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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 18h

What in the actual dystopia

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.

Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ☃︎ ❄︎ @moxiest.art · 20h

there's no way to really explain to dudes what's up better than 25 years of being in pits without a single bad experience, and then getting groped multiple times while dolled up in a pit for the first (1st) time ever last month

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

As an Arizonan I want rain … but not this badly

Long Beach classic posts a photo of the radar for hurricane Rachel approaching and it looks like a giant dick with the tip pointing at Phoenix

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spooky grace @acab4cutie.top · 10/10/2026

the sky has a neat streak 🌧️

A dark grey sky with a white streak along the bottom of the picture and a bird flying

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 18h

Oh good so you made this about you lol What a fucking shock

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 18h

Guessing his blue check troll farmies have suddenly disappeared

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h

You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 10/10/2026

We’re about to get so much rain and none tornadoes Promise me none tornado

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

An enormous kelvin wave has hit your state while ICE is invading to kidnap your citizens and send them to slave-labor concentration camps. Maybe prioritize a bit more

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

At least he’s not destroying the encampments of the unhoused today (???) Maybe he still enjoys that, just privately

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

Imagine if the ai models tried to be women in a game chat

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

Bro a giant kelvin wave is flooding your state while the Gestapo is invading to kidnap your citizens and take them to concentration camps Maybe be an actual person instead of a rich boy corrupt politician for the first time in your life.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

An enormous kelvin wave has hit your state while ICE is invading to kidnap your citizens and send them to slave-labor concentration camps. Maybe prioritize a bit more

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

I respect you enough to expect you to meet the expectations that you set for yourself. This is a breaking point, and you could help start it all right there. Be the mayor from France + you. Be brave and stand up for what you know is right in a meaningful way. The people will protect you.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

Respecting someone enough to demand that they live up to the expectations *they set for themselves* is not a bad thing, by the way. Criticize what needs to be criticized. He knows this is wrong, and he needs to do better. But will he? Without us pushing? Clearly not.

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Caitlin 🎃🐈‍⬛🎃 @freshmintytaste.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Kinda seems like you also need to do something about the police

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

I do feel mocked you’re right lmao

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Izzy, The Mothman @therealmothman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mother nature is just making fun of us at this point.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

They should sponsor me purely for love of the game

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

I genuinely have no idea if that radar photo is real, but here’s what our local station posted and…… it got bigger lmao

Screenshot from 12 News showing the hurricane rachel radar and it looks like a much larger bent scary penis this time

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

As an Arizonan I want rain … but not this badly

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Liberals and Conservatives teamed up again today — funny how that keeps happening — to get Bill C-39 over the hurdle of its first vote. The massive, 243-page bill bulldozes environmental protections, Indigenous rights and attacks the right to strike. Here's what this means:

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

Omg my mom loved this damn album so much

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

*bravely states the obvious then does absolutely nothing about it*

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ICE is a militia of serial abusers.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

How specifically will you be standing up to the Gestapo invading your state to kidnap your citizens and throw them into concentration camps?

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

How specifically will you be standing up to the Gestapo invading your state to kidnap your citizens and throw them into concentration camps?

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

“It’s illegal, tell the gestapo that” Sounds about right.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026

I am late but I am here and lesbianing

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026

This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drink

The console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders.

In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink

A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same

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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Had a California equivalent to a “snow day” because of El Niño Balboa Boulevard was under water throughout most of the peninsula Long underwater Kelvin waves and the oncoming storm surge caused havoc and preventing me from getting to one of my clients homes today 🌊

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 09/10/2026