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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If Other Jobs Were Like US Senator www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

It's time for your scheduled open-heart surgery. Unfortunately, no one has seen or heard from the surgeon in weeks, since the Incident. The nurse says that she spoke with him at length on a wide variety of important subjects and that he had never been more eloquent. "Will he be along shortly?" you ask.
"I hired him to perform a specific job, and I would like him to do that." The nurse is appalled by this disrespect for the doctors privacy. You lie there for several weeks, your chest flaps held open by clamps.

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Michael Daniels @mdaniels.me · 28/06/2026

That is correct, but the statements at issue (at least in one case) were found to be statements of fact at the TCPA stage. law.justia.com/cases/texas/... (pet. denied)

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Michael Daniels @mdaniels.me · 11/06/2026

(Links to all 3 dockets: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69653..., www.courtlistener.com/docket/69653..., www.courtlistener.com/docket/70892.... I RECAPped the fee applications in the last one.)

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Glenn Whiting v. City of Athens, TN, 24-5918 - CourtListener.com

Docket for Glenn Whiting v. City of Athens, TN, 24-5918 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

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Michael Daniels @mdaniels.me · 11/06/2026

Damn, they got off light ("only" $30k in fees). And you were right on the money: the (sealed) declaration of Irion (which the docket says was "re Inability to Pay"), per the court, is just "a conclusory statement that he cannot pay". storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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court order filed – #55, Att. #2 in Glenn Whiting v. City of Athens, TN (6th Cir., 25-5424) – CourtListener.com

ORDER filed: it is ORDERED that: 1. The motion to strike the appendix [46] is DENIED. 2. The motions for attorneys’ fees [42] [42] [44] are GRANTED. 3. Van Irion and Russ Egli shall jointly and severa...

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 01/06/2026

friend sends

dam labeled "may 31" holding back a rainbow

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 17/03/2026

A journalist filed a brief live blog entry on an apparent Iranian missile strike that hit no one and caused no serious damage. Next thing he knew, angry Polymarket users were demanding he change the story—and threatening his life and family if he refused. My story: wapo.st/4lI6Pon (gift link)

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A journalist reported a missile strike. Then came the death threats.

An Israeli war reporter says online gamblers demanded he change a published story so they could win a payout on prediction market Polymarket.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Grimly: we're in a Post Correspondence era

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

do not dodname his department, mike

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

You may think this Board of Peace thing is a way to pay Trump bribes, and it is, but because that’s not maximally stupid I think the actual purpose is to give Trump a Board of Peace Prize.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

warning! some snowflakes may be asymmetrical

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Michael Daniels @mdaniels.me · 12/01/2026

The end of the hearing...

Anything else for the Court before Mr. Johnson is
taken in?
MS. SANDERS: Briefly, Your Honor.
When it comes to the issue of answering questions at
the deposition, how would Mr. Johnson purge -- I mean, is
there going to be another deposition scheduled? Should he
provide notice that he's ready to sit for a deposition?
THE COURT: I think that Mr. Johnson will contact
someone and tell them when he's ready to answer the questions,
both at the deposition and the interrogatory and produce the
documents. If he's ready to do that, and he purges himself,
he can get out of jail.
MS. SANDERS: So providing notice?
THE COURT: Yeah.
DEFENDANT JOHNSON: Your Honor, if I may?
THE COURT: But again -- please stop.
He's refused your services, Ms. Sanders. So as far
as I'm concerned, there's no obligation for you ethically to
continue. It's up to him.

THE MARSHAL: Your Honor, Deputy Sanford. Can we
determine if he can pay that fee now or just take him to the
third floor, because that changes our risk assessment.
THE COURT: Okay. Thank you, Deputy.
Do you have a credit card?
DEFENDANT JOHNSON: I don't with the -- not money
for $1,000, I don't have it.
THE COURT: Okay. We'll take you in immediately,
and you'll also be held in contempt until you can purge
yourself of the $1,000 fine.
DEFENDANT JOHNSON: I can do both of that, if I can access a computer.

