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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 29m

Here's Judge Edelman's full ruling dismissing *with prejudice* the case against Reflecting Pool defendant David Hearn because "no crime had been committed." www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Order dismissing case with prejudice United States v. David Hearn (2026 CF2 010237)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h

This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h

To stand-up claims of massive manufacturing investment in the US, Trump, Lutnick and top Alaskan officials announced a roughly $50bn investment by the South Korean government into an Alaska liquefied-natural-gas pipeline. When approached to confirm, the South Koreans said these claims were pure

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South Korea Contests U.S. Claims of New $50 Billion Alaska Investment

The Trump administration asserted this week that South Korea will fund an LNG pipeline, but Seoul is disputing the status of negotiations.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1. How has MAGA Inc. raised an unprecedented amount of money? Let’s review:

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible. The 11th Circuit, in a 3-0 opinion (two Obama appointees and one Trump 1.0 appointee), agrees that Trump and his lawyers have failed to rebut the judge's finding that the entire IRS settlement was collusive, highlighting that no other explanation for their conduct was even offered.

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The appellants mount two main attacks on the district
court’s speech-related sanction. First, they argue that the court
lacked a sufficient basis to find that the lawsuit and the settlement
were collusive and that Messrs. Brito and Epstein acted in bad faith.
Second, they contend that the sanction is a broad and impermissible gag order which constitutes a prior restraint and violates the
First Amendment. We conclude that the appellants have not made
a strong showing that they will succeed on either of these grounds.

The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit and the settlement were not collusive. Given the record before us, the
appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court
committed clear error in its collusion and bad faith findings

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William Snyder @profsnyder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't think this White House is run by the best and brightest. They not only misspelled "Unites States," they also proceeded to publicize it.

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William Snyder @profsnyder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Civilian professors are a threat to the warfighting mission?

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.

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William Snyder @profsnyder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is brazen lying by Senator Schmitt. He has no shame.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

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William Snyder @profsnyder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you listen to these 3 minutes, Sen. Schmitt humiliates himself and then when that is established, he persists in shouting that Special Counsel Smith is a perjurious "dirtbag". Smith, of course, appears calm, cool, collected, factual, and honest. It's bizarre.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Amid all the coverage of it, this Washinging Post column does the best — for me — in explaining why the Pool fights matter. Via @brianstelter.bsky.social See the original: www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Will Saletan: "After six years of Trump’s flagrant corruption, it shouldn’t surprise us that he’s diverting public funds to boost himself and his party. It’s just another legal and moral line he thinks he can cross with impunity."

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Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor

Your tax dollars are funding his TV ads. And the White House says you should be proud to pay.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Putin’s reward for bombing hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, public parks and museums and killing children is to get invited to the G20 Summit by Marco Rubio.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As Trump and his Republican minions revive the language of the "Red Scare" and "threat of communism" in the elections, Trump is actively supporting the world's largest communist dictatorship, including by offering to sell them American weapons. Insanity is too mild a word.

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Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says

David Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled island

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

180 days later, and the war is still going. Imagine still believing anything this buffoon says

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International Affairs @iajournal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How should militaries respond to hostile acts in space without escalating to war? Louisa Handel-Mazzetti and Lonneke Peperkamp argue that counter-space operations require a combined international law and just war theory framework in their latest article: doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiag127

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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Daniel Dale: “His relentless dishonesty has become a central feature of U.S. and world politics. Voters and members of Congress, allies and adversaries, CEOs and investors alike have had to try to figure out how to read a man whose words are so frequently not true.”

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‘What I Learned Fact-Checking Trump for 10 Years’

Daniel Dale: "His relentless dishonesty has become a central feature of U.S. and world politics. Voters and members of Congress, allies and adversaries, CEOs and investors alike have had to try to…

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I served in multiple authoritarian states, both communist and otherwise--Russia, Vietnam, Iraq, the Sultanate of Oman, and Ukraine before the Orange Revolution brought in democracy. One common thread among all of them is government spending on propaganda to glorify the dictator/sultan.

