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Piatto Delgatto

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h
A dual "Hatch Act found dead." / "Oh, they're really worried about South Carolina? They're so cooked." moment
The United States Department of Justice
October 7, 2026
Attorney General, U.S. Attorney to Host Roundtable on Violent Crime Reduction Efforts
****** MEDIA ADVISORY ******
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Todd Blanche will host a roundtable on Thursday, October 8 at
2:00 p.m. ET with U.S. Senator Darline Graham, U.S. Attorney Bryan P. Stirling for the District of South Carolina, and local law enforcement officials in Charleston, South Carolina. The roundtable will discuss efforts to reduce violent crime.
WHO:
• Attorney General Todd Blanche
• U.S. Senator Darline Graham
• U.S. Attorney Bryan P. Stirling for the District of South Carolina
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h
Meanwhile, over on X, the Secretary of Homeland Security is posting about "vandalizing the demographics of America," a phrase which is either a chilling suggestion of white nationalism from Mullin or just straight pablum which means nothing but sounds just fash enough to excite the faithful.
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“Vandalize the demographics of America” is either a chilling phrase suggesting that Mullin is a white nationalist or an absurdly meaningless bit of pablum  which ignores 250 years of the constantly shifting demographics of a nation of immigrants.

Underneath is a picture of Mullin with a quote "How do you turn a country from democracy to socialism? You have to change the demographics."
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 8h
BREAKING A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center's Trump-installed board to UNSEAL the 163-page report (with redactions) on the $250M+ renovation plan and two year closure. The Board also must unseal a related Powerpoint. Doc buff.ly/E6jyjGl
ORDERED that Plaintiff’s [74] Motion to Unseal is GRANTED IN PART. The Clerk of the Court shall unseal in full the [65-2] Delta PowerPoint. Defendants shall submit to Plaintiff and the Court any proposals for narrowly tailored redactions to the [65-1] JLL Plan, accompanied by particularized and substantial written justifications, no later than October 14, 2026. Plaintiff shall file any response to the proposed redactions no later than October 19, 2026. The Court will then review the proposals and rule by separate order.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h
Pretty clear that the Trump admin's "Civil Rights" department is actively seeking to force schools to segregate further and deny more Black students.
The Department’s investigation found that post-SFFA, UCLA Law’s application includes personal statements and essay prompts, which are designed to elicit information about race. And UCLA Law’s admissions staff instructed prospective applicants how to reveal their race in these sections of the application—during race-based recruitment efforts, such as its annual “Diversity Admissions Open House”.

The Department’s analysis revealed that UCLA Law rejected white and Asian applicants who had the same LSAT scores as admitted black and Hispanic applicants. Plainly, lower-scoring white and Asian applicants would have been admitted by UCLA Law if they were black or Hispanic. Further, in 2024 and 2025 (combined), half of the admitted black applicants had LSAT scores that were at or below 90% of the admitted white applicants.
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 10h
GOP consultants are falling over each other to make the most dire pronouncements about the party's midterms fate. “If the bottom continues falling out like it has been, this will be worse than 2006,” a nat'l GOP strategist says. Dems gained 31 seats in '06. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Desperate GOP Scrambles to Defend Once-Solid Red Seats
Worse Than 2006? Republican political consultants are practically falling over each other...
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 11h
Although @cnn.com & @politico.com have not yet sought to enjoin Trump’s ad hoc exclusion of them from Air Force One & the Oval Office, their reply brief in the White House press pass case signals that they likely will, & previews arguments they’ll make.… storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 1/3
Defendants have not announced nor provided notice of any
formal policy of restricting Plaintiffs' access to any particular area. And the factual record has continued to evolve, even since Plaintiffs' filing of their motion for a preliminary injunction,
because Defendants have persisted in unpredictably targeting Plaintiffs, including by recently excluding both CNN and POLITICO from Air Force One without explanation. Marsh Supp. Decl.
