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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Read the whole thread and pass it on.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An important note here:
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Deep dives like this really put into perspective what Chief Justice Rehnquist was doing in 2000 when he resurrected the Court’s precedents of the 1870s and 1880s, writing that their authors “had intimate knowledge and familiarity with the events surrounding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
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Robert @rcpj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fat Bear Week Is Back. Meet Some of Our Favorite Contenders. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/s...
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Fat Bear Week Returns to Alaska: Meet the Contenders
Call them fat. Call them corpulent. Call them rotund. The bears are back in town and bigger than ever.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Trump AG pick Todd Blanche vows to review the legality of mailing abortion drugs, revive the Comstock Act www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
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Trump AG pick vows to review the legality of mailing abortion drugs
President Trump’s attorney general nominee promised Wednesday to review the legality of mailing abortion drugs, a policy California officials have vowed to uphold.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The majority’s opinion accompanying the ruling is astounding, and in fact is potentially just as significant as Callais despite its brevity and tentative nature given that it is a shadow docket ruling.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Constitutional calvinball
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Heads they win tails you lose
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 29/05/2026
We love to see it: Federal judge orders IRS case reopened, will investigate if DOJ’s fake dismissal request to create slush fund constituted a fraud on the court, or otherwise sanctionable, “collusive” conduct. Win for former fed judges who moved to reopen: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Order (PAPERLESS or pdf attached) – #65 in Trump v. Internal Revenue Service (S.D. Fla., 1:26-cv-20609) – CourtListener.com
ORDER. See attached document for full details. Signed by Judge Kathleen M. Williams on 5/29/2026. (ymd) (Entered: 05/29/2026)
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Serious Eats @serious-eats.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Most pasta recipes call for a big pot of water. Here's why that's not necessary—and how using less water can lead to better results.
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Nonna Was Wrong: Never Boil Pasta This Way
Most pasta recipes call for a big pot of water. Here's why that's not necessary—and how using less water can lead to better results.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 21/05/2026
🚨Last night in House Appropriations, all Republicans present voted to allow THEMSELVES to get settlements from the January 6th Slush Fund. I am not making this up.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17/05/2026
A cartoon by Meredith Southard. To get cartoons straight in your inbox, sign up for our humor newsletter: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ZTD-wf
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John Bolton's Mustache @jonboltonsmustache.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We've finally won the war against woke
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 12/05/2026
And the law prof who wrote a whole book on the shadow docket weighs in: bsky.app/profile/stev...
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"Trump’s initial post about removing US troops from Germany came just hours after he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has long sought to reduce the number of NATO troops in Europe... "The Pentagon 'was not expecting it'... www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
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Trump’s call to reduce US troops in Germany shocks Pentagon
The Defense Department "was not expecting it," a congressional aide said.
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
OK, gobs of data this morning, and no way I'm going to get to all of it, but a few 📈📉 on the highlights...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
What architectural modifications to the White House would open the Strait of Hormuz and/or release the remaining Epstein files?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2026
if you are "sick" — which, again for RFK is a function of race, class and perceived purity — then there is nothing you can do in the face of disease and death, you are destined to succumb. the upshot either way is we do not need vaccines or most modern medical interventions.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2026
if you are "healthy" — which appears to be a function of race, class and the purity of your body, as defined by what you eat and drink — then you cannot be truly sick and you do not need modern medicine.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2026
the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
People hear "judge" and they assume judicial independence. But the Trump administration has hacked away at immigration judges independence to the point that they can expect to be fired if they don't do the Trump administration's bidding. And the Supreme Court has blessed this loss of autonomy.
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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I think we are far beyond the point where a serious person can plausibly claim that the immigration courts are offering a fair adjudication consistent with foundational principles of the American legal tradition. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...
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Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"This pattern raises serious concerns that certain market participants may have had access to material nonpublic information regarding a market-moving geopolitical event..." www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Hegseth fired Army General Randy George & is seeking to replace him with “someone who will implement their specific vision for the Army” Very peculiar timing considering we’re mid-conflict, but if you had to venture a guess, it’s likely bc he refused to carry out an illegal order — subpoena time
General Randy George, US Army chief of staff, during an interview at the Pentagon. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 02/04/2026
Pam Bondi was the worst attorney general in modern U.S. history—she transformed the Justice Department into an extension of the White House and little more than Donald Trump’s personal law firm. Under her, DOJ didn’t prosecute cases, but pursued pet causes, petty grievances, and political enemies.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The thing to remember is his residual strategy is to commit war crimes as leverage attempt. Attacking Iran’s electrical grid will unambiguously be the deliberate bombing of a civilian target.
