million in damages.
oaklandside.org
Oakland pastor attacked by federal agent takes first step to sue
Rev. Jorge Bautista was hit in the face by a projectile device while protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Coast Guard Island. He’s seeking $5 million in damages. 
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Every new Epstein files dump is like confirmation that the grandiose conspiracy theories aren’t depraved enough.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
ALEXANDRIA DIVISION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
V.
JAMES B. COMEY, JR.,
Defendant.
Criminal No. 1:25-cr-00272-MSN
OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT ECF NO. 60)
On September 25, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just days before, Ms.
Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging former FBI Director James B. Comey, Jr. with
making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding.
Mr. Comey now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole
prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28
U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Mr.
Comey that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to
present the indictment, I will grant Mr. Comey's motion and dismiss the indictment without
prejudice.IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
NORFOLK DIVISION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
V.
LETITIA A. JAMES,
Criminal No. 2:25-cr-00122-JK W
Defendant.
OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT (ECE NO. 22)
On October 9, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just two weeks before, Ms.
Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging New York Attorney General Letitia James with
bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution.
Ms. James now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole
prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Ms.
James that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the
Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to
present the indictment, I will grant Ms. James's motion and dismiss the indictment without
prejudice.
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Mike Rogers @tentonheart.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Weird how this works EVERY SINGLE TIME
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Black Intellect Media @blackintellect.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Crown Act: Pennsylvania set to become 28th state to guarantee protections against hair-based discrimination - 6abc.com/post/crown-a...
6abc.com
Pa. set to become 28th state to guarantee protections against hair-based discrimination
The legislation prohibits discrimination based on hair type, texture or protective styles such as braids, twists, knots and locs.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I talk about this in the book: Prof Sharrona Pearl has worked on this. iirc a whopping 25% of the time the media asked family members at a key time (in the wake of murder, grand jury nonindictment, etc) if they FORGAVE the white cop who murdered their kin. NVM+ sharronapearl.com/wp-content/u...
sharronapearl.com
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
👀
Tweet from @xziondestinyx: I don’t wanna hear about lazy immigrants from a race of people who enslaved a whole other race of people to do all the work they didn’t wanna do
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 21/11/2025
Stephen Miller must be so disappointed.
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Jeff Pollet @jeffpollet.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Brought to a meeting by a woman I was dating
Feels a little cult-y I told her as it started
First off, this is not a cult - the cultists said, started the meeting 
	making fun of themselves a little bit
	not a bad sign, in some ways, I thought

Then
Self help this, self help that
Level up this, level up that
Same old, same old
Pay this, get that
No different than paying to absolve your sins
	at least in my mind
Then, typical, they say they're going to take the potential new members
     to another room
Divide and conquer, another classic strategy

I tell my partner that I'm going to take off
     just not my thing, and she nods in understanding
At the door the cultists ask me why I'm leaving
     just not my thing, I tell them and they nod in understanding yet
     still standing in my way

What's causing this resistance to change in you? 
Asked in a tone of an innocent question
But the content is right up there with 
Have you stopped beating your wife?

If I happened into this situation today
I would just say no reason and walk around them
But back then
Back then
  I don't know, I thought they had a right to a response? 
	Or maybe I enjoyed bullying them back

Paying for leveling up seems wrong to me - I said 
Just one thing that was bothering me

