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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 3h
Military-base housing is “reserved for military who have earned those quarters from fighting in wars and defending our country... They should not be used for people in the White House. It’s an abuse.” www.vanityfair.com/story/stephe...
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MAGA’s Petit Trianon? Katie and Stephen Miller’s House on a Military Base
From her house on a military base, Katie Miller treats Washington’s most powerful to cakes, farm animals, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs. "I can’t fucking stand her,” says one ally. But "Stephen Mil...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 3h
Feels like someone is out to get her. And I love that for her. The best is yet to come.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 3h
LOL Ukraine hit a Russian data center and Russian bot activity immediately dropped to practically zero. Elon is mad hahahahahaha
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 3h
Correction: they've hit THREE data centers :D
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 3h
DHS claims the man ran in front of their SUV. You be the judge.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 5h
LOL: Right wing media released a Jack Smith (Vol II) document showing he put a pen register on Susie Wiles' phone. He did that b/c Trump showed her a very highly classified document. Wonder if @knightcolumbia.org knows the White House violated Judge Cannon's order. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
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How the White House Manufactured a Narrative About a Trump Aide’s Call Logs
A release of selected records from the classified documents inquiry is a case study in how omitting context can create political ammunition.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 5h
Dear internet, This post is called sarcasm. What I mean here is that the defense budget is a scam because we have all the money in the world but continue to lose wars. Just like Trump's Casinos were fronts. Let me know if there's anything else you need explained today. ~AG
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6h
In a massive scientific breakthrough, we've brought together the top AI engines in the industry and poured tens of millions of dollars into them over the past 24 hours in an effort to solve the male loneliness epidemic. We just received their response: "Don't call women whores."
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6h
Hey, it's just comedy, right? Take a fucking joke, ladies. But don't joke about men. Don't mock men. Don't satirize men. Don't emasculate men. Don't laugh at men. Comedy is an art and free speech is paramount and people are too sensitive nowadays and also: don't ever, ever, ever laugh at men.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 7h
NEW: Fascist government criminally investigates the media. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...
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Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage
Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was examining whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 7h
Fucking hell: www.rawstory.com/ryan-mackenz...
TEXT:

One of the memes, sent by Julia Henke, a member of Armstrong's editorial staff at Polis Media, showed a photo of Black children excited over cotton candy alongside the caption "You mean I don't have to pick it and I can eat it?!"

Henke also shared an image of Hitler's face pasted over a black-and-white concentration camp photo, with a made-up quote reading "You can't hate Jews when there is no Jews." She followed up with another Hitler image captioned "You can't be racist if there is no other race."

