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John Adams

@libertariandiary.com
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Lawyer • Blogger • Bleeding-Heart Libertarian • Cat Guy • Web: libertariandiary.com & freewhitewater.com • Alum: Penn, William & Mary, Cornell Law • Never Trump Before Never Trump

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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 10h
A man whose orbit extends no further than Russian oligarchs, oil sheiks, professional wrestlers, and Fox News would never have heard of Navi Pillay.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11h
at this point people getting carjacked are gonna assume it’s ICE
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 14h
Ever since the "Broadview 6" scandal broke, much has been made of alleged misconduct by one federal prosecutor. Judge April Perry is going a different direction, testing claims made by U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros and others. UPDATED from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/1...
chicago.suntimes.com
'Broadview Six' judge testing claims made by Boutros, others in tainted case
It all lines up with U.S. District Judge April Perry’s insistence last week that her “sole focus … is on lack of candor, concealment of material facts, or other misconduct that occurred before me.” Sh...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23h
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“That’s the problem, Mike. It’s not just that you hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office, and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online,” Ossoff said. “It’s that you’re robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors.” talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/s...
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Somehow, Mike Collins Was Completely Unprepared for Questions About His Neo-Nazi Ties During Senate Debate
Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) failed to answer a question about who won...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16h
Always a tweet
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17h
Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18h
The United States is now importing fuel from Russia, per President Trump.
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 21h
"The University of ‌Michigan's Surveys of Consumers ‌said its Consumer Sentiment Index dropped to 46.3 this month from a final reading ​of 48.1 in September. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the index at ⁠47.8." #ConsumerConfidence
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US consumer sentiment deteriorates further in October
WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - US consumer sentiment deteriorated further in early October as rising prices because of the Middle East conflict soured households' views of the economy, a survey showed ...
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 22h
Why wait?
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Speaker Johnson Floats Leaving Politics to Start ‘Lawn Business’ If GOP Loses House
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) floated an unexpected career change if Republicans lose their House majority in next month’s midterm elections, saying he would be willing to leave politics behind an...
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 22h
mediaite.com
Pete Hegseth’s Execution Livestream Plan Sparks Avalanche of Bipartisan Fury: ‘Government-Backed Snuff Film’
Hegseth's announcement triggered triggered widespread condemnation spanning GOP lawmakers, Democrats and pundits across the spectrum in media.
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American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
REMINDER: January 6 rally backers and Project 2025 funders are the billionaire donors standing behind Tom Tiffany. That's who he's answering to, not you. #WIGov #WIpolitics
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Collins has his head down through all of this, presumably mapping out what he’ll be doing as a private citizen next year
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 08/10/2026
"At least two of Collins’ campaign-appointed leaders, Joshua Mote and Michael Boggus, have ties to American Patriots USA, a far-right group founded by Chester Doles, a former Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi National Alliance leader." #Georgia #GOP #MikeCollins
thedailybeast.com
Trump Pick’s Campaign Hit With Explosive Staff Revelations
Affiliates of Georgia candidate Mike Collins have ties to a group he has denounced as a “hate organization.”
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 08/10/2026
“I can do whatever I want if I want,” he said during an Oval Office event on Wednesday.
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Trump Pats Himself On The Back For Not Doing 'Bad Things' To Obama, Clinton, Biden
“I can do whatever I want if I want,” he said during an Oval Office event on Wednesday.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ed Martin says that Tina Peters met with Trump in the Oval Office today to discuss election integrity and “the plans” for the upcoming midterms elections.
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 07/10/2026
"Among other things, Bessent declared he was totes in the right for declaring “I am the house now” in his failed bond-market interventions, before determining that, eh, sometimes the house loses. (Former failed-casino owner Donald Trump can relate.)" #Bessent
thebulwark.com
Scott Bessent’s Interview Gets Weirder and Weirder
How big is the treasury secretary’s ego?
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 07/10/2026
"But there are reasons to remain alarmed....Trump and his loyalists will control the levers of executive power over the next two years. You’d have to be crazy not to be alarmed by what they can do during this time—to our nation’s well-being at home and to its standing abroad..."
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 07/10/2026
"The more this election is about Trump, the better. The more the generic ballot numbers move towards the presidential approval numbers, the better. The more Trump visits competitive states for rallies that are all about himself, the better. The more ads we see that feature Trump, the better."
thebulwark.com
Reasons for Hope. Reasons for Alarm.
Things are looking up—for now.
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 07/10/2026
"As President Trump crisscrossed the country last week trying to help his party avoid a blowout in next month’s midterm elections, two of his top political advisers were in the Balkans helping a pro-Russian government looking to tighten its grip on power."
nytimes.com
Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government (Gift Article)
James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 06/10/2026
"If the fence proposal is implemented, it could limit the public’s access to an open space that has allowed people to practice free speech at the doorstep of the country’s highest seat of power." #FreeSpeech #Trump
nytimes.com
Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 06/10/2026
Trump’s $500 Checks Come With a Nasty Catch www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-has-...
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Trump’s $500 Checks Come With a Nasty Catch
Catherine Rampell and Jonathan Cohn give their takes on Donald Trump’s latest checks to Americans, including $500 payments to some ACA marketplace enrollees and $90 payments to certain Medicare recipi...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In Springfield, OH, nearly 1,400 workers were laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally. Layoffs were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. apnews.com/article/trum...
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
President Donald Trump is trying to rally voters in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday. But days ago, 1,400 workers were laid off from a truck factory there.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/10/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Jennifer Weiner is one of many women “who’d spent their undergraduate years marching and protesting,” she writes in a guest essay. For these women, fury over the Cornell sexual assault case “was laced with a kind of bewildered exhaustion. How is this still happening?”