Valuable things, things that are valuable, cost money
They told me
They told me, knowing that somebody 
	(not these people in the trenches)
	(but still, somebody)
Was making money while all of the 
	Volunteers
The people doing the work here today
Weren't being paid
Except in self help.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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🎃 beagle 🐈‍⬛ @beagle.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
that's what people don't understand about protest marches it might be fleeting, ineffective, but when i walk down my street i see the stickers - acab, fuck ice, fuck portland police, neuter your cats each is a signal: sane rational people live in my area knowing this improves my mental health
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
#booksky
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Jo @jokar.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
media.tenor.com
a cartoon character is wearing a hoodie and laughing
ALT: a cartoon character is wearing a hoodie and laughing
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/11/2025
Evergreen
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Jeff Pollet @jeffpollet.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Over 1,000 artifacts stolen from Oakland Museum of California, police say oaklandside.org/2025/10/29/o...
oaklandside.org
Over 1,000 artifacts stolen from Oakland Museum of California, police say
The Oakland Police Department says it is working with the FBI’s Art Crime Team to investigate the burglary.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I’m not sure why Brazil was a red line, but this is a good reminder that it would only take a handful of Republican senators to rein in this administration on MANY issues.
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
#booksky
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
#booksky
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onion person @junlper.beer · 26/10/2025
might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen
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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Once again LAPD ignore the law AND a federal court injunction preventing them from brutalizing media. I was knocked at the ground by police horse and threatened on a number of occasions with the rest if I didn’t leave the area. PC409.7 clearly details protections for journalists.
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Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
@stellagarp.bsky.social I’m sure you’ve been tagged on this a bunch but I just needed to make sure you saw it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I'm not sure what's going on, but this year's freshman class is giving me ... what was that word ... hope? They're energized and excited, they're doing the reading and doing it well, they're asking great questions and offering smart answers too. Is this just me or are others seeing it?
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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It's "great" to see my employer releasing names and information about *alleged* behavior to the Trump admin, without even telling the people who've been accused what it is that they're accused of. Utterly reprehensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2025
In good news, my brain MRI shows that my pituitary tumor has involuted. It disappeared. Hooray! For nearly 20 years I had a tumor and now... it's not a tumah.
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Andre Nantel @nantel.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025
#funny #comic #uspol #trump
I can’t beleive it’s already is-he-dead-yet season.
I still have my holy-shit-he’s-gonna-start-wwiii decorations up.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 02/09/2025
The bias in this reporting on Newsom's sanist 'care courts' is pretty clear and is pretty actively advocating to abridge the civil rights of mentally ill people!
calmatters.org
New mental health courts haven't helped as many people as Newsom promised. Here's why
Far fewer people are using Gov. Gavin Newsom's CARE Court than he projected when he launched the mental health program to help homeless Californians.
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anthony (haunted version) @panecasio.com · 30/08/2025
glass half empty glass full
A Google trends result that compares the 2 search terms

“Trump alive” and “trump dead”

User search interest worldwide for the latter is much higher
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nonbinary catgirl boyfriend @cureheart.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
if trump died i hope they at least have courtesy to try and make it seem like he didnt by puppeting around his dead body pulling strings to move his arms putting sunglasses on him the whole shebang
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Strait but not Narrows of Hormuz @spacefordogs.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Trump died as he lived, with everyone who had ever heard of him wishing he were dead
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/08/2025
Justine, the protagonist of “Weapons,” doesn’t have a husband or children of her own—and so she seems to disturb some natural order, writes Beatrice Loayza:
bit.ly
Nothing Is Scarier Than an Unmarried Woman
“Weapons” is about a classroom of missing children—and the young schoolteacher whom all the parents want to blame.
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Jeff Pollet @jeffpollet.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
#poetrycorner
I know these words
Are angsty like a growing teen brain thought them
My poetic adolescence 

I know

Heavy handed 
Overwrought 
Cliche, even
(that would be aiming high) 

Too many parenthesis
Far too many
Line
Breaks
For
No
Reason
(just because I feel like it) 

Don't care. 

