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Leonides

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🌊 Animal lover. Trying to understand WTF is going on with our country.

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Pod Save America @podsaveamerica.crooked.com · 11h
"Luckily, we won’t have to get to know Mike Collins very well because he is soon going to be the former candidate for the U.S. Senate when Jon Ossoff wins." - Marc Elias reacting to Collins support for federal troops at polling stations.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10h
NEW: Despite Trump fixation, Internal probe of Federal Reserve's building renovation project finds "At no point during our evaluation did we find reasonable grounds to believe that a violation of federal criminal law had occurred requiring a referral to the US Attorney General"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
🔥 @shawnryan762.bsky.social: "Israel is the one thing since 9/11 I've seen EVERYBODY rally around- we're tired of paying for your universal health care, education, missiles, fighting/dying for your wars... We're just a cow pasture full of cattle to send 🇮🇱 tax money + fight their wars."
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11h
One small, but powerful way that LLM's are supercharging scamming is by allowing scammers to write perfect context-appropriate prose - emails, invitations, "hey checking in" - that before AI would have this slightly *off* uncanniness that would alert the victim. No longer!
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 14h
Fox: For a U.S. senator to have false information based on confusion about the name of a team, then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology. We reached out to Senator Schmitt's office for comment but we have not heard back yet.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h
“Opposition figures and independent analysts worry that the police could look the other way at pro-government violence on Election Day, or interfere with voting in Arab towns or liberal precincts considered hostile to Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Ben-Gvir.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/w...
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Heroine or Public Enemy? The Israeli Blocking Much of Netanyahu’s Agenda. (Gift Article)
Gali Baharav-Miara, Israel’s first female attorney general, has stopped many of the government’s efforts to remove constraints on its power.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Russia’s turning abducted Ukrainian children into Russian soldiers." Reporter Kathryn Diss traveled to Ukraine to expose this devastating reality. After years of indoctrination and militarization, kidnapped kids are being forced to sign contracts and fight against their own country.
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Foreign Correspondent: S2026 Ukraine's Stolen Children Foreign Correspondent
Thousands of Ukrainian kids have been stolen by Russia since the war began with many ending up on Russian adoption websites. We embed with the undercover rescue network working in a race against time ...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans cried that Trump needed money for the border and then he stole the money to pay for a millions in totally illegal, taxpayer funded campaign ads. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SMOTRICH, 🇮🇱 Minister of Finance: “The biggest key to ‘immigration’ (aka the ethnic cleansing of Gaza) is to take away their hope.” (He also refers to them as “2 million Nazis”)
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More: www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-t...
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Artist whose song is featured in Trump taxpayer-funded ad sends cease-and-desist order to White House
Attorneys for JMSN say the use of the song is a violation of federal copyright law and demand the ad be withdrawn.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner think the way to negotiate with these barbarians is to offer them business deals.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Putin’s reward for bombing hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, public parks and museums and killing children is to get invited to the G20 Summit by Marco Rubio.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like everything else Trump “fixes,” the reflecting pool (along with the war in Iran, gas prices, beef prices, and mortgage rates) is in exponentially worse shape than when he started.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The horror!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The Indian Question" now joins "The Jewish Question" as a shorthand for a dream of ethnic cleansing. As with the mass purge of Haitians, Christopher Rufo again seeks to play a central role in this descent into ethnonationalist fascism.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THERE IT IS: Group of January 6 riot defendants have filed each filed federal civil lawsuits in DC seeking taxpayer-funded compensatory and punitive damages for alleged violations of their righrs They claim they were "targeted..and punished" for "protected expressive" activity
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The U.S. and Russian teams also removed a provision requiring that humans review military targets developed by AI before a strike..." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russia is bombing museums, apartment buildings, hospitals, research facilities, schools, and parks. Ukraine is bombing military targets and refineries. Guess which one Trump has been complaining about?
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More: www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/n...
