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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Trump makes nice with Russia and whips up hatred of Canada and Europe. That's just what Putin wants.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."

In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026

Katie Zacharia makes Karoline Leavitt seem like Winston Churchill

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Shane Gillis was just telling JOKES." Yep, he was. That was what he finds funny, and now we understand him (and those who laugh) to be the sort of person who finds that sort of thing funny. What's being objected to isn't that he's being misunderstood; it's that he's being understood very well.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“The fact that we as a society have moved away from public executions would have mattered a lot for that earlier doctrinal understanding. That it wouldn’t mean nearly so much today is, in my view, a pretty telling indictment of #SCOTUS’s entirely recent jurisprudential shift.” Me on Nidal Hasan:

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257. Public Executions and the Eighth Amendment

The shift in the Court's Eighth Amendment jurisprudence would be a significant obstacle to litigation challenging the public execution of Nidal Hasan.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Amazing…and worth noting that Ella Langley untagged herself in Noem’s tweet

Screenshot on a black background. Kacey Musgraves (@KaceyMusgraves) writes, “I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it.” She quotes Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem): “I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day. And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico.” Below is James Talarico’s post: “Thank you for having me last night, Kacey Musgraves!” Two photos show Kacey Musgraves and James Talarico together at a concert: posing in the first, and facing one another as Musgraves holds a microphone in the second.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

How it’s going

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ricky Patel kidnapped Newark's Mayor because Todd Blanche and Kristi Noem told him to. Then lied to a judge in an arrest affidavit. There's no reason to assume the HSI Agents who targeted Omar did any different. emptywheel.net/2026/10/12/h...

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HSI Agents Ricky Patel, Ryan Ribner, Richard Berger, and Timothy Gerber All Made False Claims to Frame Democrats - emptywheel

There are at least 36 affidavits signed by HSI Agents -- like the goons who just searched Ilhan Omar's house -- who have made false claims to frame Democrats or other Trump opponents.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

So, with all of the engagement bait posts suddenly gone from my feed, it seems like the Russian interference effort is far more vast and layered than we knew. All of that ‘attention hijacking’ bullshit in our feeds had a purpose… 1/2

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 12/10/2026

presented w/o comment..

Cartoon depicting a person driving a car labeled "Russia," being offered fries by a figure in a McDonald's uniform saying, "Would you like Ukraine with that?

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Presidents use blind trusts so nobody has to wonder if the guy setting economic policy is trading on it Trump skipped that part —- Thousands of stock trades, nearly $2B in his pocket later Nothing like it in American history More on @cnn.com 👇 -TN

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If that had happened to me, I would have assumed I was being carjacked.

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What a strange story. California woman finds a man, allegedly drunk, sleeping on her lawn early in the morning & sends her dad out to move him. The man wakes up & allegedly assaults the (elderly) dad, who shoots him Turns out the man is off-duty ICE agent David Gonzalez abc7.com/story/off-du...

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Off-duty ICE agent shot after assaulting 72-year-old man and his daughter at Fresno home, police say

Authorities say a woman found the ICE agent sleeping on her front lawn.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 09/10/2026

Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

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Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russia agrees to supply diesel

Donald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 09/10/2026

Have they tried getting eight different collections agencies to harass him and judges from multiple counties to send notices to appear?

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The First Amendment wasn’t actually “first.” The original First Amendment was meant to ensure that the House of Representatives grew in loose proportion to the country. Instead, the House’s size hasn’t changed since 1911. Today’s “One First” on that history—and the problems a capped House creates:

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Bonus 256: The Original “First” Amendment

The only provision from the original Bill of Rights that was never adopted would've grown the House in proportion to the country. We should revisit it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

"Marshall, in short, believed that he was in a safe red seat, and that as long as he stapled himself to Trump’s orange carcass, he could win every primary, never lose his seat, and get fawning coverage whenever he trotted over to appear on Fox News."

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Roger Marshall is running an all time terrible campaign

Red state MAGAs aren’t equipped for real competition and accountability.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The economy baked a bigger pie then handed everyone a smaller fork. youtu.be/Cc21Z2WeWdU

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Here is your good news post of the morning.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Noem demanded personal control over all DHS contracts over $100K and should be held responsible for the waste and (likely) graft that followed, which conservatively ran into the hundreds of millions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

From what we know of Kristi Noem, the head of DHS at the time, she was focused on micromanaging some aspects of government operations. Not workforce planning, but — you guessed it — the flow of grants and contracts. Any contract worth more than $100,000 had to be personally signed by her. And some of that spending was pretty questionable, such as a $200 million ad campaign prominently featuring Noem. There was no competitive bidding process and Noem directed money to Republican firms with long-term personal and professional ties to her. (The fact that Noem had previously led a “Meth: We’re On It” campaign did not seem to stop anyone from questioning her public relations skills).