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White House airs another government-funded ad, this time with Trump warning of ‘final battle’ | CNN Politics

The Trump administration is set to launch another overtly political campaign ad funded by taxpayer dollars, attacking the “fake news media” and “the sick political class that hates our country.”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026

“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think...in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.” (Pub. July)

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Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct

ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Again, propaganda paid for by taxpayers while this dope is sitting on hundreds of millions in campaign donations.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These people have no idea what’s happening in America right now. And, they don’t care. White House Deputy Chief of Staff post last night ⬇️

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026

absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie

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Katja Bego @katjabego.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In Oleshky wordt een stad systematisch uitgehongerd - een nieuwe Holodomor: vandaag, in Europa. Het gezicht van "vrede" met Rusland. Maar ja, laten we vandaag lekker allemaal meedoen aan een vredesdemonstratie op de Dam "tegen de militarisering van de samenleving".

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William Snyder @profsnyder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yesterday we paid for the military and Secret Service to transport DJT to Tennessee and back for half a football game. Today it's halfway across the country and back for golf. Your tax dollars at work.

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John McKay @sealawman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Brace for it - come October, the Facist-in-Chief will deploy federal agents to polling places in swing districts. When counter demonstraters respond, he will federalize National Guard troops and seize or close polling places. It's all about voter suppression. He is desperate. Stand up, speak out!

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"We cannot and will not allow them to take the majority in the Congress." That's Speaker Mike Johnson in Dallas. Judge Luttig thinks you should take it seriously. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you’re a random person and you have to deal with death threats and harassment from internet stalkers, it’s my understanding that the FBI basically ignores you in most circumstances. But the Millers are so powerful they can demote the head of the FBI’s DC field office for investigating too slow.

The orders from the bureau's DC chief Darren Cox stemmed from frustration shared by the Miller family that the field office was moving slowly in probing allegedly harassing phone messages left with prominent conservative podcaster, Katie Miller, added the people, who spoke anonymously to avoid retaliation.
Several of the individuals said Director Kash Patel was also displeased with the office's progress on the case.

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William Snyder @profsnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He wants to open their country for "our people" but not our country for their people. That's colonialism, and it's disgusting.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026

“If I’m paying for your wedding, at some point, you’re going to owe me something,” said Frank Montoya Jr., a retired FBI official who held senior counterintelligence roles. “This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.”

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 25/09/2026

President Xi has been providing weapons and intelligence support to Iran against the U.S. In return, Trump rolls out the red carpet for him and meets him plane-side. Absolutely ridiculous.

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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 26/09/2026

Xi Jinping wants to win over the Global South and take over Taiwan. If the West is to counter this, it must better understand China's grand strategy — and Xi Jinping's worldview. Read Steve Tsang's latest analysis for the autumn issue of @theworldtoday.org.

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What the West fails to grasp about China’s strategy to lead the world

Xi Jinping wants to forge ‘a common destiny for humankind’ by winning over the Global South and taking Taiwan. But if America and Europe are to counter this ‘double pivot’, they must better understand...

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Remember this? Who’s the stupid one now?

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William Snyder @profsnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wonder what Hegseth thinks of military violinists. "The military has been distracted from its core mission, which is lethality, lethality, lethality," he claims.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Read the document (Gift Article)

Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DHS used a hastily-built "citizenship verification tool" to declare that over 14,000 Nevada voters are not citizens. Later, they revised that down to 185. This week, Nevada announced that they had contacted every person flagged by DHS and proved that they are ALL citizens. That's a 100% error rate.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Trump administration is facing growing questions over its decision to abandon a fraud/bribery case against the Indian billionaire Gautam Adani after he promised to invest $10bn in the US. For the second time this year, Democratic senators have demanded that Todd Blanche, answer questions about

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Trump administration faces fresh scrutiny after DoJ drops bribery case against Indian billionaire

Warren and Blumenthal raise concerns about case against Gautam Adani, who promised to invest $10bn in US

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Spoke with @reuters.com about the Trump admin's anti-ICC crusade. "The Trump administration has managed to align itself with Putin in terms of targeting ICC personnel with sanctions, and of course, Putin would also benefit from the destruction of the court." www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

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Trump tells countries to quit ICC. Few follow his lead

President Donald Trump urged countries to leave the International Criminal Court immediately, calling it "evil" and "a rogue institution," but only Naoero, a tiny Pacific island nation formerly known...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Chinese media allowed at WH. American media banned in defiance of a court order.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On Tuesday you watched a sitting American president walk into the hall of the United Nations, an organization whose Charter opens with a promise “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,” and weigh out loud the

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404 Media @404media.co · 24/09/2026

Cops followed EJ Carrion home and arrested him in his drive way one week after he said 'bullshit' at a county meeting in Texas. Here is that body cam footage. @mjgault.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/watch-body-c...

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