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Smarky Smarkles @scottmarks.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

“you'll be visited by three spirits" the three spirits:

Smarky Smarkles @scottmarks.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

My October album listening was dominated by artists I saw live at FEST in Gainesville with a few other new ones and favorites

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Smarky Smarkles @scottmarks.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I am advocating for due process for Kilmar and all immigrants disappeared to El Salvador

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

This captures the vile, racist lawlessness and cruelty of the Trumpist regime so precisely. Hard to come up with something that is further removed from the nobler aspirations in the country’s history - and more in line with the absolute worst version of what America has been.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Strong rumor with credible sourcing: DOJ has put all of public integrity line attorneys in a room and told them they have an hour for someone to choose who will sign motion to dismiss and if nobody does, they will all be fired. The nastiest strong-arming in DOJ history by a long shot.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

BY EMAIL
Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH)
Mr. Bove,
I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S.
Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General.
In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse.
No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.
There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to,
give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.
Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the
Southern District of New York.
Yours truly,
Hagan Scotten
Assistant United States Att…

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Oren Gur @orengur.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic. This is devastating

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Dreamboat Branny 🦢 @bransonreese.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Sorry if it's cringe or virtue signaling or whatever but unqualified and unconditional love and support to every trans person on earth. You will win and I will help you.

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets

Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Beyond. Parody.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 05/02/2025

Okay, let's keep going. Got another one today looking at just how absolutely fucking crazy it is that an inexperienced Musk-lackey is apparently pushing untested live code to America's checkbook. Tried to contextualize all of it. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/a...

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A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Just months after we learned Chinese hackers had compromised US telecom systems through government-mandated backdoors, an inexperienced developer from Musk’s DOGE unit is pushing untested cod…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I can think of at least eight federal laws that have been broken by Musk and his goons over the last few days, and at least two provisions of the U.S. Constitution. They must be stopped. Some thoughts: robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-mu...

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How the Muskrat is messing with your social security, your religion, and everything else

He and his goons must be stopped

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Smarky Smarkles @scottmarks.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Hey, the USA seems to be ending but here’s my January 5x5 anyway While you’re at it, fight for trans rights!

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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

So how’s it going so far?

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Leger-Felicite Snorlax🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I don't know what the correct amount of attention to pay to the horrors is

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Smarky Smarkles @scottmarks.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

January Ocean check-in - Rockport, Massachusetts at Halibut Point State Park

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Smarky Smarkles @scottmarks.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

First song heard by your favorite artist. I missed the ASoB and BTMI era completely and somehow fell in love with the reckless abandon of emotion here (and then cemented that love with a Chris Gethard show appearance and “Worry”)