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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3h

Via @jayshams.bsky.social, Michael Wolff is suing Melania for SLAPP and demanding subpoenas, including of Trump.

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

10. By her Threat Letter and this responsive Declaratory Action and related Anti-SLAPPDeclaratory Action, Mrs. Trump has given Wolff subpoena power which he intends toexercise fully and expeditiously. Since the statements at issue pertain to matters that largelyoccurred here in the NewYork City this action will call for and permit subpoenas to numerouswitnesses, most of them in NewYork. Subpoenas will go to those who frequented or who werepart of Epstein's circle, including Mr. Trump.

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · 9h

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

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Charlie Hodge @gumligen.bsky.social · 19h

omg, look what Al Qaeda did!

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

> @newyorker.com

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Charlie Hodge @gumligen.bsky.social · 21h

Singing: Driving that train, High on cocaine...

Yeah, makes sense.

Detail of Schutzstaffel uniform of the Third Reich (Nazi Germany):

High-fronted peaked visor cap (Schirmmütze) of the SS (Schutzstaffel).

SS style silver Hoheitszeichen/Hoheitsadler,
SS' version of the Nazi Germany imperial eagle, the German national emblem featuring an art deco Reichsadler with expanded wings clutching a swastika inside a circular oak wreath
SS' silver skull and crossbones/death's head (Totenkopf) cap insignia, adopted from the Totenkopfhusaren, the 5th Hussar/Life-Guard Cavalry Regiment of Prussia Officer's chin strap cord in silver
Piping around the cap crown and cap band in corps colour (Waffenfarbe)

From the exhibitions at the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum (Forsvarsmuseet) in Oslo, Norway.

Photo taken on March 31st, 2019

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Charlie Hodge @gumligen.bsky.social · 21h

The short fingered vulgarian aesthetic in full display.

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 23h

Earlier on Canal Street, as agents attempted to disperse, one who I recognize from the courts pulled out a taser and threatened protester with it. @thecity.nyc

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Charlie Hodge @gumligen.bsky.social · 23h

Agreed, but -- for the record -- I'd accept mine even if signed by autopen.

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Charlie Hodge @gumligen.bsky.social · 23h

If that's how ICE treats their allies...

According to CNN, investigators believe an ICE officer approached the suspect’s car and smashed the window with their service weapon. CNN’s source reported that it is believed the agent’s weapon discharged while they attempted to grab the suspect, striking both the suspect and a deputy U.S. Marshal.

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 23h

The defecation video, but real.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 2d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Charlie Hodge @gumligen.bsky.social · 23h

Good thing, given the name of this site.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 1d

Point five is really important. The protests provoked errors from the administration (shit force one) that may haunt them for years. That’s what happens when you stop being reactive.

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Charlie Hodge @gumligen.bsky.social · 1d

It's the great white replacement.

Obviously.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1d

Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress.

During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

This is in the Washington *Times*!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

That clampdown on the Pentagon press corps has done wonders. 🤡

@jamiedupree.bsky.social
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

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Charlie Hodge @gumligen.bsky.social · 1d

The White replacement call is coming from inside the (appropriately named) White House.

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

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Charlie Hodge @gumligen.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I'd waited to have kids.

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 1d

Based on Bluesky's current growth and usage metrics, there's only about six months before everyone on here becomes pregnant at the same time. We will all give birth around Jan 2027 and the shared experience of childrearing "the Bluesky generation" will unite us in purpose and, possibly, all thought.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 1d

See the issue is that Trump ran on releasing on the Epstein files, and Bondi said she had them sitting on her desk ready to go, and then Elon Musk tweeted that Trump was in them and they were suddenly deemed a hoax and Ghislaine was moved to a spa prison, so you can understand the fresh intrigue

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "Suddenly now, they've somehow convinced themselves that the Epstein files will be damaging to President Trump and Republicans in some way that they've imagined, and so they feign outrage."

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

Here’s the other big problem: Treasury Secretary Bessent is sitting on a massive Epstein file containing thousands more bank documents that would help us continue to follow the money through his sex trafficking ring.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

Banks are required by law to flag suspicious transactions right away so law enforcement can stop monsters like Epstein. JPMC is one of several banks that willingly chose not to alert law enforcement about Epstein's money laundering and trafficking payments.

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