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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 12h

Nothing has ever made me feel the way You Can See Everything made me feel, and probably nothing will ever again. 👀

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 22h

But she looked so much like Ivanka! I'm surprised she didn't do a better job.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

It’s even more transactional than that. He basically says that Trump officials won’t give the Times scoops unless it continues to euphemize and sanewash their anti-democracy lies and lunacy.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/10/2026

Colorado. Michigan. 28 Democratic party elected officials with a national platform. Anti-trans ads being run by democrats. Ohio Dems censoring its LGBTQ+ caucus. South Carolina dems voting en masse for anti-trans policies. Never think what happened to UK Labour can't happen here.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Goddamn they would be fucking launching an endless stream of TALAFREAKO merch out of a tee shirt cannon every day for the next three weeks if I was even within earshot of his campaign manager for ten seconds. What a gift to be given that sick-ass nickname by the worst guy alive.

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patrick mcneil (he/him) @patrickryne.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

NEW: Judiciary Republicans are planning to break committee norms, over the objections of committee Democrats, to push through more Trump judges after the midterm elections. A spokesperson for Durbin confirmed to me that Dems did not agree to this. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/judiciary-...

nominationnotes.substack.com

Judiciary Republicans plan to break norms in order to push through more Trump judges

Chair Chuck Grassley is moving forward over the objections of committee Democrats.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026

Elie Mystal said it best: "One of the biggest strengths of our system—and one of its biggest weaknesses, its biggest fault lines—is the same thing: Give me five Supreme Court justices, and I can make the Constitution say whatever I want. 1/4

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

americans dont actually know what the fuck they want and if you ask them along the way you will get a lot of nonsense garbage thanks to decades of right wing/msm propaganda.

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

We're at "let's strip people of citizenship if they don't toe the fascist line" level of fascism.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

back in the olden days DOJ would investigate a particular crime it believed had been committed, rather than just poking around to see if anything was wrong

The investigation is seeking information to see where it leads, the source said. For example, if records, representations related to age and immigration status contain false information, that would provide material for investigators to scrutinize further. They could also examine communications related to such matters.

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Conservatives will always try to paint themselves as the victim. Here, they pursued a totally bogus hit on Talarico, then blamed him for letting them fall for it in the first place. Once you learn to see DARVO, you see it everywhere, but especially from conservatives.

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Gotcha questions often rely on a black-and-white premise, and they "get you" when you accept that premise no matter which way you go. How you reject the premise isn't through cover-up but by owning that nuance doesn't necessitate contradiction. This is masterful.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“Sir, we are cratering in the polls, please try and not do anything nuts for the next month. Maybe on social, just keep it benign.” “Like what?” “I don’t know. People like animals. A lot of people just post like cat videos and stuff.” “Gotcha, say no more.”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

NEW: SCOTUS will allow a man—who is not accused of committing violence—to remain jailed before trial as part of DOJ's effort to go after "Antifa." There were no noted dissents. The district court ordered pretrial release. DOJ, in an unusual move, appealed. The 6th Circuit reversed on a 2-1 vote.

CORDER LIST: 610 U.S.)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2026
26A446
ORDER IN PENDING CASE
WAGNER, KYLE V. UNITED STATES
The application for stay presented to Justice Kavanaugh and by him referred to the Court is denied.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

GOP launches investigation into the 1st, 5th, and 6th amendments

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/10/2026

Two months ago I reported on Amy Acton’s anti-trans turn and fears Dems would go the way of Labour. Some mocked me for it. Now that list is up to 28 major dem elected officials and entire state governments.

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Who could have seen it coming that if we ignored 10 years of attacks on trans people they'd start normalize mocking gay people too? 🙄

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I had to do a Google image search just to get confirmation on what she looked like. I try not to judge people based on their appearances, but between her and Susan Dell, I'm gonna need my uncanny valley to stop being triggered by repulsive plastic surgery.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."

In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/10/2026

This is actually really striking. The Republican candidates are genuinely quite bad!

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hannah and Anna from Dropout make me love this even more!