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NIH funding cuts delayed a promising childhood brain cancer trial. Patients lost time they didn't have
A delayed clinical trial underscores the stakes of federal research funding cuts for children with DIPG, a deadly brain tumor with few treatment options.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu made a secret visit today to the UAE, meeting with the Emirati president and pleading with him to deny that he gave Netanyahu a clear warning that Hamas was planning an attack on Israel in the week before Oct 7—even though both men know that such a warning was, in fact, given.
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Source: Netanyahu secretly visited UAE on Sunday, met with Emirati leader
The prime minister's visit, during which he met with Emirati President Mohamed bin Zayed, came amid fallout from Haaretz's report of the Emirati leader's pre-Oct. 7 warning
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just saw The History of Concrete and loved it. Glad we get more from John Wilson, I am not at all tired of his work.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Marge finally realizing the Republican caravan fearmongering stuff (@MarshaBlackburn loves to peddle) has always been bullshit
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister: "In 2015, we had a deal, we remained committed to that deal, it was the US that withdrew with zero justification"
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Way too close, but thankfully someone was paying attention and alerted the police before this got really bad. They reportedly tried to call RAF Fairford to report 3 suspicious vans, but couldn’t get an answer from the base.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Johnson: "When people are promising free things to you, you must ask what the real price is. It's your freedom. It will drive costs up. It will make people more dependent upon govt, & that's the communist's ultimate goal." (Trump literally just proposed giving people $5k if they vote Republican...)
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“In the weeks and months after the war began, Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers spoke in favor of Trump’s decision and called the war 'long overdue.' In April, he said the war had left Iran 'absolutely a toothless wonder'...” www.cnn.com/2026/09/25/p...
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GOP Senate candidate who praised the Iran war now campaigns against the pain it caused | CNN Politics
In 2024, then-Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers stood on camera in a zippered vest in a large grocery store
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Dave Troy @davetroy.com · 27/09/2026
📙 BOOKS: People ask me what to read to understand how we got here. So we've published the "America 2.0 Reading List." 120 books — the founders on faction, Russia's political technologists, the anti-democratic right, and the strange ideas underneath it all. america2.news/the-america-...
america2.news
The America 2.0 Reading List
Books to understand how we got here — and how to fix it.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Freudian slip. John Fetterman claims he’s a “lifelong Republican.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 26/09/2026
Remember the 37 pages? The woman interviewed by the FBI about Trump allegedly assaulting her as a 15-year-old received a settlement from these people. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Exclusive | Federal Prosecutors Open Probe Into Jeffrey Epstein’s Executors
Prosecutors have questioned potential witnesses about his longtime accountant and lawyer. Both of them have denied wrongdoing.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The visit of Xi Jinping is a good time to think of people like Gul, who have a better appreciation of the character and ways of Xi than Trump does. Read a bit about her life here.
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A Uyghur Family
Brave people under persecution by the Chinese government.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Greenland, Venezuela, Panama, Canada—what is Trump up to? The objectives seem to vary over time, but in the end it's all really about showing the bravado of a conqueror on the world stage—and furtive, private profit for himself, his family and his entourage. www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
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Warum Trump Grönland so dringend unter Kontrolle der USA bringen will
Folgt der Intervention in Venezuela bald eine in Grönland? Abermals hat US-Präsident Trump eine Annexion der autonomen dänischen Insel angedroht. Aus Sicht von Washington gäbe es dafür gute ökonomisch...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She was an FBI agent. She started an investigation of the murder of Renee Good. Trump forced her to reclassify it as an ICE agent assault. She was then forced to resign. Her evidence confirms that a cover-up of the homicide has been undertaken, directed from the highest levels.
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FBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN Politics
The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fernando Cerimedo hired a hit man to silence his too chatty girlfriend. Then the criminal investigators stumbled across Brad Parscale's Trump-coordinated plots against democracy all across the continent.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pontifex maximus has some thoughts about the social media world that Thiel, Zuckerberg and Musk are crafting together.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Guilfoyle's prime qualification for being ambassador was being Trump Jr's last concubine. But she does perfectly sum up the diplomacy of the Trump dynasty.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
👇🏽😕
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2026
The prosecutor at the center of the Broadview Six case just walked away from the DOJ with a scathing accusation against her own boss.
