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Spoiler of special needs dogs and a bossy old parrot, undisciplined milkweed grower, recovering lawyer, and amateur fermenter and coffee roaster.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Obviously the current White House is rather more than a four bedroom ranch home. Its actual title is the Executive Mansion. And that’s a fair description, a mansion. This is a palace, a very visible statement of monarchical intent. No Kings, no palaces.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/07/2025
Trump says Triple H and the rest of his sports commission "will be working on college football in terms of, uh, what happened. It's a mess. What they're doing with college football and the fans are upset about it. Players are being taken from team after team and traded around like playing cards."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Fuck DOGE.
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WIRED @wired.com · 31/07/2025
A wasp nest with radiation levels 10 times higher than permitted under federal regulations was discovered at a site in South Carolina that handles nuclear waste.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 31/07/2025
And so it begins... Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling [Obergefell v. Hodges]
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Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
(RNS) — ‘We think that it’s not a matter of if, but just a matter of when, the Supreme Court will overrule Obergefell,’ said Mathew Staver, head of Liberty Counsel.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Among the guests at Bove’s confirmation party was Jeffrey Clark. In 2023, Clark was criminally charged alongside Bove’s former client, Donald Trump, for their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Today, DC Bar regulators recommended that Clark be disbarred. bsky.app/profile/anna...
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Oh boy. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
The filing, which is not public, was submitted to the inspector general’s office in electronic form on May 2, and a longer, printed version that included documentary evidence was delivered on May 5, according to people familiar with the filing.

The inspector general appears to have done nothing with the information for more than two months, and many in that office did not realize they even had the material until a day or two before the full Senate voted on Mr. Bove’s nomination. He was confirmed Tuesday by a razor-thin margin, 50 to 49.

Last Friday, when the whistle-blower group went public about the filing’s existence, the inspector general’s office told lawmakers that it had no such complaint, according to people familiar with the case, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. The office only found the documents after lawyers for the whistle-blower presented electronic and FedEx delivery receipts for them.

The implications of that inaction are potentially significant, given that Republicans have cast skepticism on another Justice Department whistle-blower, Erez Reuveni, describing his account as part of a politically timed effort by Democrats to scuttle a Trump nomination.

