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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3h

Just casually smearing a governor

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Mean Girl Bluffs Her Way Through Book Report

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Imagine thinking Congress should check and balance the powers of the President! Why, the framers never heard of such a thing!"

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American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

WATCH: Andy Harris has a crash out after his constituents laugh at him for trying to blame higher gas prices on... Democrats. "You are rude!" #MD01

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's really remarkable how in race after race, Republicans are saddled with the worst candidates imaginable - Paxton, Whatley, Husted, Rogers, Marshall, Moody, M. Collins, Graham... Some of them may win, but my god what a collection of losers, crooks, and dumbasses

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/10/2026

This is actually really striking. The Republican candidates are genuinely quite bad!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/10/2026

also, wasn’t the first knock against talarico that he slept around with too many women?

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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Down with the lives of underprivileged people. Up with my personal wealth and technofascism!" 🤦🏼‍♂️

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/10/2026

farritor and kliger are the two who i want to see in orange jumpsuits being hauled off to prison

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/10/2026

that’s right

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Dominic Holland @dominicholland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Note also that Trump was lying when he said that the US was continuing to share intelligence with Ukraine re ballistic missiles:

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 13/10/2026

This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Lewis also claims the footsoldiers had a certain type: white, middleclass, desperate to have Elon's attention. Many had been rejected from elite institutions and had a chip on their shoulder and enjoyed their sense of power over people who knew much more than they did.

The people who rallied to the cause and felt qualified to execute Elon Musk’s vision for the federal government shared certain qualities. They were mostly young white males. They were mostly from upper-middle-class or rich families. Most knew or pretended to know how to program a computer. Not all of them, but enough of them for there to be a pattern, had been rejected from the most selective colleges and universities and ended up feeling they’d been screwed by the admissions process. They landed at Penn instead of Princeton, or the University of Nebraska instead of Harvard, with a grievance that added to the foundation of their politics. They thought of themselves as the smartest people in the room and couldn’t understand why the rest of the room didn’t simply stand up and cheer. In Washington they borrowed from Elon Musk their status and sense of superiority. They also seemed to share his pleasure in the idea of people being afraid of them.

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

‘Elon is my prophet’: how Musk’s Doge team took a wrecking ball to Washington

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

4. DOGE officials were told datasharing under certain conditions was illegal. The most obvious is IRS data. Need an act of Congress to share. They did not care.

Everyone in the agency knew that its data was valuable. That was the reason for the strict laws that prevented it from being exploited for profit or political gain. “He said this in a way that he expected everyone to clap when he was done,” said Kathleen.

“No one said a word.” The people around the table – a group that included a woman who had worked at the IRS for 54 years, or 53 years and 50 weeks longer than Gavin Kliger – looked down, or away. Kathleen felt embarrassed for Gavin Kliger. But now it was clear what the meeting was about. Gavin wanted, in his words, “to explore how we can share our data with other agencies”.

Interestingly, he never once mentioned Ice or DHS. Instead, that week, he sought to share data with himself, by trying to access files detailing IRS contracts with outside consultants that also contained taxpayer information. Kathleen denied him access.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

3. DOGE made false claims about employee performance in order to fire them, but did not want to put their names to these emails. So they would coerce civil servants into doing so. If the civil servants refused, they were fired. (Not just DOGE, other Trump appointees like Kash Patel did this).

The revealing moments in the civil service were lonelier. They occurred inside people’s hearts and minds, and seldom leaked to the press. After his arrival at the IRS, one of Gavin Kliger’s first acts had been to demand that the agency fire its 6,700 probationary workers, who had yet to be granted civil service protection. By law they could be fired only for poor performance. Gavin had asked Traci DiMartini, in her capacity as head of human resources, to agree to put her name on an email to the mostly young employees telling them that they had failed at their jobs. The Doge people played this trick often. They’d use or try to use civil servants as a kind of ventriloquist dummy so that they, the Doge workers, could keep their names off official documents. But Traci took one look at the email, saw it was plainly a lie, and refused to have anything to do with it. The price of that single act of resistance was her job. Gavin didn’t have the authority to fire Traci, but his new acting commissioner did. “He asked Melanie to fire Traci, and Melanie did it,” said Kathleen.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

every single person involved in this needs to be gone after using every federal act and resource imaginable. Examples must be made that will be remembered for the next 500 years

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

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I Got Sunshine In A Bag @mjudd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I remember 2000. I remember knowing that the actions of the Supreme Court would lead to where we are right now, while hoping it wouldn’t come true. I remember the shocked faces of the Bushes when the fix was at risk. They were promised an outcome. SCOTUS had to step in to secure the fix.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

President Trump will soon hit the infamous Bush Line in the consolidated polls; the thing is you have make the MAGA project as generationally toxic as President Jimmy Carter.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

President Trump and the Republicans had a two year romp through every political fantasy nourished in their heart since The John Birch Society and Richard Nixon, and you know what: it turns out their ideas were bad and are tanking the economy.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Contrast this with the lack of serious punishment Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller got, whose conduct was far worse. Scheller then got a senior appointment in the Pentagon from Hegseth.

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

seems most references on ancient Roman world arrived fully formed shortly after the Capitoline Fasti, that gave a raft of dates and names to play around with, were dug up in 1546, judging by the raft of late 16c. publications. Many modern ideas date to Orsini 1577. Some strong many incredibly weak.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

bsky.app/profile/acyn...

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The fact that Trump insiders are trading on their information is of course not surprising, even as it is sickening. But if investors lose faith in the integrity of US financial markets we lose everything that makes us wealthy. This is a really BFD. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

October 10, 2026—reminder of how entangled the story of Ukraine is with the Russian-supported rise of Trumpism heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-10...

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So now, after more than a decade of pretending that he is not associated with Russia and that he would honor the U.S.

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I wonder what Rubio might have said about the Athenian democratic practice of ostrakismos

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Nazi Musk and repugnant MAGA influencers tried pushing a lie about James Talarico receiving psychiatric treatment at a certain facility and the facility confirmed that he was never a patient. Their smear campaign has failed spectacularly and he should sue them all for defamation.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It doesn't take a genius to see that Trump is corruptly using the presidency to stuff big bucks in his pockets.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is especially galling given how cavalier this administration has been about deploying the troops and how callous they've been about their well-being while they're there. Sailors are trying to commit suicide on the USS Abraham Lincoln as the Millers soak up benefits meant for the military.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

ICE has to be dismantled, with every single incident like this investigated and prosecuted.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm not a lawyer, but can the Talarico campaign sue these assholes for defamation? Or is the fact that he's a public figure spare them?

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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
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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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Greedy bastard.

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That Talarico story is debunked garbage, but it did its job in that it has already spread like wildfire to every moron with one working brain cell (40% of the electorate)

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

this was the conclusion of the Castillan crown while he was literally still fucking alive

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11/10/2026

If Congress doesn’t act, Social Security benefits are on track be cut in 2032. Not on my watch. We must protect Social Security by lifting the cap so that those with the highest incomes pay the same share as everyone else.

“Just take the cap off” Elizabeth Warren on removing the Social Security tax cap to make the highest earners pay their fair share.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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