THE COURT: You're going to be taken in at this
time, and we'll see what you can do. It might be a good idea
to -- I know you're entitled to a phone call, you'll be told
what that process is, but you need to take efforts to purge
yourself of this contempt.
DEFENDANT JOHNSON: And do I purge myself when I
send the material to the receivers, or do I send it -- when I
send it to Mr. Thompson?
THE COURT: I'm not here to give you legal advice.
DEFENDANT JOHNSON: Okay.
THE COURT: You should have complied with my orders.
It's been nine months of this.
Thank you, deputies.
Okay. Thank you all. Stand in recess.
(Proceedings Adjourned)

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Not looking forward to the 2044 controversy about whether a Dem president handled the withdrawal from Venezuela right

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

no one asked for a sequel to the shitposting fire emblem triangle article but i wrote one anyway www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

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The year politics became brainrot

You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

“Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?” Pete Hegseth asked in 2024. It’s almost as if there were signs! bsky.app/profile/anna...

We never got an answer. Only more war.
More casualties. And no victory.
Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?
What if we treated the enemy the way they treated us? Would that not be an incentive for
the other side to reconsider their barbarism?
Hey, Al Qaeda: If you surrender, we might spare your life. If you do not, we will rip your arms off and feed them to hogs.
Makes me wonder, in 2024—if you want to win—how can anyone write universal rules about killing other people in open conflict?
Especially against enemies who fight like savages, disregarding human life in every single instance. Maybe, instead, we are just fighting with one hand behind our back—and the enemy knows it.
This is a big reason there hasn't been a war

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I kinda sniffed at the headline—suicidal teen commits suicide is tragic but not necessarily the machine’s fault— and then the article and especially the logs are so so much worse than I thought they would be.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2025

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

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Michael Daniels @mdaniels.me · 23/07/2025

Trump doesn't believe in consent.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I am so glad "why tariff banana" thought is reaching members of Congress. It's the most obvious example of how insane this administration's trade policy has been—officials like Lutnick can't give a good justification for it because there simply isn't one

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/05/2025

Do you think you can counter "you consider them men in sports contexts, how are they not men in bathroom contexts"? Because that is a logical haymaker Dems are sleepwalking right into. Argue the science, explain how transition works, please!

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Some women want love. Some seek power and money. Some seek attention and fame. Me? I just want to know who the administrator of DOGE really is. My manifesto, my magnum opus—“The WITAOD Chronicles”—is out now. ⬇️ 👇 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The WITAOD Chronicles
Anna Bower
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 4:06 PM
Share On: f X in $
One woman's maddening search for the head of a non-existent federal
agency.

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Michael Daniels @mdaniels.me · 29/05/2025

They did it last week! Request: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24... Roberts' order granting: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court... Docket: www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 06/12/2024

Korea's preeminent *conservative* paper of record exclusively reports that President Yoon ordered someone at the National Intelligence Service (Korean CIA) to arrest the head of his own party (who would later vote against martial law) and when the NIS man refused, ordered his dismissal.

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“‘정치인 체포’ 지시 받았다는 홍장원 1차장, 정치적 발언 문제돼 국정원 차원 인사 조치”

정치인 체포 지시 받았다는 홍장원 1차장, 정치적 발언 문제돼 국정원 차원 인사 조치 정보소식통 尹, 洪차장에 직접 전화로 지시

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Does anybody need millions of dollars worth of supplements?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

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The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy

The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 31/10/2024

Me, cheerfully opening that “origins” tab thinking it can’t be that bad and immediately getting hit with racism so intense my brain shorts out and I Kubrick-stare for a solid 20 seconds

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Better a hundred innocent men be lethally injected than two prosecutors be impugned

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

MAGA torn between glee at a Democrat being charged and horror at a cop being held accountable

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Anyway congrats to Glenn Kessler for at least fact-checking adults, as opposed to lying about what his sources told him about a ten-year-old rape victim. www.levernews.com/emails-raise...

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Emails Raise Questions About WaPo Fact Checker

The Post corrected Glenn Kessler’s column questioning reporting about a child rape victim, shortly after The Lever obtained emails showing inaccuracies.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

Roberts: wait Bruen says WHAT? Fuck fuck fuck I gotta stop voting on shit when I’m drunk. Okay. You can do this Johnny. You went to Harvard. Let’s parse our way out of this mess. Fuckin’ Thomas, I should have known better.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 17/06/2024

The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

Average American president has been convicted of .74 felonies

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 24/05/2024

Congress still won't stop automakers from selling your driving data to data brokers and insurance companies, but they want to make sure @elonjet.net can't tell you if Elon is flying to Texas.

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