According to the report, Henke once said she hoped to someday land a "federal judge position."
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When Kai “The stock market is not the economy” Ryssdal asked me if, at this moment, the stock market kinda is the economy, I thought it was a trap.
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The stock market isn’t the economy — except when maybe it is?
Households are increasingly invested in the stock market, and massive AI investment is boosting GDP.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now members of Congress are being denied the ability to see the damage at these bases because there's a coverup underway. There's a coverup underway to try to hide the cost of this war and the debacle it has caused in the region."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 7h
Sexual assault is so common that I have to assume any man who complains about it or blames victims is guilty of it. Anyone who uses one false accusation to question us. Anyone who asks why she didn't report or requires a criminal conviction. I just assume you're guilty.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 10h
Thank you for having me last night, Kacey Musgraves !
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 8h
ICE agent Brenden Cuni still has a job because he’s exactly the kind of person Stephen Miller wants. I’ll dig into his background at NOON PT on @meidastouch.com youtube.com/live/pV2vbKf...
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LIVE: ICE Agent from Bronx Shooting Just Had His PAST EXPOSED…
Brendan Cuni, the ICE agent who nearly shot a 5 year old in the Bro...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2026
Okay one more time. I was born in Akron. I’m a Cleveland fan. I’ve lived in San Diego for 30 years. I’m a Padres fan. I’m also a Suns fan because I spent ten years in Phoenix. HOPE THATS OKAY WITH YOU lol
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
BREAKING NYT: The Trump Justice Department is investigating whether the major television networks — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox — violated federal antitrust laws when the group briefly suspended their pooled coverage of Trump, according to six people with knowledge of the department's action.
nytimes.com
Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage
Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was looking into whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Anne @eaaube.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Please everyone 👇👇👇thanks
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/10/2026
Is that the Jacuzzi Bath Remodel lady?
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If you're a sailor who served aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on this recent deployment, and you want to get your story out there anonymously about your experience and how you and your shipmates were treated, send me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When all these tradwife influencers start pivoting away from their alt-right branding in the next few years, never forget they were on this fascist bandwagon to line their pockets at the expense of every other woman in this country.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10/10/2026
One day after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals came out against the Pentagon’s plan to livestream an execution, Pope Leo has published a tweet reiterating the Catholic Church’s opposition to the death penalty.
Pope Leo XIV • @Pontifex• •4h
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The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026
"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇
Collage of 12 Republican posts on X opposing Russian oil purchases, 2022–2026. Senate GOP, 7/28/26: "Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." Senate GOP, 7/14/26: backing Graham's bill to hold "major purchasers of Russian oil and gas accountable." House GOP, 3/8/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil. Biden is fueling Putin's war on Ukraine." Rep. Garret Graves, 3/8/22: calling on the administration "to ban Russian oil." House GOP, 3/7/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/4/22: "Stop buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/3/22: "sanction the oil and gas industry in Russia." House GOP, 3/2/22: "Instead of buying Russian oil..." Rep. Steve Scalise, 3/1/22: "stop financing Putin's war with Russian oil." Marco Rubio: "Stop importing Russian oil... That's the plan." Rubio, 3/9/22, on Russian oil imports. Peter Navarro, 6/24/23: India "buying up bargain-basement Russian oil."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/10/2026
Its the current Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution that’s the main problem.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 10/10/2026
11-3-26: Stain Removal
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Right after Justice Kennedy retired, #SCOTUS materially shifted its Eighth Amendment jurisprudence, moving away from a test tied to "evolving standards of decency," and toward a static assessment of what was cruel and unusual in 1791. That shift will matter a *lot* if there's a challenge in Hasan.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/10/2026
According to VPAP, twice as many Virginians have voted early at this point in the midterms than 2022. TWICE as many. www.vpap.org/elections/ea...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1) Putin doesn't have diesel to spare. 2) Diesel is cover for lifting sanctions. 3) Putin's statement sounds like he's offering an Iran escape hatch, which I've been predicting. 4) Half of the MASSIVE bribes Putin is offering now don't exist. 5) But he does mention security coop -- Kash.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Many stories of illegal detention (while still in active TPS status) and just brutal treatment in detention. People so brutalized that they ask to be deported— one man asked every week — but remained detained for 6 additional weeks! He could have been put on several previously deportation flights!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026
Regardless of the legality of posting armed national guard members at drop boxes, whether the boxes were open yet, or whether drop boxes qualify as polling sites under the law; the optics are what matter. Lawful or not, it’s overt, intentional voter suppression.
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MSW Media @mswmedia.com · 09/10/2026
Tabs get settled in the final episode of the season. We hope it isn't the final episode of the series. New #DiamondDames - A Ted Lasso podcast 💎💋with @muellershewrote.com & @charlotteclymer.bsky.social #MSWMedia Listen & follow: diamond-dames.simplecast.com/episodes/bei...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Prices would’ve DECLINED without the tariffs” 😕 The Trump Tax is real
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear lord. @hoppock.bsky.social is not kidding about this MESS of a decision. There are extensive typos throughout, it misstates the law multiple times, and makes sweeping decisions about global asylum procedures in a case in which none of that is necessary to decide the appeal.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A federal judge has sanctioned a DOJ attorney for accusing an ICE detainee's attorney of misconduct without any evidence. The punishment: Two hours of legal training about the "special role of US attorneys" and the need to support claims with evidence. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zelenskyy issues a statement responding to Trump’s deal with Putin to lift sanctions to purchase Russian oil and diesel.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There’s always a tweet
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Peter Navarro on a hot mic: "So, this shithead at the pool camera won't turn on the camera" (Shame C-SPAN didn't take more of this)
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Six months ago:
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026
A still from a video posted on IG by @brynodc.bsky.social Link: www.instagram.com/reel/DeQKdoK...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026
I’m confused by Christians who support the death penalty.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the Cornell Chi Phi fraternity members alleged to have gang raped "Jane Doe" is trying to get AG Letitia James disqualified from her role investigating what happened in October 2024. I explain his legal filing & why he’s unlikely to succeed at this point: youtu.be/rUlWY5XeuOM?...
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WOW! Cornell FRAT Member Tries To REMOVE NY AG Letitia James From Assault CASE!?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/10/2026
NEWS: Eight major U.S. allies—including Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—have issued a joint rebuke of the Trump regime’s sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court. They vow “unwavering support” for the ICC’s independence.
A vertical graphic on a white background displays an October 9, 2026, joint statement from the foreign ministers of Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The full statement, presented in black serif text, reaffirms unwavering support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), strongly opposes U.S. sanctions against the Court, warns of their impact on its work, staff, and families, and pledges continued support for international justice, accountability, and the rules-based international system.Marco Rubio, mouth agape, as he announces sweeping sanctions on the ICC to try to punish them for acknowledging Bibi Netanyahu’s war crimes
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026
ICC judge Navi Pillay worked on human rights violations in Rwanda and Myanmar, and more recently chaired the UN Commission that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza. She received the news while in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, and joked about sharing the prize with Trump.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
UPDATE: Judge April Perry denies the government's bid to keep all of this under seal — including the attorney's signature block. "The government has also publicly disclosed … that there is an OPR investigation in this case."
MINUTE entry before the Honorable April M. Perry: The Government's motion to seal 275 is denied. As already noted, the grand jury transcripts in this matter have already been made public - without any opposition from the Government. The Government has also publicly disclosed - in both court filings and open court - the fact that there is an OPR investigation in this case involving the prosecutors who were in the grand jury. See, e.g., Doc. 247 at 48-49. In addition to those two matters, the Government has also asked to seal the "Legal Principles" section of its motion, which sets forth basic principles of law, and the signature block of one of its attorneys. There is a presumption that materials that underpin a judicial decision are open to public inspection unless they meet very specific criteria. See Baxter Intern., Inc. v. Abbott Laboratories, 297 F.3d 544, 545 (7th Cir. 2002). No such criteria are present here. The Clerk of Court is directed to unseal 272 . Mailed notice. (jcc,) (Entered: 10/09/2026)
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