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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Quoted by Judge Perry today in her opinion in Illinois v Trump
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Today, Johnson and Marshall are warning Americans not to go to the No Kings rallies because Trump might use the military to break them up. Pritzker is asking all Americans to attend to show their support for the Constitution and democracy and to oppose authoritarian rule by military intimidation.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Paul Ingrassia is now threatening to sue Politico: “This vexatious political attack masquerading as "journalism" is defamatory and will be addressed in forthcoming litigation.”
October 10, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Re: Statement on behalf of my client Paul Ingrassia regarding last night's story, Key Trump nominee accused of sexual harassment, POLITICO (Oct. 9, 2025), https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/09/ingrassia-trump-harassment-dhs-
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POLITICO's hit piece about Mr. Ingrassia is calculated to cause maximum harm to his promising career — and torpedo his nomination for Special Counsel. This vexatious political attack masquerading as "journalism" is defamatory and will be addressed in forthcoming litigation.
To be 100% crystal clear, so that there is zero room for doubt: Mr. Ingrassia did not engage in any wrongdoing in connection with the matters reported. As POLITICO itself reported: "The woman, whom POLITICO is not naming, said in a statement that she 'never felt uncomfortable' about Ingrassia's behavior and said she had never made a complaint." This is one of the only accurate parts of POLITICO's otherwise fantastical and fictional partisan fairy tale.
Accordingly, one last time, I call upon POLITICO to publicly apologize and issue a full retraction of this disgraceful and partisan sludge.
/s/ Edward Andrew Paltzik
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/10/2025
"I'm not going to beg the monarch for mercy." - @schatz.bsky.social @samsteindc.bsky.social talked to Sen. Schatz about Vought's shutdown glee at cutting programs and hurting Americans
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Holy crap
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
What on earth?? hellgatenyc.com/city-jail-na...
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Adams Administration Quietly Renames the Tombs for Disgraced Criminal Bernard Kerik
The Lower Manhattan jail facility briefly bore Kerik's name once before, until he was convicted of corruption.
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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.
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ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.
A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 11/10/2025
cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2025
Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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🫶🏻Layla🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 11/10/2025
Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Militarnyi @militarnyi.com · 10/10/2025
🇨🇿The Czech army is recording an increasing number of cases of unidentified drones flying over its military facilities. 🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/czec...
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Czech Military Spots Unidentified Drones Over Military Bases - Militarnyi
The Czech army is recording an increasing number of cases of unidentified drones flying over its military facilities.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 11/10/2025
Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff's lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?
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Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco -- stunning his own PR team | TechCrunch
Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff's lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Newsmax goes through the 5 stages of grief over Trump losing the Nobel Peace Prize. "I don't think he should want a Nobel Prize cuz does he really want to be next to Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat?" The host then says Trump "should get his own award" from countries that support him.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 10/10/2025
Please stop saying the problem is only Netanyahu. The Israeli electorate is deeply radicalized and this is a major problem. www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-l...
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Netanyahu’s Likud enjoys slight bump in support on heels of Gaza deal, poll shows
Ex-PM Bennett, who has been largely silent on the truce-hostage agreement, sinks to lowest number of Knesset seats in potential election since first being included in Maariv survey
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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
In a free edition of the Japan Daily Briefing — I’m starting “free Fridays” — I look more at the causes and effects of Kōmeitō’s break with the LDP and discuss Ishiba’s reflections on the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II. open.substack.com/pub/observin...
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The end of the coalition | Japan Daily Briefing
As the coalition breaks, Ishiba delivers an impassioned defense of democracy
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Say no to drugs, kids
Peter thiel is out of his mind
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Marsha Blackburn Hit With Community Note Over January 6th Phone Records Blackburn voted for the powers that were used to investigate her meidasnews.com/news/marsha-...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago. She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵
OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.
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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
A brief summary of everything I have written on RIFs to date. RIFs are insanely complex and procedurally difficult to implement. Most RIFs are challenged on procedural grounds. 1/7 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-pr...