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Broadview Six Prosecutor Blasts DOJ Boss in Scathing Exit Letter
Sheri Mecklenburg says DOJ leadership scapegoated her for the troubled prosecution, then threatened to fire her if she tried to defend herself.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is crazy! How may direct, urgent warnings were there? www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Egypt’s Warning to Israel
Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“A factory of targets… there was approval once to kill 500 people…” 👇🏽 new trailer for ‘NAZA’ (‘collateral damage’) — a Guardian-produced film with testimonies of 24 IDF soldiers Israel doesn’t want you to see. (released free online next month) More: jewishcurrents.org/naza-will-ch...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mahmoud Khalil filed a motion to reopen his case in front of the Board of Immigrations Appeals on the grounds that the process was preordained (true) and thus denied him the neutral magistrates required by due process (true) and they responded with basically “how DARE you cite the FAKE NEWS at us.”
As the primary new evidence in support of the motion, the respondent presents a May 8, 2026, New York Times article ("Article"), a May 13, 2026, affidavit from Andrea Sáenz ("Sáenz Affidavit"), a May 13, 2026, affidavit from Dana Leigh Marks ("Marks Affidavit"), and a May 14, 2026, affidavit from Ryan R. Wood. In general, a domestic media article consisting primarily of opinions with minimal (and anonymously-sourced) facts will almost never be sufficient evidence to warrant reopening. Nearly every well-known domestic media outlet operates with a particular ideological valence which must be accounted for in assessing the persuasiveness of its reporting and its evidentiary weight. See, e.g., AllSides Media Bias Chart, AllSides, https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart (last visited Sept. 25, 2026); cf. Davis v. Alaska, 415 U.S. 308, 316 (1974) ("The partiality of a witness... is always relevant as discrediting the witness and affecting the weight of his testimony.") (citation modified); see also, e.g., John K. Maciver Inst. for Pub. Policy,
Inc. v. Evers, 994 F.3d 602, 611 (7th Cir. 2021)(recognizing that some media outlets are traditionally viewed as conservative leaning, such as the Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and Washington Examiner, whereas others are viewed as liberal leaning, such as the Capitol Times, New York Times, and Huttington Post). Media coverage of judicial decisions warrants particular skepticism because it is often focused on perceived nonlegal issues rather than the applicable law and legal reasoning actually at issue before the court. See, e.g., Barry Sullivan and Christina Camody Tilley, Supreme Court Journalism: From Law to Spectacle?, 77 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 343, 343-344, 437-442 (2020) (concluding that contemporary media coverage of the Supreme Court by newspapers including the New York Times focuses primarily on the justices' presumed political and policy preferences rather than the legal issues they confront in the case before them, which can undermine public confidence in the Court as an institution). To be sure, "[a] publication can be accurate but still biased." AllSides Media Bias Chart, supra. But a publication that is (1)based on anonymous factual sourcing* supplemented by opinions of only individuals whose biases are aligned with that of the narrative of the story and who lack any firsthand knowledge of the facts at issue, (2) contains disputed facts, and (3) is clearly biased against the agency and in favor of the subject of the case warrants minimal, if any, weight, and is unlikely to be persuasive enough to warrant reopening. Further, taking action based on such an article would likely violate an Appellate Immigration Judge's ethical and professional duty to act in a neutral and detached manner. See Ethics and Professionalism Guide for Members of the Board of Immigration
Appeals,
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https://www.justice.gov/d9/pages/attachments/2017/08/24/bia_ethics and professionalism guide for board members.pdf ("A Board Member should not be swayed by partisan interests or public clamor.") (emphasis added).
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jack Smith gets what he’s been seeking.. a public hearing to answer questions about his criminal case against Trump. Tuesday. At the US Senate
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