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kimberly grace
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Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · 1h
The perfect coda to this story: after publication, the State Department's press office responded to my questions about the legal basis for revoking visas based on speech. Their response, in full (we were NOT off-record).
Good afternoon, Off the record, we refer you to the following tweet: https://x.com/StateDept/status/1978218112882266594  Regards, State Department Press Office
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1h
NEWS: CBS News head of standards Claudia Milne has quit. It was announced in the network’s 9 am editorial meeting. Bari Weiss was not on the call. According to a source, Milne gave thanks but did not say why she’s leaving the network.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 42m
it's going to be a 20+ year orgy of dysfunction and financial fraud painfully illustrating why functioning regulators are important

completely avoidable, but we all have to suffer in perpetuity because eggheads like Andreessen got mad because a female antitrust reformer briefly ran the FTC
Printing Money: Paxos Mints, Then Burns $300 Trillion in PayPal Stablecoins - Decrypt
A fat-finger mistake, or a hack? Crypto traders are confounded after $300 trillion worth of PayPal's PYUSD was minted and then burned.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 41m
Ellis sets 10:30 am on Monday for the next hearing.

Ellis says she will be conducting Director Hott's questioning, but says plaintiffs can submit to her questions they'd like her to ask.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 41m
Ellis reiterates the court has "never taken the position" that the government can't enforce its laws, but sticks to her body cam order mod.

Says her concern is that peoples' rights are being violated while agents enforce those laws.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 45m
Skedzielewski still attacks the body cam order as unworkable.

Says "it would require a tremendous amount of resources" for DHS to pull body cam footage every time there's an allegation of abuse.
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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 39m
UPDATE: The St. Clair health board voted to endorse the proposal to take steps to prohibit the addition of fluoride to public water supplies.

The medical director's recommended restrictions could potentially apply to the Great Lakes Water Authority, which provides water to nearly 40% of Michigan.
Health panel endorses move to prohibit water fluoridation
St. Clair County’s health board endorsed Dr. Nevin’s plan to bar fluoridation, citing new research and a recent federal court ruling.
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 45m
“As we leave, the doctor says none of the children in this ward will survive.”

'I can't afford to save both twins': Sudan's war left one mother with an impossible choice www.bbc.com/news/article... #KeepEyesOnSudan
Sudan war: The mother who could only afford the drugs to save one of her twins
The destruction and hunger that Sudan's war has brought leaves parents with some impossible choices.
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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1h
i don’t even know what to say, fuck these fucking people, man.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1h
Ellis waves off the ideology args as outside this suit's bounds.

"It's kind of irrelevant, based on this complaint," Ellis says.

"What Sec. Noem or Mr. Miller say... I don't really care," Ellis adds, so long as agents are using comensurate force and respecting people's constitutional rights.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1h
Plaintiff attys go on to expresss concern that appellate courts show a "real deference to the administration," and want to demonstrate the political drive behind Midway Blitz

They argue there's a "pure, ideological" drive behind the deployment of immigration agents.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1h
Ellis also says she's modifying the restraining order:

"All agents who are operating in operation midway blitz are to wear body worn cameras and they are to be on."
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1h
Ellis wants the brass in court.

"On Monday, I want the field director here. And the field director is going to explain to me why I am seeing images of tear gas being deployed and... seeing images of ICE agents, if I cannot see the alphanumeric identifier... why is that so?" She says.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1h
Ellis on the bench. She gets right into why we're here.

"I live in Chicago if folks haven'r noticed. And I'm not blind... I have a phone, I have a computer, and i tend to get news," she says.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 4h
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu survived the first of two no-confidence votes in parliament, after winning crucial backing from the Socialist Party, thanks to his pledge to suspend President Emmanuel Macron's contested pension reform
French PM survives first of two no-confidence votes
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu survived the first of two no-confidence votes in parliament, after winning crucial backing from the Socialist Party, thanks to his pledge to suspend President E...
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 15h
BREAKING NEWS: We just won a court order blocking the Trump administration's illegal demands for personal data of SNAP recipients.
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 11h
Oriana Korol—arrested by ICE for playing GHOSTBUSTERS on a clarinet—is incredible, and the kind of ally we need in massive numbers if we’re going to halt this crushing authoritarianism:

“This has just increased my commitment to social justice and to fight back against mistreatment of minorities.”
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A Dandelion @onedandelion.bsky.social · 12h
10/15/25 She's back home✨
🎥 @oregonian
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Band’s clarinet player speaks out after her federal arrest
YouTube video by The Oregonian
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 10h
Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h
Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations U.S. Code Notes prev | next (a)Prohibition It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer. (b)Reporting requirement Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. (c)Exceptions Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made— (1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service; (2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or (3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy. (d)Penalty Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution. (e)Applicable person For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means— (1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and (2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.
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kimberly grace @grace8ming.bsky.social · 14h
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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 17h
Students are now across the street chanting “free Palestine” and repeatedly calling the grown ass adults here protesting children “pedophiles”
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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 17h
A group of far right assholes have showed up to protest at David Douglas high school after students allegedly pushed back at a formation of a turning point chapter. School is out & they are outnumbered by predominantly Black & Brown students roasting the fuck out of them.
Far right assholes harassing children
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h
“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said
Oct. 15, 2025 PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION STATEMENT Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution. The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all. PPA
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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 18h
Fentanyl is fully synthetic and made in a lab. The precursor chemicals use to make it aren't controlled, so they aren't hard to obtain. Which refutes the idea of "fentanyl boats", because why would they mail the chemicals to Venezuela, just to have to ship the final (illegal) product 3000 miles. 3/5
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18h
NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams
NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams
The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 18h
In a rally outside the U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday, coal miners and their advocates stressed the need to limit silica exposure and protect workers from irreversible health impacts.
Coal Miners and Advocates Plead With Trump to Enforce Black Lung Rule - Inside Climate News
In a rally outside the U.S. Department of Labor, miners and their advocates stressed the need to limit silica exposure and protect workers from irreversible health impacts.
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