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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Federal judge orders Trump administration to stop DHS's pro-Trump propaganda ads immediately, including ordering the canceling of ads set to run as soon as this evening. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/doj-does-n...

Based on the materials provided, the Court does not require the additional conference on
October 13, 2026 and such conference is adjourned. The Court finds that (1) the present motion
is not moot, (2) there is standing to proceed, and (3) the moving Plaintiffs have demonstrated that they are likely to succeed on the merits, will suffer irreparable harm in the absence of an injunction, the balance of the equities tips in their favor, and an injunction serves the public interest. A full opinion shall follow shortly. Therefore, the Court GRANTS the moving Plaintiffs' motion, and IT IS HEREBY:
ORDERED that under 5 U.S.C. § 705, the purchase order entered into on or about September 20, 2026 between Customs Border Protection ("CBP") and Lepugh, Inc., doing business as LMD Agency, Inc., ("LMD") ("September 20, 2026 purchase order") is stayed, including all future payments made thereunder; it is further
ORDERED that under 5 U.S.C. § 705, the Office of Management and Budget's ("OMB") apportionment of $20 million to fund the development, creation, and/or airing of the

advertisements covered by the September 20, 2026 purchase order, including but not limited to The Country He Loves, Celebrating the Enduring Spirit, Final Battle, To the Great Proud People of Iran, and Maduro (collectively "the challenged advertisements") is stayed; it is further
ORDERED that Defendants are enjoined from using, disbursing, or transferring funds appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") to develop, create, disseminate, place, distribute, publish, or air the challenged advertisements; and it is further
ORDERED that Defendants shall cancel or cause to be cancelled any slot, placement, reservation, or arrangement for the airing or dissemination of the challenged advertisements,
including those placements for the evening of October 11, 2026;
ORDERED that Defendants shall not enter into, renew, or expand any agreement authorizing the development, creation, dissemination, placement, or airing of the challenged
advertisements; and it is further

ORDERED that the foregoing instructions bind Defendants' officers, agents, employees, contractors, and anyone acting in concert with them. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(d)(2).
ORDERED that Defendants shall immediately provide a copy of this order to LMD,
under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(d)(2)(C), and that LMD, as a contractor that is in active concert and participation with Defendants, is enjoined from continuing to run or place the
challenged advertisements; and it is further
ORDERED that Defendants will file a status report within 24 hours of the entry of this temporary restraining order and Section 705 stay, confirming compliance with this Order; and it
is further
ORDERED that this Order shall remain in effect until 14 days from today, subject to an extension of this Court; and it is further
ORDERED that, in the Court's discretion, Plaintiffs shall not be required to post a bond.

Case 1:26-cv-08882-JLR Document 41 Filed 10/11/26 Page 4 of 4
This Order shall be effective as of 6:45 p.m. on October 11, 2026 and the Clerk of Court
is respectfully requested to close the motion at Dkt. 25. The Court will reschedule the October
13, 2026 conference to discuss next steps in this matter.
Dated: October 11, 2026
New York, New York
SO ORDERED.
Kanifer Rockon
JENNIFER L. ROCHON
United States District Judge

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John Breen @breen.tech · 17h

This is tangential to the point, but if the mayor can’t stop the police because they’re effectively a gang, then the only actual solution is to take their money away

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 21h

Anatomy of how John Solomon “presents known information as revelations and omit[s] key context," releasing it into right-wing echo-chamber. By @nytimes.com's @charliesavage.bsky.social . 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...

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How the White House Manufactured a Narrative About a Trump Aide’s Call Logs (Gift Article)

A release of selected records from the classified documents inquiry is a case study in how omitting context can create political ammunition.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18h

Twice he's asked about the risk of creating a martyr. Twice his answer is "no one has to watch it." Which is, obviously, not remotely an answer to the question.

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Christopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social · 18h

My wife got this sticker for me.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 18h

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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LifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is why the internet was invented... #LifuX #Dogs #Dogsofbluesky

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

your honor, nonresponsive

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Low-hanging fruit for reporters and Dem trackers: ask a Republican running for office, "what would you do if you were in a car with your child and men in hoodies charged at you with guns drawn?" Follow up with "do you think it's reasonable for a parent in that situation to use lethal force?"

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’m so sick of these fascist freaks

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I read Rubio’s speech where he does a Prager U recap of Ancient Greek history, and the funniest part is where he praises Achilles for seeking glory in Troy even though it means his death. Yeah, Marco, the Iliad is great. What’s Achilles up to in the sequel?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is truly horrifying and somewhat predictable. That said, I am a little concerned at how much this is doing the Supreme Court’s work for them by saying they “effectively ratified” this. At most, it was a likelihood standard. And the appeals courts shouldn’t be suggesting more than that.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'd be curious to see what happens immediately before that video; I wish the NYPD had made that public as well. But I have to say... on initial view, that looks indistinguishable from a carjacking, and if I'd been the driver I would also probably have floored it.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Democrats must recon with the idea that, guided by ideology and in exchange for massive profits from government contracts, many of these tech companies were *fine* assisting with the erosion of democracy and civil/human rights violations en mass.

