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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
💥 This order clearly reflects that a federal judge does NOT just believe what the Acting AG Todd Blanche represents and has ordered him to basically “prove it.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If you are the DOJ, it is unprecedented to lose 17 straight voting cases in 17 different courts without winning a single one. It's even more remarkable when 8 of them were decided by judges appointed by Trump. How long will the networks ignore this? How long will Trump?
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Indiana Capital Chronicle @indianacapitalchronicle.com · 20/07/2026
COMMENTARY: Let’s hope the Chicago Bears stay in Illinois
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Let’s hope the Chicago Bears stay in Illinois • Indiana Capital Chronicle
With the relocation of the Chicago Bears still haunting the Windy City, it’s perhaps useful to consider what’s in it for Hoosier taxpayers.
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ReadJack🇺🇸 @readjack.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I’m glad to see this perspective from the Indiana side
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The satellite that watches the eastern United States for storms went blind for 20 hours in July. NOAA cannot yet say why. Its backup sits weeks away from taking over. This is what a warning system looks like after the people who ran it were cut and its research arm marked for the axe.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Is it me or does this description of “the status quo for decades” bear zero resemblance with reality? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"
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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Odyssey is such a hit that apparently the author has already churned out a prequel called “The Iliad”? Typical Hollywood.
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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Buzz Aldrin is photographed by Neil Armstrong on the moon hours after Apollo 11 landed, 57 years ago tonight, July 20, 1969. 🇺🇸 It is believed 650,000,000 people were watching the landing on television. Buzz is now 96 years old
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Marcy Gall @marcygall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Demented don never gets anything right. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/inter...
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 16/07/2026
Canadian firefighters hauled ass to get down here when half of Los Angeles was on fire last year. What a characteristically classy way to repay that favor.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Do not fall for it. Trump has been laying the groundwork to justify massive interference in our midterms. It’s coming on Thursday. Don’t let him fool you.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
NEW: My response to Todd Blanche's intentional violations of a court order to turnover unredacted Epstein Files. The short of it: follow the damn law & pay a daily fine until you do. I'll give a detailed breakdown on my YouTube channel tomorrow morning! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Response to Order of the Court – #20 in PHANG v. BLANCHE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01417) – CourtListener.com
RESPONSE TO ORDER OF THE COURT re Order, filed by KATIE PHANG. (Attachments: # 1 Text of Proposed Order)(Ballou, Brendan) (Entered: 07/13/2026)
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Is it unusual for an incoming law school dean to be banned from federal court for a year? Asking for a friend (Florida International University) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/07/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge just nullified Trump’s $1.776 billion IRS “settlement,” ruling it had “no viable basis in law or fact,” finding there was never a real legal dispute, and referring Trump’s attorney to The Florida Bar for possible discipline.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Been trying to figure out what it reminds me of and it's "Main Street USA" at Disneyland. That's his aesthetic.
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Heather Mac @trvlinjunkie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
An incredible cover by Norwegian Jørgen Dahl Moe. Right down to the very last beautiful note. I think Bruce Springsteen would approve 100%. Hope he has heard this. I keep playing over and over. Enjoy!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/07/2026
CNBC: "We were expecting to start an interview with Elon Musk right now. We just got word he has to postpone ... SpaceX shares now trading down nearly 3% today."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/07/2026
SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.
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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I served this nation for 21 years under presidents of both parties. Six years ago today, I was forced to retire, following months of retaliation for a decision I made to defend our Constitution. I’ll always call out corruption, regardless of party — it’s the right thing to do.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Kasie Hunt asked Scott Jennings on live TV if McConnell would be willing to call in to CNN. The discomfort on Jennings’ face while he tried to bullshit his way around that answer was really something. Methinks we still aren’t getting the whole story.
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Me pretending to injure myself at work so they'll send me home.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Making it up as he goes. 77 million Americans voted for this dumbass.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Elsewhere, less tactful conservatives expressed directly what the dissenting justices chose to do in euphemism. Stephen Miller, who runs immigration policy for the Trump administration, told Fox News that “we have people from all over the world, from third-world nations, nations that on their own would have never invented the wheel, let alone modern technology, let alone medicine, let alone air travel.” He went on: “They can just come into the country, have a baby at a hospital paid for by you and me, and then that baby is automatically a citizen? That baby can sit on a jury when he turns 18 and sit in judgment of you and sit in judgment of me and sit in judgment of our loved ones? Can decide who our mayors are? Our governors are? Our presidents are?” Miller’s long-standing view is that what ruined America was the repeal of eugenics-inspired immigration restrictions that had banned immigration from Asia and Africa and from nations in Europe deemed to be composed of lesser white races.

There is very little difference between Miller’s position—if you come from a “Third World nation,” you are inferior—and that of antebellum Democrats and the opponents of the Fourteenth Amendment at the time it was adopted: American citizenship is degraded by having to share it with the biologically inferior. The justices are elite lawyers with the ability to obfuscate this project and ignore its aims, but the rest of us need not pretend. To put it bluntly, Miller’s objection, as articulated here, is not to birthright citizenship. It is to the idea that “all men are created equal.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Shapiro: When you have a president of the United States who is focused on making money for himself, that corruption leaves us all worse off because it means he’s picking favorites not based on what benefits the American people, but on what benefits him and his children.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Trump’s profiteering in office was once unimaginable in a democracy, particularly by a sitting American president. The Trump family’s earnings move him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...
