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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

As the Trump admin is calling in thousands of people here for years who are protected from persecution in their home country, Tom Homan is on TV saying people who want to avoid being sent to Africa can just "self-deport." So it's accept persecution or be deported to a third country.

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Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, said people in the U.S. illegally can avoid being sent to “third countries” in Africa and other places around the world by self-deporting to their home countries.

“There’s your quick answer. If you self-deport … you're 100% likely to go to your home country,” Homan told CBS News’
@camiloreports
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This past week, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to continue its third-country deportation effort.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10h

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Normalization is treating the president stealing from taxpayers to buy campaign ads and offer bribes to voters like it's just another day. Normalization is reacting with "won't work" or "polls poorly," and not "resign immediately or you'll be removed, we exist because of a revolution against that."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you don't understand why the Pope thinks human consciousness is special and a machine doesn't have it, try reading his favorite book, I bet you'll find the answer in there. He's apparently read it many times, and has a bunch of it memorized.

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WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“the stuff that he’s gone through, you have to take your hat off to him and say wow” fuck you buddy!

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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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, this is by far the biggest weapon that a new Democratic majority will have; full subpoena and contempt power and multiple members that are extremely eager to hold the admin's feet to the fire. The biggest issue re: immigration is that there's SO MUCH else going on for Congress to investigate.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I say John Roberts is a liar, hack, anti-democracy ideologue, and enemy of the Constitution, I do so in a civil manner. No yelling or cursing here. But since he will be remembered as an utter disgrace who tried to destroy the republic but failed, some in the future might say it less civilly.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sure.Let’s ask the torture guy about a botched execution.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Are they really saying Flock can’t sell their cameras to the cartels too?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

his average approval is going to remain in the low 30s i think but we are going to hit the high 20s in individual surveys before the year is out

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The question presented here couldn't be more consequential. Answering "yes" would require the detention--without any possibility of a bond hearing--of millions of immigrants currently residing in the United States.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For clarity: the part of the Constitution they were ruled to violate was the Fifteenth Amendment, which reads "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is insane. Literally. It is insane to have a system that expects toddlers to defend themselves in a court of law. Jesus would be turning over the tables and accusing everyone of defiling his father’s house.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kafka: F*** it, I'm out.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

this is legitimately very funny

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The reason I decided to study campus sexual violence is because universities are gatekeepers of power in society. They choose who will be eligible to make decisions that affect the rest of us.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What about her future? What about how hard she worked to be there? What is to become of her life now? What process of justice could possibly right these wrongs? And how much more will she lose in the process of trying to get it? How much more of this are we all supposed to tolerate?

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Clear-eyed, persistent, assertive accountability will be essential:

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

By nature of being enrolled at a university, student rapists dont fit the caricature of a rapist—ie a "dangerous" stranger in an alley, a false narrative meant to frame rape exclusively as a street-based crime justifying ever-more police funding. So they face no consequences:

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can't recommend @nbedera.bsky.social's book 'On the Wrong Side' enough. I interviewed her in 2024, this part really stuck with me. Rapists often don't just not face consequences but reap benefits bc the school is so sorry for even investigating them/afraid of seeming 'biased':

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Until the American public sees the Court in a fundamentally different way, not because of disagreement with decisions, but as an institution defective in original design, the chances of [major SCOTUS reform] are slim.” www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/09/if-y...

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If You Come at the the King, You Best not Miss: The Uphill Battle for Supreme Court Reform

Critiques of judicial supremacy and proposals limiting the Supreme Court's power are common on the left side of the legal academy these days...

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thesis: www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right, like when I was 16 Taylor told me that in my life I’d do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. And now she’s doing . . . This.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We’re at the “shipping container courts” stage of ICE’s mass expansion of the enforcement system.

Each detention unit would sit on asphalt or concrete behind an office's existing security fence, with a counter for processing people and a separate holding area fitted with a toilet and sink for detainees according to the draft work statement.
The agency also wants a 300-square-foot unit for interviewing people in custody and a 60-square-foot "Virtual Immigration Court Unit" for hearings run by the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Justice Department agency that operates the immigration courts.
Both must also be designed for their purpose before delivery.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:

A chart that shows the number of emergency applications filed and granted by the Supreme Court during each presidency dating back to George W. Bush, with the data annualized to show the far-higher frequencies since 2017, but especially during the Trump I and Trump II administrations.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Shadow docket is at it again Time to repeal the Judiciary Act of 1789 and start over

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Roy Cooper @roycoopernc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Chemours is still contaminating our state’s drinking water, and they’re donating thousands of dollars to Michael Whatley. As Governor, my administration sued them. Michael Whatley’s taking their cash.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anthropic has designed a product that regularly produces automated hacks of other entities, including governments. That’s not “going rogue.” It is either a terrible design problem or what they intended.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

SCOTUS delenda est. It is democracy, or SCOTUS. They have made it very clear that there is no other choice. Expand it, reverse its worst opinions, and then ruthlessly strip it of jurisdiction. Don't trust an expanded SCOTUS in the long run.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't think that worst-case scenario is true, but I do expect that this throw-away footnote in a shadow docket decision to roil litigation tremendously.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BREAKING: SCOTUS allows DHS to use its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database with Social Security info, staying a district court order that had vacated the new policy. Justice Jackson dissents for the three Dem appointees. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Unelected right-wing #SCOTUS demigods accountable to no one using shadow docket to potentially disenfranchise thousands of voters while the chance of voter fraud happening is less than being struck by lightning. Making up law based on - as @leahlitman.bsky.social says - vibes.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026

"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party

“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's the Jefferson Griffin playbook redux Worth noting: after Rs lost most of the Council of State races in 2024 -- but winning the race for State Auditor -- the R-supermajority legislature rushed to pass a bill over a D veto shifting power over election boards to the State Auditor

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When OpenAI asks for a bailout—not if, when—say no. The chances the company can honor its financial commitments are very low. They’ll say they’re too big to fail, and taxpayers should cover their losses. Govt will have to help unwind commitments and contain the damage, but shouldn’t save OpenAI.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yep. Said it at the time -- Harris's people should have been touting the Biden administration's anti-enshittification policies every day of the campaign.

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