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Portland Policy Consensus @pdxpolicyconsensus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Portland City Council candidate Kellie Torres gave two notably different answers about PCEF funding on October 7 and 8. Here are both exchanges:

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 10/10/2026

NEW: Trump's new press secretary has some deleted tweets—and we've got them for you. www.thebulwark.com/p/katie-zach...

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The Deleted Tweets of the New White House Press Secretary

Katie Zacharia is ready to defend Trump. The Constitution? Less so.

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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I have been off work for a while for (see previous post) — but want to elevate this deeply odd story. A lot of interesting choices being made here.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump choosing Russia diesel fuel over Ukrainian freedom. US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing. www.ft.com/content/7fd4...

ft.com

US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing

Donald Trump’s administration delivered threat after Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised diesel deal with Moscow

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 10/10/2026

This is a double blow to Ukraine. First, we’re now funding Russia’s war of aggression. And second, now when Ukraine attacks Russian refineries, it’s effectively attacking American interests. This is fucked.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE

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Stopice.net @stopicenet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

UNCONFIRMED - FRANCES ST AND CORNELIUS PASS RD HILLSBORO 97123 - They are parking on Middle School parking lot MORE INFO: www.stopice.net?alert=1791610791906

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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

there's a Martin Mull documentary on Netflix that's great and surprisingly very moving

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They’re desperate for you to believe that the world will end if we abolish an agency that didn’t exist before 2003.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's going to be quite a visual to publicly execute a man in a wheelchair by firing squad.

Only 2 countries held known public executions last year. The U.S. is preparing for its first in 90 years.
By Mark Osborne

October 9, 2026 / 2:47 PM EDT / CBS News
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When Nidal Hasan is put to death by firing squad during a public livestream, he will become the first person to be publicly executed in the United States in nearly a century.

The Defense Department announced Thursday the execution of Hasan, the ex-Army major who was convicted in the 2009 killings of 13 people at Fort Hood, will be livestreamed on Dec. 3. Hasan is paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair after being shot in the back by police who responded to the mass shooting.

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 10/10/2026

A Multnomah County judge ordered Councilor Dan Ryan to preserve evidence on his personal phone until an ongoing public records lawsuit is resolved. “This is not a game of cat and mouse," Judge David Rees said. "There are some indications that those games are being played, and it has to stop today."

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Portland Councilor Dan Ryan Must Preserve All Phone Records, Court Says - Portland Mercury

A Multnomah County judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction requiring Portland City Councilor Dan Ryan to preserve evidence on his personal phone and other devices until an ongoing public reco...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 09/10/2026

Brigadier General (Ret.) Steven Anderson lays into Hegseth and Trump for turning the Ft. Hood shooter's execution into a public show, arguing that violence and war is sometimes necessary, but should never become entertainment. voteveterans.substack.com/p/yes-execut...

voteveterans.substack.com

Yes, Execute Nidal Hasan. Don’t Make It a Show.

By Brig. Gen. Steve Anderson (Retired)

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, the site of his 2009 mass shooting. That would be the first public execution in the U.S. since the 1930s.

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The U.S. last held a public execution in the 1930s. The Pentagon wants to change that

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Matthew Hoppock @hoppock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

More to say on Matter of BSAN. I just compared it to the letter from DHS General Counsel last month to asylum attorneys, and it's so clear that the BIA "got the memo" Change the rules about who qualifies and then accuse people of filing frivolous claims bc they don't meet your new rules. Cute. 🧵

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James Percival (@DHSGenCounsel) on X

This week, I wrote a letter to open borders immigration lawyers. Most countries in the Western Hemisphere simply lack conditions supporting asylum claims. Abuse of our immigration system must stop.

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Civil rights and advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit to force the Pentagon to release documents and communications connected to an ongoing formal review of women in combat roles ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other top military leaders.

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Advocacy groups sue Defense Department for records assessing women in combat roles

The plaintiffs asked for records pertaining to a commissioned evaluation of women’s effectiveness in combat roles and physical eligibility standards.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“The elderly man who shot Gonzalez is not facing charges. Gonzalez is now in custody for felony assault.”👍

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

As someone who remembers the police being pro-gun-control in the 1990s, that shift has been noticeable — @adamserwer.bsky.social broke it down a few years ago here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The One Group That Could Make a Difference on Gun Control

The polarization of policing has made it politically difficult for firearm restrictions to pass.

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Kim Rhodes @kimrhodes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

*deep sigh* I know. I know. The world is burning. That’s why when someone does a kindness, I’d like to support them. I’m finding little ways. (Bus driver fired for stopping to let a student rescue an injured kitten.) www.change.org/p/reinstate-...

