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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
CEOs at Davos concocted a new euphemism for their shameless cowardice: "Adaptive Normalcy." I have a lot of thoughts about this that you don't want to miss. Become a Democracy Docket premium member to access this and a lot more. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/01/2026
Videos show dozens of incidents of immigration agents using life-threatening tactics. In nearly 20 cases, agents appear to use neck restraints that the Department of Homeland Security prohibits unless there is a threat of deadly or serious harm.
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Why is President Trump denigrating the sacrifice of NATO allies? www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/p...
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Why is President Trump denigrating the sacrifice of NATO allies? | CNN Politics
CNN’s Jake Tapper responds to President Trump’s shocking remarks on Thursday downplaying the sacrifices that NATO allies, including Denmark, made in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
“The possibility that these data could be misused is not just hypothetical: The Trump administration has been caught sharing data and breaching confidential records for purposes other than the stated reason for why those confidential records were collected.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Trump’s Chilling Weaponization of Confidential Government Records
Remind me—who else in history made lists of Jewish intellectuals and people with disabilities?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/01/2026
The reality is that 2024 was a fundamental test of the moral character of the nation and we failed spectacularly. We’re living with the consequences now. Maybe we improve. I hope so.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A hideous, unbelievable insult to our allies, who suffered a full third of the war dead in Afghanistan. And this from a soulless swine who knows everything about using his bone spurs to stay all the way back, entirely off the front lines. Every day, he shames the United States as a nation.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Voila: All rich dudes; all mobbed up with Trump; throw in some rich Gulf dudes and Chinese dudes; get it at a discount. Bottom line: this country is no safer from a national security perspective than before, but the rich are richer. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/b...
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Who Owns TikTok in the U.S. Now?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Healey: Whether it’s ballrooms, or masked agents, or attacks on Europe and Greenland…This is not normal. It’s not normal to have somebody who acts like a two-year-old throwing a tantrum. On any given day, we don’t know what he’s going to do. This shouldn’t be normalized. It’s not right.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/01/2026
Stop using ring cameras! Ffs. futurism.com/future-socie...
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Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System
Online activists are telling owners of Ring Doorbell cameras that it's time to get rid of their devices, which can be used by ICE.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 23/01/2026
Americans are more or less inured to Donald Trump’s incoherent ramblings and political theatre. After his speech in Davos, stunned Europeans are inclined to call his behavior what it is: out of control. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/IOTmJO
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It’s Time to Talk About Donald Trump’s Logorrhea
How many polite ways are there to ask whether the President of the United States is losing it?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home! Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
Shown is a blank sample administrative warrant. The only place for signatures is for an immigration officer. No judge has to sign off on it.
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
It’s time to talk about Trump’s logorrhea… My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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It’s Time to Talk About Donald Trump’s Logorrhea
How many polite ways are there to ask whether the President of the United States is losing it?
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22/01/2026
This is who federal agents are ripping out of their communities and shipping across the country. This is the danger we're being protected from.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Jim Jordan cuts off Jack Smith when he describes that they paid someone to analyze video evidence to show that people came directly from the Ellipse to attack the Capitol. Hope to hell some Dem follows up. [They can show it with Danny Rodriguez, who almost killed Michael Fanone.]
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
If this is accurate, Good was killed by a bullet fired after there was any conceivable argument Agent Ross was in the path of her vehicle, which means there was no legal justification for using deadly force. But DOJ says there’s no reason to investigate. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
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Private Autopsy Shows Renee Good Was Shot at Least 3 Times, Lawyers Say
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/01/2026
I can't even keep up with the lies in Jim Jordan's opening statement, but I find it interesting that he's complaining about toll record warrants obtained by a judge, while this administration has determined judicial warrants aren't needed to enter our homes.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/01/2026
Trump is fracturing our alliances with western democracies and building an alliance with a bunch of autocrats. www.pbump.net/o/trump-is-u...
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Trump is uniting autocracies under the banner of ‘peace’
Donald Trump has started a new members-only club that demands a high entry fee. But instead of being situated in southern Florida or the rolling hills of New Jersey, this one is virtual. And instead o...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23/01/2026
As the bill moves to the Senate, Democrats have a responsibility to draw a line. Putting actual guardrails on ICE is the bare minimum here. Allowing Trump’s brutal secret police force to operate with essentially a blank check is unacceptable.
Andrew O’Neill on Bluesky: “Just sent an @indivisible.org note to every Senate Dem office, urging a NO vote on the DHS funding bill. We do vote recs often, but this one was different. This time we opened with a picture of 5 yr old Liam Conejo Ramos, who's been abducted by ICE. Liam, his hat, his bookbag, and his abductor.”
