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portland, denver, san antonio.

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Gus Bova @gusbova.bsky.social · 5h
“If ICE is going to act with criminal impunity, why should we cooperate with them at all?” www.texasobserver.org/wilber-garce...
texasobserver.org
What Will It Take to ‘Get ICE the Fuck Out of Austin’?
Shootings by federal agents are proliferating since Donald Trump took office in 2025, several of them in Texas. To stop it from happening again, local elected officials and prosecutors are hunting for...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h
Cannot emphasize enough that the morass we find ourselves in everywhere is a result of this commitment to white supremacy. The eugenic health policy, the belief and desire for US autarky, meddling & murder in Latin America, the half-cocked belief that the US could bully Iran- it really is.
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Councilor Candace Avalos @counciloravalos.bsky.social · 33m
Please have the PIRC number (1-888-622-1510) saved in your phone and brush up on how to report potential immigration enforcement activity:
pircoregon.org
What To Do If You See ICE | Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition
Learn what actions to take if you encounter ICE agents in your community.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 37m
Tennessee's response is that there is no pending execution, so, the court could give no relief in this case. The judge pushes back, asking the state if they can confirm there wouldn't be a new execution date set in the future, which the lawyer says he can't (essentially ending the argument, imho).
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 1h
The crazymaking thing about the centrist "we'll just give them the trans folks" idea is not just that it's ethically morally bankrupt, it's not just that it doesn't work and makes you look like a spineless coward, it's that the ethical response is SO FUCKING EASY:
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 57m
Tennessee is here fighting an evidence preservation request following its failure to kill Christa Pike. Judge, noting that Pike was earlier in the litigation focused on stopping the execution, asks of TN's args today: "Isn't that kind of an untenable position?" "We are here improvidently."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h
Note: Texas is planning on killing Jamaal Howard later today. Requests for stays of execution are pending at the Supreme Court.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 56m
Chickens have standing, Trump doesn’t . :)
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3h
The Trump administration will start selecting lawyers for unaccompanied minors. Meaning the judges work for Donald Trump, the prosecutors work for Trump, and now the attorneys representing children will work for Trump. This is a rigged system that will result in more untold horrors for these kids.
cnn.com
Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 15h
this reads like doj is saying the guy did a really great fraud
North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted Music Streaming Fraud
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 15h
If we have some kind of financial crisis, we’re going to be in deep shit www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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12tone @12tone.nebula.tv · 21h
Williams, 37, then unleashed her response to the DHS’ statement in an Instagram Story post Monday: “And may I suggest all Nazi bitches suck on my fat d***.”

