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Ms. Elise

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I'm vaguely an engineer and not vaguely a massive nerd. TERFs not welcome.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 9h
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 20h
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
wired.com
Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 09/10/2026
On Supreme Court term limits: Sen. Susan Collins: “Absolutely not. I’m sure that Troy wants to pack the court.” Troy Jackson: “I wouldn’t have to pack it if you didn’t put in Kavanaugh."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Jules @ds9official.singles · 23/09/2026
one thing about newsom is that once you notice his gul dukat vibe you can't unsee it
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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh my god. OH MY GOD. XD
Gul Dukat of Deep Space Nine gloweringGavin Newsome of California glowering.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026
By the way, I left this off because I thought it was already sufficient to communicate the scathe at issue, but the second page of this says "and look if y'all need me to beat your ass going into Thursday, I will sit in on the deposition by telephone, so help you God."
FYI: I will not be in chambers after 5 PM EDT on Wednesday. If there are privilege objections asserted after that hour, you will have to come back on Thursday morning at noon (9
AM PDT) so that I can rule on them. There will not be any deferred procedures for resolving privilege issues. At that point the deposition will be completed in my (telephonic) presence. I do not care if this does not accord with your schedule. My schedule has not been of any particular
interest to Ms. Freeman and her attorney up to now; my schedule controls now.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026
Can you imagine doing this when you have a pending motion to hold you accountable for multiplying proceedings with bad faith filings? And a pending show cause order? DO COUNSEL IN THIS CASE NOT LIKE MONEY AND/OR SELF RESPECT?
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026
I once again pour one out to the law clerk leaving on the 25th. Morituri te salutant.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026
"And if your question is shitty and frivolous WHICH IS SUSPECT IT WILL BE then I will sanction you for your stupid bullshit, perhaps even by rejecting your pro hac vic admission which would solve my problem with your stupid face."
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026
Anyway Judge McMahon's answer is "well if there's a problem, you fucking call me and give your shitty frivolous opinion to my face right then and there."
ORDER CONCERNING FREEMAN'S DEPOSITION
McMahon, J.:
My order requires no clarification. It is perfectly clear. Counsel for Ms. Freeman do not
get to set the rules.
Ms. Freeman will answer EVERY question that is put to her - whether or not the question
was asked previously.
If Ms. Freeman asserts attorney client privilege with respect to a question that was not
previously asked, you are to call my chambers immediately to obtain a ruling. If I have to rule on more than one frivolous attorney client privilege objection, there will be consequences, in the form of sanctions, adverse inferences, referrals to the court's Grievance
Committee with the possible revocation of pro hac vice admission to practice or admission to the Bar of this Court, and the possibility of a civil contempt holding. Please understand — this is not an idle threat. I am tired of this. I do not believe that Ms. Freeman's counsel is acting in good faith and I will not stand for being jerked around - and I am indeed being jerked around — in this
manner by any lawyer who practices before me.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026
I'm just adding this tiny little thing for the fuckery of it. To recap where we are: Lynne Freeman is getting deposed as to her ability to pay. She was already deposed once and her attorneys refused to let her answer questions without basis. The judge sent a SCATHING order threatening sanctions.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/09/2026
Hi everyone! The latest update from the Lynne Freeman circus has arrived. It's a terrible circus and it appears to have only one act (bad faith conduct), but it does keep going on and on. Lemme explain what the NEW bad faith conduct is.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why do we need ICE? Abolish ICE should be a litmus for any candidate moving forward.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm deleting most fundraising texts these days, but if you sent me one saying you had identified these consultants and promised never to work with them, I would give you the max
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Two ideas from this article resonate 1. The “rogue AI agent” hacking incidents are more failures of test design and oversight than examples of runaway AI. 2. Focus on existential risk helps distract from concrete harms happening now from government misuse to companies using AI against workers.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
this is federally mandated sexual harassment. it's forcing men to disclose personal info for the purposes of identifying supposed sexual failings. it's humiliating and is meant to be humiliating.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
No one is doing it on YouTube shorts like bow and arrow guy
How I didn't shoot my wife!
2.1M views 4w ago

