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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Part of the reason this struck me is that I've had my head in the 1960s DOJ for a while.

The DOJ press secretary back then was a Pulitzer Prize winner who'd been reporting for twenty years (except when he was winning medals in WWII).

Today, it's the dumbest meanest airhead in middle school.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone's focused on how idiotic Lindsey Halligan is, but don't sleep on the official response from Department of Justice spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre.

It's just Mean Girls all the way down, if they'd written that script while huffing paint fumes.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11h

so much about this case is judges in extreme distress

"I urge my colleagues on this court to act swiftly to vacate the majority’s order before the illegal deployment of troops under false pretenses can occur. Above all, I ask those who are watching this case unfold to retain faith in our judicial system for just a little longer."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h

You know shit's getting serious once they start using words you usually only hear over a boiling cauldron.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 12h

Sua sponte call for en banc less than two hours after the 9th Cir decision to let loose the National Guard into Portland

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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 2d

The female California quail is not quite as showy as the male, but she's still quite lovely with a cute little topknot.

#birds #wildlife

A photo of a female California quail perched on a branch. The bird has gray-brown feathers with white on the underside, and a small plume of feathers on her head.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 11h

we need the national guard for this. it’s an emergency

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 13h

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan.

Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.

Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.

Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?

Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.

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GlenTheRealSpook @glentheplumber.bsky.social · 11h

her incompetence is the story…clown show

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: A Ninth Circuit judge has sua sponte — on their own — already called for a vote on whether there should be an en banc rehearing (which means all active judges will vote on whether the matter should be reheard). Briefing is called for on that question, due by mid-week.

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
STATE OF OREGON and CITY OF PORTLAND,
Plaintiffs - Appellees,
No. 25-6268
D.C. No.
3:25-cv-01756-IM
District of Oregon, Portland
ORDER
FILED
ОСТ 20 2025
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
DONALD J. TRUMP, In his official capacity as President of the United States; et al.,
Defendants - Appellants.
Before: S. R. THOMAS, Circuit Judge and En Banc Coordinator.
A judge of this Court has sua sponte requested a vote on whether this case should be reheard en banc pursuant to General Order 5.4.c.3. The parties are requested to file simultaneous supplemental briefs addressing whether this case should be reheard en banc. The briefs shall be filed on or before midnight, Pacific Time, Wednesday, October 22, 2025, and shall not exceed 14,000 words.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 20h

Looking toward late October, it now appears a fairly high-amplitude flow pattern over the eastern Pacific and North America will once again develop--though this time CA and the interior West will most likely be under the ridge, with milder, warmer, and probably drier weather. #CAwx

A high-amplitude flow pattern will develop later in October, with California and the interior West most likely being under a persistent developing ridge (with warmer than average temperatures likely, though not extremely so).

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 20h

Another interesting CA weather week, though not nearly as dramatic as the last! Tue-Wed, a sneaky cut-off low (boosted a bit by warm ocean temps) will move from SW to NE inland over Central Coast into Sierra Nevada, bringing some isolated thunderstorms S of SF and N of LA. #CAwx

Ocean surface temperature anomaly map (NOAA Coral Reef Watch) depicting a continued marine heatwave event across the northeastern Pacific Ocean (reds and oranges near California coast indicate continued above-average ocean temperatures there).

A sneaky low pressure system (here depicted by blue colors on a map, signifying below-average 500mb geopotential heights) will approach the Central Coast Tue into Wed, bringing isolated thunderstorms.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 13h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 13h

Lindsey Halligan says I’m not a journalist.

But if you think I am, and you value our our non-profit legal news and analysis, you can support our work here: givebutter.com/journalism/a...

You can also follow me on Substack: annabower.substack.com/about

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I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.
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Politico @politico.com · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16h

The dissent does an excellent job making the majority look like fools. cst.brightspotcdn.com/d9/44/ff61b3...

