Reposted by marajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21hthe belief among a wide swath of politicians and commentators that trump’s “they/them” ad won him the election has resulted in a bunch of people making very stupid choices about how to spend money and win support 661986153
Reposted by marajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21hthis guy gets it. your typical voter just does not care about this shit. does not mean that they support trans inclusion, it just means that it is incredibly low on the bottom of things they even think about. 873423418
Reposted by maraNanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The worst Ebola outbreak in the world is ongoing in the DRC and you’re not being informed about it in part because the reason it is spiralling is US politics. At least one person who was suffering from the disease crossed into Uganda by road and then flew from Kampala to Nairobi where he died. 1867377
Reposted by maraRachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It’s here!! Wild to have an actual copy of the book I spent 13 years on in my hands! If you want to preorder a copy of The Political Supreme Court, there’s still time before the official release date on October 27: a.co/d/08PThSrx. (Or uncpress.org/978146969713... if you’re avoiding Amazon) 1047783
Reposted by maraMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026there's an off-the-books slack channel started by centers for medicare and medicaid for tech companies to exchange ideas on making money off of AI tools that access all of your medical records. insane story i missed from last week.kffhealthnews.orgAI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room - KFF Health NewsA Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign... 191210566
Reposted by maraPaul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 13/10/2026This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady. 6041941199
Reposted by maraProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 13/10/2026President Trump and the Republicans had a two year romp through every political fantasy nourished in their heart since The John Birch Society and Richard Nixon, and you know what: it turns out their ideas were bad and are tanking the economy. 152006362
Reposted by maraProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 13/10/2026President Trump will soon hit the infamous Bush Line in the consolidated polls; the thing is you have make the MAGA project as generationally toxic as President Jimmy Carter. 71130143
Reposted by maraRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I think my favorite part of this is that LL's description of Clausewitzian theory isn't quite in line with what Clausewitz actually wrote, but in a way that makes it clear he's mixed what he read with his own understanding of life and politics in a really interesting way. 9101365
Reposted by maraRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849. 131250443
Reposted by maraKate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about why Supreme Court reform has to be at the top of any agenda for democratic repair www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Democrats Need a Plan for Supreme Court Reform. Here’s a Start. (Gift Article)Why Democrats must prioritize court reform. 701900467
Reposted by maralauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/10/2026twitter is a nicer and friendlier place than bluesky: false bluesky has some of the most aggressively hectoring, pedantic weirdos on the entire internet: true 784754341
mara @marajosefa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The relevance is that it's the same rhetoric? I don't understand what's unclear here. The observation isIsraelis have recreated antisemitism from first principles because of their commitment to Zionism, because it is an ethnonationalist ideology, and this is a logical outcome of ethnonationalism 1110
mara @marajosefa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"the rootless cosmopolitan Jew" is a specific 19th century pre-zionist - and i mean pre-1880s proto-zionist - stereotype of jews as nationless and therefore treacherous. it is most famous for its deployment in the soviet union. 4260
Reposted by maraJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If you understand that political antisemitism was not just the hatred of the Jew qua Jew, but an entire worldview in which the Jew stands in for border-crossing cosmopolitan ideologies that threaten the nation-state, then you understand why the Israeli right had to reinvent it from first principles. 161008219
Reposted by marajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now. 8961791102
Reposted by maraMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026the muslim hate in this country has become policy, but you don’t get 7,000 think pieces about how that makes american muslims feel. 111920261
mara @marajosefa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If I never have to see another Maoist rant about "the ZioNazi consensus" again like they're payed to be an asshole it will be too soon 080
mara @marajosefa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026i think they made the national discord server specifically as a glue trap for all the worst malsocialized people in the org. the closer you are to the most national-level active people, the harder it is to not get deranged 270
Reposted by maraJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli... 4524361024
Reposted by maraCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites 29676151155
Reposted by maraChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Note: What DOJ had to file tonight was in response to a request for a temporary restraining order. This is not a response to the complaint in whole; it is opposing the TRO request. However, the likelihood of success on the merits is a part of that and generally argued in the opposition brief. 113814
Reposted by maraChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026DOJ also argues that the plaintiffs lack standing, and if one plaintiff has standing, venue is improper in SDNY because he's in Alabama. (Again, not merits.) 116014
Reposted by maraChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026BREAKING: In responding to one of two lawsuits challenging the legality of the Trump-praising DHS propaganda ads, DOJ tonight does not defend the ads on the merits — instead arguing that the ads are set to end on Sunday, so there will be no irreparable harm. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 30636189