That someone appears to have come forward about Mr. Bove’s conduct well before his nomination was known would undercut those claims. The complaint, according to people familiar with it, outlines a set of allegations that largely tracks with Mr. Reuveni’s account.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
JPMORGAN: “.. progress toward bringing both wage and price growth down to levels consistent with the Fed’s price stability mandate looks to have stalled. If we are right, tariff pass-through will push up US core CPI inflation to a faster than 4%ar in 2H25.”
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
One of the most consequential things Trump is doing. Deserves as much attention as the Epstein mess. But good luck with that. He is changing the policy so that greenhouse gases cannot be regulated and climate change can’t be addressed. Trump is killing the future.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Quiet part out loud — “The children's savings program included in Trump's (Trillions Transfer) is a back door for privatizing Social Security, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday.” apnews.com/article/trum...
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Destroying everything in the name of the war of drugs and xenophobia.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer Todd Blanche will now determine whether he thinks evidence against certain individuals is “credible” or not, and DOJ will not release those parts of the Epstein files. What’s released is whatever Trump’s criminal lawyer decides is credible.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
José Andrés: People of Good Conscience Must Stop the Starvation in Gaza ... magnificent piece www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
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Opinion | José Andrés: People of Good Conscience Must Stop the Starvation in Gaza
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 28/07/2025
“There is no way to feed 2 million civilians in a war zone when there are men with guns circulating around those civilians.” @tommalinowski.bsky.social on the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"resolve dispute" is a bizarre way to describe extortion.
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Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up To $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute
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Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Emmett Till would be 84 today. Not 114. Not 104. 84. He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember.
Black and white image of Emmett Till in hat, white shirt, and tie.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Not to mention that Ambassador Huckabee is an ordained “Christian” minister.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
You may very logically be wondering why in the hell RFK Jr. is dismantling the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a group of volunteer expert scientists who provide guidance for things like when to begin cancer screenings. It’s because he thinks the members are “too woke”.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover, people familiar with the matter said.
Kennedy plans to dismiss all 16 panel members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force because he views them as too "woke," the people said.
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Blue Horizon @phds2.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
For months, I have been saying I don’t trust the economic data from this lying administration. “REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The family values party. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/25/g...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
It’s pretty obvious they’re going to use Maxwell to absolve Trump so it would be wise for Democrats to get out there and remind everyone — she wasn’t a victim and she wasn’t merely an accomplice in luring girls into Epstein’s trap; she was also allegedly an active participant in these girls’ abuse.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/07/2025
Former Attorney General Eric Holder called Trump’s DOJ “a totally different planet,” citing politicization and loyalty-based hiring. Still, he said it’s crucial for Democrats to stay in the fight.
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Holder: GOP ‘Enemies of Democracy’ Must Be Defeated
Read more here.
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 23/07/2025
Yesterday, Wilmer Chavarria, a Vermonter & US Citizen, was held and interrogated for hours in the Houston airport by CBP agents. He's a school superintendent. So don’t try to tell us this is about removing violent criminals. This is how they use psychological terror to intimidate us into silence.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/07/2025
This is a human rights violation. Multiple detainees described a disturbing incident where dozens of men were forced to eat food they had been denied all day while shackled. “We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs,” — from a new Human Rights Watch report.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Spotted in Tallahassee…
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Matt Cohen @mattdcohen.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
It's no secret that the DOJ has been sending letters to a bunch of states to try and get access to their voter rolls, but here's a first: For Oklahoma, the DOJ just straight-up called them to ask for voter registration information. No paper trail or anything. From Oklahoma State Election Board PIO:
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
900 lawyers have never agreed on anything.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
NEW at Bolts: Wyoming just became the second state to enforce a strict 'proof of citizenship' law. This is a MAGA priority since Trump amplified false claims about noncitizen voting post-2020, and it risks tripping up a lot of eligible citizens who don't have the right documents. Read on:
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Wyoming Is Now Requiring Would-be Voters to Document Their Citizenship - Bolts
On the first of this month, Wyoming residents began facing some of the nation’s harshest rules when registering to vote, and additional barriers may still be coming. Wyoming became the... Read More
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 17/07/2025
I’m old enough to remember when John Barrasso consistently opposed defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting because CPB’s most important role is financially sustaining radio and TV broadcast infrastructure in places like WYOMING where private enterprise will not connect people to the world.
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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
👀✈️ Eswatini. Not confirmed, but likely people were transferred in Djibouti to military plane operated without visibility
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
WHOA. One of Eric Adams' former police commissioners just filed a lawsuit accusing him of running the NYPD like a "racketeering enterprise."
donlon suit
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis diverted disaster prep resources during hurricane season in the rush to build the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/co...
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Contracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantis’ ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
TPM has obtained and analyzed over a dozen contracts and invoices related...
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 16/07/2025
Duffy does not know the most important facts about his own agency; no wonder he's giving entirely false accounts of New York City crime rates.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
NEWS via Punchbowl “California House Dems are huddling w Hakeem Jeffries on the possibility of mid decade redistricting. Gavin Newsom has floated this as a way to counter GOP redistricting in Texas.”
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/07/2025
“I hadn’t seen that kind of activation in the 22 years I’ve lived here. Nothing like it.” How ICE's arrest of high school student Marcelo Gomes da Silva mobilized a Massachusetts town
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How ICE’s arrest of a high school student activated a Massachusetts town
“We’re trying to find ways the community can defend itself.”
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
2 tracks: 1. If 3d country gives U.S. diplomatic assurances that alien won't be persecuted/tortured: alien is deported (no process). 2. All other cases: if alien, without prompting, claims fear of 3d country, an asylum officer interviews him. If asylum officer rejects claim, alien is deported.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
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theglovesareoff.bsky.social @theglovesareoff.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
No further comment required.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”
Homeland Security DHS account on X: Remember your Homeland's Heritage.
New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Republicans backloaded some of the worst parts of the bill until AFTER the 2026 midterm elections in the hope people won’t notice, but now you know. Act accordingly!
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Lawless all the way down.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 13/07/2025
Maybe this is why they've been hiding the head of FEMA for a week.
A zoom in from Kabas' photo showing what Richardson looks like: a be-ringed middle aged dude with heavy features and greased-back hair in a polka dot shirt open to the middle of his portly chest, with some kind of low-cut leotard beneath and a chain around his neck that might be holding a badge but looks like jewelry.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/07/2025
Holy shit -- Kevin Hassett completely bombs on ABC when pressed by Jon Karl to explain how Trump can possibly justify 50% tariffs on Brazil even though the country has a trade *deficit* with the US
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Watch this to the end.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I wrote about covering the aftermath of the immigration raids in Venture County this week. Most of what’s on my mind in this piece is dark and angry—none of this should be normal. A man shouldn’t have died running for his life Thru all this, the community care in the county was a sight to behold.
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