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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Constitution may not be a suicide pact, but living under this Administration sure is.

Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When ICE and the Trump Administration claim that non-citizens lack due process rights, what they are really saying is that none of us have due process rights. I wish more Americans understood this.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't think that the tilt of the Earth's axis is subjective. Fact: It is darker in Canada during winter than in every US state except Alaska. Permanent DST doesn't matter when you have fewer hours of winter sun. It matters more for those of us who are used to morning sun in winter in the States.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They are used to winter darkness in northern latitudes. We are not.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Republicans have made no secret they want to privatize TSA. By making working conditions intolerable, they hope to spur resignations and chaos, so airports will have to pay $$ for private security instead of using TSA paid for by airline fees. It won’t make travel safer or cheaper.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is what six of the Supreme Court justices are fine with happening over the next few months as they wait to hear the case. Disgusting and inhumane. The only irreparable harm is that being inflicted on the people subject to this government-inflicted cruelty.

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I still can't get over the fact that SCOTUS (minus Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson) did this yesterday *on the shadow docket.* Nary a word of justification. Not even a nod to the lower court opinions finding it unlawful to deport to 3rd countries w/o due process to flag torture & persecution risks.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My theory: his staffers asked AI what NBA or NCAA men’s games happened on Feb 3. They thought they got him. The party claiming to “protect” women’s sports failed to consider people go to women’s sports ball. Hence Katie Britt’s look of shock because she thought she was the #1 protector of girl ball.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the biggest media failures (among many) of the past year has been the failure to cover the Venezuela "operation" for what it was--a smash-and-grab mafia state theft by the U.S. that violates international law and the rights of Venezuelans while achieving very damn little for the U.S.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WaPo always doing the heavy-lifting to make pro pickleball a thing that others are supposed to care about.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, is staying the case over Trump's effort to fire Shira Perlmutter as head of the Copyright Office ... in case the Senate passes (and Trump signs into law) a House bill that would make Trump's ability to fire Perlmutter more clear.

MINUTE ORDER: Plaintiff Shira Perlmutter, the Library of Congress's Register of Copyrights, sues President Trump and several other federal officials, challenging the Trump Administration's attempts to remover her from that position.
ECF No. 1. Plaintiff--whose termination has been enjoined pending her appeal of this Court's denial of her request for a preliminary injunction, Perlmutter v. Blanche, No. 25-5285, 2025 WL 2627965, (D.C. Cir. Sept. 10, 2025)--alleges that those efforts were not lawful, in part because her position is not subject to Presidential appointment or removal. See ECF No. 1. The parties have cross-moved for summary judgment. ECF Nos. 49, 50. And since then, the parties filed supplemental memoranda addressing the effect of the Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. Slaughter, 609 U.S. _
(2026) on their motions. ECF No. 58, 59. Since those filings, the Court has become aware that in June, the House of Representatives passed by voice vote the Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act, which would spell out the structure of the Library of Congress and the Copyright Office. H.R. 6028, 119th Cong. (as passed by House, June 8,
2026). In particular, the bill would make clear that the Register of Copyrights is an officer "appointed by the President" with the advice and consent of the Senate. Id. § 6()(Bi)()(bb). The bill now awaits action in the Senate.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump has been witness to many children dying with 109 degree temperatures the day after they received MMR shots. This sounds entirely believable and credible.

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Leila Green Little @ifightforbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is censorship. It is when the will of the people and those entrusted with decision-making capacity have their decisions truck down by the State. It is the illusion of power handed to stakeholders, while power itself is retained at the top. Phenomenal piece, @stephanaferrell.bsky.social.

The Florida Department of Education's annual lists never tell the whole story. Sometimes, the most revealing censorship happens after a community has already decided for itself.

The message was unmistakable: A local community could follow its process, parents could participate in a public review, an elected board could uphold the committee's decision and the state could still override that judgment.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Read the Don Jr. wedding story (thanks to ProPublica journalists) and then read this. These people are the most selfish grifters to ever run the US government, and that is quite the accomplishment.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The work of the E-Book Study Group (led by Kyle Courtney, among others) has done especially compelling work in this regard, too. www.ebookstudygroup.org

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eBook Study Group

New State Bills Aim to Improve Access to eBooks for Libraries

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you are following the recent anti-library lending report produced by the Author's Guild and the AAP, I recommend this outstanding blog post as a counterpoint. Libraries are a convenient and easy scapegoat to blame for the woes of the publishing industry. roncharles.substack.com/p/libraries-...

