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Likes his news like he likes his comedy: dry and underrated. Yes, I have lost it.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 8h
"The bulk of the increase stemmed directly from energy prices, which have shot higher this year because of the war with Iran". www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
nytimes.com
CPI Report Live Updates: Inflation Rose 3.7% in September as Fuel Prices Increased
The Consumer Price Index rose 3.7 percent in September from a year earlier, faster than a month earlier, as gas prices surged 34 percent.
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MR Mayday @mrmayday.bsky.social · 11h
Jesus Christ. What the fuck
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MR Mayday @mrmayday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
the cartoon lion movie had a good trailer. this will undoubtedly the trad caths somehow.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
🚨Holy crap! Ken Paxton partied on New Year’s Eve 2024 in Dubai with his girlfriend and two U.S. fugitives (Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail) charged in healthcare fraud/embezzlement schemes. Ahmed, a major donor, gave about $190,000 to Paxton’s campaign — including after his indictment.
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MR Mayday @mrmayday.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
oh the twitter people are going to be extra annoying today, aren't they?
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR A 14-DAY STAY UNDER SECTION 705 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Plaintiffs hereby move the Court to enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, for a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705.
Despite the Court's admonitions not to "get to a point where someone is telling me, from
the government, that it's too late, too many things have happened and now we are, like, moving
Case 1:26-cv-00477-ACR
Document 76
Filed 10/11/26
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forward and we can't, you know, stop the trains," Status Conf. Tr. ("Apr. 13 Tr.") at 18:15-19:10,
Apr. 13, 2026, Defendants have begun irreversible damage to East Potomac Golf Course. At
4:55 p.m. on Friday preceding the holiday weekend, Defendants announced their intent to
begin-barely 12 hours later—a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf
Course. Decl. of Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks,
National Park Service 920, ECF 74-1. Although they initially represented that their work would proceed in stages, Defendants in fact took down 529 trees on Saturday alone and have confirmed
to Plaintiffs that they intend to take down hundreds more.
Defendants' surprise tree-razing operation constitutes classic National Environmental
Policy Act segmentation: undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review of the entire
project. Defendants cannot circumvent their NEPA obligations in this manner. Delaware
Riverkeeper Network v. F.E.R.C., 753 F.3d 1304, 1313 (D.C. Cir. 2014).Therefore, and for the reasons explained in the Memorandum accompanying this Motion
and supporting exhibits, the Court should enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705, enjoining Defendants from any further tree felling at East Potomac Park. In addition, the
Court should order Defendants to provide the Court and Plaintiffs no less than three business days' written advance notice before any irreparable modification to any permanent forms or
features of East Potomac Park.
If the Court believes a hearing would be appropriate, Plaintiffs request a hearing on this
motion at the Court's first availability. At the parties' meet and confer on Sunday afternoon, Defendants represented that the tree-clearing operation would continue this week until
completed. Defendants indicated during the meet and confer that rain foreclosed any work on
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Sunday, and that the possibility of doing work on Monday depended on weather and the course's
condition. Depending on Defendants' plans, then, it is possible that no work will occur on
Monday.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.
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Opinion | The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real. This ABC lawyer just admitted it.
Anthony L. Fisher: ABC’s lawyer says the network is tempering its coverage of the government because of the administration’s threats.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trafficking kids. Don't think we can 'turn the page' on this shit @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social unless you think the government should be trafficking kids. Fucking monster. Just wanna let them get away with this
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 09/10/2026
Trump started a stupid & illegal war in Iran that has driven up diesel prices. Now he wants to bankroll Putin's illegal war against Ukraine by buying diesel from him.   One strategic disaster after the next. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Trump lifts sanctions on Russian diesel, suggests US may buy amid surging fuel prices
The move comes weeks ahead of the midterm elections.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
dropkick murphys fans not fuckin around
Girl wearing a shirt that says I.C.E. Can gargle my balls
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MR Mayday @mrmayday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ONCE AGAIN I AM, ON BENDED KNEES, BEGGING PEOPLE TO READ THIS ESSAY: yalereview.org/article/patr...
yalereview.org
Patricia J. Williams: “When AI Speaks for the Dead”
Patricia J. Williams on the shape-shifting nature of generative AI and its troubling commodification of the dead—in the courtroom and beyond
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MR Mayday @mrmayday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i like how in frozen anna is a total prick to her subjects and the writers tried to mitigate by tacking on a quiet "please" at the very end of her demands.
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest: I wrote about internal ICE reviews---now deleted from ICE's website---revealing new details medical neglect in detention centers. The reports contradict DHS' public statements both generally and specifically about in-custody deaths reason.com/2026/10/01/i...
According to the internal report on Blaise's death, "A mortality review committee (MRC) determined BTC did not provide Ms. BLAISE medical care within the safe limits of practice."

The MRC found that, after Blaise collapsed, "1) BTC health staff deviated from basic life support (BLS) protocols; 2) Health staff failed to initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), despite Ms. BLAISE's pulselessness; and 3) Health staff did not include Ms. BLAISE's vital signs with their documentation of the emergency response."

