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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4h
Telling story by Washington Sun: In a top House battleground, that voted for Trump by a large margin, Dems have put up a billboard that pretty much does nothing but notes the Republican's endorsement of Trump and his support for ICE. www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/so...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h
Let Them Eat Bouef
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K Kearns @kkearns.bsky.social · 3h
They just don't come home for four days?
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 8h
a Zacharia is half a Scaramucci
A senior White House official tells @pooocy Katie
ZACHARIA is "transitioning out" of the press secretary position.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h
Thank God the judges -- even Trump's own appointees -- are refusing to go along with what Trump's funhouse mirror of a Civil Rights Division is demanding.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 12h
Its so interesting that in a white house where nobody dares take a shit without the Bosses approval someone felt empowered enough to betray a US ally behind his back
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h
I argued that that lawsuit by 9 FBI Agents fired bc they worked on the stolen documents case has an impeachment referral stuck in the middle of it. emptywheel.net/2026/10/16/t...
The outline of the lawsuit 9 FBI agents filed against Kash Patel yesterday. I've pointed to these sections claiming they are an impeachment referral.

C. While Still a Private Citizen, Defendant Patel Injected Himself into Plasmic Echo: This section describes Kash’s public blabbing in 2022, his subpoena to testify (served by Linton), his immunized testimony, a subpoena investigators obtained for Kash’s communications around the same time, his partying at the Olympics, and his attempt to use the subpoena as an excuse to fire the plaintiffs to distract from his partying.
As part of this section, it describes Kash’s claims to Congress on March 19 and September 15 about why he fired the plaintiffs, and then describes the public evidence those claims are false.
E. Plaintiffs Are Summarily Terminated: Having already described how Kash lied about why he fired plaintiffs (and provided some of the proof that he did lie), the complaint then describes how each plaintiff was terminated, naming the FBI managers who affirmatively told plaintiffs they were not being fired for cause, explaining to anyone who might want to know how to find proof that Kash lied to Congress.
Along with individualized descriptions of how each plaintiff was terminated (which is necessary for the lawsuit), this section also describes how, the day after Kash’s debauchery in Italy, the corrupt FBI Agent who spied on Jim Comey’s Attorney-Client communications, Miles Starr, took steps to find out who was on the stolen documents case. This is necessary to substantiate the claim that Kash fired plaintiffs because of his own embarrassment, but it important for other reasons.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h
New from me: For the Liberalism.org site, I wrote about the 30th anniversary of AEDPA, the worst criminal justice law passed in my lifetime. www.liberalism.org/p/how-the-an...
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How the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act Made a Bad Situation Worse
A little-known law closes off federal appeals, even for the admittedly innocent. That’s by design.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h
🚨BREAKING: DOJ has appealed court ruling blocking its nationwide effort to collect states’ voter data and check it against flawed government databases to purge alleged noncitizens from voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/cases/doj-na...
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🚨 Common Cause v. U.S. Department of Justice
Learn more.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h
Me every day for the last two years: Republicans are corrupt, incompetent, cruel buffoons who should be stripped of power and, where appropriate, prosecuted Me, occasionally: Democrats need to be better on this issue Bluesky Dems: WHY DO YOU THINK REPUBLICANS HAVE NO AGENCY YOU IGNORANT TWAT?
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 13h
Everyone who worked for DOGE needs full criminal investigation and searches to determine if critical data was exfiltrated for private gain
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 23h
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Condescending Willy Wonka Smile
Alt: Condescending Willy Wonka Smile
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Look there are so many admirable italian americans to choose from that at some point you just gotta assume it’s not that they don’t believe he did all those horrible things, but that’s one of the things they like about him bsky.app/profile/jayw...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This can’t be. I was assured by the Manhattan Institute that this sort of thing never happens.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“.. at least 15 social media posts identifying her as an ‘attorney’ over the past two years, despite having failed the California bar exam and acknowledging publicly she had been advised not to use that term.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/10/15/p...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Huckabee met secretly with Netanyahu’s top rival, Gadi Eisenkot
​U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee met quietly in recent days with Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot amid the final stretch of Israel’s high-stakes election campaign, Jewish Insider has learned,...
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Obviously, a person who has broken immigration laws should not be allowed to obtain government contracts, right?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The other thing is--DOJ is denaturalizing people who were committing or had committed crimes they didn't disclose in their naturalization papers. On those terms, Ghislaine Maxwell should be denaturalized as well (and so deported to the UK where she can be prosecuted anew if Trump releases her).
