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@secretsandlaws.bsky.social
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Former CIA attorney, addressing all things relating to national security, secrecy, classification, FOIA, climate change, and bird law.

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 9h
🚨Exclusive🚨: I have exculpatory evidence in what is easily the dumbest congressional oversight episode of the year...maybe the decade. I was at the Iowa v. MD game & just looked at my pics & sure enough, someone who looks like Jack Smith is sitting in Sec 109, Row 1. Complete & total vindication!
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A lawyer's least favorite thing is when a client tries to second-guess them by using ChatGPT for legal research. So it should come as no surprise that Lane Kiffin almost got LSU kicked out of the SEC by doing the same thing. What an assclown.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
These people are really weird. Why did we stop calling them weird?
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Man, things are going great. Whoever is in charge of the President's foreign policy team definitely deserves glowing media coverage and should be considered the front-runner for 2028.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
People have been rightly focusing on how Trump blaming Walz for the cyber attacks from Iran is disgusting & unpatriotic. But a bigger problem is that it signals to our adversaries that they can attack Americans with impunity, as long as Trump sees them as political enemies.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Donald Trump has regularly: ✅cheated on his wives ✅ cheated on his taxes ✅ cheated his business partners ✅ cheated his donors ✅ cheated at golf Cheating is all he knows, and our elections are his next target. The media needs to wake up and stop spreading his lies.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The most extreme position a politician can have right now is claiming that climate change is a hoax. Yet the DC punditry never wrings its hands over that.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
All by design according to MAGA. Or sabotage. Definitely one of those. Or both. Yup.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Thank God we live in a country where these two masculine alpha dogs are our leaders.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 14/06/2026
UFC Gives Trump Crypto Venture An Interest-Free Loan— 1. UFC gives World Liberty cash 2. World Liberty gives fighters USD1 3. World Liberty invests UFC’s cash in Treasuries and pockets the interest.
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UFC to pay White House fighters in crypto issued by Trump company
Some fighters will receive bonuses in ‘stablecoins’ issued by Trump family business World Liberty Financial
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Attention youth basketball coaches: I hope Jalen Brunson's success will make you finally realize that it's important for all players on your team to learn post moves. Thinking you can just ignore this aspect of the game is one of the dumbest developments in the last 20 years, and Jalen proves that.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“A predilection for nipples…”
AI image of Trump officials in situation room similar to the Obama bin Laden raid photo
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Please remember that New York Knicks star OG Anunoby is an immigrant, while Karl-Anthony Towns & Jordan Clarkson are the children of immigrants. The same is true for multiple bench players. They represent the America that Trump wants to destroy. Don't let him claim their mantle.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is an indicator of weakness on both sides. Bolton was not willing to take the risk of going to trial, even w/ a favorable jury pool. More so, it's reflective of challenges facing DOJ w/ using highly classified info at trial, esp. on how USG knew the Iranians got his emails.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If you want to understand why Trump named a political hack with no intelligence experience to be the Acting DNI, this is your answer. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency
Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
15 days ago
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
It's no coincidence that the first case in which Roberts exercised these unprecedented "shadow docket" powers involved climate change policy. Please always remember that his efforts to damage the planet should be as much a part of his legacy as his attacks on democracy.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Because the screenwriters like to constantly fuck with us, I give you the new prosecutor in the Brennan/Russia conspiracy case.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“Doctor…doctor…doctor…doctor…doctor…doctor…doctor…doctor…doctor…doctor…doctor…and doctor.”
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“Doctor…doctor…doctor…doctor…doctor…doctor…doctor…doctor…doctor…doctor…doctor…and doctor.”
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Jokes aside, TMZ coming to DC is a big counterintelligence win too. The fewer scandalous secrets, the less likely it is that these bozos can be blackmailed by a foreign intel service. Bw people like Swalwell & Gonzales & the closeted MAGA warriors, imagine what is going on today.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The AI slop that designed this hellish simulation that we live in got kind of lazy when it came to designing its neofascist//Russian-controlled//white guy avatars.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It's cute that so many evangelicals are ignoring them most obvious explanation, which is that Trump has never read the Bible and has no idea what idolatry is.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 11/04/2026
Good afternoon! Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates— 💰His net worth is up $2 billion, to $6.3 billion 💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million 💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million 💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million And Jared became a billionaire last year. Have a great day!
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I feel like watching the movie Space Camp about fifty times as a kid makes me an expert on the challenges of reentering the Earth’s atmosphere.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I don't know about you, but I am constantly sending unsolicited emails to people I don't have a relationship with to congratulate them on their magazine photos, inquire about their travels, and ask them to call me next time they are in town. All. The. Time. Same for you?
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
