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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/

A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Unlike Texas, VA maps approved by voters Unlike Texas, VA maps temporary Unlike Texas, VA maps only drawn in response to other states Unlike Texas, VA maps not racial gerrymander

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 19/01/2026

This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/01/2026

Good. Now please ask all Democratic senators to delete their X accounts and stop supporting a site that enables the creation and distribution of non-consensual sexual imagery of both adults and children. You must lead by example, @judiciarydems.senate.gov.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The article appears to be partly paywalled and I would encourage anyone who can afford it to subscribe, Slate's got a hell of a sale going right now and subscriptions are how they can afford to pay freelancers for articles like this one For my fellow brokies, though:

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You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.

What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This YouGov poll on ICE is really eye-opening. Public opinion has really swung against DHS/ICE and their terror regime. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/12/2025

not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

BREAKING: Judge Xinis orders ICE’s release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia “immediately.”

KILMAR ARMANDO
ABREGO GARCIA,
Petitioner,
v.
KRISTINOEM, et al.,
Respondents.
・・・・・
Civil Action No. 8:25-cv-02780-PX
ORDER
For the reasons stated in the foregoing Memorandum Opinion, it is this 1ith day of December, 2025, by the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, ORDERED that:
1. Petitioner Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's Petition for habeas corpus pursuant to 28
U.S.C. § 2241 at ECF No. 1 is hereby GRANTED;
2. Respondents SHALL release Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately;
3. Respondents SHALL notify Abrego Garcia's counsel of the exact time and location of his release no fewer than four hours prior to releasing him, and notify the Court of the status of Abrego Garcia's release by email to chambers no later than 5:00 p.m. today,
Thursday, December 11, 2025;
4. A representative of the United States Pretrial Services Office for this District SHALL
separately contact Abrego Garcia's criminal counsel with further instruction for
installation on the release conditions previously imposed in his criminal case, United
States v. Abrego Garcia, No. 3:25-CR-00115-1 (M.D. Tenn.); |
5. Respondents SHALL immediately transmit this Order and the accompanying
Case 8:25-cv-02780-PX|
Document 111
Filed 12/11/25
Page 2 of 2
Memorandum Opinion to all relevant officers, agents, and employees under their
control and who are involved in this matter and the pending criminal case, United States
v. Abrego Garcia, No. 3:25-CR-00115-1 (M.D. Tenn.);
6. Within a week of the date of this Order, by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 18,
2025, the parties SHALL submit a joint status report as to the parties' position regarding resolution of Respondents' pending motion to dissolve at ECF No. 72; and
7. The Clerk is DIRECTED to transmit a copy of this Order to all counsel of record.
December 11, 2025
Date
/s/
Paula Xinis
United States District Judge

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📺~CRT~📺 @crtvheadvt.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 05/12/2025

This is no different than refusing to allow Obama to appoint Garland to the Supreme Court because a new president would take office in ten months, and then confirming Barrett eight days before the 2020 election. There are no laws, no rules, no norms, only Calvinball.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted by a jury of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
ALEXANDRIA DIVISION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
V.
JAMES B. COMEY, JR.,
Defendant.
Criminal No. 1:25-cr-00272-MSN
OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT ECF NO. 60)
On September 25, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just days before, Ms.
Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging former FBI Director James B. Comey, Jr. with
making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding.
Mr. Comey now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole
prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28
U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Mr.
Comey that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to
present the indictment, I will grant Mr. Comey's motion and dismiss the indictment without
prejudice.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
NORFOLK DIVISION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
V.
LETITIA A. JAMES,
Criminal No. 2:25-cr-00122-JK W
Defendant.
OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT (ECE NO. 22)
On October 9, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just two weeks before, Ms.
Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging New York Attorney General Letitia James with
bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution.
Ms. James now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole
prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Ms.
James that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the
Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to
present the indictment, I will grant Ms. James's motion and dismiss the indictment without
prejudice.

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Ken Hughes @fatalpolitics.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Texas A&M Was Wrong to Fire Professor Over Gender Lesson, Panel Rules The firing put the school at the center of national debates over gender identity and academic freedom. A faculty panel ruled unanimously against the termination. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

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Texas A&M Was Wrong to Fire Professor Over Gender Lesson, Panel Rules

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👻Spooky Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 20/11/2025

*that signals Trump's desire to ban state AI laws

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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/11/2025

The death penalty grew out of this country’s brutal practice of lynching. When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative. No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/11/2025

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered public schools in Texas to remove displays of the Ten Commandments in their classrooms.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Here is the federal district court's 2–1 ruling, authored by a very conservative Trump appointee, striking down Texas' new Republican gerrymander on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against racial minorities. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a
role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows
that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map. Here’s why.
Earlier this year, President Trump began urging Texas to redraw its U.S. House map to
create five additional Republican seats. Lawmakers reportedly met that request to redistrict on
purely partisan grounds with apprehension. When the Governor announced his intent to call a
special legislative session, he didn’t even place redistricting on the legislative agenda.
But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict
congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board.
On July 7, Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice
(“DOJ”), sent a letter (“the DOJ Letter”) to the Governor and Attorney General of Texas making
the legally incorrect assertion that four congressional districts in Texas were “unconstitutional”
because they were “coalition districts”—majority-non-White districts in which no single racial
group constituted a 50% majority. In the letter, DOJ threatened legal action if Texas didn’t
immediately dismantle and redraw these districts—a threat based entirely on their racial makeup.
Notably, the DOJ Letter targeted only majority-non-White districts. Any mention of majorityWhite Democrat districts—which DOJ presumably would have also targeted if its aims were
partisan rather than racial—was conspicuously absent.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/11/2025

Massie: "I would remind my Republican colleagues who are decided how to vote, Donald Trump can protect you in red districts right now by giving you an endorsement, but by 2030, he's not gonna be the president and you will have voted to protect pedophiles if you don't vote to release those files."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.