They're just for me
Expressions thrown into the air
For me to look at with wonder, with love
Or
Juggling phrases
Because it's fun to juggle
Or
Emotional undercurrents examined from the corner of my eye
Or
Linguistic stress vomit


Just for me
Shared with three to five people
(ish) 
Who might want to know me better
Who might find echoes of themselves there.
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Zach Montague @zjmontague.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
By a 2-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel this morning allowed DOGE teams at Treasury, Education and OPM to reclaim access to government databases containing personal information on millions of Americans. Opinion cites the Supreme Court’s reasoning in June about DOGE and social security data.
nytimes.com
Appeals Court Allows DOGE Access to Sensitive Data at Several Agencies
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 13/08/2025
it’s true though. crime is basically my favorite
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/08/2025
Five years ago I would have been on Twitter calling everyone who thinks same sex marriage is safe a dumbass. But now I'm all "with respect" because I'm over 50 now and I gotta chill. lmao
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Jeff Pollet @jeffpollet.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
#PoetryCorner #poetry
This is where I think I'm Ethan Hawke in Before Sunrise
But I'm not even Ethan Hawke in 
Before Sunset, or Midnight
I'm not even Elliot Gould in 
The Long Goodbye

But I feel confident
As a few moments tick by
Where chemistry feels like something again 
Something in my body
Not just something invented by idle minds

And that confidence carries over
A day
Two
Until it fades quickly
Like her tired smile fades into apathy
And I feel myself again
The good, bad, ugly and pretty
All of it undermining
Whatever made up reality
I was living in two days ago.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/08/2025
The courageous Texas Democrats have called for a national day of action on Saturday. We’re backing them up to protest Trump’s effort to rig electoral maps and steal the 2026 election. Find an event near you or host a protest: www.fightthetrumptakeover.com?SQF_source=i...
(over an image that’s an outline of the US) FIGHT THE TRUMP TAKEOVER (TRUMP is crossed out)
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Jeff Pollet @jeffpollet.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This fucking dipshit.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 07/08/2025
When I left Substack in 2024 I wrote: "For those who are staying because they think the Nazi problem is fake or overblown...just wait. Substack mgmt just put out the welcome mat for some pretty horrible people. Many will surely answer.” Surprise! A bunch did. New Racket w/ @marisakabas.bsky.social
theracket.news
Substack's extremist ecosystem is flourishing
Yup, they're still at it.
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Jeff Pollet @jeffpollet.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
#poetrycorner
Part of me knew back then where the words would take us
Even as the carcinogenic dust hadn't yet settled
  (Into the lungs of the first responders)
  (Even that phrase has power it never had before)
  (I long for a time when I didn't know what "first responders" could mean)
Even before we waged war because of
Whatever reasons we needed to make war
  (And really, we don't need any reason at all)
  (War comes along with modern humans)
  (I don't want to believe that)
  (But I do believe that)
Even before racism was turned up to eleven
Phrases already began to appear in our psyche
Spontaneous generation making a return in the mental world of all of us

I wanted to tear them out by the root, before they could even see the sun.

But they grew. 
And now it's difficult to explain how 
There didn't used to be a Department of Homeland Security
Sometimes it's difficult to even remember myself that there wasn't

"Homeland"? I remember the word as a question echoing inside my skull
Isn't there anybody who remembers WWII? 
Didn't anybody read 1984?
  Anne Frank?
All the warnings 
  (Themselves given to us in words, of course)
They didn't really take, did they?
"Homeland" will never ring true to me
It's always a warning of what's to come.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Bart Harley Jarvis @williamzabka424.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
A meme with a bunch of drawings of people with Samus Aran arm cannons with the trans flags that says “Repost this is trans people should have Samus Arm Cannons.”
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
the entire republican party is currently involved in a cover up involving the worlds most notorious underage sex trafficking ring
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Trans Radio UK @transradiouk.com · 04/08/2025
LGBT+ health evidence review In April 2025, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care commissioned NHS England to undertake an LGBT+ health evidence review. www.england.nhs.uk/about/equali...
england.nhs.uk
NHS England » LGBT+ health evidence review
NHS England » LGBT+ health evidence review
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Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
some guy who won the Nobel for particle physics or something is going to get black bagged by an 11th grader named Bracen Walmart
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