One of the few people who can prove whether Melania is lying about Epstein is Ghislaine Maxwell. Trump's personal lawyer, now the Acting AG, transferred her to a minimum security prison. And Trump has publicly said that he "wishes her well." Nothing to see here.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
It feels like we are entering the “inject bleach into your veins” phase of Trump’s handling of the Iran war.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
It feels like we are entering the “inject bleach into your veins” phase of Trump’s handling of the Iran war.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
If only the Trump team could have anticipated that a desperate country might use Shahed drones to target the energy infrastructure of its neighbors.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Seems like a bad reason
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I think it’s more likely that Hegseth thinks “no quarter” sounds cool since he sees it in his Christian Nationalist 4Chan groups all the time, and doesn’t know what it actually means.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/03/2026
Huge, huge bummer. This is one of the most promising technologies I've ever covered.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Shot // Chaser
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I know there's a lot going on in the world right now, but we need to talk about back-in parking. It's become a national crisis.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Rallying around the flag means rallying around the Constitution, not the unscrupulous leaders who trample upon it.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It's very unfortunate that this moment may be upon us. Hopefully we avoid Iranian attacks on US civilians, but if that happens, it's absolutely critical that Democrats remind the public of how we got here. That story must feature the GOP Congress that enabled this debacle.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
They are very deliberately and maliciously destroying the country's national security apparatus. When inevitably there's an attack and US citizens die, the blood will be on this Administration's hands. Democrats need to build that narrative now. apnews.com/article/trum...
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White House sidelines 160 National Security Council staffers, aligning the team with Trump's agenda
President Donald Trump’s national security adviser has sidelined about 160 National Security Council staffers, telling them to work from home while the administration reviews staffing and tries to ali...
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It's just amazing, and horrifying, that so many people have zero dignity whatsoever. All because of one man.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Perhaps there were some early signs that Will Lewis was a moron.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Aged well, sadly
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
You might be able to find an endless supply of MAGA warriors to be ICE agents, but that's not true for DOJ. At this pace, DOJ will soon have a significant shortfall of criminal & civil attorneys, with no backfill. Charges won't be filed. Civil cases will receive half-hearted defenses, if any at all.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 04/12/2025
Donald Trump’s first appearance in the NYT— “Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City” from 1973
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Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City | DocumentCloud
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
If they're willing to do this shit in public, imagine what they're doing behind closed doors.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Fixing our farms and food systems, and improving what we eat, is a recipe for better human and planetary health. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org @isbnpa.bsky.social @mason4c.bsky.social @jonathanpatz.bsky.social @howardfrumkin.bsky.social
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A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say
Scientists are presenting new evidence that the worst effects of climate change can’t be avoided without a major transformation of food systems.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I get that having a robust media is more important but at some point can we talk about how Jeff Bezos ruined Whole Foods too???
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Things are so bad that the Minnesota prison system has had to launch a website specifically to combat DHS lies. The first major release from DOC officials suggests Gregory Bovino outright lied about the target of the Border Patrol operation during which agents shot and killed Alex Pretti.
KARE 11: Minnesota DOC launches new website to 'address ongoing misinformation by DHS'
The DOC names Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino directly in a statement.Minnesota Department of Corrections Statement on Minneapolis Shooting and Federal Claims
January 24, 2026
The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) extends its condolences to the family and loved ones of Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed by federal agents this morning in Minneapolis. The loss of life is tragic, and Minnesotans deserve transparency, accountability, and facts.

In the hours following the shooting, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino held a press conference asserting that the operation was targeting an individual named Jose Huerta-Chuma and characterized him as having a significant criminal history. Because federal statements have repeatedly included inaccurate information about Minnesota custody and criminal records, the DOC reviewed available records to determine whether the individual referenced had any connection to Minnesota state prison custody.ased on DOC records and publicly available Minnesota court data:

The individual identified by federal officials has never been in Minnesota DOC custody.
DOC and court records show no felony commitments associated with this
Public Minnesota court records reflect only misdemeanor-level traffic offenses from more than a decade ago.
The individual is not currently under DOC supervision.
DOC records further indicate that an individual by this name was previously held in federal immigration custody in a local Minnesota jail in 2018, during President Trump’s first administration. Any decisions regarding release from federal custody at that time would have been made by federal authorities. DOC has no information explaining why this individual was released.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Who's gonna be the first person to present a fake Nobel Prize to Trump in the Oval Office? The competition is going to be intense!
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