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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

Honestly, tell me it's possible.

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#BREAKING U.S. District Judge April Perry is moving forward with further fact-finding regarding potential prosecutorial misconduct in the case of the "Broadview Six," with a special prosecutor still on the table.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 17h

In announcing her decision, U.S. District Judge April Perry quoted both Spider-Man and the 7th Circuit. 7th Circuit: "The greater the power that defies the law, the less tolerant the court can be of defiance." Spider-Man: "With great power comes great responsibility."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: Lawsuit filed today challenges new Trump admin rule barring coverage of gender-affirming medical care for minors under Medicaid/CHIP. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
GINA GOE, individually and as parent and next friend
of GRACE GOE; KARLA KOE, individually and as
parent and next friend of KYLIE KOE; LAURA LOE,
individually and as parent and next friend of LOGAN
LOE; and MELISSA MOE, individually and as parent
and next friend of MAYA MOE,
Plaintiffs,
v.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
AND HUMAN SERVICES; ROBERT F.
KENNEDY, JR., in his official capacity as Secretary
of Health and Human Services; CENTERS FOR
MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES; and
MEHMET OZ, in his official capacity as
Administrator of CMS,
Defendants.
COMPLAINT FOR
DECLARATORY AND
INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
Civil Action No. ____________
INTRODUCTION
1. Since taking office, the Trump administration has waged an unrelenting campaign
to eliminate legal protections for transgender people and to deny them access to essential health
care. The Rule at issue in this case is the latest salvo in that campaign.
2. On August 13, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”)
published a final rule categorically prohibiting Federal Financial Participation (“FFP”) for
evidence-based treatments for gender dysphoria—including puberty-delaying medications,
hormone therapy, and surgical interventions1
—for all youth enrolled in Medicaid (under age 18)
and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”) (under age 19). 91 Fed. Reg. 52,406

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

JD Vance says that if his 9-year-old son joins the Marines, "I would want him to go to war with the best tools"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

hi @POTUS looks like your new SI site is still kinda woke

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未帆 miho 🐸🌧️ frog vtuber @mihovt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

quick Q for all my ladies out there - any word on when they’re going to invent nylons that don’t run after one wear? are we at that point in technology advancement yet or no

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 29/09/2026

Starting to think it’s part of CNN’s social media strategy to keep doing this extraordinarily dumb take (“90% of people who tell us they like to eat apples also enjoy apple cider”) as a way to get the president’s attention and thus more clicks. Harry knows better

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026

Trump on Canada: "They have been one of the worst countries in the entire world"

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026

I can't wait to get my 'goodies' from the government

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026

i am not sure an ad that says "paid for by the U.S. government" is going to have the effect the president wants it to have...

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026

I have built a novel dataset of news headlines that get shared by the press that updates daily and stretches back to 2016. Looking at data over the last month, Trump's first-ever midterm convention failed to change the news agenda. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-28...

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Iran, prices, ICE, and Epstein are the biggest stories of 2026

In a new database of news headlines stretching back to 2016, I show Trump's midterm convention failed to change news agendas

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026

The entire US politics and news industries spend a large chunk of their waking hours on a platform designed to inflate the importance of that 18%. It's a big problem, and why you get stuff like Tammy Duckworth saying she's against impeachment because she wants to "find a compromise" on USAID $

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/09/2026

Enough with the skywalkers already. Do the Thrawn ascendancy trilogy you cowards

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/09/2026

Multiple ads I believe

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

latest in a long running series of Republicans discovering that Republican policy preferences are bad when they’re applied to their loved ones

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

RON WHITE: "@jamestalarico.bsky.social didn't cost the state of Texas $6 MILLION... Paxton is a criminal. He's a piece of shit." JOE ROGAN: *pretends not to know anything again*

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: New emails shared with Democracy Docket reveal that one of the agency’s then-commissioners last year communicated with a top anti-voting group to try to boost President Donald Trump’s plan to require proof of citizenship for voter registration. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Exclusive: EAC commissioner communicated with Cleta Mitchell's group on proof of citizenship, emails show

Former vice chair Christy McCormick coordinated with Mitchell's Election Integrity Network to try to boost President Donald Trump’s plan to require proof of citizenship for voter registration.

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

DOJ is 0-25 on voter roll demands. Courts have rebuffed the Trump administration in other fights over: - Postal Service mail ballot rules - access to 2020 election worker info - federal data access for voter verification - DNC requests for records (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Trump Flexes Legal Muscle to Expand Power Over US Elections

The Justice Department’s aggressive strategy includes suing states for voter records, investigating election officials and fighting for GOP redistricting measures.

