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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 31/07/2026
As I've said before: What high-paying long-term jobs do they pretend exist here? A data center isn't a place where execs come and do Big Deals. Go to the server room at your workplace; are there lots of rich people in there spending money?
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Tim Buktu @mntimbuktu.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I don't ask for help, but I really need it. I put a lot of love into the world, and I'm hoping I can get some back for my baby. He just turned 1 and he broke his damned jaw. It's super expensive and I'm on social security. I can't bear to put him down. Please donate and share. gofund.me/f21012280
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Cartoon of the month
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t_hane @t-hane.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/a...
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D. Boon’s Death Shook Punk Rock. 40 Years Later, Minutemen Look Back.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell. acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...
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Miscellanea: The War in Iran
This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Grade-A nightmare fuel from @bretdevereaux.bsky.social acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...
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Miscellanea: The War in Iran
This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…
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💪🏽🤟🏼💪🏿🫶🏽 L Ramalho 🍉 @ramalho.org · 23/03/2026
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Feels like the obvious way to make sense of Trump's statements and actions is that he's trying to buy as much time as possible in oil markets and the stock market until a ground invasion.
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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“In his book On Strategy, U.S. Army Col. Harry Summers Jr. recounts a statement he made to North Vietnamese Col. Tu in 1975. “You know,” Summers said, “you never defeated us on the battlefield.” Tu replied, “That may be so, but it is also irrelevant.” @markhertling.bsky.social
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
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In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic
While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."
V. CONCLUSION
An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A
masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to
challenge his conduct.
A regime of secret policing has no place in our society. Here, the Government’s power is
derived by the People, and the People must be able to identify the Government when it acts to
infringe on their liberty. Masks obscure government action and deprive the public of its Fourth
Amendment protections.
Therefore, the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, [ECF No. 26], is GRANTED. Petitioner
is ORDERED released immediately from civil immigration custody. Respondents are
PROHIBITED from re-arresting and detaining Petitioner absent significant change in
circumstances to justify detention or subject to the determination of a neutral and detached
decisionmaker.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Ted Cruz in 2016, "We're liable to wake up one morning and Donald Trump if he was President would have nuked Denmark" "That's not the temperament of a leader to keep this country safe"
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t_hane @t-hane.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I had no idea until today that Andy Dick is a leading light of the fascist right
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Democrats @democrats.org · 07/01/2026
ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Todd Blanche’s appearance on Meet the Press was disgraceful but clarifying. The “Department of Justice” is Donald Trump’s defense team. There can be no presumption they’re acting in good faith. One has to approach them as one approached a Soviet “Department of Justice”—as propaganda, not justice.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Trump's secret police vandalize houses and cars, assault citizens, fire potential lethal weapons for the hell of it, and assault children, often as sexual predators... and claim impunity for all of this. CATO proposes the fix. In the meantime it's essential to document all these crimes rigorously.
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What Good Is a Right Without a Remedy?
Flagrant civil rights abuses are enabled by a legal scheme that makes it all but impossible to sue federal agents for constitutional violations and shields them with immunity should that barrier ever ...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
New paper from me offering a holistic assessment of #SCOTUS's behavior on Trump-related emergency applications thus far: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... TL;DR: The ultimate theme of the decisions is a majority bent on preserving *their* supremacy, as such—which is likely to only be self-defeating.
Abstract

This essay, prepared for the 2025 volume of The Supreme Court Review, seeks to provide a holistic account of the Supreme Court’s behavior on emergency applications relating to the Trump administration during its October 2024 Term.

As it demonstrates, the justices in those cases not only flouted the traditional standards for emergency relief; they exhibited repeated and sustained disrespect for both lower courts and Congress, enabling the executive branch to act in defiance of countless statutory restrictions; of settled constitutional understandings; and even of coercive district court mandates, all with dramatic (and deleterious) real-world consequences. As the Alien Enemies Act cases illustrate, the takeaway is not that the Court always ruled for President Trump; it's that it pushed back only when its mandates were on the line. The upshot is an attempt by the Supreme Court to preserve its supremacy, as such.

But such an approach, the essay concludes, is likely to be self-defeating. In the short term, it will encourage the executive branch to take ever-more-aggressive actions against both the people and the lower courts. And in the long term, it will not just further weaken Congress and the lower courts; it will further erode public confidence in the judiciary as an institution. Together, the increased power and momentum of the executive and the decreased credibility of (and respect for) the courts will make it that much harder for the Supreme Court to wield the supremacy it's protecting, even when it wants to.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.
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t_hane @t-hane.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Happy 9th Birthday to Sweet Eddie! Given his status as a Certified Good Boy, he got to wear this hat today and he enjoyed a cheeseburger
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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The basic dynamic is that Congress and SCOTUS left a federal-government-sized hole in the remedies available for people subjected to unconstitutional searches and seizures, and the Trump administration is presently driving an ICE caravan through it.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Unsurprisingly fantastic, nuanced piece by Dave Pozen and Jed Britton-Purdy. Read it! www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
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What Are We Living Through? - Boston Review
Three competing narratives of the second Trump administration.
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commonfence.bsky.social @commonfence.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The case is settled! The Boss said it is 'Authoritarianism.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZHW...
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Land of Hope and Dreams
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Glad to be partnering with the ACLU in my attempt to hold whoever was in charge of firing me responsible. It’s important, especially during these particular times, that we fight for our rights (and not just to party)
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
New at The Watch: radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-police...
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The police militarization debate is over
Quaint disputes about the proper role of police and military have been superseded by a more urgent threat: Donald Trump is creating his own, personal paramilitary force
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t_hane @t-hane.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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Texas Deserves Far Better Than This
The recent flooding in and around Kerrville has exposed a number of failings in the state’s disaster preparedness and response. It also kicked off a widespread public blame game. Officials have long b...
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
With the help of colleagues @tylermcbrien.com & @annahickey.lawfaremedia.org of @lawfaremedia.org , I compiled this interactive table of the state of play of litigation over Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation. Lemme know if you see errors. lawfaremedia.org/alienenemiestable
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a
new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in
such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate
manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604
U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at
1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it
left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See,
e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With
more and more of our most significant rulings taking place
in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court
leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We
are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with
similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are
now less willing to face it.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“We are currently clean on op sec.”
Joe Pesci entering the basement in Goodfellas (1990).
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Federal courts now have to treat the DOJ like a pro se plaintiff who is suing all the Jews of the world for one quadrillion dollars
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t_hane @t-hane.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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