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Thom Tillis: “I may be a bit of an odd duck here. But talking about weaponization, 8647 is probably not a reasonable case. One day maybe we can find someone accountable for this building being surrounded by thugs on January 6th.”

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TILLIS: is there anything you would have done differently? JACK: yes. One thing I was taught is you only do your talking in the courtroom. But if you stick to that, people can unfairly malign you and you can’t respond. But there are things being said that are untrue… 1/

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS

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Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is my favorite thing today. In second place is Senator Schmitt hoisting himself with his own petard during the Jack Smith hearing.

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The community in Alexandria, Louisiana, is calling for the cancelation of the new ICE facility for unaccompanied kids at England Airpark. Get loud for the kids. bsky.app/profile/anat...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23h

The Trump regime's new AI assistant confirmed Donald is a convicted felon, Biden won the 2020 election, and Trump is in the Epstein files before it stopped answering political questions.

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1. Garland had to sue for testimony of 14 critical witnesses w/o which there'd be no case. The court took a year to rule 2. Garland began investigating Trump when he got to DOJ. He did not wait 2 years 3. Twitter delayed the probe 4 months 4. The J6 cmte delayed it by another 2 months 5. SCOTUS

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22h

Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23h

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23h

WOOT!! Can't wait for this.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23h

Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "I will not be silenced by the continued threats of prosecution from the President or others."

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DougBlueWahoo 🦋💙✌️🌈🌊 @dougbluewahoo2.bsky.social · 22h

The American people have been denied justice for many years. The travesty with Donald Trump and his criminalityis beyond what any other country would allow within their own country. It’s time to take this scumbag Congress and administration out!

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Order In The Court: Shauntay Henderson Gavel

ALT: Order In The Court: Shauntay Henderson Gavel

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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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Wdstckdr🦋🇨🇦🇺🇸📎 (John) @wdstckdr.bsky.social · 22h

Karma is a bitch. Cornell 7 perp fired from job at Wells Fargo. 👍😎

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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 22h

Trump lawyers hit with new blow as judge accuses them of abusing system President Donald Trump’s legal team suffered a setback after a federal appeals court refused to pause sanctions imposed over his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.

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Trump lawyers hit with new blow as judge accuses them of abusing system

President Donald Trump’s legal team suffered a setback after a federal appeals court refused to pause sanctions imposed over his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

GOP candidate Brandon Herrera defended high CEO compensation and joined in on a podcast segment mocking renters. Herrera: “Did you really call me ‘renter’ with a hard ‘r’? It’s ‘renta’ to you. God damn!”

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Sam Bellamy @sambdesk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Update: "According to a Justice Department lawyer, Attorney General Todd Blanche has turned over to a federal judge unredacted handwritten FBI notes memorializing four interviews with a woman who alleges Donald Trump sexually and physically abused her when she was 13 to 15 years old."

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Trump DOJ Claims It Complied With Latest Epstein Order in Katie Phang Case

Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered Attorney General Todd Blanche to submit unredacted FBI notes and support disputed victim redactions, while a temporary appellate pause now blocks foreign-language file rev...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026

🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”

Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.

Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children

Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist

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Q: If Johnson called the House back, they would have to immediately vote on Whiskey Pete Hegseth impeachment and not long after vote on Epstein, right? www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Tomorrow's Trump-Johnson AI summit with top tech CEOs suddenly looks a lot more consequential than it did just 72 hours ago.

🤖 Why it matters: Speaker Mike Johnson's preferred solution on AI — to let the companies take the lead on hashing out their own guardrails — is colliding with evidence that they're struggling to control their own creations.

🔥 In the last three days alone:

Axios scooped that AI companies are probing tens of thousands of incidents from frontier AI, including "bypassing guardrails, creating message boards, escaping sandboxes, website hijacking, self-prompting or seeking to bypass monitors."
The state of Florida asked a court for a temporary injunction against OpenAI and ChatGPT, saying the company can't self-regulate.
AI pioneers warned that AI could self-improve so quickly that the "intelligence explosion" would leave governments and institutions without much time to respond.
⛔️ Zoom in: Johnson has rebuffed calls to bring the House back into session, arguing lawmakers don't have anything ready to pass, while warning against the dangers of overregulation.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DOJ is asking for a writ of mandamus against Nicholas Garaufis in NY for not fully dismissing the bribery case against Gautam Adani's co-conspirators that Trump was bribed to dismiss.

The Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis
United States District Court
Eastern District of New York
225 Cadman Plaza East
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Re: United States v. Gautam S. Adani et al.
Criminal Docket No. 24-433 (NGG)
“A party petitioning for a writ of mandamus or prohibition directed to a court … must also
provide a copy to the trial-court judge.” Fed. R. App. P. 21(a)(1). The attached petition for a writ of
mandamus was filed today at the Second Circuit.
/s/
R. TRENT MCCOTTER
Acting Deputy Attorney General

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SCOOP A Pentagon influencer called liberal women a "pestilence" who will end western civilization. He's also: • Praised dictators like Franco and Pinochet • Said people without kids should not be allowed vote • Called immigrants "semihuman savages" www.wired.com/story/a-pent...

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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization

Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.

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Tho I actually like this post better. IMO, one smart response to these ads is to taunt GOP MoCs that Trump is still sitting on mountains of $$ and instead using taxpayer dollars to remind voters what a corrupt asshole he is.

The inept White House political propagandists are using our money on government-sponsored campaign TV ads for the sinking GOP. The latest commercial tries to rally the dwindling MAGA base by reminding them that Trump once posed as a fighter against warmongers and a corrupt political establishment, but the recycled ad just sharply reminds everyone that the lying Trump is the war-maker-in-chief and presides over the most corrupt presidential administration in U.S. history. You can’t use our tax dollars to fool us.
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NEW: The Trump admin is airing *another* taxpayer-funded political ad, & this time, it's from his 2024 campaign.

Trump says in the ad: "We will demolish the deep state, expel the warmongers from our government... We will rout the fake news media..."

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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it.

Rep. Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin
This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
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The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox News.

It looks and sounds like a political spot and includes a disclaimer stating that it is paid for by the U.S. government.

The soundtrack: as images of Trump flash across the screen,

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One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

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Guy Baddis @guybaddis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reminds me of what Brad DeLong wrote: 1) Paul Krugman is always right. 2) If you think Paul Krugman is wrong, see rule number one. Krugman makes mistakes, but they are rare and usually quickly corrected.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.

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As old man Grassley talks about Tim Thibault, remember that Thibault was the guy who opened the investigation into Clinton Foundation based on Clinton Cash. Grassley claims he's a partisan Dem.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Chuck Grassley is useless old geezer but he does swear in witnesses, unlike many of his colleagues.

Jack Smith raising his hand to take the oath.

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Here’s a book you can read by its cover: as pressing a topic as we have and the most thoughtful and clear Supreme Court expert writing it. Will be indispensable.

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The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.

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This is the investigation where Trump was trying to tie the "Russia hoax" to the Mar a Lago search to overcome the Statute of Limitations, and where Judge Cannon was going to have to decide whether to let five fired FBI agents testify about Volume II of Jack Smith's report. 2/

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Trump 'grand conspiracy' case in crisis amid mass exit

BREAKING: At least six (I'm hearing 8) prosecutors - including Kurt Olsen - have QUIT the "Grand Conspiracy" case in Florida overseen by Judge Aileen Cannon. I know this is the Daily Mail, but there are well-placed sources. Waiting for more developments. www.dailymail.com/news/us-poli...

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Trump loyalist Kurt Olsen has resigned from the 'grand conspiracy' probe in Miami, along with at least six other prosecutors assigned to the investigation.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tread on me, daddy.

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A federal judge just blocked FEMA from withholding anti-terrorism funds from local governments that don't change how they run elections. It's the latest blow to Trump's attempts to rewrite election rules.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...

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DOGE vs. Civic Tech

As DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Girls are so emotional. They care more about the way they make people feel and the camaraderie than they do about winning.”

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Now would be a good time for @pallone.house.gov to send Fox a letter promising an investigation into why they accepted this ad and how much they got paid to run it.

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