A DHS representative did not immediately return The Independent’s request for comment.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 20h
I don't know how people find these random old posts, but sometimes they find a winner. Yesterday someone liked this 2+ year old image and it let me see it again. Look at baby Colin Robinson.
Tiny baby white goat in a field of blue and red wildflowers
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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 22h
As the Supreme Court said of Lafayette Park, "Although originally part of the White House grounds, President Jefferson set it aside as a park for the use of residents and visitors" and is in fact "visited by vast numbers of visitors from around the country" and the DC area.
Screenshot from the US Supreme Court case Clark v Community for Creative Non-Violence: "The network of National Parks includes the National Memorial-core parks, Lafayette Park and the Mall, which are set in the heart of Washington, D.C., and which are unique resources that the Federal Government holds in trust for the American people. Lafayette Park is a roughly 7-acre square located across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. Although originally part of the White House grounds, President Jefferson set it aside as a park for the use of residents and visitors. It is a "garden park with a . . . formal landscaping of flowers and trees, with fountains, walks and benches." National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, White House and President's Park, Resource Management Plan 4.3 (1981). The Mall is a stretch of land running westward from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial some two miles away. It includes the Washington Monument, a series of reflecting pools, trees, lawns, and other greenery. It is bordered by, inter alia, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art. Both the Park and the Mall were included in Major Pierre L'Enfant's original plan for the Capital. Both are visited by vast numbers of visitors from around the country, as well as by large numbers of residents of the Washington metropolitan area."
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American Oversight @americanoversight.org · 22h
NEW: ICE has spent $16.7 million on shock gloves. Through a FOIA request, we obtained the Army’s 2024 report on them. It shows the gloves are designed to inflict severe pain. What it doesn’t show is whether there are lasting health impacts. americanoversight.org/analysis/sho...
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Jeremiah Hayden @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social · 22h
A new complaint filed Monday alleges a web of new committees funded by the Metro Chamber's United for Portland PAC violated local and state elections laws by obscuring the true funding source of political billboards and filing false campaign-finance statements.
portlandmercury.com
“DitchMitch” Billboard Campaign Violates Local and State Elections Laws, Complaint Says - Portland Mercury
A new complaint filed with the city, county, and state elections offices alleges multiple political action committees violated independent expenditure rules when they failed to properly report informa...
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 23h
Well, that is certainly a way of picking a law school dean that will produce a result.
University of Austin (UATX) & -3h
Who will be dean of UATX Law? The search has begun.
Search committee: Judge James C. Ho, Judge Andrew S. Oldham, Judge Amul R.
Thapar, and co-chairs Claire Brickman and Adam Biggs.
Applications reviewed beginni Show
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23h
NEW: Following the Supreme Court OK'ing states' trans sports bans, ADF is now taking its targeting of states with pro-trans sports policies to SCOTUS — via the shadow docket in a case out of Washington. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Co-written by former DOJ IG Michael Bromwich, the letter notes that Trump has forced out ~20 IGs over the past 20 mos in favor of "politically aligned replacements," and says that how this inquiry is handled will be a "test of the IG system under this Administration." 2/2
We are aware that over the past 20 months, this Administration has removed o
forced out approximately 20 non-partisan inspectors general in favor of politically aligned replacements.3 In that regard, the investigations we are requesting constitute a further test of the IG system under this Administration. The investigations must not be conducted in a partisan fashion, nor result in politically motivated whitewashes, notwithstanding any pressure internal or external to the Administration. Anything less than a full and fair review would be a betrayal of your mission and perpetuate the outrageous mistreatment of Mr. Hearn. We are prepared to take further steps to assure accountability.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wow. In case you think this is only about the economy, data we obtained shows that in South Texas, Latinos now disapprove of Trump *on immigration and the border* by huge margins. South Texas was locus of the vaunted "realignment." Immigration has helped unravel it. newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The US government's statements about the Iran War starting with saying they had defeated Iran a dozen of times to then saying hey if they nuke American cities that is actually okay is the kind of shit that only speaks to a base that has willingly locked themselves in a room with a charcoal grill.
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Out of Context Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @ooccouchgags.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 06/10/2026
First on @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
nbcnews.com
FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026
We're repeatedly told that the killer app for pervert glasses - Meta's AI-enabled camera glasses and their imitators - is that they will remind you of someone's name and spare you the social awkwardness of not recognizing them.
Medieval peasants working the fields in front of a walled city. Their overseer rides a horse; his head has been replaced with a robotic camera. From all sides, gory, anatomical eyeballs intrude upon the scene, each one with a different colored iris.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
all the "RESPECT THE TROOPS HONOR THE TROOPS STAND FOR THEM AND SUPPORT THE TROOPS" stuff the media pushed since 9/11 was a joke. A laugh to them. Every time it collided with whatever it was that Republicans want to do, the troops lose. Trump goes to soldiers' graves and laughs at them!
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 06/10/2026
The former boss of Germany's most important intelligence agency, the BND, has been arrested on suspicion of treason.
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dpa news agency @dpa-intl.com · 06/10/2026
#BREAKING August Hanning, the former head of Germany's BND foreign intelligence service, has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, sources tell dpa
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: Rep. Beatty is challenging the Kennedy Center's invocation of the qualified "presidential communications privilege" in refusing to turn over a vast array of communications with Trump & even documents "touching on" Trump communications during discovery. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
When Defendants filed their motion to vacate the preliminary injunction and for summary
judgment, they initially relied on evidence of what Trump told Defendant Matthew Floca. See,
e.g., Defs.'s Mem. in Supp. of Mot. 4, ECF 88-1; Defs.'s Statement of Undisputed Material Facts 14, ECF No. 89-2; see also Suppl. Decl. Charles Matthew Floca 1 6, ECF No. 29-3. But after
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Plaintiff served written discovery, the Department of Justice pivoted to a sweeping claim of
presidential communications privilege to bar any inquiry into those communications, or indeed
into any inputs and instructions the Kennedy Center's staff received from its board chair. The
Department now refuses to provide any documents held by the Kennedy Center even touching on
communications between the Chairman and management and intends to block all inquiry into those
communications in depositions. Plaintiff does not bring this motion lightly. The Department's sweeping assertion of privilege, however, appears to be unprecedented. Donald Trump is the chair of a non-profit corporation's board, and his decisions and directions lie at the heart of that board's
actions which, in turn, are the subject matter of this case. Allowing Defendants to hide behind this unwarranted assertion of privilege would obstruct the search for the truth, frustrate the Court's discovery order, and undermine public confidence in these important proceedings.Having appointed himself to the Kennedy Center's board and having assumed the office
of Chair, Donald Trump undertook the obligations placed on him by the Center's organic statute
to safeguard and protect this sacred memorial to a fallen President. Trustee and board chair are
not roles that must be performed by the President of the United States and, indeed, never have been
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in the Center's history before now. Nor are the staff at the Kennedy Center anything like the close presidential advisers whose conversations executive privilege protects. The Court should not
permit Defendants to evade accountability as trustees by abusing a privilege constructed for other
purposes, not the chairmanship of this non-profit entity. Plaintiff therefore respectfully requests the Court compel the production of responsive documents and written production Defendants improperly withheld.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
uh what the hell is this. @klonick.bsky.social
What appears to be a fake account pretending to be Kate Klonick.

