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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 4h
This is a big deal. DC fed judge says that DOJ's pursuit (and use) of the state voter files is unlawful, on a bunch of different grounds. And effectively confirms that for the 18 states that submitted files willingly, whoever collected the files at DOJ Civil Rights committed federal crimes.
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Memorandum & Opinion – #51 in COMMON CAUSE v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01352) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION re the 29 Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and the 32 Motion to Dismiss, or in the Alternative, for Summary Judgment. See the attached document for details. Signed by Judge Spark...
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 3h
This is clearly not acceptable
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David Schwartz @davidschwartz.bsky.social · 21h
Watch this. Josh Shapiro was asked about the death penalty at tonight's PA Gov debate. Instead of dodging his changed position, like most politicians would, he raised it himself and explained how he evolved after a talk with his son. This is a skill. You don't see that often.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 22h
If Judge Judy ever talked to me like that, I would lunge for that guard's gun so fast
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Still can't live stream Supreme Court oral arguments
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Navy SEALs testified to seeing Eddie Gallagher murder a schoolgirl for fun and he's a welcome guest at Mar a Lago. I don't give a shit about Hasan, I preferred having him rot in a cell forgotten than granting the martyrdom he wants but the context here is which murders Trump & Hegseth are a fan of.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 08/10/2026
He's a "mainstream" Republican.
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Fredo Fabrucci: The Poster's Poster™ @fredo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It is funny (in the joker way, as per usual) how so many people's lives were completely shattered over copyright trolling from companies who treated downloading a song as a capital offense but the moment they could make money on it themselves it instantly stopped being relevant
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is as clearly as I've seen this spelled out. If the PCSA smelled off to you but you didn't know quite why, this interview offers very lucid proof that you were correct. defector.com/an-antitrust...
What you're saying is, the antitrust exemptions in the NBA, MLB, NFL, etc. are allowed as a result of the collective bargaining process, whereas the PCSA seeks a similar exemption by circumventing the collective bargaining process. Is that correct?

Generally, yes. When we talk specifically about labor markets, all of the restraints that we see in labor markets of our professional sports leagues—the salary cap, the draft, the limits on player movement, every single one of them—to the extent that they're exempt from antitrust law, are the products of good-faith collective bargaining between the management group and the players group, and exist in a collective bargaining agreement that was reached through good-faith bargaining.

What is being proposed with the Protect College Sports Act is to establish the exact same types of labor restraints, specifically a salary cap, specifically a number of years of eligibility to compete in college sports, and specifically limits on transfers, but not to do so in collective bargaining where there are representatives in the room, on behalf of employer and employee, but rather through a legislative bill, which seems to be negotiated by a number of different constituent groups, none of which is a representative of the players in any meaningful sense, and absolutely none of which have been chosen and selected by the players as a union representative.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@Amtrak_CA