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I think people need to make this comparison RIGHT NOW. Is Elon paying $300M to elect right wingers bc otherwise they'll denaturalize and deport him? Probably not, but if their voters learn he is, it might make the $$ creepy. [Tho I think people need to focus on the child porn Grok makes]
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
$CRWV insider sales are nothing new — but are getting passed around this am.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Presented without comment
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Moby-Dick Failed the AI Test or the Test Failed Moby-Dick
An AI detector can perform extremely well across a benchmark and still produce a spectacularly wrong result on an individual document. In a client project...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/10/2026
This is... a very bad ruling that doesn't even make sense on its own terms.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I'm just relieved the courts arent alive to see it come to this
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
back in the olden days DOJ would investigate a particular crime it believed had been committed, rather than just poking around to see if anything was wrong
The investigation is seeking information to see where it leads, the source said. For example, if records, representations related to age and immigration status contain false information, that would provide material for investigators to scrutinize further. They could also examine communications related to such matters.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
#BREAKING: #SCOTUS grants the Trump administration’s stay request in the FCC political ads case—effectively absolving the FCC of any requirement to complete the administrative process regarding its relaxing of the “lowest unit charge” rule before the midterms. Justices Sotomayor & Jackson dissent.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Democratic Failure to Prevent Conservatives From Lying Raises Ethical Questions About Talarico bsky.app/profile/shoe...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
this video is incredible
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Venezuela dumped like Ivana
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
We must simply learn from jrr tolkiens hobbits and build middle schools in underground disused minuteman II missile silos surrounded by electric fences and moats, only then will our nation’s youth know freedom
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump is notoriously squicked out by people with disabilities or war wounds so hearing about the paralysis sucked all the joy out of watching a killing for him
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: Anthropic seeks en banc review from the full D.C. Circuit of the 2-1 panel decision rejecting the company's challenge to DOD's supply-chain exclusion decision. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Memory costs starting to bite: * Gartner's prelim 3Q worldwide PC shipments down -22.4% YoY to 55.4mn units, citing the impact of higher memory/storage costs .. * Smartphone unit sales tumbled 20% Y/Y in Q3 due to component shortages and price hikes .. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/ret...
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Global smartphone shipments record worst third quarter in 14 years amid memory shortage
Global smartphone shipments fell 20% on-year to their lowest third-quarter level since 2012, as soaring memory chip costs and supply shortages pressured manufacturers ​and pushed up prices, preliminar...
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K Kearns @kkearns.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Hell yeah!!!!
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
We're campaigning in Kansas and South Carolina because we LOVE AMERICA, liberals
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K Kearns @kkearns.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
DEI for blond ladies who can't read
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Hey have you noticed that what’s moral and good and consistent with the “natural order” is giving me your money so I can get richer? Weird coincidence wow bsky.app/profile/moth...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
WSJ reports that Ken Paxton celebrated NYE 2025 in Dubai with two U.S. fugitives; they’d been indicted on healthcare fraud and failed to return to the country. One had donated tens of thousands to Paxton. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Ken Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Ahead of High-Stakes Texas Senate Race
Trump backed the scandal-plagued Paxton in one of the riskiest bets of the midterms
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
These are very charming. I hope someone in the menswear industry hires you to do illustrations for them.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Thread on this with some examples:
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
My father used to talk about this in medicine—occasionally you’d find some “common knowledge” factoid that, it you followed it back five hops down the citation chain, always terminated with some poorly designed 15-person study from the 30s that was wildly inadequate to support the claim.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration continued airing taxpayer-funded ads promoting President Donald Trump after a federal judge ordered the campaign halted, then told the court Monday that an internal email delay was to blame. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump administration kept taxpayer-funded ads running after judge ordered them stopped, blames email delay
The government’s ads aired in nearly 400 television spots on programs that began at 7 p.m. Eastern — after the judge's order was already in force.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
President Trump says that after learning Ohio Senator Jon Husted was a star football player, he felt compelled to examine Husted’s body. “I looked at his ass… I looked at his hands… Look at those hands.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yes, yes, the authoritarian president is leading a hate-filled rally in which he urges his followers to physically assault protesters but do NOT call any of these people Nazis or you will make David Brooks sad.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Months after his release from prison, Oklahoma prosecutors continue to harass Richard Glissip with the threat of another trial. Seems to be a pattern lately of prosecutors refusing to acknowledge that wrongful convictions happen. theintercept.com/2026/10/06/j...
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The Key Witness Against Richard Glossip Just Returned to Court. It Didn’t Go Well.
Decades after blaming Richard Glossip for his own actions, Justin Sneed is less credible than ever — and prosecutors know it.
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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My favourite of this sub genre is in Tora Tora Tora, when the Japanese Zeroes fly over the memorial to those killed in the attack they are about to commit.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Orange carrots in medieval banquets
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K Kearns @kkearns.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
They are so freaking insane
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