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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 25m

In the Comey case, the govt asks for a filter protocol to review evidence obtained from a search of an atty's electronic devices. Comey wants to challenge the validity of the search warrant first. Unclear who the atty is. (Filter protocol is to protect atty-client privilege.)

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 1d

I really feel like we need to retire the word “Zionist” because I don’t think common usage is accurate, no matter your political perspective.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

"Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy"

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV, writes Zeteo's @swin24.bsky.social:

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 12h

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 10h

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 12h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

I read Caleb Nelson's piece on the removal power and I was taken with a reference he makes in the conclusion.

When the First Congress confronted the same ambiguities, more than one member warned against interpreting the Constitution in the expectation that all Presidents would have the sterling character of George Washington. The current Supreme Court may likewise see itself as interpreting the Constitution for the ages, and perhaps some of the Justices take comfort in the idea that future Presidents will not all have the character of Donald Trump. But the future is not guaranteed; a President bent on vengeful, destructive, and lawless behavior can do lasting damage to our norms and institutions. As one member of Congress argued in 1789, we should not gravitate toward interpretations of the Constitution that “legaliz[e] the full exertion of a tyrannical disposition.”

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Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social · 10h

The Chosen is wildly heretical. Wth?

Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social · 12h

Fwiw

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Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social · 13h

Time's photo editor has declared war against Time's headline editor.

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Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social · 12h

Saul Kripke, seeing Zizek on the elevator: I don't think about you at all

[Mad men meme dot gif]

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Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social · 13h

Mike Johnson makes my skin crawl whenever I see him. With his slicked-down and carefully groomed persona, he wears his faith on his sleeve so that it can serve as an alibi, or as armor shielding him and his fellow travelers from righteous criticism.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h

Let us translate Mike Johnson's comments about Obamacare for you www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 14h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social · 13h

Time's photo editor has declared war against Time's headline editor.

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 21h

Here’s last night’s story about Bari Weiss, CBS News, Paramount Skydance, and why the Upper West Side is a lot more than just “Seinfeld territory.” youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 22h

From a motion just filed by Chris Parente, attorney for Marimar Martinez. She's the woman shot by U.S. Border Patrol in Chicago before being charged with assault.

"The credibility of DHS agents … will be the focal point of the defense at trial."

Background: chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 14h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 14h

Demonstrating once again that, by holding that partisan gerrymandering is a nonjusticiable “political question,” SCOTUS set up a situation in which voters and their representatives are essentially punished in Congress if they choose to run their own states fairly.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h

North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

The American founders didn't expect Mike Johnson. www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...

The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism

Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes.

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Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social · 17h

My father did a PhD at UVA. His dissertation was a classic, managing to be both scientifically rigorous and extremely funny.

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Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social · 18h

Just saw Elena Kagan in the wild. She said hi to my SO (who did not even recognizer her, lol!)

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 1d

Thinking about viscachas again

The viscacha, an absurd, rabbit-like creature. They are fat, furry, and have hilariously long whiskers that extend far past their bodies. This one is plopped on his butt.

A viscacha with his whiskers pointed down and his paws in a dainty position

A viscacha holding his hand up as if to say no pictures please

Another sitting viscacha but he looks SO soft and SO fat

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Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social · 18h

No, they just have to worry about being deported to South Sudan.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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