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Mean Girl asked to read the next passage in 10th grade Social Studies book out loud in front of the class because she got caught chewing gum

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's almost like we have an administration with no respect for the courts or the rule of law!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/10/2026

New in PN: Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait. "They genuinely don’t understand how whites could care for immigrant communities in their midst and they’re going to keep trying to drive a wedge. But Minnesotans will do what they do: take to the streets to protect our neighbors."

publicnotice.co

Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait.

We love our Somali neighbors.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

See how easy it is to just stand with transgender people — to extend basic humanity to them?

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This obviously violates the longstanding DOJ policy about a lockout on taking actions against candidates in the weeks leading up to an election.

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Another escalation in the race war they're fomenting against the Somali community. We're at "they're eating the cats and dogs" levels, as seems to happen in the weeks before an election.

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There's a desperation to give people the benefit of the doubt rather than do the work necessary to prevent the harm they're causing.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR A 14-DAY STAY UNDER SECTION 705 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Plaintiffs hereby move the Court to enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, for a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705.
Despite the Court's admonitions not to "get to a point where someone is telling me, from
the government, that it's too late, too many things have happened and now we are, like, moving
Case 1:26-cv-00477-ACR
Document 76
Filed 10/11/26
Page 2 of 4
forward and we can't, you know, stop the trains," Status Conf. Tr. ("Apr. 13 Tr.") at 18:15-19:10,
Apr. 13, 2026, Defendants have begun irreversible damage to East Potomac Golf Course. At
4:55 p.m. on Friday preceding the holiday weekend, Defendants announced their intent to
begin-barely 12 hours later—a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf
Course. Decl. of Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks,
National Park Service 920, ECF 74-1. Although they initially represented that their work would proceed in stages, Defendants in fact took down 529 trees on Saturday alone and have confirmed
to Plaintiffs that they intend to take down hundreds more.
Defendants' surprise tree-razing operation constitutes classic National Environmental
Policy Act segmentation: undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review of the entire
project. Defendants cannot circumvent their NEPA obligations in this manner. Delaware
Riverkeeper Network v. F.E.R.C., 753 F.3d 1304, 1313 (D.C. Cir. 2014).

Therefore, and for the reasons explained in the Memorandum accompanying this Motion
and supporting exhibits, the Court should enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705, enjoining Defendants from any further tree felling at East Potomac Park. In addition, the
Court should order Defendants to provide the Court and Plaintiffs no less than three business days' written advance notice before any irreparable modification to any permanent forms or
features of East Potomac Park.
If the Court believes a hearing would be appropriate, Plaintiffs request a hearing on this
motion at the Court's first availability. At the parties' meet and confer on Sunday afternoon, Defendants represented that the tree-clearing operation would continue this week until
completed. Defendants indicated during the meet and confer that rain foreclosed any work on
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Sunday, and that the possibility of doing work on Monday depended on weather and the course's
condition. Depending on Defendants' plans, then, it is possible that no work will occur on
Monday.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It is, in fact, possible to impeach and remove President Trump from office next week. It won't happen, however, because Republicans also support Putin and Russia and agree with Trump.

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

How is he even a Democrat at this point? Oh right.

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Imagine living with so much hate and paranoia that you see this fabulous queen and your first reaction is that you must DEFEAT them.

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

😩😩😩

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You have more money than anyone in the world and yet choose to be this petty with it.

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You promise they'll block Trump's judicial nominees?? 🥹

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Anything the White House does is fine. Anything they don't like is illegal. That's the reality of a weaponized DOJ.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Every accusation is a confession.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals

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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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The administration keeps telling us that ICE is in our cities to make us all feel safe, but if they're goons in plainclothes bum rushing vehicles with guns and pounding on the windows, how exactly does that make anyone feel safe?

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If that had happened to me, I would have assumed I was being carjacked.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026

Trump just had a massive meltdown over losing the Nobel Peace Prize to South African anti-apartheid jurist Navi Pillay. Trump attacked Pillay, admitted he knows nothing about her, claimed he deserves EIGHT Nobel Peace Prizes, took credit for preventing wars around the world,… 1/

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