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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 4m
Watchdog finds no criminality in Fed renovation that drew Trump’s scrutiny
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Watchdog finds no criminality in Fed renovation that drew Trump’s scrutiny
The Fed’s inspector general did fault the central bank’s board for mismanaging costs. Trump blamed ex-chair Jerome Powell and said he “should be forced to resign.”
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 5m
Trump’s new America.gov AI chatbot often links to a site launched under Clinton 26 years ago
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Trump’s new America.gov AI chatbot often links to a site launched under Clinton 26 years ago
The answers from the AI chatbot often duplicate what’s on the federal government’s existing sites, sometimes with less detail.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 29/09/2026
Dutch law enforcement has arrested a leader of ShinyHunters, the international cybercrime group that claimed to have hacked an FBI website and stolen sensitive personal information on agents, according to Dutch authorities and the FBI.
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FBI sends warning to cybercrime group that hacked it after Dutch arrest of ‘leader’
The bureau is not explicitly tying the Dutch man’s arrest to the FBI hack, but is using it to warn other ShinyHunters members.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 29/09/2026
Think we're on the verge of the Eric Schmitt Hawks-Hawkeye mess up breaking through, please poll the normie in your life to check.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 29/09/2026
CBS had earlier reported on Olsen’s departure.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 29/09/2026
Kurt Olsen, an attorney involved with efforts to overturn the 2020 election results who had recently been involved in the Justice Department's so-called “grand conspiracy” investigation targeting officials who investigated Donald Trump, has resigned, two sources familiar with the matter tell NBC.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 28/09/2026
Both of the FBI’s first co-deputy directors who held the positions when they were first established a year ago are now out, and only one (replacement) co-deputy (who has a more traditional FBI background) remains.
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Andrew Bailey, who joined FBI in unusual ‘co-deputy’ position, to leave bureau
The former Missouri attorney general joined the bureau in a newly created “co-deputy director” position last year before the departure of Dan Bongino.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 25/09/2026
JUDGE SANDBAGS JAMES COMEY SEASHELLS TRIAL DATE: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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James Comey seashells case delayed until early 2027
The former FBI director’s team has moved to dismiss the case for a variety of reasons, including their claim that it is driven by Donald Trump’s animus.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 25/09/2026
TIDE TURN: James Comey seashells arraignment delayed until January 2027, and the judge isn't even setting a trial date yet, saying motions for vindictive/selective prosecution etc. "now are ripe for decision."
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#74 in United States v. Comey (E.D.N.C., 4:26-cr-00016) – CourtListener.com
ORDER granting 69 Motion to Continue as to James Brien Comey Jr. (1) The motion is ALLOWED. Following arraignment, upon a not guilty plea, the court then will set the trial date and corresponding fili...
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 23/09/2026
No decision from Judge Kelly from the bench today but he said he'll get an answer "as soon as I can."
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 23/09/2026
The letters the White House sent to MS NOW, POLITICO, and CNN illustrate the "pretextual" fake process, says Boutrous.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 23/09/2026
Boutrous says there have been faux, after-the-fact attempts at creating the illusion of due process. The adverse actions would have a chilling effect on a reasonable reporter, he says. "It's just so over the top."
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 23/09/2026
Boutrous on post hoc letters the White House sent to MS NOW, CNN, POLITICO: "It's not even close to conforming to due process or the First Amendment."
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 23/09/2026
NEWS ORG LAWYER: Trump "wears his heart on his sleeve" and made clear in his statements that the ban was due to improper viewpoint discrimination. "He keeps proving our point," says Ted Boutrous. "He really is our lead witness here."
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 23/09/2026
The government is contending that those precedent cases were wrongly decided, but Kelly says regardless he's got to follow precedent and says that the process wasn't followed here since the Trump administration came up with reasons after the actual ban was implemented.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 23/09/2026
THREAD: CNN et al. v. Trump et al. underway Judge Timothy Kelly says he's giving 15-20 minutes to each side. "I have to start with the DC Circuit precedent that exists." He mentions he took up the Acosta case, and was surprised by precedent giving journalists pre deprevation due process rights.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 23/09/2026
"A representative of the group claimed to NBC News that they hacked the FBI’s job portal Monday and then gained access to other agency programs, stealing between 2 and 3 terabytes of files." @kevincollier.bsky.social:
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FBI investigating hacking group’s claim of massive breach of agent info
ShinyHunters, a cyber-extortion outfit, said that it had hacked into the FBI’s jobs portal and used that access to steal a major tranche of sensitive files.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New: hackers say they have personal data on all FBI employees and spouses. I got a sample of 5,000 alleged employees, including name, physical address, phone number, and in some cases spouses. Could be a massive national security and counterintelligence risk www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 23/09/2026
“prosecutors quickly conceded some facts about the mailman mystery that make the episode seem somewhat different than the kind that typically attracts the attention of Justice’s No. 2 official...” @joshgerstein.bsky.social + @kyledcheney.bsky.social:
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Trump’s drive to raise fears of election mischief zeroes in on Utah mailman
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 22/09/2026
Postal worker tossed 300 mail-in ballots in a parking lot garbage out of ‘laziness’
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Postal worker tossed 300 mail-in ballots in a parking lot garbage out of ‘laziness’
The Justice Department has been seeking to highlight its efforts to promote “election integrity” ahead of the midterms, when the GOP faces a rough electoral picture.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 22/09/2026
Messy! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Complaint – #1 in TOENSING v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-02385) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ( Filing fee $ 405 receipt number ADCDC-11839576) filed by VICTORIA TOENSING. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A (FOIA Request), # 2 Exhibit B (DOJ acknowledgement of ...