9 2; Reddy Supp. Decl. 1 3; Vigilante Supp. Decl. 9 3. Plaintiffs reserve all rights to seek further
relief if and when appropriate.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
DOJ hired these prosecutors: -A gambling exec turned conspiracy theorist podcaster -A guy found liable for selling fraudulent insurance leads -A guy who violated attorney-client privilege in a high-profile murder trial -A guy currently facing animal neglect charges www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
nytimes.com
Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 12h
Conservative Harvard Law prof @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social on Justice Alito: “[O]riginalism … is becoming a zombie creed that functions more as a shibboleth than as an actual guide to conservative constitutional decision making.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Zombie Originalism
Samuel Alito’s efforts to revamp the conservative legal philosophy reveal that a new movement is ascendant.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17h
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It Daily
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Got a weird one for you guys tonight www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Elon's fans erect 50-foot statue outside his company town
A studio promising "art so epic it will raise the birthrate" gifted a huge bronze Prometheus to Musk's Starbase.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Something is wrong with this guy’s wiring www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
When hecklers from the liberal group
Code Pink interrupted the Treasury secretary at a Washington restaurant in December and criticized the Trump
administration's economic sanctions policies, Bessent called them ignorant and erupted at the owner of the restaurant for not removing them.
According to the owner and also a nearby diner, Bessent spit in his own food before leaving
"When people legitimately question what he's doing he falls back on ad hominem attacks," said Myrow, the
managing partner at Beacon Policy
Advisors. "People want someone in that role who's less thin skinned and seen as almost boring."
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18h
I'd be such an asshole to warlocks if I was a wizard. That's cool that you sold your soul to learn magic, I just went to grad school and now can do everything you can, but everyone has their path.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They listened to me. There is now more chart.
Chart showing the daily sea surface temperature for the Nino region of the Pacific, with a red line for 2026 shooting off above every other year in record-setting territory, with the y axis now expanded upward somewhat to allow for the absurdly high temperature
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 18h
needed to visualize SCOTUS ideologies ... Claude 1.1-shotted this with a screenshot of variable names (I had to fix the macro for titling size options)
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20h
I've been meaning to do a post, but all these pressers violate DOJ's pre-election rules, which Todd Blanche swore were sacrosanct when he represented someone charged over a year before an election.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
lol like no matter HOW you slice it, this is objectively ridiculous. One person has majority control over two MAJOR news broadcasts and nearly ALL entertainment streams, including children programming, globally. ONE person. A single human being.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Attys for Olympian & exonerated Reflecting Pool defendant David Hearn write 25-page letter to Inspector Generals of DOJ and Dept of Interior seeking investigation of circumstances of Hearn's arrest, detention & indictment. ... 1/2 www.democracydefendersfund.org/wp-content/u...
Request for Concurrent Inspector General Investigations into the Events Surrounding the Arrest and Prosecution of David Carter Hearn, Case No.
2026, CF2 010237, Superior Court of the District of Columbia (2026)
Dear Mr. Berthiaume and Ms. Brzymialkiewicz:
We write to request that the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General
("DOJ OIG") and the Department of the Interior Office of Inspector General ("DOI OIG") promptly undertake coordinated, independent investigations into:
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The president would not only be likely committing a crime but inducing voters to commit a crime. "If payments were in fact made, voters who had made their decision 'in consideration' of receiving such funds might also face [criminal] exposure under Section 597."
justsecurity.org
Auctioning Democracy: Trump’s Promise of a $5,000 “Dividend”
Trump's pledge to pay $5,000 to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of Congress could violate federal criminal law.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A few weeks ago, US Citizenship and Immigration Services released quarterly data on the legal immigration system through June. The data presents a stark picture of an agency going through a period of total dysfunction. As of June, net application backlogs have risen by 80% since Trump took office.
Chart showing total net USCIS immigration application backlog, from Q4 Fiscal Year 2023 through Q3 Fiscal Year 2026. The data shows backlogs were slowly dropping from net 4.3 million applications in Q4 FY 2023 to 3.8 million in Q3 FY 2024, after which applications began to rise again, increasingly every single month until Q3 FY 2026, where they stand at 7.7 million.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Alexa @alexakoenig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And for our full report, with a foreword by a former immigration judge, who became a first-hand witness to the cruelty and potential illegality of this program: humanrights.berkeley.edu/architecture...
humanrights.berkeley.edu
The Architecture of Cruelty — U.S. third-country removal agreements, 2025–2026
Since January 2025 the United States has concluded third-country removal and asylum-cooperation agreements with 35 countries. A Berkeley Human Rights Center investigation into what the paperwork says ...
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SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Polish government destroys Russia's paid influencer Tucker Carlson for his promotion of the idea that Europe should've surrendered to the Nazis in the same way Tucker has surrendered to Russian money.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 06/10/2026
The Ebola virus is spreading to new parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo and exhausted health workers can't keep up. Read more: bloom.bg/3Vv0nYW 📷: Daniel Buuma/Getty Images
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Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalob...
Biggus dickus
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 05/10/2026
The coin has features a small emblem with a horse’s head emblazoned over crossed swords and the phrase “NE QUIS EFFUGIAT,” which is Latin for “So that no one will escape.”
