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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 8h

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 8h

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 18h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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NPR @npr.org · 13h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h

the group chat in 2036

friend 1: guys, I just got nominated for a district court judgeship!

friend 2: Congrats, well deserved!

friend 3: Amazing! 🎉 🍾

me: DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE PUBLIC ACCESS LINE!!!!!

friend 1: ……

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h

Conspiracy theorists talk about the media running psy ops but my one and only psy op in this life is convincing my law school friends to be public access advocates in case they ever get appointed to the bench

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17h

“No public access line”

Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 17h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"New Manhattan Institute article"

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17h

“No public access line”

Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 17h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"New Manhattan Institute article"

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 17h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New LMS platform adopted

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 18h

There are two Virginia homes, one involving a niece and one involving a grand-niece. The home that is the subject of the indictment is one James bought in 2020. Her grand-niece & family reportedly live there.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Back in 2020, James did disclose a small sum collected in rent (between $1,000-$5,000) on her NY ethics forms. That she at one point years ago collected a small sum in rent (allowed by the contract) is not inconsistent with the idea that her grand niece has lived there for years w/o paying rent.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

This is important exculpatory evidence bc the indictment accuses James of seeking a “second home” mortgage when in reality she intended to use it as an “investment” home by renting it out.

(James disclosed between $1,000-5,000 in rent during 1st year, but the contract allowed short term rentals.)

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Letitia James
Indictment
Read the Indictment
Timeline of Conflict
Indic
But in June, IMs. Thompson testified to a grand
jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria.
The specter of Mr. Trump's revenge campaign has so far overshadowed the facts of the case, given how he has pushed for Ms. James's punishment. For years, he has railed against her on social media, calling her a "crook" and
"corrunt" Last month. he also appointed Ms.

for a peaceful life after years of turbulence in several cities.
The family, Nakia Thompson and her children, have lived at the address ever since, according to two people familiar with the home, and until this week, the plan for a more lacid existence had largely gone as expected. Several times a year, the people said, a great-aunt who had purchased the house in 2020 with Ms.
Thompson in mind would come for an extended stay.
This week, with the filing of court papers some 200 miles north, the plan came to an abrupt end.
The great-aunt - Letitia James, the New York attorney general - was indicted by President Trump's Justice Department. The yellow house,

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 2d

bahahaha, Ingrassia's lawyer is Edward Paltzik, the one who files Trump's most bumptious lolsuits

well, at least I'll have amazing copy, even with Alina Habba mostly retired. verily, when the lord closes a door, she opens a window

abovethelaw.com/2025/07/trum...

Trump's Lawyers Go To Iowa To Learn How To CivPro - Above the Law

Oops.

abovethelaw.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 1d

Though she doesn't generally do social media, Emily asked me to post this.
bsky.app/profile/anna...

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 2d

After the 15th inning it is time to replace one player with a dog until someone wins or it's all dogs.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: In Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case, his defense team files a motion to suppress statements he made to HSI agents after he was taken into custody by ICE on March 12, 2025.

Shortly after the interview, Abrego was wrongly removed to El Salvador.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
On March 12, 2025, agents from the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") "seized
Abrego I] without any lawful authority." Abrego Garcia v. Noem, 777 F. Supp. 3d 501, 519 (D.
Md. 2025). Mr. Abrego was taken to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") field
office, where federal agents interviewed him in connection with an investigation into suspected
human smuggling without properly advising him of his Miranda rights and without a translator
present. A few days later, DHS unlawfully removed Mr. Abrego to El Salvador.
The government's conduct on March 12 violated Mr. Abrego's Fourth and Fifth
Amendment rights. Because of this flagrant abuse of law enforcement authority, we move to
suppress the statements that Mr. Abrego made to law enforcement when he was unlawfully
arrested and detained.
BACKGROUND
Mr. Abrego's Arrest on March 12, 2025
When the government arrested Mr. Abrego on March 12, 2025, prior to removing him to
El Salvador, he was lawfully living and working in Maryland. See Abrego Garcia v. Noem, No.
25 Civ. 951, 2025 WL 2062203, at *3 (D. Md. July 23, 2025). In 2019, Mr. Abrego secured an
order from an immigration court granting him withholding of removal to El Salvador. (D. Md.
Am. Compl. 19 1, 48, 70-72; see also Compl. Ex. B).' The government never appealed the
withholding decision, nor did it seek to remove him to a third country at the time. Id.; see 8 C.F.R.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 2d

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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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

this one is still an all-timer tho ⬇️

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Jun 11

The Trump administration’s table of authorities in this filing:

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2d

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

Ghana’s foreign minister just posted this to X:

“The Ghanaian Government is pleased to note that our refusal to accept Abrego Garcia has been duly acknowledged and complied with by the US Department of Homeland Security.”

Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa &
@S_OkudzetoAblak
X.com
The Ghanaian Government is pleased to note that our refusal to accept Abrego Garcia has been duly acknowledged and complied with by the US
Department of Homeland Security.
We have also followed with satisfaction that DHS has today taken the appropriate steps to inform Garcia's lawyers and amend court submissions to reflect the fact that Ghana cannot be an option for Garcia's deportation.
The Mahama Administration will continue to be transparent and truthful to Ghanaians at all times.
For God and Country E
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LAURA ROMERO
Fri, October 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM PDT|
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

You’ll never guess who is in charge of the Homeland Security Council….

(Miller. It’s Stephen Miller.)

Jordan Fischer @jordanonrecord.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: A senior ICE official testified today the WH Homeland Security Council — and not the State Department — informed him Uganda was the deportation target for Abrego Garcia.

DOJ then asserted presidential privilege over any other details about the call. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

DOJ asserts presidential privilege over details about how Uganda was selected in Abrego Garcia deportation case

A senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official said third-country designations are typically made by the State Department.

www.wusa9.com

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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Having heard the hotel room cancelation story, unfortunately only from one source, and gotten scooped, I don't understand the Politico story to be a vexatious political attack.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

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-
00596545
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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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

100% LOCKED IN on #WITAOD

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 2d

we learned today ... request to eswatini was made wednesday evening for the first time! ...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry but I had to

#WITAOD

Roger Stone: Kyle Cheney is a congenital liar and a propagandist and Anna is a nobody. Multiple attorneys who have examined this case describe it as air tight. By
the way, Cheney is also a leaping bounding, screaming asshole.
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Anna Bower &

@AnnaBower: I may be a nobody, but who is the administrator of DOGE?

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