@katewinslet95.bsky.social
9 followers 55 following 11 posts Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online
governance, & Al.

Senior Editor at Lawfare.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
wat
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A $550 million dollar bribe.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.
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Latte Sipping Lisa @lisaroyal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s Monday, hang in there!
Kell laying his green security pillow and clinging to side of the couch
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The microbes had an uncle that was a professor at MIT.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's been such a long few years, I'd forgotten this particular rape accusation against Hegseth. The woman told police she may have been drugged. Hegseth, who was married to one woman and had just had a baby with another, said it was consensual but paid her $50k to settle. He was confirmed anyway.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
JUST IN: Images from the reconstruction of Marimar Martinez's October 2025 shooting in Chicago by Border Patrol agent Charles Exum:
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Solidarity "After deciding this weekend to block Politico from riding on Air Force One, White House staffers called numerous outlets to ask one to fill the primary print slot for the out-of-town pool rotation .... Each of those outlets declined to step in." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
washingtonpost.com
White House blocks Politico from Air Force One trip, cannot secure replacement
President Donald Trump will travel without a primary print pool reporter for the first time in recent memory.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I sort of question how this works in practice. Every Senator will be under irresistible pressure to say how they voted. If they tell the truth, it’s no different from a public ballot. If they lie, the result looks illegitimate & there’s enormous pressure to reveal the roll call.
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Behold: the first emergency application of October Term 2026 A plea to block tomorrow’s acquisition of Warner Bros. by Paramount Skydance. (Not going to happen)
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I've been wondering what's actually up here for a while + you're not going to believe this but the answer is, once again, private equity. www.avclub.com/shout-factor...
avclub.com
Shout! Factory put old "lost" TV directly into fans' hands—until one day it didn't
Shout! Factory put old "lost" TV directly into fans' hands—until one day it didn't
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
DEVELOPING: Marimar Martinez challenges feds' narrative while announcing lawsuit over her shooting by Border Patrol: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com
Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol agent challenges feds’ narrative while announcing lawsuit
Marimar Martinez was labeled a "domestic terrorist" and hit with criminal charges after she was shot by agent Charles Exum on Oct. 5, 2025. Since she was exonerated, Martinez has advocated against the...
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 05/10/2026
"Our Whole Premise Was Wrong" would be a decent title for a history of the field. I was just thinking about if I can come up with even one big name in the space who was not catastrophically wrong about what would and would not work
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
theunpopulist.net
A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026
ugh, can't believe the woke bluesky mob is scared of bold political thinking, just because it comes from a money launderer who keeps moving headquarters to stay ahead of basic financial regulations
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anyway, here's Wonderwall.....
Short description: A small river otter named Steve stands on its hind legs with his paws on the keys of a bright red toy piano, looking up at the viewer.

Baked-in text: “Vilac depuis 1911”
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
cbsnews.com
The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Levin: People then said, “Do you think you can take out a fascist just by voting, just by organizing? You think that’s how this works?” Yes, that’s how this works. If they can do it in Hungary, we can do it here.
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SaraAAAGHH A GHOST!!! Ford 🐍🎨👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A NEW FIGHTER HAS ENTERED THE ARENA
independent.co.uk
Gang of eight sperm whales sink yacht after ramming boat in South Pacific
Crew described terrifying encounter as they were woken up by “loud thud” as the 52ft vessel was struck
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