And it’s him trying to do a William Tell shooting the apple thing on her
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
4/ ability to predict. This is at best sort of like evil D&D more than moral philosophy. And that's probably unfair to D&D.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
3/ people. And that's awful. And you should recoil at that. But the stupidity of the whole thing stands out more to me. It's not hard to "logical" arguments for doing terrible things or stupid things. But there's no "logical" argument based on a pretended future you know zero about and have zero ...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
2/ I know this sounds like a trash-talking dunk. But I'm unable to think this is anything other than a very accurate description. People focus in on the results of this framework which often, as above, comes up with ideas like the lives of rich people are more important than the lives of poor ...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The AI debate has forced me, somewhat agst my will, to grapple a bit more closely with the "longtermists", basically a movement or subculture of morons who propose novel forms of moral reasoning based on sci-fi ideas they imagine might happen hundreds, thousands or millions of years in the future.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
this isn’t a matter of bleeding heart morality vs. cold but effective politics. the political case for moving away from trans rights is, on its own terms, extremely weak.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i see a lot of debate around this issue that takes it for granted that supporting trans rights (especially in the sports context) will hurt you electorally. it’s worth highlighting that that’s just not what the data shows.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.
stringinamaze.net
Don't Surrender On Trans Rights
Many Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 16/09/2026
Scientist here: It is widely known inside science that this—top-down imposition of a research agenda—leads to mostly rote, boring, non-innovative work. Building an institute to do discovery science is hard: you hire young people, put them together, hope synergies arise and ideas fall out.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.
Worries about vaccination rates in dogs
As rabies seems to be spreading more in wildlife, veterinarians are especially worried about vaccine hesitancy spreading among pet owners, a dangerous trend that could lead to more dogs - and their owners
- becoming infected. A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in nationally representative
sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026
People get confused about the trans sports thing because at a glance it seems like a small issue that impacts a very small number of people and thus makes sense as a "reasonable" concession. But it isn't, because conceding that is accepting that a kid's trans identity is on some level fraudulent
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Any "compromise" on trans rights is both deeply wrong in itself and lays groundwork for worse. Sports bans? Segregate us from part of public life, establish legal grounds for further discrimination. Healthcare bans for trans kids? More trans kids die and trans healthcare as a whole is endangered.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/09/2026
Jesus Christ: after a recent ruling by the Eighth Circuit that allowed Act 372 to take effect, an Arkansas county has banned all children from checking out any books in the adult section, bringing home any DVDs, or using the self-checkout kiosk in its public libraries.
More recently in Craighead County — symbolically, at least, Ground Zero for the state’s attack on libraries, thanks to Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Jonesboro) — the library announced several changes to circulation as it relates to minors. In a Facebook post, the library listed a number of changes to library policies, including:

Minors are prohibited from using the self-checkout kiosks;
Children under 13 years old may only check out materials from the designated children’s collection, while minors age 13-17 can only check out from the children or teen sections;
Minors may not check out DVDs at all; and  
Minors are prohibited from entering or purchasing anything from the Friends of the Library Bookstore.
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Ms. Elise @mselise.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Spaceballs Assholes
Alt: Dark Helmet (the Darth Vader parody) from Spaceballs, the Movie (tm) asks "How many assholes we got on this ship anyhow?" and everyone in the room raises their hand. Of particular note, Dark Helmet is standing next to another man serving Spaceballs, the ruthless evil empire, wearing the Spaceballs evil empire space uniform for officers. The Spaceballs uniform for parody fascists is a nigh-dead ringer for the proposed Space Force dress uniform (except the parody from Spaceballs the evil empire looks better and less like a Nazi uniform than the proposed Space Force one, which is truly quite the accomplishment). This alt text is not licensed or endorsed as any official Spaceballs merchandise, sadly. I could use the money.
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't happen lmao. annoyed at this pervasive idea that extroverts (especially talkative people with ADHD, and especially people who aren't "supposed" to be loud, like for example women) are never punished for it
introverts are often told to socialize and talk more, while extroverts are rarely encouraged to shut the fuck up. - a post by someone
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@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Romancelandia, we are at war. Please send all vampires, monsters, and shape shifters to the front lines. Dragon riders prepare to take to the air. All witches and spell casters report to your genre generals. This is our first major Blue Sky call to arms. Grab your weapons. Time to kick some ass.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/09/2026
The thing to understand about romance is that romance will absolutely shank romance in a drive-by romance-on-romance shanking, but that just makes us very good at shanking, and there are so many of us that we have a lot of practice.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 05/09/2026
The thing is, they may not realise how many of the people affected are romance authors, and relatedly that we have a paramilitary wing.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Really love when taxpayer-financed armed agents of the Government see someone in mental distress threatening to commit suicide, then go "Challenge Accepted!" and do a homicide Cops are great
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.
captimes.com
UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In which @jamellebouie.net reveals the Secret Sauce of his punditry. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
weird how he can get flown back to his home country within days, yet everyone else in ICE custody rots in a hole for weeks or months until they get sent to whichever country has the most diseases in its prisons
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Amanda in Atlanta (she/her) @atlnewsgirl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Georgia folks: Check your voter registration here. Frequently. mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/ If you aren’t already, REGISTER TO VOTE! The registration deadline for the November 3 election is October 5. georgia.gov/register-vote
mvp.sos.ga.gov
GA My Voter Page
Use the Georgia My Voter Page (MVP) to check your voter registration status, find your polling location, view your county's early voting locations, review your sample ballot for upcoming elections, an...
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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This shit is why you can't separate continuing to financially support the Harry Potter IP (whether by buying the games, merch, watching the new TV show when its out) from the consequences of what JK Rowling does with that money She's become so stiflingly powerful that even private docs arent safe
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottomA nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Darth Vader praises Flock cameras: "This is what the Emperor needs. This technology will help us find the rebel scum and their hidden base on Hoth."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"The Emperor is a fan of Flock, and we must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum as they move from playground to playground... They are following children in parks and gymnasiums, and we need this. I need this so I can stalk my ex-girlfriend."
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