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NEW: President Trump is pursuing extraordinary legal tactics to expand federal control over elections, testing the boundaries of Washington's power as Republicans seek to keep a majority in Congress -- and lay the groundwork for 2028. A deep dive: buff.ly/tThSESQ

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you missed the news overnight, we’re back at SCOTUS with the Missouri maps mess that the lower federal courts have kept going this week. Justice Kavanaugh has called for a quick response by 2p today to last night’s request from those seeking to end this and keep the 2022 map in place.

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Breaking: Missouri maps dispute heads back to SCOTUS

Even as the Supreme Court has tried to stop the Missouri maps chaos, it turns out that a lack of concern for precedent, rules, and stability have trickle-down effects.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

True clown car shit from Florida Solicitor General David Dewhirst, who is counsel of record on the brief. A former DeSantis aide, Dewhirst worked as a lawyer in the first Trump administration's Commerce Dep't, was SG in Montana, and earlier clerked for Judge Lawrence VanDyke on the Ninth Circuit.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The concept of being a state A.G. and writing a brief that tosses aside a U.S. Supreme Court order that had no dissents like this in favor of talking about how a three-judge Eighth Circuit panel acted "unanimously" — a court below the U.S. Supreme Court — in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This Missouri case is a perfect nesting doll of the consequences of the SCOTUS approach to its docket.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every story on this thus far is complete shit regurgitating the admin's talking points without any information — or clarity about what this even is and whether it effects real people and how — so I will wait for actual journalists to explain it to me.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In the Eighth Circuit's mess, People Not Politicians asked the Eighth Circuit to recall the mandate and stay last night's order, as well as the permanent injunction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... The panel that previously moved so quickly has, as of yet, not even called for a response.

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
Case Nos. 26-2797 and 26-2827 (Consolidated)
CONGRESSMAN ROBERT "BOB" ONDER, RICHARD "RICK" BRATTIN, PATRICIA THOMAS, and DEBRA HAVENS, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
V.
STATE OF MISSOURI and DENNY HOSKINS, in his official capacity as Missouri Secretary of State, Defendants-Appellees,
and
PEOPLE NOT POLITICIANS and RICHARD VON GLAHN,
Intervenor-Defendants/Appellants.
On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Case No. 4:26-cv-01424-SRC
EMERGENCY MOTION TO RECALL THE MANDATE AND STAY THIS COURT'S ORDER, AND THE PERMANENT INJUNCTION AND JUDGMENT ISSUED PURSUANT TO THAT ORDER, PENDING RESOLUTION OF THE SUPREME COURT APPEAL

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 21/09/2026

From my personal experience people don't want to pay you to tell them they can't do anything about, eg, the very likely anti-Dem. midterm backlash in 2030 (or, gulp, 34). But it's true. So consultants make up stuff like "Kamala Harris would have won if she ran anti-trans ads"

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 21/09/2026

These guys are trying to run the 2024 culture war playbook at a time when ~80% of the American public says the administration does not have the right priorities and are neglecting affordability (which Trump called a hoax at the GOP "convention"). This is a losing strategy

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 20/09/2026

Nebraska, Iowa, and Maine 👀

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'll be on MS NOW at 6pm Eastern tonight/Saturday as Peter Alexander helms a special report on the president's decision to try to ban our network, CNN, and Politico from White House grounds. (Emphasis on "try"...) See you at 6.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can't stop, won't stop.

Donald J. Trump 9 C
@realDonaldTrump
Over the years, there have been many Hoaxes, all generated by the Radical Left Dumocrats, for purposes of destroying our Country. RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, Global Warming, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, Men in Women's Sports, Transgender for Everyone, and now, the decimation, or destruction, of Al, commonly known as Artificial Intelligence - And I, as President of the United States, will not stand by and let this happen. It all began with an attack on our Data Centers, until people realized how wealthy and prestigious they were for the Communities in which they were built. Higher Salaries, Lower Taxes, and Safer Streets, was the result, and the crazed Data Center attack has largely failed, so now, in much the same way as they changed the term "Global Warming" to "Climate Change," in that it covers a much larger
"territory" of doubt, they are going straight at Al. We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry.
Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows!
However, we will also be looking for BAD, and we can do that, very easily, with our already existing Criminal and Civil Justice System. For this purpose, I am forming the Al Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS, in my First Term. To that end, I will be announcing, in the near future, the Al "Czar" — Only High I.Q. individuals need apply! Al is the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet, but will be even larger and more impactful, possibly as much as 25% of our Country's GDP.
We are leading China, and the rest of the World, and I intend to keep it that way! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Sep 19, 2026, 1:12 PM

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is hilarious. 😂 😂

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Large protest today at the Kennedy Center against the MAGA regime’s illegal plot to fully destroy President JFK’s sacred memorial simply because an unhinged jealous pedo rapist tyrant is angry that he can’t take ownership of it. Love this. 💙👊

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 18/09/2026

Historically the out-party wins about 70% of races Cook calls toss-up at 45 days before the election.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 18/09/2026

New analysis: Expert handicappers like the Cook Political Report are probably underestimating Democratic odds of winning the House by about 30 points. That's based on an analysis of their historical ratings, not polls or other models. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-18...