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Chilling ICE Challenge Coin Features a Slogan About ‘Hunting’ Humans
Editor’s note: Nicole is taking some much-deserved time off around her birthday...
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This proves only two things. The Ukrainian campaign against Russian refineries is causing serious damage. Putin has asked Trump to help him out and the US president obliged.
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Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lol, they're robbing Peter to pay Paul
Federal action on dyed diesel could help reduce prices for freight truck drivers and others who operate on-road vehicles but would do little for farmers and construction equipment drivers who already have access to the tax-exempt fuel, Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for fuel price tracking website GasBuddy, said last week.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New Fox poll shows Trump coalition collapsing in Texas. GOP is sinking money into Iowa and Kansas. The horrors of Late-Stage Trumpism are creating space for a new anti-corruption, anti-cruelty politics to emerge. On the pod, @aselrod.bsky.social is brilliant on this: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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Fox Drops Brutal Poll on Trump as Leaks Reveal MAGA Panic: “Wake Up!”
As the Trump-GOP position worsens, political theorist explains why Trump-MAGA’s corrupt and depraved misrule has created space for a new, values-based liberal-Democratic politics to emerge.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
sadly the huge leaps forward in machine translation are likely to deprive us of such reliable gems as "dry" and "fuck" in Chinese using the same simplified character or my all-time favorite "Racist Park" (which was also an accurate description of the park, as it happened)
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Dustin Du Cane @dustinducane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
These are the tactics my grandpa’s couriers used to distribute resistance materials under Nazis
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The latest ICE arrest wave targets ppl with "withholding of removal," a status that means an immigration deemed they'd be in danger if deported to their home countries. The Trump admin is now pushing to deport them to third countries. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/05/t...
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'But I'm Not From Ghana': ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country Deportation
Immigrants with protected status who've lived in the city for decades are finding themselves swept up, shackled and threatened with expulsion.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 05/10/2026
insane that he keeps doubling down on this -- and on the conditional in particular, which polls terribly www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-27...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026
I find this claim, which is now common in right-wing ed discourse, really astonishing. It rests at the core of the post-truth vision of "viewpoint diversity": we should not teach the conclusions that research shows to be correct; rather, we should validate empirically discredited ideas just because.
Fostering this civic orientation does not mean teaching students the “right” way to think or act
according to a preferred political or moral perspective. A transformative education is premised
on developing sound judgment, not on delivering correct conclusions.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gotta say until you read the actual motion it's not clear just how rabid the Greens' positioning is. The motion calls for the end of the State of Israel.
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every South American election recently has basically been: Jesús Marx Bonaventura de Corruption (Alliance to Not Kill Puppies): 48.9% Pedro Sanchez-Hitler (Reform): 50.01% Geraldo Demonslayer (Bitcoin Liberation Front): 1%
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 05/10/2026
Bolsonaro surged to a surprise lead over Lula in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, making him the overwhelming favorite to win the runoff and take Latin America’s heavyweight nation sharply to the right. Read more: bloom.bg/4djzRYx 📷: Arthur Menescal/Bloomberg
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin
Elon Musk, douchy and doughy and pale
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 04/10/2026
Come on
Hegseth cosplaying a NaziJudgement scene from Wolfeinstein.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AfD Youth is posting about unification of German people. Belive them, when they say who they are. Not far right, not nazi like but actually exactly like nazis. P.S And yes, they are Putins favorite party in Germany
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Interesting thing about this is not just does it have an obviously Nazi-influenced aesthetic, but look at the colors. All of the colors are washed out and slightly grey-toned, because the color palette is based on poor-quality color photo film from the 30's and 40's. It didn't really look like that.
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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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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is actually a good story by the New York Times' Peter Baker. But as usual, the editors ran it through their Euphemism Desk so the headline talks about Trump "moving ethical lines" instead of saying flat-out that the president is deeply corrupt and is putting your money in his pocket.
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How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits (Gift Article)
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I understand the purpose of this, but it seems like a bad idea on balance. blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...
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Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy
arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
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Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kansas. GOP feels like it needs to shore up the *Kansas* senate race.
As Prospects Dim, G.O.P. Pulls Money Out of North Carolina Senate Race
As the Republicans try to hold their majority, the Senate Leadership Fund is diverting resources to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party.
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Antigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
People don’t realize how serious the situation is.
A graph showing number of Germanies over time. Losing one on October 3rd 1990 means by projection we are only decades before reaching -1 Germany in 2072
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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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