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jessicamullen.bsky.social @jessicamullen.bsky.social · 5h

Warning: Our Stock Market Is Looking Like a Bubble www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...

Opinion | Warning: Our Stock Market Is Looking Like a Bubble

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 6h

Timeline Cleanse ⚜️💙⚜️☺️⚜️💙⚜️

this is the most adorable video you’ll see on the internet today 🥰

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: James Comey is filing a motion to dismiss his case based on United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Lindsey Halligan, being appointed illegally.

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jessicamullen.bsky.social @jessicamullen.bsky.social · 5h

Me too!

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 3d

Sending strength to Joe Biden as he begins radiation and hormone therapy for prostate cancer. Few people have given more of themselves in service to this country. Wishing him comfort and healing surrounded by family and love.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

It's a no-brainer that her appointment is invalid. So the question becomes, is the indictment (on she was the only lawyer signatory) invalid as a result—and, if so, is it too late for the Trump DOJ to remedy that problem, given that the statute of limitations ran on Sept. 30.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 17h

James Comey formally notifies the court of his intent to try to disqualify Trump’s lawyer Lindsey Halligan as unlawfully appointed.

The motion cites rulings DQ-ing two other Trump top prosecutors: Sigal Chattah and Alina Habba.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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jessicamullen.bsky.social @jessicamullen.bsky.social · 5h

George, I’m sorry for your loss.

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jessicamullen.bsky.social @jessicamullen.bsky.social · 5h

“Rape is Epic,” said a Young Republican.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 4d

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 3d

@repstansbury.bsky.social: "This is gangster activity. The president is trying to shield pedophiles by calling and threatening members of Congress. We need more members of Congress, whether it's the Epstein files, the shutdown, health care, democracy, the rule of law, to just fucking do their jobs."

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KSV @ksvesq.bsky.social · 7d

It’s just a joke, it’s just a joke, it’s just a joke…

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7d

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

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Jay Young @impactofficer.bsky.social · 5d

A good read (as usual) from @stevevladeck.bsky.social on the lack of deterrence:

"[A] federal officer today faces almost no meaningful specter of losing a damages lawsuit even for actions that violate clearly established constitutional rights."

www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-182-...

Bonus 182: Damages as a (Missing) Deterrent

It's worth reflecting on how different things might look right now if federal officers—or the federal government itself—faced a meaningful specter of monetary liability for constitutional violations.

www.stevevladeck.com

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Jamie Fox @whatlawfoxsays.bsky.social · 1d

Steve is such a treasure. Excellent piece on the Court’s current practices and its defenders. To me this is a key point - revealing the fundamental lawlessness of its behavior. Literally, it is not applying the relevant law. There is no defense of this that any law professor should condone.

The question is why the justices can’t be bothered to even briefly (1) identify the proper standard for granting the relief the Trump administration is seeking; and (2) explain why proper application of that standard to the case at hand warrants granting the requested relief, even on an interim basis.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 20h

#ICYMI: Yesterday’s “One First” summarized just how weak the defenses of the Supreme Court’s behavior on Trump-related emergency applications have been—and explained what someone would have to do to *actually* defend all that the Court’s majority has been doing:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/183-the-mi...

After all, maybe one can defend the Court granting emergency relief more often than ever before and in cases with far greater real-world (and structural) impacts. And maybe one can defend the Court altering (if not completely scrapping) the traditional balance of the equities in these cases. But does that defense extend to the Court doing so especially in cases in which President Trump is a party-and no others? And does it extend to the Court doing all of this without usually providing written explanations of what it is doing-or why? And even if the answer is somehow "yes," does it also extend to the Court doing all of this, not usually explaining what it's doing or why, and nevertheless accusing lower courts who fail to read the justices' minds of "defying" the Court?

I have a very hard time believing that anyone can genuinely make it through even three of those sentences with a coherent defense of what the Supreme Court has done over the past seven months-let alone all five of them. I'd love to see such an argument, if it exists, but I haven't been-and won't be-holding my breath.

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Lisa Fung @lisafung.bsky.social · 12h

‘Did I as a reporter solicit information? Of course. It's called journalism: finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.’

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Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

NEW: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes threatens legal action if Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in Adelita Grijalva. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Arizona attorney general threatens legal action against Mike Johnson for failing to seat Adelita Grijalva

The Democrat accused Johnson of playing “political games” by delaying the swearing-in ceremony.

www.politico.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 20h

Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com

Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9h

This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a ceasefire. Why is the media calling it a peace plan?

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9h

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

OOPSIE DAISY. The entire republican party is just a gaggle of sex pests.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8h

A judge has issued a restraining order against Republican Rep. Cory Mills after he was accused by a former girlfriend of threatening to circulate sexually explicit videos of her.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

Patel wanted him to investigate the “burn bags” of Russia documents he claims to have seen. A totally normal thing.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 8h

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

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