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A Primer on Reductions in Force
Trump seeks to reduce the size of the federal workforce using a complicated and arcane process.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Whoa, Judge Perry says the Feds’ declarations about unrest at ICE facilities are not credible because some of the incidents they cite in their declarations were separately no-billed by grand juries
The Court therefore must make a credibility assessment as to which version of the facts
should be believed. While the Court does not doubt that there have been acts of vandalism, civil
disobedience, and even assaults on federal agents, the Court cannot conclude that Defendants' declarations are reliable. Two of Defendants' declarations refer to arrests made on September 27,
2025 of individuals who were carrying weapons and assaulting federal agents. See Doc. 62-2 at
19; Doc. 62-4 at 5. But neither declaration discloses that federal grand juries have refused to
return an indictment against at least three of those individuals, which equates to a finding of a lack of probable cause that any crime occurred. See United States v. Ray Collins and Jocelyne Robledo, 25-cr-608, Doc. 26 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 7, 2025); United States v. Paul Ivery, 25-cr-609
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
imagine overhearing your 12-year-old threaten to fuck their opponent’s mom over Xbox live and they are speaking to Bashar al-Assad
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
naming names for the broad spectrum attack that’s coming against liberal NGO’s
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Dawn❌👑Ocean Harmony🎶🌴☀️♿️🐕‍🦺🦮👩‍🦽🚶🏻‍♂️ @dawnoceanharmony.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
www.youtube.com/live/mr1X5nh...
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LIVE: Sens. Duckworth, Durbin speak at Broadview ICE facility
YouTube video by ABC 7 Chicago
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praying mantis @gentlem.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
www.opb.org/article/2025... There’s no such thing as 1000%. Percent literally means a specified amount out of one hundred. Please don’t even entertain this nonsense from individuals who haven’t mastered 2nd grade math.
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White House claims “more than 1,000%” rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true. <br><br>
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2025
Many were asking that since Judge Perry granted the TRO "in part," which part was she not granting. The answer: "The Court declines at this time to enter a Preliminary Injunction, and also to extend the scope of the TRO to include the military..." This is the TRO blocking deployment of the NG to IL
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
If GOP wants to abolish the filibuster over this, awesome. It helps Rs way more than Ds. It’s also a central reason for loss of faith in government over the last 25 yrs. Rs can reopen the govt tonight if they want. If they want to do it to make sure 15 million lose their health care that’s on them.
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Are you fucking FOR REAL? This administration is out there saying, sure, guys, go ahead and pollute the air and water, refuse to continue green energy plans (good paying jobs in red states btw!!!), while asking EPA scientists to be abortion bounty hunters? This fucking timeline is BLEAK.
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Abortion Pill Traces                2 m ago

The E.P.A. asked scientists to explore whether it’s possible to find traces of mifepristone in wastewater, as some anti-abortion activists want.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 10/10/2025
I don't know why everyone thinks it's new or novel that a US-subsidized petrostate vassal that we arm with our weapons and use to project our power across SWANA is building a training facility here. We're the largest weapons dealer in the world.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
EISMAN: Tesla’s earnings “are down 60% from 2022 through 2025. And the stock is slightly higher. .. “.. it’s a cult.” @electrek.co $TSLA electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2025
this is an absolutely insane news conference for the Attorney General of the United States to be participating in. (note how Benny Johnson describes the Annunciation shooting as an act of political violence, which is a lie)
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
See? It's all a fuckin' game.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows. The Dezers made billions on Trump-branded condos. Now they're cleaning up with no-bid contracts to fly prisoners to foreign concentration camps.
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This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison
Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 10/10/2025
Apple was sued by two neuroscientists — Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik, professors at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University — who alleged the tech giant used illegal 'shadow libraries' of pirated books to train its Apple Intelligence AI model reut.rs/48Zvz7d
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Militarnyi @militarnyi.com · 10/10/2025
🇳🇴The Norwegian Armed Forces have launched their own drone program, under which they will spend 1.5 billion kroner (130 million euros) on testing domestic drones over the next 10 years. 🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/norw...
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Norwegian Armed Forces Tested Domestic FPV Drones - Militarnyi
The Norwegian military launched its own drone program, under which it will spend 1.5 billion kroner on testing domestic drones over the next 10 years.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11/10/2025
The White House budget office said in a court filing that it could fire over 4,000 federal employees during the government shutdown, though it noted that the funding situation was “fluid and rapidly evolving.”
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Budget office says 'substantial' firings of federal workers have started in government shutdown
The White House budget office says that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.
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Militarnyi @militarnyi.com · 10/10/2025
🇹🇷 The Turkish jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicle Kızılelma has, for the first time, successfully employed weapons. BAYKAR reported that the drone dropped a TEBER-82 munition as well as guided aerial bombs called TOLUN.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
So they are adding new wrinkles to the #KavanaughStops
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
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What causes autism? Here's what the White House gets wrong.
More than a hundred autism genes have been identified, explains author Peter Hotez. And Tylenol isn't the biggest environmental factor.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/10/2025
When Trump came along—a fellow oligarch, looking to use the power of the American presidency to enrich himself and his cronies as much as possible—these figures jumped at the chance to share in the spoils. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...
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Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn
A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 11/10/2025
Column: A telehealth startup had a plan for ADHD drugs. Now two executives face a criminal trial​ @jgreenejenna.bsky.social reut.rs/4ha9vJk
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