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Aaron Greenspan @aarongreenspan.com · Feb 25

Everyone should watch this. Thanks to our friends in France for putting it in plain English in a way that seemingly no American broadcaster can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k35P...

Operation Trump: Russian Spies Conquer America

YouTube video by Best Documentary

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 8h

Left: The statutes Aileen Cannon analyzed when declaring unconstitutional Jack Smith's appointment as special counsel: www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

Right: The statutes Pam Bondi cited when retroactively reappointing Lindsey Halligan as special attorney: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Screenshot of ruling by Aileen Cannon:

"The Court now proceeds to evaluate the four statutes cited by the Special Counsel as purported authorization for his appointment—28 U.S.C. §§ 509, 510, 515, 533. The Court concludes that none vests the Attorney General with authority to appoint a Special Counsel like
Smith, who does not assist a United States Attorney but who replaces the role of United States Attorney within his jurisdiction."

Screenshot of Pam Bondi appointing order:

On September 22, 2025, I exercised the authority vested in the Attorney General by 28 U.S.C. § 546 to designate and appoint Lindsey Halligan as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. See Att'y Gen. Order No. 6402-2025. For the avoidance of doubt as to the validity of that appointment, and by virtue of the authority vested in the Attorney General by law, including 28 U.S.C. § 509, 510, and 515, I hereby appoint Ms. Halligan to the additional position of Special Attorney, as of September 22, 2025, and thereby ratify her employment as an attorney of the Department of Justice from that date going forward.

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Aaron Greenspan @aarongreenspan.com · 6h

Yeah, suffice it to say, I didn't buy the print copy. There are far better uses of $4.00 or whatever it costs these days.

Aaron Greenspan @aarongreenspan.com · 6h

Obviously! Where did I go wrong?

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Aaron Greenspan @aarongreenspan.com · 7h

(So much to love about that photo. The fact that it suggests I'm literally two-faced. The fact that my eyes are closed. The fact that it makes my nose look extra-big because part of it is actually not my nose, but my ear from the other side. The overexposure. The fact that it just sucks.)

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Aaron Greenspan @aarongreenspan.com · 7h

Huh. Just a few days ago, the NYT went with this for me. If only I'd been born a Nazi.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19h

Agents forcibly opened the woman's car door and pulled her out by her legs, dragging her through the street. They did not identify themselves or tell her that she was under arrest.

The citizen was held for hours before being released without charge. trib.al/tYMBPec

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

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Aaron Greenspan @aarongreenspan.com · 9h

"Dear PlainSite Legal or Compliance Team,

I am writing on behalf of my client, [Client Name], ..."

lol

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 12h

I want to see Mamdani win in NYC tomorrow for a lot of reasons, but one of them is absolutely to watch Bill Ackman crash out

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 13h

evergreen advice 🌲

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

musk did another unspeakable, inexcusable racism that i'm not gonna spread around

but delete your twitter

no money for musk

no money for nazis

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 15h

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 17h

Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent

www.nytimes.com

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 20h

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.

Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.

Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.

She was later released with NO CHARGE.

A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.

You decide…

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15h

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

Elon Musk endorses Cuomo for mayor of New York and makes sure to add some racism in there: “…Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”

Elon Musk: Remember to vote tomorrow in New York!
Bear in mind that a vote for Curtis is really a vote for Mumdumi or whatever his name is.
VOTE CUOMO!
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 19h

This was considered peak Savvy Punditry And Strategy™ one year ago.

Lessons for Dems & liberals: 1) stop thinking political pundits who've never worked on campaigns have any useful advice on how to win elections 2) just because something is published by an elite media outlet doesnt mean it's smart

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Aaron Greenspan @aarongreenspan.com · 20h

R-U-S-S-I-A

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 20h

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is one of many experiments designed to replace human-generated writing with LLMs. But Ryan McGrady says its defining feature is its use of technological power to re-exert top-down authority over information and knowledge. Who is Grokipedia for, he asks, other than its owner?

With Grokipedia, Top-Down Control of Knowledge Is New Again | TechPolicy.Press

Ryan McGrady asks, who is Grokipedia for, other than its owner?

www.techpolicy.press

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22h

Taxing commercial flight to reflect its true environmental costs presents genuine policy & economic tradeoffs, but taxing private air travel does not, and the latter should be taxed at ludicrously punitive rates to address the deficit created by the former.

Richard Allan @rpallanuk.bsky.social · 1d

Impact of flights on global warming severely underestimated by many carbon calculators & offset schemes that don’t properly account for taxiing, sub-optimal routing or non-CO2 climate effects which are larger component:
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

Research paper:
doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest

Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator

www.newscientist.com

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1d

As even some people on the inside have admitted, this is about regime-change, natural resources, profit, politics, etc... The government itself has said virtually no fentanyl comes from Venezuela. It's just lawless murder in service of predatory domination. All whitewashed.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1d

All of this normalizes some of the most dangerous, depraved, shocking, and fraudulent conduct that people in power can perpetrate. It's just normalizing the lies, and the very concept that routine drug interdiction could somehow morph into automatic process-free assassination.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1d

Deja vu. bsky.app/profile/equa...

alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12d

This is driving me crazy. The New York Times calling this madness an “anti-drug operation” is one of the worst forms of propaganda: accepting stated motivations of powerful people as the truth.

NYT headline: U.S. strikes second boat in pacific as anti drug operation expands.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1d

I will say it again: no one I’ve spoken to thinks drugs are the reason this is happening. What are we doing here? Absolutely pathetic excuse for journalism on the most consequential issues of our time from the same outlets who did this with WMD in Iraq.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1d

THREAD: There is no explanation for the New York Times continue this level of unethical reporting. I’ve talked to reporters and editors there and no one defends this: reporting the stated reasons of the government as its *actual* reasons.

NYT headline about Trump targeting boats suspected of smuggling drugs

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Healthcare but only for my friends

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Aaron Greenspan @aarongreenspan.com · 1d

Thanks, Ed. Unfortunately, this is not the story that was supposed to run, and it suffers from some major flaws that may not be apparent to those new to the subject matter.

I'll have more to say later on.

A lot more.

Aaron Greenspan @aarongreenspan.com · 1d

I encourage everyone to ask @noamscheiber.bsky.social and his editor, @noreenmalone.bsky.social, and his editor's editor, Ellen Pollock, and her editor, and that person's editor, and the executive editor Joseph Kahn, all the way up to A.G. Sulzberger, about this specific issue as a matter of policy.