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson

@porkbelt

.@Amtrak_CA With all due respect, this is terrible advice for trains
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Judge Sorokin orders vindictive-selective prosecution discovery & disclosure of grand jury minutes for Ksenia Petrova, the frog embryo researcher. "Credible showing [she] was prosecuted due to her status as Harvard-affiliated researcher & J1 visa holder." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
They, in turn, reproduce under-oath statements made by a longtime customs
attorney in Petrova's federal habeas proceedings, which also concerned the events at issue in this
case. Doc. No. 45 at 13. The attorney had provided a sworn declaration attesting that, during his thirty-five-year career, he was not aware of any person having been prosecuted for smuggling without having been processed by customs officers for a "failure to declare" violation, nor could
he recall ever seeing smuggling charges brought for failing to declare a research sample
regardless of the traveler's willfulness. Id.; Doc. No. 67 at 22 (quoting same declaration). In the
circumstances presented, the foregoing suffices to satisfy Petrova's burden of supplying "some
evidence" of discriminatory effect as the relevant caselaw requires. The cited declaration
comprises a credible showing that Petrova was prosecuted due to her status as a Harvard-affiliated researcher and J-1 visa holder-
facts which "some evidence" before the Court also
shows placed her in the crosshairs of those presently controlling the Executive Branch. E.g., Doc. No. 67-2 (referencing visa and "educated individuals with a pedigree"); Doc. No. 67-4 at 5 (responding to "fake news" and mentioning Petrova's affiliation with Harvard); see also Doc.
No. 67 at 9-10 (describing context in which Petrova's case arose and actions targeting Harvard
and higher-education-related visa holders). The same declaration also credibly shows that other
travelers who have willfully failed to declare research samples or similar items but were not
Harvard-affiliated visa holders were not treated the same way.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you are arguing that there is no innocent [person of any nationality whatsoever] then you are making the case for genocide
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely wild story from the WSJ: Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her Senate confirmation hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she asked a Trump donor for $100,000 to pay an American Express bill—in a way that “wouldn’t leave a paper trail” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump admin has declined to invite election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to witness the midterms — meaning observers from the group won't be at a U.S. election for the first time in more than two decades.
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The Traveling Wilburys never even toured.. they should have been called The Studio Wilburys
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is devastating and also a remarkable instance of public leadership from a candidate. There is some indication here the assault was politically motivated, which is even more disturbing.
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Handy Devine 🇵🇸🏴 @almightybob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hemingway eat your heart out
r/legaladvice 1d ago u/Mooselet211
Toilet exploded
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Greg MacLennan @themaclennan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Did we all know this about Seymour Cassel?
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx told backers on a Zoom call last night that he doesn't regret slamming his wife into a door to teach her a lesson about self-defense. "I'd do it again," Marx said. Marx says she fake cried and physicality is just the nature of their relationship.
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Archdiocese of St. Louis sued the Trump administration on Monday, saying a Missouri jail holding ICE detainees keeps priests from hearing confessions or giving Communion. The jail proposed having a guard hand detainees a packaged host, which Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski called “sacrilegious.”
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Following Pope Leo XIV, St. Louis Archbishop Sues Trump’s ICE Over Sacraments for Detainees
A Missouri jail proposed that priests hand the Eucharist to a guard in a package. Archbishop Rozanski sued on Monday — two days after Cardinal Cupich demanded access to ICE detainees.
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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 06/10/2026
Honestly the amount these guys just straight up say "war is peace" and "ignorance is strength" is like "I know writers who use subtext" level
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/10/2026
The former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of “treasonous espionage,” including seeking to hand state secrets to foreign governments, in what could be the agency's worst security breach since the Cold War.
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Germany arrests former intelligence chief in espionage case
August Hanning is accused of selling state secrets to at least one foreign state. It could be the worst breach at the German foreign intelligence agency since the Cold War’s end.
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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jeremy Herbert
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@DDayFilms
[George Lucas, driving away from Taco Bell]
Beenba Rito
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 06/10/2026
A former FBI supervisor has come forward to allege that President Donald Trump pushed the bureau to investigate anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles after agents found no evidence they had committed a crime.
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Whistleblower Alleges the FBI Carried Out an Illegal Probe of ICE Protesters
The disclosure also alleges that personnel were diverted from investigations involving violent crime, drug trafficking and transnational criminal organizations.
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Brian @pithyremark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Michael Keaton’s performance in BEETLEJUICE is proof that sometimes “most acting” can be “best acting.”
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Brian @pithyremark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well, yeah, Republicans need to protect their natural environment.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Three elected Alabama public officials, all Republicans, were running a human trafficking ring. They were arrested and booked this weekend. weartv.com/news/local/a...
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Three Alabama officials among 17 arrested in Atmore undercover prostitution sting
ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Ala. -- Three public officials in Alabama were among the 17 people arrested Friday in a multi-day undercover prostitution sting in Escambia Cou
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Actually, a Stone Cold stunner on concrete wouldn’t involve forcibly plowing anyone’s head into anything, but rather driving their jaw into someone’s shoulder with such force that they recoiled and fell onto the concrete back-first, as any student of American culture would know.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Honestly don’t know how we continue functioning as a society with such a small number of people vacuuming up this much wealth. Basically the equivalent of the US defense budget was rerouted to 500 people in just the last nine months.
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Brian @pithyremark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Disney’s animated LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW.
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Headless Horseman
Alt: The Headless Horseman cackling as he reveals a sword and a flaming pumpkin
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
what an asshole
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
trump's pentagon: www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
these fucking ghouls should never know a day of peace for the rest of their lives
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am once again asking anyone who interviews Wes Anderson to please finally ask him about Showa Era Godzilla.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/10/2026
Wait. What? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ten...
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Ten Objects Around Your House That Are Actually Just Tilda Swinton Getting Lost in a Role
November 5, 2021 (her b-day) 1/13/23
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