DHS also bought 11 empty warehouses that it said would serve as detention centers, overpaid for them, and has since sold seven of them. Apparently Noem told officials to buy the warehouses within 30 days, leading to a rushed acquisition process. After the DHS spent nearly $500 million via no-bid contracts on 10 jets, officially for deportations, the planes are mostly unused, or reserved to ferry Trump officials around. So more likely to be incompetence than corruption in this case.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In her last hours as DHS Secy, Noem's agency bought 5 planes from a donor at markups. In all, DHS gave $900M in contracts to that donor’s companies during her term. One plane had electronic bidets, 2 bedrooms, bar, wine chiller, a manta-ray skin table. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)

The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.

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Grizzled Shopkeep @grizzled-shopkeep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

OK let's bring out the guy or gal I'm campaigning for, now where are they, have they taken advantage of my 3.5 hour wandering speech to hide in a clothes hamper AGAIN

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In a filing yesterday in Kennedy Center case, Rep Beatty says defendants have “categorically refused" to provide ordered discovery on Trump’s threats to close or demolish the Center if his name doesn’t go back on the façade. … 1/2 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Perhaps most starkly, Defendants have categorically refused to respond to admissions regarding Plaintiff's Supplemental Authority, which addressed two separate threats by Chairman Trump to close or demolish the Kennedy Center if he was not adequately recognized.
Defendants objected and withheld a response on the basis that such information is outside the scope of discovery, despite this Court expressly authorizing discovery by minute order into that precise topic. On Defendants' telling, although "the information requested" is the " 'subject' of Plaintiff's Notice of Supplemental Authority and facially within the Court's minute order," it is not "related to the 'substance, justification, mechanics, and process' of the Board at its August and September meetings." This directly violates the Court's minute order which made crystal clear that this is a topic for discovery.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I say Democrats are fighting for a future for America's children this is what I mean. You might not have heard about it but the Sternberg is one of the most illustrious centers of paleontology in the United States. It needs to be available for the public to appreciate.

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Kansas Legislature's budget cuts compel Fort Hays State University to close Sternberg Museum • Kansas Reflector

Fort Hays State University, grappling with a $2.4 million state-ordered spending cut, will close the Sternberg Museum of Natural History.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

a woman standing next to Trump is now offering one of the more angry-sounding prayers I've ever heard

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

this guy can barely talk, folks

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Badwebis @badwebis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This new HGTV show sucks

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Things you say at a Hispanic Heritage event:

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026

I wholeheartedly support this I think he should show up and campaign personally with every republican senate candidate, make it really clear that there’s no daylight between them he can start with susan collins

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I do think they probably ran his texts through an LLM and it hallucinated crimes. That’s scary and bad and it’s funny they got caught, but imagine how many other times this happens on a day to day basis against people with no rights, let alone the ability to publicly humiliate the AI prosecutor.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

On today's brief, Hamilton has dropped off but Brett Shumate and Brantley Mayers continue. I think these lawyers should be remembered.

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Karen Gretsky @noregretsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@timmiller.bsky.social You were right about this being an effective ad.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/09/2026

The United States is deporting parents without their children, leaving babies behind in America, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. She spoke with the parents who don’t know if they’ll see their kids again, and the caretakers left to watch the children:

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The Babies Left Behind in America

The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.

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Cat Alyst 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 (they/them) @catalystmeow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Adamson said she wasn't offered water until around the five-hour mark of her detainment, and no one asked whether she needed to use the bathroom.” CBP is interrogating more and more travelers, claiming they're attempting to vote illegally. Fascists love to scapegoat. #USDemocracy #MomSky #CdnPoli

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Canadian citizen and U.S. permanent resident detained at border crossing, questioned for hours about voting | CBC News

Paige Adamson was on her way home from a birthday dinner in Tsawwassen, B.C., on Sept. 15 when she was stopped at the Point Roberts border crossing and questioned about voting for hours. Lawyers are r...

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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 28/09/2026

"Netanyahu asked the Emirati president to deny reports of their phone conversation as well as details concerning the events leading up to October 7 that could embarrass him, according to the sources. He also asked bin Zayed for what the source described as 'moral support.'"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.

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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe

ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This seems fine, I can’t think of any reasons why we might need counterterrorism expertise right now

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...

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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)

Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After dinner, if they're just hanging out, Xi can show him his stealth fighter parts collection.

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