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Individual Rights advocate; Democrat; happily married out California resident.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1h
Gas prices are basically the only economic measure that people track on a near-daily basis. And right now they are significantly worse than when Biden was facing the 2022 midterms — and particularly in several states with close Senate elections. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4h
NEWS: A unanimous 11th Circuit just REFUSED to halt sanctions stemming from Trump’s $1.8 billion insurrectionist “slush fund” saga
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Trump Loses Bid to Freeze Sanctions Over His IRS Scheme
A unanimous Eleventh Circuit panel left Judge Kathleen Williams free to enforce restrictions born from her finding that Trump used a federal lawsuit to manufacture judicial legitimacy for an administr...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 4h
El Salvador continues to imprison ICE-Gestapo deportees from the US even after the major backlash of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case with quite a few people disappearing entirely. This would be called crimes against humanity. Every MAGA official who allowed these atrocities to happen should be jailed.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 5h
You’ll notice that the same American state media who attacked President Biden relentlessly over his age refuse to report on the orange felon illegally stealing millions of taxpayer dollars to fund campaign ads. They continue to deliberately fail democracy.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 6h
I think of Schlichter as the would be L Ron Hubbard of white nationalism. But a shittier writer.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 7h
Trump's DOJ has ignored court orders before. It may do it again. A judge ordered the administration to give notice before releasing federal voter eligibility lists. DOJ lawyers pushed back hard. If it doesn't comply, voters could be purged during the midterms: demdock.com/4rBk0u6
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h
WSJ Exclusive: The Trump admin used federal funds from the Department of Homeland Security to finance those controversial pro-Trump ads that started airing on TV. The taxpayer money used to fund the ads came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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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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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 7h
We should not let it slip by unnoted that Trump's effort to change "artificial intelligence" to "super intelligence" is profoundly dumb on so many levels it almost defies description. He is an arrogant nitwit.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 7h
The VERY conservative 11th Circuit unanimously refused to block the lower court's sanctions order against the DOJ in the Trump v IRS (that resulted in the slush fund) case.
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 7h
This photo is amazing (I guess props to Senator Kennedy for helping hold the incriminating evidence...)
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Impeach Trump ❤️🤍💙🌊 @potusvpotus.bsky.social · 8h
86 AGAINST SICKO PEDO POTUS! #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Trump #EpsteinFiles #POTUS
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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 7h
Justice upheld...
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It IS inconceivable...
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THIS:
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Theft of taxpayer funds already allocated for legitimate use.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h
Hegseth plans to axe a fifth of generals and admirals. It’s clear he’s planning to cause so much damage it won’t be repairable by whoever comes next.
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Hegseth to cut more generals, admirals in bid to remake military’s top ranks — The Washington Post
The defense secretary is expected to announce that the number of top officers will be reduced by as much as 20 percent, officials said.
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Voted for Hubie and Kamala @stef47.bsky.social · 8h
BRUTAL GAFFE It helps if your base does not know either of those words . www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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MAGA Media Is Trying to Spin Senator's Brutal Gaffe Into a Win
MAGA media is covering Eric Schmitt's gaffe during a hearing with Jack Smith as a win, claiming he caught the former special counsel in a lie.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h
A new White House rule would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives, including ones that help disabled Americans vote. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to restrict voting access.
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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 9h
The full DC Circuit is likely to rule against the Trump admin and allow Judge Boasberg to proceed with a contempt of court inquiry in the original Alien Enemies Act case, where more than 200 Venezuelans were sent to CECOT in violation of his court order. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-cri...
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A Critical Moment for the Rule of Law
This morning the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments...
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 9h
Elon Musk is so "done with politics" that he's sitting next to the president while the speaker of the House is forced to stand.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 9h
This is the compelling, moving, and no-brainer district court ruling the Supreme Court's six Trump acolytes just overturned. District court judges are routinely finding that Trump has violated the law. Then SCOTUS happens. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS AND ON PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT MURPHY, J. This case is about whether the Government may, without notice, deport a person to the wrong country, or a country where he is likely to be persecuted, or tortured, thereby depriving that person of the opportunity to seek protections to which he would be undisputedly entitled.  The Department of Homeland Security has adopted a policy whereby it may take people and drop them off in parts unknown—in so-called “third countries”—and, “as long as the Department doesn’t already know that there’s someone standing there waiting to shoot . . . that’s fine.”1 It is not fine, nor is it legal.  Congress made it “the policy of the United States not to expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country” where that “person would be in danger of being subjected to torture.”2  Congress decided that the Government “may not remove” someone to a country where her “life or freedom would be threatened” on account of her “race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”3  These are our laws, and it is with profound gratitude for the unbelievable luck of being born in the United States of America that this Court affirms these and our nation’s bedrock principle: that no “person” in this country may be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 10h
Before Trump things like that were just done as part of ordinary course of governance.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10h
Another prominent Trump loyalist working on the 'grand conspiracy' investigation into Trump's perceived political foes has abruptly left the probe. Election denier Kurt Olsen's departure follows the abrupt quitting of Trump ally Joe diGenova earlier this month.