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The race raters are lowballing the Democrats

Based on my analysis of their historical ratings, Cook, Inside Elections and Sabato’s Crystal Ball are probably underestimating Democrats' House win probability by about 30 percentage points

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Jeff Singer @jeffsinger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mike Rogers making a college freshman campaign chair of at least four counties is unusual, but lots of young people in politics prove to be strong leaders. But most of them don't go on social media to complain about how bad things are going.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ok i will share the story here. you can mute the thread if you’re not interested! this is Oren Levy’s mugshot, aka “viralnewsnyc,” aka “Leeroy Johnson,” aka “John.” it was sent to me, along with his sealed rap sheet, anon. Levy inadvertently confirmed its legitimacy & dated it as from 2006.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15/09/2026

NYT wants you to believe that 48 and 50 are outside of the margin of error with each other, but they are not. Good of Cohn to admit that this question is not very meaningful in terms of translating to outcomes, but then why treat the Q as if it means anything? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-06-12...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s almost like Todd Blanche shouldn’t be AG.

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未帆 miho 🐸🌧️ frog vtuber @mihovt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

wanted to stream today but i have a massive headache. if it doesn’t get better later tonight, i’ll try to stream tomorrow before d&d instead. thanks guys! have a good tuesday 🐸💚

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Attorney Norm Eisen argues the Trump-acolytes on the Board are holding the Kennedy Center "hostage" Eisen is representing the plaintiff seeking to halt Trump's shuttering & renaming of the Kennedy Center

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

According to the whistleblower: - Agents have to investigate 40 voter records a day, leaving just 11.25 minutes per investigation. - Agents are using state voter registration in a way that may be illegal. - Agents are using source data that many think is completely unreliable.

The identity of the whistle-blower is not known to The Times. Democracy Defenders Fund said in its report that the whistle-blower requested anonymity because of “an extreme fear of retaliation but they feel an obligation to speak up about the misconduct and gross mismanagement they have witnessed.”

According to the whistle-blower, agents are expected to complete at least 40 reviews in each eight-hour day, giving them scant time to determine each voter’s citizenship and voting history. The consequence of the investigation is potentially vast, according to the account, because each review is recorded in a database that could affect individuals’ immigration status or legal permanent residency.

The agents plugged those names and personal data into public-facing state websites to find a subject’s voter history. Some states, such as Virginia, declare explicitly that only individual voters may use the search tool to look up their own records. Others, such as California, require specific information such as a driver’s license number or partial Social Security number in an effort to limit the use of the tool to individuals. Worried about the potential legal ramifications of such actions, the whistle-blower “expressed concerns” to those leading the investigation within Homeland Security’s Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate, according to the account.

The office of the chief counsel at D.H.S. said it was permissible for agents to use the state databases for operations such as the Unlawful Voter Initiative. Yet leadership appeared to acknowledge the potential for legal liability, responding to internal questions that agents “are not personally liable for conducting these searches when done as part of their official duties and properly documented.”

Core to the operation is a compilation of data on hundreds of thousands of voters from across the country, described to agents as “source data,” according to previous reporting by The Times. Agents were given little to no information about where the source data originated; at one point, D.H.S. officials said some immigration information had been added to their source data using “supplemental magic,” according to the whistle-blower account. The mysterious origins of the “source data” comes as voting rights groups and election officials have condemned the Trump administration’s many efforts to compile a national voter file and citizenship list.

The whistle-blower report, however, indicates that the data is likely filled with errors. According to a transcript of a training video included in the account, the investigation has relied on data from multiple sources, including public voter files obtained from states, Department of Justice data and queries of records compiled by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The data also includes what are known as alien identification numbers, the training video says, which are numbers assigned to a noncitizen that stay in their Homeland Security files permanently, even if they subsequently become citizens who are eligible to vote. If the investigation is using the existence of an alien number to flag that a voter is ineligible, many legal citizens are likely to be improperly ensnared as unlawful voters.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

UPDATE: DOJ decided to play fast and loose this morning. Without even filing a notice of appeal in the DSCC case, SG Sauer made arguments to SCOTUS about the merits of the DSCC case injunction in a "supplemental brief" in the stay application pending in the California/LWV cases out of Mass.