25-125 DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL.
The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a
brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for
a writ of certiorari is denied.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

BREAKING: Following trial, Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, finds that Trump did not properly invoke federal law to call up the National Guard and "permanently enjoins Defendants’ orders to deploy federalized members of the National Guard to Oregon."

After analyzing these statutory provisions, as applied to the facts in this case, this Court arrives at the necessary conclusion that there was neither "a rebellion or danger of a rebellion"
nor was the President "unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States" in
Oregon when he ordered the federalization and deployment of the National Guard. 10 U.S.C.
§ 12406(2) (3).

The "precise standard" to demarcate the line past which conditions would satisfy the
statutory standard to deploy the military in the streets of American cities is ultimately a question
for a higher court to decide. Newsom, 141 F.4th at 1051. But based on this Court's application of Newsom to the factual findings at trial and the meaning of 10 U.S.C. § 12406 in light of history
and tradition, this Court finds that wherever this line precisely is, Defendants have failed to clear it. Therefore, for all the reasons stated below, this Court permanently enjoins Defendants' orders
to deploy federalized members of the National Guard to Oregon.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 07/11/2025

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Our friends at @cvilledems.bsky.social are holding a food and toiletries drive Saturday at Fry’s Spring Beach Club from 9am-12pm. Consider stopping by or making a donation to the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank via this link: give.brafb.org/give/508375/...

FOOD & TOLETRY
DRIVE
C'VILLE DEMS
9AM-12PM
SATURDAY NOV 8TH , 2025
FRY'S SPRING BEACH CLUB
Join the C'ville and Albemarle Dems for a food and tolietry drive benefiting the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank to help support families in the area impacted by the government shutdown. Come either park and deliver, or drive through and hand off donations.
Donation items needed: shelf-stable food items, deoderant, soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, feminine hygenine products, shampoo, conditioner, laundry detergent, lotion, diapers
If you are unable to attend, please consider donating via the QR code

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

On some level, the basic posture of some Dems (not all) is still fearful and tentative. Some seem afraid to say their big wins were driven even *partly* by Trump. Why? Say he's an unpopular and failing president who's wrecking the economy and that voters delivered him a resounding repudiation.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

AOC: We know that Donald Trump has not only been convicted of committing crimes, but that the supreme court has given him a blank check to continue to commit crimes while in office. So we cannot underestimate the threat and the danger of this moment. But we cannot respond to that with cowardice.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 31/10/2025

BREAKING: US judge permanently blocks Trump order requiring voters to prove citizenship reut.rs/49vlwXM

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this. But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/10/2025

Murphy: "Trump is refusing to negotiate because he likes the fact the govt is closed, bc he thinks he can exercise King-like powers. He can pay the employees who are loyal to him. This is a leader who is trying to transition our govt from a democracy to something much closer to a totalitarian state"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/10/2025

Kaine: "We can't do a deal with Trump then have him tear it up tmrw & start mass firings or canceling programs he doesn't like or ones that help blue states. We have to be sure that a deal is a deal ... thus far he's not been willing to even discuss a deal, much less guarantee he'll live by one."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

youtu.be

President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

But this guy is the grandson of an architect and the son of a lawyer...yet somehow he codes as working class...meanwhile LGBTQ ppl (ESPECIALLY trans) are working class, Black and Brown ppl are working class...and yet they're being asked to not take offense for the good of the (white) working class

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/10/2025

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

We now live in a world in which Marjorie Taylor Greene is willing to call out Donald Trump, but John Fetterman won’t. 2025 is weird as fuck.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

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Politico @politico.com · 20/10/2025

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

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Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 07/10/2025

Let me be clear: It’s ILLEGAL to deny federal workers back pay after a shutdown. There’s a 2019 law that guarantees it, but Trump is once again trying to break the law. You don’t get to punish people for doing their jobs just because you’re failing at yours.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 05/10/2025

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 06/10/2025

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

“Supreme Court will let Trump _______ _____ _____ _____ for now” (Mad Libs, 2025 Edition)

The Washington Jost
Democracy Dies in Darkness&
Supreme Court will let Trump end protected status for Venezuelans for
now
A federal judge had ruled on Sept. 5 that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi
L. Noem broke the law by revoking the temporary protected status of Venezuelan and Haitian immigrants.
Today at 5:16 p.m. EDT
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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I, a University Administrator, am very much interested in signing a vague agreement with someone who has persistently operated in bad faith, breaks agreements, and has dictatorial fantasies. #Satire

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2025

DOKOUPIL: Republicans says what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true-- ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out lie!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

When you recall that political reporters ran interference for Trump over his "opposition" to Project 2025, remember that even AT THAT TIME there was a hidden camera interview with Vought where he said that was bullshit and he didn't mean it. www.mediamatters.org/russ-vought/...

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In undercover interview, Project 2025 architect gets candid on the initiative’s radical goals and connections to Trump

In an undercover interview with reporters from the British non-profit organization Centre for Climate Reporting, Project 2025 architect and MAGA ally Russ Vought admitted to the project's strong ties ...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 02/10/2025

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

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Universities Must Reject Trump Admin 'Loyalty Oath' Compacts

The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities that court government favor in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological...

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