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DOJ probe into Trump foes sees another prominent departure
Kurt Olsen, who previously worked as Trump’s election security czar, resigned from the so-called “grand conspiracy” investigation Monday.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11h
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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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 11h
The State Department's watchdog finds laws were broken when Kari Lake and Elon Musk silenced the Voice of America, ignoring reliable data and that their mistakes "severely diminished the nation’s ability" to counter disinformation and support democracy abroad. www.stateoig.gov/report/aud-a...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h
Incredible. The 11th Circuit, in a 3-0 opinion (two Obama appointees and one Trump 1.0 appointee), agrees that Trump and his lawyers have failed to rebut the judge's finding that the entire IRS settlement was collusive, highlighting that no other explanation for their conduct was even offered.
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The appellants mount two main attacks on the district
court’s speech-related sanction. First, they argue that the court
lacked a sufficient basis to find that the lawsuit and the settlement
were collusive and that Messrs. Brito and Epstein acted in bad faith.
Second, they contend that the sanction is a broad and impermissible gag order which constitutes a prior restraint and violates the
First Amendment. We conclude that the appellants have not made
a strong showing that they will succeed on either of these grounds.The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit and the settlement were not collusive. Given the record before us, the
appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court
committed clear error in its collusion and bad faith findings
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 11h
Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 12h
The White House is using funds meant to protect the country from terror attacks to illegally fund campaign commercials. Another flagrant example of how this administration’s rampant corruption and lawlessness hurt our national security.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 11h
Watchdog group Public Citizen files a formal FCC complaint about Trump's taxpayer-funded TV ads “Broadcasters may be held liable for airing any ad that is in violation of federal law. Federal law explicitly prohibits using appropriated public funds for government propaganda"
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h
They’re not defending Eric Schmitt so much as defending the conspiracy theory defense of Trump’s coup attempt. By mixing up sports teams when lying to discredit Jack Smith, Schmitt made an error that cannot stand: instantly disproven on something so easy to grasp that insinuation doesn’t work.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 11h
There was a moment when the US was taken over by enemies and criminals, the incompetent, the corrupt, and the malevolent. They control our government now and will use every means at their disposal, legal and illegal, to try to stop the rest of us from restoring law, order, and decency to US society.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 12h
Donald Trump incited a violent insurrection to reject the peaceful transfer of power & deny the people's will. He never should have been able to run again. GOP senators condemning Jack Smith for conducting a fact-based investigation as politics & worse are engaged in treachery of the worst order.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h
If you ever feel the need to make people laugh but can't think of a good joke, just say the words "Senator Eric Schmitt"
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
Darline Nordone (Graham) is an idiot. Gaslighting cooze using her late brother’s name to gain sympathy. I have no sympathy. She’s lying about the law. JACK: “Your brother was a patriot and would have likely been a witness in our case.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12h
KLOBUCHAR: I think that people should have their facts straight before they accuse someone of being a dirtbag, and not get the teams wrong. SCHMITT: I stand by that statement. KLOBUCHAR: Teams. You had the teams wrong, sir.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12h
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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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h
What makes this even funnier is that Axios published a piece earlier this morning portraying Eric Schmitt as a potential VP candidates in '28.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h
I think I'm getting the hang of this.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h
incredible content
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 13h
This partly reflects the broader social-media-driven nationalization of politics, whereby Schmitt thought he was going to get a profile boost from this. But it also reflects the personalistic control of Trump, whereby they know his attention is grabbed by Fox News sound bites.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 13h
Federal authorities tapped into a network of Flock automated license plate readers and surveillance cameras while trying to prosecute Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz last year, according to court records reviewed by the Reader. 🧵
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13h
Republicans don’t care about the people who beat Capitol police and threatened officials on January 6. They only care about their toll records. Even though none of them were charged. Why a bunch of assholes.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h
Trump’s new AI website believes he is the “former” president and acknowledges his criminal indictments
Screenshot of America.gov answering, “Has a president ever been criminally indicted? If so, who?” The response says former President Donald J. Trump has been criminally indicted and that no sitting president is shown in the cited sources as having been indicted. It cites Trump’s August 1, 2023 federal indictment on four counts related to conduct after the 2020 election, as well as Congressional Research Service information noting additional New York and Florida indictments.
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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 13h
So Senator Schmidt is touted as a new GOP "star" when he gets his facts wrong and accuses a career prosecutor of being a "dirt bag". That's the new GOP standard of excellence it seems.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020
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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 13h
Think of what can happen five weeks from today: Democrats can flip the House, win back the Senate, and end Trump’s agenda. That can only happen if you vote. Make your plan to vote on or before November 3 at IWillVote.com
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 14h
And Sen Amy Klobuchar just did a major fact check on Sen. Schmitt's accusations against Jack Smith.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 14h
Public Citizen files a complaint opposing the broadcasting of Trump’s ads as violating laws against taxpayer-funded propaganda. Full complaint buff.ly/kYCsKEW
Public Citizen urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and broadcasters individually, to end airing recent campaign commercials by President Trump and the White House that appear to be in breach of federal law. At least three campaign ads, paid for by taxpayer dollars, appear to violate the federal law against using taxpayer funds to finance propaganda (5 U.S.C. §3107) and related provisions of the appropriations laws as well as the Hatch Act (5 U.S.C. §7324).
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