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Trump’s Huge Windfall Has Few Known Global Precedents
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The main difference between Hunter Biden’s foreign dealings and the Trump projects is that the Trumps are brazenly open about theirs. “.. Americans, and especially his supporters, deserve better from this or any President.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Kash Patel failed to properly disclose a six-figure purchase of stock in a bitcoin-fueled business intelligence and mobile software company that has contracted with the Department of Justice, according to federal financial records reviewed by NOTUS.
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Kash Patel’s Late Stock Disclosure Raises STOCK Act Questions
The FBI director invested up to $250,000 in a bitcoin-fueled business intelligence company.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
FT: Joe Biden “made 13 transactions over four years.” In 2025 alone, “Trump made more than 22,000.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/9067...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/07/2026
NEW: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
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A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Justice Thomas’ & Justice Alito’s characterization of English common law as feudal as it was evolving from the seventeenth and into the eighteenth century is absurd and glosses over huge swaths of history. This is the same thing Wurman did. Its scattershot work, in addition to being patently wrong.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Jackson.
Such universalist appeals were a conscious choice. Yes,
Black Americans had suffered a singular wrong. And yes,
they had “‘fought and bled’” for the Union, paying a steep
price for their freedom.28 But the delegates did not rest on
these laurels. Rather, they drew upon the moral and political force of the universal principles that were already core
to the Nation’s identity.
That bears repeating: Freed Blacks did not advocate for
a unique set of rules that catered only to their situation.
Nor did they seek to advance their own position relative to,
or at the expense and exclusion of, other marginalized
groups.
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
5-4! Holy fucking shit, they got 4?
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Justice Jackson’s concurrence is dead on: “The distortion of historical facts—retellings that reimagine and repurpose past events to lend credence to misbegotten aims— may be an even greater threat."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
two things. first, always an irony that alito recapitulates the exact same arguments made against his immigrant forbearers. second, if this is all the 14th amendment did it would not have repudiated dred scott
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A year a half a ago, this professor made a plainly false statement that “an entire literature” existed— it didn’t—and then got multiple justices to buy into the historical fiction he backfilled, covering 800 years in a few weeks. A bastardized history, not in the search for truth, but for power.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
On Birthright Citizenship: “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” -Justice Ketanji Brown 💅💕
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is a decision that should be 9-0. Millions of American citizens cannot spend the next decades of their lives in constant suspense, wondering if an unlucky change in the judiciary will result in the revocation of their previously-unquestioned constitutional right to exist in this country.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The correct statement for Dems to give is this: It is a relief that the Court reaffirmed the foundational principle that anyone born in America is unquestionably American. But the close split on this simple constitutional question reveals a body corrupted beyond repair by authoritarian bullying.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
lol. lmao
Amendment’s guarantees are for only Black Americans and
those who fit their fought-and-bled-for-country, no-otherhomeland, domiciled mold. Post, at 1–3, 90.
That contention is ahistorical for the reasons laid out in
Part I, supra, and those explained in the Court’s opinion.
In my view, it is also difficult to square with the notion of a
“color-blind” Constitution, which has loomed large in the
Court’s Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
That's right.
During the ratification debates, Senator Cowan took aim
at the Roma people too, characterizing them as undeserving
of birthright citizenship because they “wander[ed] in
gangs,” “infest[ed] society,” and “impos[ed] upon the simple
and weak everywhere.”49 And again, Senator Conness dismissed Senator Cowan’s prejudices: “The only invasion of
Pennsylvania within my recollection was an invasion very
much worse and more disastrous to the State, and more to
be feared and more feared, than that of Gypsies. It was an
invasion of rebels [at Gettysburg].
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/06/2026
Everyone should be extremely concerned that birthright citizenship was 5-4 and not unanimous.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Those fools damn near wrecked the 14th Amendment and a lot of pseudo scholarship in the legal academy was used to nearly get there. Should be a badge of shame in a just world.
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Jimmy Malone @malonespeaking.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Unfortunately, politicians and sports broadcasters keep convincing gullible citizens that stadium deals are economic drivers for the region. We keep getting scammed. www.currentaffairs.org/news/taxpaye...
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Taxpayer-Funded Sports Stadiums Are a Massive Scam
With daily life getting more expensive for working-class people, why are sports owners still being handed subsidies for publicly-funded stadiums?
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I don’t think it’s hype, I think he has it in him to become a 2028 frontrunner. I wish there were some polling on what is numbers are among people who know who he is I think that’s what convinced me Obama could pull it off, back when Hillary was “inevitable” in 2006/7, but the Obama people kept…
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/06/2026
We found the vandal! It’s was Trump. They removed the nanobubblers for vanity reasons ahead of the UFC weigh in. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...
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How the Reflecting Pool Turned Green: Missing ‘Bubblers’ and a Rush Job
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🚨MORE OF THIS: Gov. JB Pritzker humiliates Donald Trump on LIVE TV: Pritzker: "Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes.” DAMN.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/06/2026
This is BANANAS. A 16-point lead on the generic ballot?! In a WALL STREET JOURNAL poll?! In 2018 when Dems netted 40 seats in the House, they led the generic ballot by 14.
Generic Ballot Poll, democrats lead republicans 51-35
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