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 22/09/2026
with regard to "the changing nature of proceedings in these related cases"
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Trump loyalist probing Mar-a-Lago search says DOJ tensions sparked his resignation
“Lanes got crossed,” Joe diGenova told NBC News after he left the Justice Department.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 22/09/2026
Victoria Toensing, the 84-year-old wife of Joe diGenova, was until recently a DOJ employee and also had a FOIA suit pending in DC federal court, and there was a last-minute scramble for a deadline extension. A federal judge is displeased that happened so late in the game.
MINUTE ORDER: The Court has reviewed the 21 Notice, which provides no reason why the Parties waited until the day before the Defendant's deadline to move for an extension. And as of 7:00PM on the date of the Defendant's deadline, counsel for the Defendant had not yet drafted a motion for filing. Yet the Parties represent that the Defendant seeks an extension "solely to avoid briefing where it may not ultimately be necessary." Surely counsel for the Defendant was aware of that fact prior to the Sunday before her deadline. The Court reminds counsel for the Defendant, Tara Derbisz, of her duty of candor to the Court and expects that she will take steps to prevent a similar occurrence in the future. The Court GRANTS IN PART the 20 Motion nunc pro tunc. The Defendant shall move for summary judgment by October 5, 2026. The Plaintiff shall oppose and cross-move for summary judgment by October 26, 2026. The Defendant shall reply and cross-oppose by November 9, 2026. The Plaintiff shall cross-reply by November 16, 2026. Signed by Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan on 9/22/2026. (lcsls2)
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 22/09/2026
DOJ requesting detention. Charges relate to conduct from June 2025. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#8 in United States v. Kerr (E.D. Tenn., 3:26-cr-00136) – CourtListener.com
ORDER OF DETENTION as to David Kerr. Signed by Magistrate Judge Debra C. Poplin on 9/21/2026. (MKM) (Entered: 09/21/2026)
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 22/09/2026
A federal grand jury indicted a Tennessee Bluesky user for allegedly threatening ICE agents. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
four and a half minutes of pure pleasure #GoBirds 🦅
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Eagles strip sack on Tom Brady - Local Announcers / Multiple Languages
YouTube video by Bill Kuehler
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 21/09/2026
Just a beautiful lede on this piece. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
There is a certain YouTube clip that I
watch from time to time, when I need a
pick-me-up, or when I'm in a giddy mood and want to push it further—to the upper reaches of euphoria. The video, from 2018, is titled "Eagles strip sack on Tom Brady - Local Announcers / Multiple Languages," and it captures seven seconds from the fourth quarter of Super Bowl LII, as witnessed by stunned sportscasters across the globe.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The US will soon have the world's only triumphal arch whose features were driven by litigation strategy.
At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at the Receptive Circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage. There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World. Out of the 59 top cities and Capitals, Washington, D.C., IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE A TRIUMPHAL ARCH, but it will now and, by far, the greatest of them all! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Microsoft employees debated whether what OpenAI was doing represented the ‘largest theft of labor in human history’ and could create a ‘doom loop’ that could ultimately threaten the quality of the LLMs they were building” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/t...
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Microsoft and OpenAI Workers Worry About ‘Largest Theft of Labor’ in History
Newly unsealed court documents showed concern within Microsoft and OpenAI over the use of millions of news articles to develop A.I. systems.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 18/09/2026
‘Seismic shift’: Todd Blanche’s political appearances shatter another DOJ norm
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‘Seismic shift’: Todd Blanche’s political appearances shatter another DOJ norm
Justice Department veterans say the attorney general’s recent political activities fuel the appearance of a lack of independence from the White House.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 17/09/2026
‘Godfather of AI’ warns Congress has ‘maybe a year’ left to regulate AI
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‘Godfather of AI’ warns Congress has ‘maybe a year’ left to regulate AI
There appeared to be a lot of talk about artificial intelligence and little progress on Capitol Hill this week. But members remain hopeful that Congress can act.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 17/09/2026
“You walk down the street, and you assume you’re generally safe because of the law. It’s the rule of law. If you don’t have it, you have either anarchy or you have authoritarianism. You have Russia or you have China or you have North Korea.”
