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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 20h

Holy shit they can’t even condemn someone explicitly praising Hitler

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 21h

Woke 2.0 is going to hit like 80s crack

@loganclarkhall

Trump won. You don't have to do this anymore.

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Young Republicans

We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement...

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20h

NEWS

The highest court in Australia has affirmed the government’s decision to ban Candace Owens from entering Australia.

In 2024, the Australian government said that Candace Owens did not pass the “character test” to receive a visa.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h

Funding for legal assistance will be very helpful.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 20h

It turns out that what Todd Gilbert meant by "that escalated quickly" is that he was unwilling to support a grand jury investigation into the origins of the Trump/Russia case. I'm surprised and impressed that Gilbert took this stand. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 22h

Trump admin has frozen or cancelled $28 b for projects, almost all in Dem districts. Small amount of frozen funds in GOP districts are in predominately Dem states (CA, OR, WA, CO, MN, IL, NY, MD), or in predominately Dem cities (St Louis, Atlanta, Greenville) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump admin is freezing or cancelling billions of dollars in funding for projects in Democratic areas.

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KatherineHawkins @krhawkins.bsky.social · 9h

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

The Fascist Dragnet To Avenge Charlie Kirk's Honor

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/15/t...

The Fascist Dragnet To Avenge Charlie Kirk's Honor - emptywheel

It's bad enough that the State Department using free speech about Charlie Kirk to exclude purported visa holders. It's still worse that two of six claimed accounts don't do what State accuses. But the...

www.emptywheel.net

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 5h

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 6h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 6h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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jayclyde.bsky.social @jayclyde.bsky.social · 5h

Like every other controversial doctrine of the Roberts Court ... e.g., where the f*ck did the "Major Questions Doctrine" come from? It was invented out of thin air to own the libs . . .

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katefromnyc.bsky.social @katefromnyc.bsky.social · 59m

That’s really one of my favorites.

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Nice to meet you. @ahuihou.org · 2h

The Yale Law Journal has a wonderful recent essay on how the based, corrupt Supreme Court has destroyed democracy! Welcome to Trumpistan!!
www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/democr...

Democracy’s Distrust: The Supreme Court’s Anti-Voter Decisions as a Threat to Democracy

“Democracy’s Distrust” explores how the Supreme Court has eroded voting rights and weakened democracy. It argues that the Court prioritizes candidates and legislatures over voters, f...

www.yalelawjournal.org

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Nice to meet you. @ahuihou.org · 2h

Oh! How about this one? The dubious legal doctrine known as the "Independent State Legislature Theory" could undermine democracy by allowing state legislatures unchecked power over federal elections, potentially leading to manipulation and suppression of votes!

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Nice to meet you. @ahuihou.org · 2h

Let’s see…the list of invented legal doctrine is vast, what’s your favorite? Mine include qualified immunity, textualism, originalism, presidential immunity, executive privilege, memo against prosecuting sitting presidents, gerrymander protection, separate but equal…

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Peace, Truth, Science @mrchompchomp.bsky.social · 5h

There are seven people I know for certain believe racism ended when Obama got elected. One is my racist uncle. The other six on are on the Supreme Court.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 5h

Exactly. Of course, CJ Roberts laid out his inversion of this principle when he decided Shelby. In his formulation, adopted by all right-wingers who want to pretend to be "intellectual" now, the only way to end racism is to stop measuring it or talking about it.

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 6h

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 5h

Here are some details from an assault case that was up for preliminary hearing today. The feds moved Tuesday to dismiss the charges w/out prejudice.

Presiding Magistrate Judge Heather McShain agreed to grant the motion without a hearing. So unclear if we'll get any explanation.

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Jean-Paul (JP) Jassy @jpjassy.bsky.social · 9h

Great report from @natashabertrand.bsky.social about the importance and sidelining of military lawyers, and the consequent dangers to the rule of law

Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action
New details here about how the Army’s top uniformed lawyer was fired just weeks after raising concerns about the use of the military domestically and mass firings of DoD employees www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action | CNN Politics

For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used ...

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 14h

Thinking of all the people who insisted that this admin was serious about "ending antisemitism on college campuses."

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 19h

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."

(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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NPR @npr.org · 10h

The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected an appeal from Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax. n.pr/47qHJ7O

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of Sandy Hook shooting defamation judgment

The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected an appeal from Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax.

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