The mortality report contradicts the public report ICE published on Blaise's death, which claimed that staff called for emergency medical services (EMS) and "immediately began cardiopulmonary resuscitation" and "continued providing CPR until EMS personnel arrived."
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MR Mayday @mrmayday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Uhhh, the fuck?
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MR Mayday @mrmayday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Conservative Christians: we must steel ourselves with manly virtues. Also conservative Christians: the cartoon lion is being voiced by a lady and I feel personally attacked. All of Christianity may fall.
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MR Mayday @mrmayday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Mark @markwhittier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Solid exposé into Evangelical extremism in the U.S. including the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) that Pete Hegseth is aligned with. They see Satan and demons around every corner to do "spiritual warfare" against. It's full of anti-Muslim sentiment. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
The Demon Next Door
A growing number of charismatic Christians see themselves as waging a spiritual battle against the forces of Satan. Sometimes those forces are right across the street.
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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I worry about the soon-to-be former Trump regime officials who will likewise attempt to rehabilitate their image via media campaigns, "apology" book tours, etc. & that they will find outlets willing to help them try to bury their past roles in facilitating attacks on the foundations of the Republic.
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MR Mayday @mrmayday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And police departments wonder why people are opposed to these things?
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Patrick Meyers @pmeyers7.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The whole "I'm turning the arch and ballroom into a drone base" thing has literally nothing to do with actually turning either into a drone base (he won't) and everything to do with trying to make an end run around restrictions on building on fed property without Congressional approval.
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MR Mayday @mrmayday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I hate everything about this.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“.. With Saudi oil now blockaded, Americans are about to discover why maintaining stability in the Middle East and not handing it to a consortium of Russia and Iran was always important.” @jayinkyiv.bsky.social
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 11/09/2026
A bottle of Kool-Aid was then immediately provided to every audience member. This is yet another one of those serious-but-jokingly-worded loyalty tests. He is sincere in wanting his waning number of cultists to think of him as the greatest president ever.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
the best thing a new administration could do to cut Big Tech down to size is offer a bounty and immunity to employees who provide evidence of crimes committed by their bosses.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It is really time to sue on the ankle monitor policy: it was issued as interim guidance rather than a notice and comment rulemaking. It also likely violates the 5th Amendment Due Process Clause.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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herbie @squorch.com · 27/08/2026
median cop?
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MR Mayday @mrmayday.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
OH GOD DAMN IT.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Spoiled child Trump will smash things if he can’t get his own way.
nbcnews.com
Trump administration says it might demolish the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovations
The DOJ attorneys called the Kennedy Center “structurally unsound, fundamentally unsafe, and embarrassing to the Nation’s Capital.”
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...
local12.com
Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart
A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 22/08/2026
Nearly $1 billion of OUR tax dollars being spent on vanity projects. Meanwhile, we can’t trust the groceries we’re already struggling to afford aren't going to make us sick.
Headline 1: Trump's controversial White House renovations are nearing a $1 billion price tag, report estimates. The original cost for the renovations was estimated to be $200 million.
Headline 2: Cyclospora in lettuce, salmonella in eggs, Amy's Lentil Soup spoiling: Why are so many foods being recalled? Food recalls are not unusual, but there do seem to be more of them lately. And right now a few warnings are drawing a lot of headlines.
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Who needs Canada anyway, right? Right? "US Oil Refiners Face Import Squeeze From Biggest Foreign Seller" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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MR Mayday @mrmayday.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Underrated gem.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is what’s especially troubling about the current majority. I find Dobbs morally appalling in its consequences, but it does follow more or less coherently from a particular jurisprudential philosophy. But you can’t plausibly say that about many recent rulings, where approach serves outcome.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Videos are now circulating on Facebook showing ICE agents chase and detain people in Springfield, Ohio. Community members are saying the detained are Haitians. This was live: www.facebook.com/share/v/1D1K...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17/08/2026
it only takes a little exposure to realize that being an expert witness is an incredible grift, and as a result it attracts some of the laziest, most financially-motivated cynics imaginable
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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 17/08/2026
I guess they'll settle for this until they can make the cars snitch
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MR Mayday @mrmayday.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Very much for trans rights. Tom is right, though. There is a lot of education that needs to be had about trans folk to rural folk (not impossible!). That is a decade-plus project harmed by seasonal politics. Advocate for them, sure, but not at the expense of 1) affordability and 2) corruption.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
ICE has started its crackdown in Springfield, Ohio -- the town where JD Vance accused Haitians of eating dogs and cats. Residents reported "a caravan of vehicles" conducting raids. One unnamed neighbor "praised all the Haitians who live around him." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...
springfieldnewssun.com
Springfield Haitians in ICE custody following immigration enforcement
Several Haitians from Springfield are in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in the Butler County Jail following an apparent increase in enforcement after the official end of Temporary Protect...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
SCHWAB: “.. The labor force participation rate has given up all gains since February 2021.” #LFPR
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
…unexpected for whom?
Screenshot reading “US hiring slumps unexpectedly in a worrying sign for the economy”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
New from me: More than a trillion dollars flow through the federal government in grants. We have more and more evidence that the Trump administration has been directing those grants on purely partisan grounds, denying them to blue states. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...
donmoynihan.substack.com
Governing without Accountability
Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 04/08/2026
A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.
mediaite.com
60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals
Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I just don’t think Liz Cheney doing a couple campaign events cost Harris the election. People who are too on here already knew if they were or weren’t going to vote for her. Normies who aren’t either too online or political junkies did not decide based on this. This is vibes and cope.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
DOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
At least six of Ms. Rashid’s clients were barred from attending their own separation board hearings because they refused to cut their hair and appear in the uniform of their sex assigned at birth. One was a master sergeant in South Korea with 17 years of service who was allowed to testify by video, but only if she turned off her camera.

“I have gone to pretrial confinement hearings where somebody is so addicted to meth that they are throwing up on my shoes,” Ms. Rashid said. “They were allowed into their own hearing.”
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MR Mayday @mrmayday.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Handel is just okay and overdoes it on the choral.
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earend | making 🐻🛡️⚠️ @earend.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The "Jason figured it out meme" from the Goodplace, but the captions are:

LinkedIn figured it out?

LinkedIn?  This is a real low point.
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