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 17/09/2026
"After major rulings, the phones in judges’ chambers would sometimes ring nonstop, with clerks logging hundreds of incoming communications each day."
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 17/09/2026
"The condemnation of Judge Micko by Trump-aligned media outlets was followed by a series of violent threats, which have not been previously reported. In the interview, Judge Schiltz revealed that Judge Micko and his family had to be moved to a secure location, where they remained for several days."
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 16/09/2026
On Jan. 6: “It’s a huge unhealed wound that continues to separate the two sides of the aisle.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/m...
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‘You’re Elected to Fight and Kill the Other Side’: How Congress Lost Its Way (Gift Article)
Members from both parties say the legislative branch has descended into a state of dysfunction in the Trump era.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 16/09/2026
Assuming you’ve got RECAP installed but yes PACER should be free!
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: At appeals court argument in Virginia, clues emerge about little-noticed Trump DOJ move to uncover reporter's sources. LinkedIn is fighting effort to get data on contacts with 6 unnamed users. more w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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DOJ seeking reporter’s LinkedIn records in secretive First Amendment court fight
The fight comes at a sensitive moment for national media, which has seen reporters targeted by subpoenas and search warrants in leak probes.
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s hard to imagine any other beat in any other US city being covered as obsessively as the Philly sports media covers the Eagles. But is that coverage actually good? And is it good for Philly & its residents? Tom McGrath takes a smart look at those questions at @phillymag.com & isn’t so sure.
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The Biggest Game in Town: Inside the Eagles Media-Industrial Complex
30 news outlets. 250 stories (and TikToks and podcasts and posts and prognostications) a day, 24/7. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year. How much Eagles news can — or should — one city consume?
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 15/09/2026
“The government is not going to disclose what it’s destroying,” John Brennan’s lawyer said in court on Monday. “There’s a lot of really underhanded stuff going on in this investigation.”
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Trump loyalist subpoenaed John Brennan before resignation last week
The former CIA director’s team is trying to convince a federal judge in D.C. to force the Justice Department to preserve records they may use to make vindictive prosecution accusations.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 14/09/2026
DHS watchdog finds immigrants held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in outdoor cages the size of phone booths
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DHS watchdog finds immigrants held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in outdoor cages the size of phone booths
The cages, called “calming areas,” were used for detainees to “reflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress and practice self-directed behavior,” according to the inspector ...
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 14/09/2026
"Opinion is like cement. It’s soft at first, but it hardens over time. The single best example I’ve ever seen of this maxim is the Republican reaction to the events of January 6, 2021." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on one of the stunningly effective effort to shift the narrative after J6:
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How MAGA Bewildered Voters Into Its Alternate Reality
The years-long project to discredit fact-based media and replace it with MAGA slop has been disastrously successful.
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.
An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.
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Nick Baumann @nickbaumann.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW: Senate campaign staffer used Nazi soldiers as profile photo: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Ohio Senate campaign staffer used Nazi soldiers as profile photo
A top staffer for Sen. Jon Husted's reelection campaign recently made a playlist of songs in honor of White colonists in Rhodesia and wore a Nazi uniform.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is "disagreements develop among Trump officials devoted to indicting the president's foes" not "Joe diGenova, welcome to the resistance."
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The kicker is pretty good, IMHO.
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Trump loyalist probing Mar-a-Lago search says DOJ tensions sparked his resignation
“Lanes got crossed,” Joe diGenova told NBC News after his departure from the Justice Department.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 11/09/2026
“I have no doubt that I was going to be able to take every one of these cases across the finish line because we had put them in the perfect posture to proceed,” diGenova said.
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Trump loyalist probing Mar-a-Lago search says DOJ tensions sparked his resignation
“Lanes got crossed,” Joe diGenova told NBC News after his departure from the Justice Department.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 11/09/2026
Asked about whether he’d sidelined anyone who was sent in from DOJ headquarters, diGenova said, “As a courtesy to the department — and let me underscore, as a courtesy to the department — I am not going to discuss that.”
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Trump loyalist probing Mar-a-Lago search says DOJ tensions sparked his resignation
“Lanes got crossed,” Joe diGenova told NBC News after his departure from the Justice Department.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 11/09/2026
“The people in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Florida who are running this case have done a phenomenal job under the worst of circumstances,” diGenova said. “There’s just no doubt there weren’t sufficient resources.”
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Trump loyalist probing Mar-a-Lago search says DOJ tensions sparked his resignation
“Lanes got crossed,” Joe diGenova told NBC News after his departure from the Justice Department.
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