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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:
A chart that shows the number of emergency applications filed and granted by the Supreme Court during each presidency dating back to George W. Bush, with the data annualized to show the far-higher frequencies since 2017, but especially during the Trump I and Trump II administrations.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So confused. How was Pro Publica able to uncover and report this bribery scandal and administration cover-up without being at the White House and having the president assuring them they are stupid piggies? hhttps://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a genuinely terrible piece of journalism: Reporting, editing, writing, all of it. (Photos OK). Will appear alongside the word "credulous" in dictionaries. I had thought that the WaPo's news section was still "mainly good," in contrast to its laughable editorial section. But...
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Some people think all that we work on at @bikeeastbay.bsky.social are protected bikeways, b/c that's what gets media attention. But we also obsess over the minute details of painted bike lanes, trails, & bike boulevards to get as much as possible out of every project.
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The East Bay's newest separated bikeway is ready to ride, covering 0.2 miles of Portola Ave in Livermore. This was installed as a quick-build alongside routine paving, along w a slip turn lane closure on Enos at Portola using recycled plastic curb stops.
photo of a curbside bike lane separated from the roadway with green plastic bollards within a painted buffer spacephoto of a road construction crew installing curb stops along the side of a freshly paved road with green bike lane markings
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/09/2026
Breaking News: President Trump said he would cancel a $257 million renovation of the Kennedy Center if his name wasn’t added to the building.
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Trump Fights Back After Judge Says Name Must Stay Off Kennedy Center
President Trump threatened to cancel a $257 million renovation of the performing arts venue if the judge’s ban was not overturned.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
🚨 Patel admits agents will be deployed to polling places 👇 WELCH: I thought you weren't going to be sending people to the polls? PATEL: Nope W: So you are sending FBI agents? P: We have election crisis coordinators manned at all 56 field offices. Election integrity is of paramount importance
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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Theory of Canadian transit cost escalation since 1990s. Canadian governments adopted opaque oversight/assurance model of FTA (think consultant PMOCs). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Remember Don Jr’s wedding ceremony? In the Bahamas… Fireworks, dancers… “Just really close friends,” Don Jr. said. Well, guess who paid for hundreds of thousands of dollars of it? A Russian oligarch who is close to Putin. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Jerry Schippa @jerryschippa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A really cool new TSP operation was added this week for the EB Route A. When the EB bus gets the green at Segoe & Sheboygan, an SCP detector gets turned on at Segoe & Frey, Segoe & University, and University & Midvale. Each doing different things to help the EB bus.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In an interview with the AP, DiGenova walks back his earlier comment that there is “no evidence” in the grand conspiracy case. He now says there is “plenty of evidence.”
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In an interview later with The New York Post, diGenova responded to criticism of his management of the investigation by saying, "If you want indictments where there's no evidence, you have an ethical problem."
When reached again by the AP, diGenova said the comments were taken out of context, adding: "There's plenty of evidence in all of these cases to prove the theories of prosecution. It just takes time to get there, and some people want to get there a little faster than others - and you can't do that."
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/09/2026
Just heard the entire opinion team at Sacramento Bee—except the editor—also got laid off. I was the opinion editor at The Bee from 2018-2021. All gone.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ok, not only was the intent what I thought, but “doctors and engineers” is in fact a well-known (mostly European) sarcastic trope used to demean immigrants. The “joke” being that of course we all know, ha ha, these inferior peoples would never occupy such roles. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doctors...
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doctors and engineers - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I've read countless numbers of bad opinions from judges in my time. This is one I'll remember for how constantly it combines shallowness with ambitious stupidity.
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
OpenAI claimed their model had a breakthrough in a longstanding mathematical problem, but this scientist says that they basically stole his work
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Unprecedented corruption www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Somebody in the room needs the institutional authority to say: “Mr. President… what the fuck is wrong with you?” Apparently that position wasn’t included in the staffing plan.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A very annoying reality is that as a result of Senate malapportionment and gerrymandering the optimal strategy in the tipping point seats in the legislature (where most attention and money goes) are for Dems to say "I am a bipartisan problem solver" and for Republicans to say "Dems suck"
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Could you ever imagine you’d exist in a world where the president of the United States would refer to the number of fallen US soldiers as “small potatoes”?