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Libraries Are Not the Problem

A new publishing-industry study takes aim at ebook lending just as public libraries are fighting for their lives.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The conflation of AI-critical with technophobic is tactical & infuriating. While accusing us of just knee-jerk hating tech, they’re enshittifying search engines, degrading digital archives, sundowning or enclosing popular tools, etc. We were all happily using that tech!

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whatever this is, it certainly isn't capitalism. When can we expect the House vote to condemn it?

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Honestly, the average age of his fans is probably around 11 years old, too young for a James Patterson mystery, probably more in their Percy Jackson era.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Libraries are under attack on so many fronts all at the same time. This PEN America report is a must read.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And please listen to him reading The Peace of Wild Things, and you will understand. onbeing.org/poetry/the-p...

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The Peace of Wild Things

A poem by Wendell Berry.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This one really hurts. Berry’s wisdom was entirely unconventional in a world that assumed tech solves all our problems. It is not just “The Peace of Wild Things”, it feels like a sad farewell to caring, rural community that Berry envisioned. I will keep reading his essays to my kids.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Definitely blocked via DRM; with access-based subscriptions, we have no ownership rights for preservation or anything else.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am not surprised. Few libraries can afford print supplementation anymore because the cost of supplements is many times higher than inflation. We only supplement the most heavily used print treatises, and due to price increases, we still have to cancel some of them annually.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The big legal publishers are sinking large, untold sums into GAI for their systems and are absolutely looking to recoup costs however they can, driving up the prices for all their products.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We no longer control research and discovery; we rely on their GAI to tell us what the law is and control our legal arguments. 5/5

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The end game is what Thomson Reuters/Westlaw is now pushing us to - access only through a forced Generative AI model, where they no longer invest in legacy research platforms that left the human in control of the results and research strategies. 4/5

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

They want us to move away from ownership to electronic access only, so they are forcing us into it with unsustainable price increases. Then they can easily dictate what we do with the online, access only versions. 3/5

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The invoice we just received was $15,403.86 for one supplement of approximately 200 pages. It is untenable to think any library can afford a price increase of nearly 150% in two years. They want us to cancel the print. 2/5

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A quick nerdy law librarian post about how difficult publishers are making our job: In 2024, a certain legal publisher charged us $6,175.86 twice annually to supplement a semi-important legal treatise in print. Guess what the cost is in 2025. 1/5

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The AI companies claim their technology will enhance human creativity. But they are quietly undertaking a massive campaign to destroy human creativity. Let me tell you the story of the AI companies' effort to feed rare books into their AI models and then destroy them.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/08/2026

one of the many, many things to hate about this admin is the way in which all of these unqualified idiot cabinet heads have no real responsibilities related to their official portfolios and just make the rounds on cable news as uninformed gadfly mouthpieces

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"AI-generated drafts can also incorrectly cite previous statutes, said Ari Hershowitz, a lawyer and technologist who has worked with the office to integrate tech tools into its processes — “a guaranteed way of introducing thousands of bugs into our legal system.”"

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"The strain on the House Office of Legislative Counsel is increasing as more congressional offices and outside groups rely on generative AI to draft legislation,...the drafts are plagued by mistakes .... " www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

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AI slop is swamping a House office that drafts US laws

The Office of Legislative Counsel is facing a barrage of new AI-generated bills, many of which are riddled with errors.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Occasional reminder that the Trump administration refuses to publicly disclose or tell Congress what is happening with Venezuela’s oil revenues.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I mean, Trump seems to love communists these days! He has so much love for Kim Jong-Un! So not sure what Mike Johnson's point is. The scare tactic means less when Trump willingly embraces communist, authoritarian regimes.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

He has shown nothing but utter disdain & lack of respect for the troops, dead & alive, since 2016, & this has done absolutely nothing to change how the GOP is treated as the default party of national security. It's the military/foreign policy equivalent of "the GOP is the party of deficit hawks."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A person without any govt position, who has numerous financial conflicts of interest, should not conduct US foreign policy. And that’s before we get to the fact that he uses this role to corruptly solicit money for himself. It’s wrong. Many seem to have accepted it, but I’ll never stop objecting.

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Kushner Meets With Hamas to Advance Trump’s Gaza Plan

The president’s son-in-law met the Palestinian militant group’s leaders in Egypt, officials said. He will soon see Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Crazy idea: Spend money on supplies for our well-trained and modestly paid sailors, not on electric shock gloves for poorly trained and overpaid ICE agents.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Anyway, I don't think it is unreasonable to expect DC journalists to start asking the Senate Majority Leader & the Speaker of the House hard questions every day about why they are doing nothing while a Mad King shreds the Constitution & destroys our most important security alliances.

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