Reposted by maraKait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com · 11/10/2026I wasn’t aware it’s ok to commit crimes as long as you stop committing each individual crime at some point. 411123
Reposted by maraMei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence. 50168715529
Reposted by marageoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained 232417457
Reposted by marautopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 09/10/2026It’s not too late to stop this act.dsausa.org/s/5201.4I5PpGact.dsausa.orgJoin DSA. Become a member today.Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ... 015135
Reposted by maraJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq... 492780786
Reposted by maraJS @jsplaceholder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New America PAC mailer just dropped and I regret to report that I want the tshirt version 1331450156
Reposted by marajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026“Lynching” in the US is not a singular phenomenon. The lynching you are describing is a “racial terror” lynching. There were “public spectacle lynchings,” which have elements of the former but are not identical. There are also “legal lynchings” which were the summary use of capital punishment. 151860132
Reposted by marajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026a livestreamed execution is just a lynching 285103542012
Reposted by maraCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning 8140331017
Reposted by maraChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026No AI for kids. Full stop. 2245281913
Reposted by maraLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Other than an aside on the "white nationalism that has emerged out of the dark corners of the internet," (which she she pairs with the "excesses of work") Slade makes no mention of the role of race in the construction of the modern conservative movement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...nytimes.comOpinion | With Trump Flailing, Some Conservatives Are Having Second Thoughts About TrumpismWhat is the future of the conservative movement? 3569197
Reposted by maraFlying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The New Yorker Jesus Christ. Anyone who had even a word to say about Hunter Biden should be dropping their jaws over this. 171066346
Reposted by maraFlying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026For anyone who wasn’t able to search for the Kushner-NYer piece on their own. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comJared Kushner’s Dollar DiplomacyJared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth. 14912
Reposted by maraViolet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Another officer facing official misconduct charges has caused a man to become paranoid about being followed, per the alleged victim's attorney. “He has been stalking us for two years, I fear daily he is following myself and [my child],” another alleged victim wrote in a protective order petition. 34115
Reposted by marajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible 107106261803
mara @marajosefa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Bouie argued this once already and I hope to God LC picks up the torch calling for it 020
mara @marajosefa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026hold 1871 Klan hearings for ICEs victims today. Every night a week once a month every month, prime time. Any politician who calls for this now has my vote. Any who opposes: the opposite 1101
Reposted by maraJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler. 322953644
Reposted by maraAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison 7957031108
Reposted by maraJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...nytimes.comLucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south. 131708502
Reposted by maraProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026DOGE took over the pipes at Treasury and since that point, Russell Thurlow Vought has ignored the democratic instructions of the American People. He has got to go. 129539
Reposted by maraProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately. 261537420
![Plaintiffs’ motion also should be denied for the additional, independent reason that they
Case 1:26-cv-08882-JLR Document 37 Filed 10/10/26 Page 5 of 20
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lack standing.1
Plaintiffs assert standing under the “competitor advocate” theory, but they cannot
make the requisite showing that they compete “in the same arena with the party to whom the
government has bestowed the assertedly illegal benefit” so as to be “personally disadvantaged.” In
re U.S. Catholic Conference, 885 F.2d 1020, 1029 (2d Cir. 1989). Stated bluntly, the media
depictions of the President of which Plaintiffs complain do not “personally disadvantage” them
because they are not “personally compet[ing] in the same arena” with the party the media buys
purportedly benefit—President Trump. In addition, Plaintiffs acknowledge that their purported
injury is not redressable by this Court, demonstrating another reason why they lack standing.
Moreover, even if Plaintiffs could establish that Robert Hunter has standing, that would
not assist them because he resides in Alabama, the events relating to his alleged injury did not occur
in the Southern District of New York (“SDNY”), and Defendants do not reside in SDNY.
Accordingly, venue does not properly lie in SDNY for his claims. See 28 U.S.C. § 1391(e)(1);
Caremark Therapeutic Services v. Levitt, 405 F. Supp. 2d 454, 463-64 (S.D.N.Y. 2005)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreif44blqmfw4m6i2pwnvb3nm433zabzdyijhguva7habtlk2n7o2uq)
![PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
Plaintiffs' motion should be denied because the alleged improper final agency action of which they are complaining "run[ning] partisan political ads, funded by U.S. taxpayers," Plaintiffs' Brief in Support of Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Section 705 Stay (Pls. Br.") (ECF No. 26) at 1-will not continue past tomorrow, the date on which briefing on their motion for a TRO will close. As such, Plaintiffs cannot demonstrate that a TRO is necessary to prevent imminent irreparable harm to them from Defendants' future conduct.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreihqvmiha7aq2jy6p5ea6kq4chrwvyc3wy3crzc5vg4glimjj2pmdm)
