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Husband, father, grandfather | Retired lawyer | #BoilerUp | @UChicagoLaw | #avgeek | non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivor. It's still Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario, and Department of Defense.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h
🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.
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Video: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About Trump
In this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism...
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 23h
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Sure, but how was her performance? 😉
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "Sen. Collins says that she voted against it 9 times, but she didn't have the votes. Well, that sounds like then we probably ought to have Democrats in charge of the Senate so we have the votes to stop this war and hold Donald Trump in check. It sounds like Republicans won't do that."
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Iconic movie location.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Well, at least he didn't recommend cutting back on Christmas presents. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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'Two dolls instead of 30': Trump acknowledges prices will force consumers to cut back
Donald Trump, who has argued that China will bear the brunt of his tariffs, acknowledged the duties may mean fewer, more expensive products.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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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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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It's almost like it was never about "free speech." 🤔
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Nonstop grifting for these people.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
What's left of the Pentagon press corps should ask Hegseth about that. www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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Marine Officer Who Faced Charges for Criticizing Military Leaders Now Leads Promotion Review
Since January, the defense secretary also has ordered the Pentagon to review combat standards, disqualifying medical conditions for military service, physical fitness and body standards, homeschooling...
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
And that's the norm for this administration.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The white supremacists think this is a "meritocracy."
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about why Supreme Court reform has to be at the top of any agenda for democratic repair www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...
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Opinion | Democrats Need a Plan for Supreme Court Reform. Here’s a Start. (Gift Article)
Why Democrats must prioritize court reform.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The fact that they had to invent bat sh*t rumors about Talarico tells you all you need to know.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Can't wait to see when she's served with a Congressional subpoena in January 2027.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ilhan Omar’s home was raided today, weeks after border czar Tom Homan cited an “ongoing criminal investigation.” It reportedly involves immigration paperwork when she was a child. There is NOT an ongoing investigation of Homan taking $50,000 in an FBI bribery sting because Trump killed that probe.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I very much want to see that warrant application & know which judge signed off on it, because nothing about this sounds remotely kosher.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Long overdue for Dems to take a page out of the GOP’s Soros demonization playbook and apply it to Musk.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Judge Reyes has ordered cessation of all tree removal at the golf course until at least tomorrow. Also provides remote call-in number for hearing on temporary restraining order. She wants to know, inter alia, who ordered tree removal & how long govt attys have known of this plan.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🦗🦗🦗
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
January 2027.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"leads" 🤣
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
He's in a panic over the likelihood that Dems will flip the Senate.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Can't wait to see how those pro-Ukraine Republicans in Congress react.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
*FJB
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“.. Administration officials are discussing whether she should be removed, and a decision is expected by President Trump soon, aides said.” @wsj.com 🇬🇷 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What's the over/under on the number of FBJ stickers displayed by those MAGA types who accused her of being disrespectful?
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We both added to a subthread that included that claim near the top.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump spokesperson lies = dog bites man.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The thrust of my comment is a correction of the false assertion above that Biden voted to confirm Thomas. He did not. I also expressly stated that he botched the hearing. One can make the point that you did without getting the facts wrong.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Although Biden botched Thomas's hearing, he voted against confirmation. (Illinois Democrat Alan Dixon voted to confirm, the blowback from which culminated in Carol Moseley Braun's successful primary challenge against him in 1992.) www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 102nd Congress - 1st Session
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
a grandmotherly woman just got booted from the Trump rally for protesting, and she went out like a hero talking trash and flipping the double bird
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"The Afrikaner ['refugee'] policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Indeed. The GOP courted the Nazi/White Supremacist types, while keeping the rhetoric on the down-low in order to maintain plausible deniability. Trump has normalized replacing the dog whistles with bull horns. www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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The Modern GOP Thrives on Lee Atwater's Strategy of Coded Racism
In the recent election cycle, the GOP played to racial anxieties the same way Lee Atwater did two decades ago.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Same concept: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Trump Often Refers To Obama In This Very Specific Way. Experts Say It’s A Dog Whistle.
This is sending a specific — and not particularly subtle — message to his base.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
With this DOJ, I'm surprised that the Office of Professional Responsibility hasn't been dissolved.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
UPDATE: Judge April Perry denies the government's bid to keep all of this under seal — including the attorney's signature block. "The government has also publicly disclosed … that there is an OPR investigation in this case."
MINUTE entry before the Honorable April M. Perry: The Government's motion to seal 275 is denied. As already noted, the grand jury transcripts in this matter have already been made public - without any opposition from the Government. The Government has also publicly disclosed - in both court filings and open court - the fact that there is an OPR investigation in this case involving the prosecutors who were in the grand jury. See, e.g., Doc. 247 at 48-49. In addition to those two matters, the Government has also asked to seal the "Legal Principles" section of its motion, which sets forth basic principles of law, and the signature block of one of its attorneys. There is a presumption that materials that underpin a judicial decision are open to public inspection unless they meet very specific criteria. See Baxter Intern., Inc. v. Abbott Laboratories, 297 F.3d 544, 545 (7th Cir. 2002). No such criteria are present here. The Clerk of Court is directed to unseal 272 . Mailed notice. (jcc,) (Entered: 10/09/2026)
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm sure that Kristen Welker will question all Republican guests on Meet the Press about about Tauring.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
MAGA Mike was overrated.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A noun, a verb, and Biden.
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