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
House Republicans attacked a decorated career prosecutor today His offense? Exposing the truth of Trump's Jan 6 wrongdoing Jack Smith played it straight—because that’s what professionals do I explained on @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social 👇
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The real question I have about the Cook case, given how today's arguments have gone, is why #SCOTUS deferred the application pending argument back in October, rather than just denying it outright.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Lesson of DOGE secret contacts with overturn-the-election group: "Justice Jackson’s SSA dissent was absolutely right—[both] about the risks inherent in giving DOGE such unfettered access to Americans’ Social Security data" and about the dangers of staying lower-court rulings on a scanty record.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The broad consensus was that Mark Carney gave the best speech at Davos while Trump gave a whiny, low-energy snooze-fest where he kept mixing up countries, so naturally Trump is posting that he won’t be Carney’s friend which undoubtedly devastates Carney and Canadians everywhere.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Here's the plan: Simply assume that there's a well-functioning market for health insurance and then let people buy insurance in that imaginary market.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
They really are going with immaculate asymmetry of tariffs, which didn't raise prices when they were imposed but will cut them when they're withdrawn.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Weird how many racists like to self-identify themselves as racists.
Screenshot of a Colorado Republicans tweet discouraging people from patronizing a coffee shop with a sign up saying they refuse to serve racists and bigots.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This is a great post:
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 17/11/2025
‘This Is Corruption’: ’60 Minutes’ Reports Trump Pardoned Binance Boss After He ‘Enriched’ Crypto Business Tied to Trump Family
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‘This Is Corruption’: ’60 Minutes’ Reports Trump Pardoned Binance Boss After He ‘Enriched’ Crypto Business Tied to Trump Family
"60 Minutes" reported President Trump pardoned the founder of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange after he "enriched" the Trump family during its crypto push The post ‘This Is Corruption’: ’60 Minutes’ Reports Trump Pardoned Binance Boss After He ‘Enriched’ Crypto Business Tied to Trump Family first appeared on Mediaite.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Jeffrey Epstein survivors released a new video urging Congress to vote to release the Epstein files
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/11/2025
Trump, the Con Man in Chief, is calling the affordability crisis a “con job by Democrats”. Here’s the problem: everyone feels it. He’s telling people to ignore their own lived experience. If you voted for Trump to bring down costs, you cannot pretend this is not happening.
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Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Elizabeth Oyer has more courage in her little finger than all the Republicans in Congress.
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Comic Sands @comicsandsnews.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Pardon attorney Elizabeth G. Oyer told The New York Times that she was fired after she refused to recommend that MAGA actor Mel Gibson have his gun rights restored.
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Justice Dept. Lawyer Claims She Was Fired For Refusing Mel Gibson's Gun Request
Corruption in plain sight.
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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“My ethical duty as a DoJustice employee ... is to the laws of the United States and the people that I was entrusted to serve. It is not to the bullies who are currently running the department.” — Elizabeth Oyer, fired after not agreeing to restore Mel Gibson’s gun rights. wapo.st/3R2beDZ
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Fired Justice Dept. official speaks about her ouster and Mel Gibson
Fired Justice Department pardon attorney Elizabeth Oyer says she was ousted after refusing to back restoring gun ownership rights to the actor Mel Gibson.
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Nanci @nanciweinberger.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A new hero: Elizabeth Oyer Despite pressure, she risked her career to protect the law and the safety of others. #domestic violence #gun laws www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...
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Justice Dept. Official Says She Was Fired After Opposing Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights (Gift Article)
Elizabeth G. Oyer, the former pardon attorney, said that she was not told why she was dismissed, but that as events unfolded she feared they might lead to her firing.
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Paul Kingsley @paulkingsley7.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“Elizabeth G. Oyer, the former pardon attorney, described the sequence of events as an alarming departure from longstanding practice, one that put public safety and the department’s integrity at risk. Mr. Gibson had lost his gun rights as a result of a 2011 domestic violence misdemeanor conviction.”
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
“The influence that money played in securing this pardon is unprecedented,” says Elizabeth Oyer, former U.S. pardon attorney, about President Trump’s pardon of crypto billionaire Changpeng Zhao. Zhao didn’t respond to 60 Minutes’ request for an interview. cbsn.ws/4806u9Y
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rmapnerd.bsky.social @rmapnerd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Elizabeth Oyer is a true patriot! We all should thank her for her courage and integrity!
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Here is Trump when he owned the Miss Universe and Miss Teen USA pageants bragging about how he “was able to get away with” going backstage when contestants were naked since he was the boss and he had to do “inspections.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Massachusetts AG Campbell: What you heard from the president and the speaker is total bullshit. Let’s take a step back. Never in the history of this country — during a war or an emergency shutdown — has the federal government ever stopped funding SNAP benefits for our most vulnerable.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/11/2025
No crypto! Just old-fashioned corruption www.propublica.org/article/kris...
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Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Four months ago, Bondi's DOJ declared that Epstein files warranted no further investigation. But it took Bondi four hours to open an investigation anyway once Trump demanded--and only into Democrats @ericalgj.bsky.social @glennthrush.bsky.social @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
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Justice Department to Investigate Epstein Ties, but Not to Trump
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I don’t think US taxpayers should subsidize treason against the United States
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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Part of living in a monarchy is that the king uses his power to enrich himself and his family, and the public accepts it. And I'm not talking about the Saudis. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...
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Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal
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