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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They allowed the ballroom construction to continue despite no spending authorization from Congress, on the theory that the National Trust for Historic Preservation lacked standing. On loan forgiveness, they found standing based on theoretical harm to MOHELA, an entity not even party to the lawsuit.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026
“We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries” — Trump’s bonkers view of trade is that you become wealthy by not engaging in commerce
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026
SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler pimps her new reality show on Fox Business
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Aaaaand he’s been fired (presumably for putting all of this in an email to the victim’s lawyers). www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
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Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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Ironbound @ironbound.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Man this guy sucks
Last September, when an aide told Fetterman that officials with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, known as CHOP, wanted to meet because they were worried about Medicaid cuts, he was dismissive.
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Why do I have to keep having to meet with chop
Aide
Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.
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Well I'm not
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I'm convinced they just want free trips to DC
Source: messages reviewed by WSJ
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/09/2026
CBS Boss Bari Weiss “Personally” Led Twisted 9/11 Article on El-Sayed That sick article tying Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed to September 11 reportedly came right from the top.
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CBS Boss Bari Weiss “Personally” Led Twisted 9/11 Article on El-Sayed
That sick article tying Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed to September 11 reportedly came right from the top.
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Michael Schneider @michaelschneider.com · 02/09/2026
"How much does it cost to write your own law in California? About $500,000. That’s what Forest Lawn and Mt Sinai spent on lobbyists since 2025 to kill one road safety project, on one street, in LA. This week, Sacramento gave them their money’s worth." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Contributor: Sacramento's micromanaging of a single lane in the Hollywood Hills
Imagine what this precedent buys next. A billionaire who dislikes the housing project down the block. A millionaire who wants a bus lane gone, a park redesigned, a public street bent to private will.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Egregious omission by NYT: Its report on Vance-AES feud quotes AES's barb about Usha and Papaw without including the original Vance quote that AES was responding to. That makes it look like AES brought up Usha out of the blue and drains his quote of its real meaning: newrepublic.com/article/2149...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2026
Wow -- Lutnick is pressed on his corruption KERNEN: The perception is you're sitting at Commerce & able to control what Cantor is getting in fees w/ your sons running it. It looks like a conflict LUTNICK: It's just not. I'm no longer involved in my own companies & this is just minor stuff anyway
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Well, that can't be good for LeTHaLitY
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Donors are buying access to the ballroom/bunker so when Trump decides to sends drones and the military out to kill Americans who try to remove him from power in 2029, they'll have a place to hide from the pitchfork and torch wielding poors trying to get at them
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 31/08/2026
Breaking news: The Supreme Court said construction can continue on the White House ballroom. The justices found that the historic preservationists who challenged the project had not suffered the direct personal harm required to bring a lawsuit.
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Supreme Court clears way for White House ballroom construction to continue
The decision hands President Donald Trump a major political victory in his controversial bid to oversee the largest addition to the executive mansion in decades.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
BREAKING: On a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court allows Trump's ballroom construction to continue. The majority found that the National Trust likely lacks standing to sue. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for himself and the Democratic appointees in dissent. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
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Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack
The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026
Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has paused a lower court’s ruling that blocked key parts of President Trump’s order to restrict mail-in voting for this fall’s midterms in 23 states and Washington, D.C. U.S. Postal Service work on Trump’s order remains blocked nationwide
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26A124, 26A139 Order
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Democrats @democrats.org · 24/08/2026
On June 18, Donald Trump bought up to $500,000 in Boeing stock. That same day, Boeing received an $880 million contract from the U.S. Navy. He’s shamelessly corrupt.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 22/08/2026
“Stars And Stripes” played a major role in breaking stories about living conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln earlier this summer.
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‘Stars And Stripes’ Editor Says He’s Worried About Military Censorship After Fires Him For ‘Insubordination’
“Stars And Stripes” played a major role in breaking stories about living conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln earlier this summer.
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
No amnesty. No mercy. No fucking plea deals. Nothing but relentless pursuit and vigorous prosecution for every last one of these fucking monsters
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Nothing to worry about guys. You're all just dooming. Clearly having a captured SCOTUS telling the guy he can build his bunker isn't a bad sign at all. It's totally gonna be fine guys
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Trump appears to be so mentally incoherent that he looks to be mixing up a Q re Wall Street w/ Iran bc he heard the word "intervention" (& this is the charitable interpretation bc the other one is he is suggesting bombing Wall St). Imagine if a Dem Prez sounded this senile (even Biden never did).
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The precedent here, that the president can simply level federal buildings at will without judicial interference, will come in handy on January 21st, 2029.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As soon as there‘s a Democrat in the White House again, John Roberts will discover all kinds of new limitations on their presidential powers, but for now, President Make-a-Wish gets whatever his little heart desires
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Rep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵
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