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
An obscure methodological tweak -- a change in the source of data on the price of legal services -- resulted in meaningfully lower monthly PCE inflation in January. That's prompting questions about why the change was made and why it wasn't disclosed publicly. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b... #EconSky
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Change in Data Sources Led to Lower Inflation Reading
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026
"Let’s not bury the lede here: The DoD wants to use AI for fully autonomous lethal systems and mass surveillance of American citizens. Anthropic said 'no,' and now the US government is retaliating by trying to destroy it." — @lizdye.bsky.social
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Pete Hegseth C*ckblocks Anthropic
And OpenAI collects its winnings.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 04/03/2026
Just now thinking of one of my favorite New Yorker commas, the one they put in constructions like "when she died, in 1973," because without the comma one might read it as "when she died in 1973, as opposed to when she subsequently died in 1975 and again in 1976."
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Lest anyone think Judge Murphy selectively quoted Mary Larakers—the DOJ lawyer defending third-country deportations—here's the full exchange from the transcript. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
But I don't want to mischaracterize your position; so
that's why I'm saying it back to you, to make sure.
Is your position that the Government can decide right
now that someone who is in their custody is getting deported to
a third country, give them no notice and no opportunity to say,
I will be killed the moment I arrive there, and, as long as the
Department doesn't already know that there's someone standing
there waiting to shoot him, that that's fine?
MS. LARAKERS: In short, yes.
THE COURT: Okay.
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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Bang up job by the DOJ lawyer here Court: So you can drop them off wherever and as long as you don't know someone is literally standing there waiting to shoot, that's fine? Defense counsel: "In short, yes."
The court characterizes the DOJ argument as being that the DHS can drop people off in parts unknown and "as long as the Department doesn't already know there's someone standing there waiting to shoot...that's fine."

The court cites to a DOJ dense counsel replying, "In short, yes."
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I’m sure the lawmakers who were outraged that their toll (phone) records were obtained in the course of a predicated federal investigation through a subpoena are going to back Rep. Jayapal in being outraged at just lawless surveillance of her (and likely others’) search history, right?
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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Robert @rcpj.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...
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Senators demand answers on President Trump’s takeover of D.C. golf courses
Four Democratic senators from Maryland and Virginia have come out in opposition of the effort to revoke the lease on three courses.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026
Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries "The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer www.investing.com/news/stock-m...
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Danish pension fund AkademikerPension to exit US Treasuries By Investing.com
Danish pension fund AkademikerPension to exit US Treasuries
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The first US sale of Venezuelan crude was to a company whose senior oil trader donated to Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and attended a White House meeting with the president last week. www.ft.com/content/da74...
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Donald Trump’s first Venezuela oil sale deal goes to megadonor’s company
Senior Vitol trader met US president at White House last week and gave millions of dollars to his re-election campaign
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
They're giving off big "Holy shit, these mopes are actually freakin' crazy" vibes.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It goes without saying that in the US you’re not supposed to have a masked secret police that snatches people off the streets without knowing if they’ve committed a crime. That’s about as basic a requirement for a democracy as exists.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The latter part of this tweet has gone under the radar but it's an alarming escalation. The Trump admin has already detained dozens of people with full refugee status, seemingly those who had not yet adjusted to green cards, and is detaining them in Texas and seeking to strip them of their status.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
RFK keeps hollowing out the vaccination system that keeps children - and the rest of us - safe. So dangerous.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
“.. Trump’s $1,776 checks for more than a million troops .. come from Congressionally-allocated reconciliation funds intended to subsidize housing allowances for service members, a senior administration official confirmed.” @defenseone.bsky.social www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
BLS says it relied somewhat on "different cell" imputation in November than it did in September. And no use of "carry-forward." But it isn't providing detail on how it treated October, which is key to understanding these November figures.
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
U.S. consumer prices were up 2.7 percent from a year earlier in November. "Core" prices, excluding volatile food and fuel, were up 2.6 percent. Be very cautious with these numbers, though. Shutdown distortions may have biased them down. Live coverage: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12... #NumbersDay
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Live Updates: Inflation Likely Remained Stuck Around 3%
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