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Sign the Petition

Reinstate Cynthia Morgan as North Harford bus driver

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 09/10/2026

In this edition of THE BLACK BYLINE, author Donovan Scribes writes about how the once-feared Ku Klux Klan is now often regarded as antiquated and toothless. However, with the recent rise in hate group memberships, racism has since adapted and taken on a new form—cloaked beneath a modern day hood.⁠

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THE BLACK BYLINE: The KKK and Why Charlie Kirk was Afraid of Being Called “Racist” - Portland Mercury

These cuffs on my hands, from the jump was a plan / I’m giving y’all a clue, there’s some clucks in they klan.—Vinnie Dewayne, “Page 37” RACISM = BAD No single American organization is so synonymous w...

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Music Box Magazine @musicboxonline.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

John Prine would have turned 80 this week. He survived cancer, twice, only to be taken from us too soon anyway, due to complications from all things…COVID-19. Remember COVID? Fuck this shitty timeline, and fuck the people who made it worse. Prine was born in Maywood, Illinois, not too...

View of the stage at the Chicago Theatre

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A source familiar with the situation told me that the ABC News article on the Trump sons' investments in companies receiving Pentagon contracts was published prematurely and it has been taken down while the reporting is being finalized.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026

Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Considering the news, I want to share this dissent in the 9th Circuit, suggesting that maybe all executions should be by firing squad. "If we as a society want to carry out executions, we should be willing to face the fact that the state is committing a horrendous brutality on our behalf."

Whatever the hopes and reasons for the switch to drugs,
they proved to be misguided. Subverting medicines meant to
heal the human body to the opposite purpose was an
enterprise doomed to failure. Today’s case is only the latest
in an unending effort to undermine and discredit this method
of carrying out lawful executions. Another symptom of the
problem is the decade-long inability (or perhaps
unwillingness) of California state officials to come up with an
execution protocol, effectively putting the state’s death
chamber out of commission. See Jones v. Chappell, No. CV
09-02158-CJC, slip op. at 5 n.7 (C.D. Cal. July 16, 2014).
Old age, not execution, is the most serious risk factor for
inmates at the San Quentin death row. Then, again, you get
odd cases like that of Russell Bucklew, who obtained a stay
of execution on the ground that the drugs that would be used
to kill him would cause a lingering, painful death. See
Bucklew v. Lombardi, 134 S. Ct. 2333, 2333 (2014).

Whatever happens to Wood, the attacks will not stop and
for a simple reason: The enterprise is flawed. Using drugs
meant for individuals with medical needs to carry out
executions is a misguided effort to mask the brutality of
executions by making them look serene and peaceful—like
something any one of us might experience in our final
moments. See Callins v. Collins, 510 U.S. 1141, 1143 (1994)
(Scalia, J., concurring in denial of certiorari) (“How enviable
a quiet death by lethal injection . . . .”). But executions are,
in fact, nothing like that. They are brutal, savage events, and
nothing the state tries to do can mask that reality. Nor should
it. If we as a society want to carry out executions, we should
be willing to face the fact that the state is committing a
horrendous brutality on our behalf.

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State of Love & Trust Podcast @solatpod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🚨new episode alert!🚨this week’s show is straight from 2026 Ohana festival Storytellers stage. Mike McCready & Mark Sable join us to talk about their new graphic novel Farewell to Seasons. Watch it now — 🔗 below #SOLATpod #pearljam #mikemccready #farewelltoseasons

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Right after Justice Kennedy retired, #SCOTUS materially shifted its Eighth Amendment jurisprudence, moving away from a test tied to "evolving standards of decency," and toward a static assessment of what was cruel and unusual in 1791. That shift will matter a *lot* if there's a challenge in Hasan.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

These guys in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona think a judge's order is a suggestion. On the left is Judge Hinderaker's 10/6 order in the case of a gay man the Trump admin sent to Equatorial Guinea, where he has faced beatings and threats to his life. On the right is all that DOJ filed today.

10. Within three (3) days of the date of this Order, and every seven (7) days thereafter until Plaintif's return to the United States or further order of the Court, Defendants must file a status report, supported by a declaration from an official with personal knowledge, stating: (a) the information known to Defendants about Plaintiff's current location, custodial status, and physical condition; (6) the steps Defendants have taken since the prior report to comply with paragraph 5; and (c) the further steps Defendants intend to take and the anticipated timeline. Plaintiff may respond to each status report within three (3) days.

Pursuant to the Court's order issued on October 6, 2026 (Doc. 14), Respondents hereby inform the Court that Respondents are working collaboratively with Petitioner's counsel who shared valuable information to help Respondents attempt to locate and contact Petitioner.
Respondents had a conference with the relevant stakeholders within the government and are beginning the process to facilitate Petitioner's return.
Respondents will provide a more substantive update next week along with a declaration regarding specific steps that are being taken and the most recent updates on Respondent's efforts to facilitate Petitioner's return.
Case 2:26-cv-06601-JCH
Document 16 Filed 10/09/26 Page 2 of 2
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED this 9th day of October, 2026.
TIMOTHY COURCHAINE
United States Attorney
District of Arizona
s/Derek Faraldo
DEREK FARALDO
Assistant United States Attorney Attorneys for Respondents

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 09/10/2026

The administration that continues to cover up for pedophiles simply cannot be trusted with the care of hundreds of unaccompanied children with no oversight and no transparency

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 09/10/2026

Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells

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