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Opinion | I Thought Things Had Gotten Better. The Cornell Case Breaks My Heart.
How could so little have changed?
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 29/09/2026
"According to several people knowledgeable about the discussions, the administration initially floated an idea that would have virtually shut down mail voting: requiring all ballots to be delivered exclusively through certified mail." #VotingRights · #VoteByMail · #USPS
propublica.org
The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 29/09/2026
Now it’s gathering steam amid a growing push by the Trump administration to block dozens of lawsuits levied at energy companies by communities that were affected by extreme weather.
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 29/09/2026
It’s the latest strategy in a decades-long campaign by right-leaning groups to discredit scholars whose work could persuade judges and juries in the high-stakes climate cases. #ClimateScience #AcademicFreedom #ClimateLitigation
politico.com
Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s increasingly baffling fight with Canada. #Canada #TradeWar #Tariffs
thebulwark.com
Trump’s War With Canada Has Officially Lost the Plot (w/ Sam Stein)
Catherine Rampell and Sam Stein bring the receipts on Trump’s increasingly baffling fight with Canada, his latest promise of $5,000 checks and the ugly polling behind it, and his move to weaken fuel-e...
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 29/09/2026
"In the last week, the Trump administration has spent more than $1.7 million in federal funds to run three ads on TV, including on Fox News during primetime, on a Sunday-morning political show, and on NFL games. The White House calls these videos “public service announcements.”" #PublicFunds
thebulwark.com
Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor
Your tax dollars are funding his TV ads. And the White House says you should be proud to pay.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The ten-year yield blasts thru 5.25% @cnbc.com
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Larry Hochman @larryhochman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Contrast this with Zohran Mamdani, James Tallarico or even a wealthy J.B. Pritzker. Which group better represents what it means to be an American?
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 28/09/2026
Inflation could jump to 3.6% by year-end due to the rise in fuel prices, according to EY-Parthenon chief economist Gregory Daco. #DieselPrices #Inflation
cbsnews.com
Soaring U.S. diesel prices slam local communities as fuel costs surge
The surge in diesel prices this year is putting a financial squeeze on schools, farms and small businesses around the U.S.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 25/09/2026
#BroadviewSix · #RuleOfLaw · #ProsecutorialAccountability
nytimes.com
Prosecutor Resigns, Saying U.S. Attorney Mishandled Chicago Protest Case (Gift Article)
The prosecutor said that U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Boutros had intervened and overruled her in the case against a group of protesters known as the “Broadview Six.”
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 25/09/2026
In Trump’s White House, China’s Dictator Is Welcome. American Media, Less So.
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In Trump’s White House, China’s Dictator Is Welcome. American Media, Less So. (Gift Article)
The showdown over President Trump’s partial media ban played out as he welcomed President Xi Jinping, whose government is ranked among the most repressive in the world.
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Brian Straw @brianstraw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The U.S. Attorney has repeatedly tried to disclaim any knowledge of what was happening in the Broadview 6 case. Today, the AUSA who presented the case to the Grand Jury resigned from the office and filed a brief making clear that "the Front Office [was] informed of all developments in the case."
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. #Nevada #VotingRights #ConspiracyTheories
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle (Gift Article)
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 23/09/2026
Another door closes on would-be homebuyers: US fixed 30-year mortgage rate jumps to 7.12%, MBA says | Reuters #HousingAffordability #MortgageRates #Economy www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
so i may be out of my depth here but hes at 30% approval, you elites can stop capitulating now
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MS NOW @ms.now · 22/09/2026
Pro-Trump ‘Freedom Fest’ featuring Kid Rock canceled after poor VIP sales
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Pro-Trump ‘Freedom Fest’ featuring Kid Rock canceled after poor VIP sales
Organizer Eric Deters said he was counting on rich associates to buy $1,000 passes to offset costs. Only six VIP tickets were sold, he said.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 22/09/2026
From Flock Safety to Flop Sweat #Flock
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Flock Safety Says Business Is Strong. It Is Still Offering Employees Buyouts
As more cities and towns pull the plug on Flock's license plate-reading cameras, the $8 billion startup is offering golden handshakes that may amount to tens of thousands of dollars.
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 22/09/2026
thebulwark.com
Trump’s Latest Meltdown Is a Dead Giveaway: He’s Rattled (w/ Andrew Egger)
As Trump’s war of choice continues to expand in the Middle East, it’s clear that the president is desperate not to show how weak he really is.
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 22/09/2026
thebulwark.com
Obama’s Top Economist Has a Warning for the Country (w/ Jason Furman)
Catherine Rampell welcomes former Obama economic adviser Jason Furman to make sense of an economy that keeps confusing almost everyone.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/09/2026
This year, we've had the most measles-related deaths in three decades.
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RFK Jr.’s ‘Medical Freedom’ Comes With a Body Count
Measles showed up at a children’s hospital. The health secretary showed up at an anti-vax conference.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This ad becomes more classic every time I think about. The war needs to end but it won’t because our president is an idiot. The prez I 100% support. But since it can’t end let’s do some idiotic thing which actually won’t help. I’m Mike Roger’s and I approve this message.
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John Adams @libertariandiary.com · 21/09/2026
"Canada’s potential relationship with the European Union, its shifting defense strategy, and what a more multipolar world could mean for the U.S."
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Canada’s Break With Trump Just Got MUCH Bigger
Welcome to the Receipts Podcast
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