The district court’s factual findings, which the government does not
challenge on appeal, and which are not clearly erroneous in any event, fully resolve
this issue. In the two weeks leading up to the President’s September 27 social
media post, there had not been a single incident of protesters’ disrupting the
execution of the laws. Oregon, 2025 WL 2817646, at *10. I repeat: not a single
incident for two weeks. Here are summaries from police reports for the five days
preceding the President’s social media post.
September 22: Approx. 7-10 people. No calls.
September 23: Few people. No activity.
September 24: Approx. 10 people. No calls.
September 25: Approx. 20 people. No calls.
September 26: Approx. 15 people. Energy low, minimal activity.
No incidents.
A police officer’s report from September 26 stated: “Throughout the day we
observed approximately 8-15 people at any given time out front of ICE. Mostly
sitting in lawn chairs and walking around.”
It is hard to understand how a tiny protest causing no disruptions could
possibly satisfy the standard that the President is unable to execute the laws.

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muhr-eerie @marie.likes.earth · Apr 28

normalize coming off as desperate for attention

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 19h

The enhanced premium tax credits are a thing Biden did to make the ACA better. They are in danger. If they expire a lot of people will be made a lot worse off.

People are defending the ACA because it actually has real material impacts not because of emotional commitment to institutions.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 20h

Not trying to add to the pile on, but this way of understanding politics is totally mysterious to me. What is the appropriate amount of emotion to dedicate to any given issue and how do we know when that threshold has been met or exceeded.

bluesky is an even weirder place than twitter. does my post say we should repeal Obamacare

no

does it say that the institutionalist instinct to devote so much emotion to defense of it rather than sympathizing with what it didnt/still has not fixed (for many) is misplaced?

yes. and i stand by that

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Office of NYC Comptroller Brad Lander @nyccomptroller.bsky.social · 19h

It's pathetically clear that DHS won't hold its own officers accountable. But when masked ICE agents abuse their authority, they are not immune from local laws.

I'm with @repdangoldman.bsky.social: NYPD must uphold the law when ICE breaks it.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 19h

Of the five pals he mentions, the *least evil* one might be O.J. Simpson.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

RFK Jr. explains why socializing with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't such a big deal for him:
...l ran into everybody in NY. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew
-- O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house."

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 19h

WTAF? What did I just read @swin24.bsky.social?

This. Cannot. Be. Real? Can it? 🤢 open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

☕ What’s the Tea?
Trump kept trying to get his ‘Project 2025’ architect laid!
Over the weekend, Zeteo’s newest political reporter, Swin Suebsaeng, sent me the latest scoop he’s got from inside the weird Trump administration and, well, wait for it:

By mid-2024, Donald Trump and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought were talking on the phone fairly regularly. But it often wasn’t about policy. Trump – when he had downtime from campaigning and plotting his fascist presidency – appeared preoccupied with getting the recently divorced Vought laid, two knowledgeable sources tell me. Trump spoke to Vought, a self-described Christian nationalist who’s now one of the president’s most hardline enforcers, about the “gorgeous” and “beautiful ladies” who roam Trump’s club, Mar-a-Lago, so often that it “weirded out” some of his advisers, in one source’s words. Trump offered to be Vought’s wingman. And Trump spoke crudely of all the “pussy” that Vought would surely get as the president’s favorite “bachelor.”

OK, now I need to go take a shower. Ugh!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Cleve Jones gave a riveting, rousing speech at San Francisco's No Kings rally yesterday, and he's graciously allowing me to publish it. He began: "The pronouns I use the most are the ones probably understood the least by those in the White House today. They are WE, US and OURS."

Cleve Jones: "This Is Our Country"

This is the first guest essay at Meditations in an Emergency. I'm proud to bring you yesterday's speech by the great Cleve Jones, who has for nearly half a century been a key organizer for the global ...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 1d

This lovely friend is a Burrowing Wolf Spider, introduced to me by @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social in northern Florida.
(Geolycosa sp.) #Arachtober

An all gray spider popping out of a burrow in sandy soil.

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 1d

LAPD Clears No Kings Protest with Horses and Flash Bangs youtu.be/tKB9paBlv2k

LAPD Clears No Kings Protest with Horses and Flash Bangs

YouTube video by District 34

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 1d

😂

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GlenTheRealSpook @glentheplumber.bsky.social · 1d

always go down swinging

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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 1d

JF: Hey people of Covington and Cincinnati! Tuesday and Wednesday we play two distinctly different shows at the Madison! Go! tmbg.com Meanwhile enjoy this photo of our horn fellows photo bombing the unicorn at No Kings in St. Louis yesterday!

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