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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 26m

he's gonna pardon her, it's so incredible

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 41m

WSJ reports that Ghislaine Maxwell is treated like a VIP guest at a five-star resort in her new minimum-security Club Fed prison. She recently received a special visitor, and the entire facility was placed on lock-down while the guest was there so that no one could see who she or he was. Creepy.

Lockdowns and a Mysterious Meeting: A Quiet Texas Prison Adapts to Life With Ghislaine Maxwell

The unexpected arrival of the Epstein associate upset the camp’s routines. Some inmates say she got favorable treatment.

www.wsj.com

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 27m

The Mariners owner has a personal net worth of $2.5 billion. I’m not praising him for not spending money on the Mariners.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 32m

The attorneys working on this case should be disbarred.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 7h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 7h

There is no amount of open corruption that will wake up Americans. That family has realized this crucial truth. They broke Senate, media and Supreme Court. Nobody dares to stand up. We live in a Republic of fear and cowardice.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 39m

A 3 hour and 45 minute 2-0 game. How did we all deal with that pre pitch clock era?

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 42m

This does mean they’re 3-11 in every other game of the ALCS they’ve ever played but maybe they can break that trend this year.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 44m

The Mariners are now 3-1 all time in Game 1 of the ALCS.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 49m

Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, molded by it.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 58m

Fairly surprised at the result of this game so far.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 1h

This is wrong. Little Naylor is still on the Guardians.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 3h

The worst living child rapist treated like an exiled queen while they bust the windows of moms in line to pick up their third graders.

On a weekend in mid-August, hundreds of inmates at a minimum-security prison in Bryan, Texas, were locked down during their usual time for strolling the grassy campus and visiting with family and friends.
All except one: Ghislaine Maxwell, the 63-year-old associate of Jeffrey Epstein convicted for her role in helping him sexually abuse underage teens.
While her fellow inmates were confined to their dormitories after breakfast, Maxwell met with several visitors in the federal prison camp’s chapel, according to people familiar with the matter.
Less than three weeks earlier, the Justice Department had moved Maxwell to Federal Prison Camp Bryan from a higher-security facility in Tallahassee, Fla. Under Federal Bureau of Prisons rules, prisoners with sex-crime convictions like Maxwell’s don’t ordinarily qualify to serve their time in such camps.
The transfer followed an interview with senior Justice Department official Todd Blanche during which Maxwell said she had never seen President Trump, during his long association with Epstein, doing anything inappropriate or illegal.
Maxwell’s unexpected arrival upset the camp’s usually relaxed atmosphere, leading to more frequent lockdowns, the addition of armed guards and other changes. Current and former inmates said in interviews that Maxwell appeared to receive unusually favorable treatment at times, sparking resentment from other inmates.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 3h

What’s the success rate for the contact play anyway? There’s no way it’s ever a good idea.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3h

Republicans love to make up conspiracy theories of child trafficking to hide the fact that they are the biggest supporters of child trafficking in the country. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 3h

Love a World Series where one franchise with a history of futility will finally have to win one. That's what I'm rooting for now.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 3h

That said, I fully expect Toronto to run away with this series. They have an offense. Seattle has half of one.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 3h

Yeah. Look, 1995 was 30 years ago. 8 members of the Mariners were even alive then, and some of them were literally babies. I can't carry that grudge for so long. The 2025 Blue Jays don't bother me one bit. They pantsed a sloppy, underachieving Yankee team. Either can win this series. Fine with me.

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 3h

I can't remember watching a playoff series in which I was so equally cool with either team winning that it's preventing me from developing an even temporary, boredom-abating rooting interest.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h

On a Sunday too! Start the game at 7. Let kids watch it!

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h

Very specifically, the idea of a tolerant lefty fun-loving Muslim cuts against everything these racists have taught themselves to believe since 9/11 (if not longer) that they have to lie about what Mamdani does and says to justify their own hatred. It's really repugnant behavior.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h

Granted, this is just James Woods being a garden variety Islamophobe but still.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h

Mamdani Deranged Syndrome

Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 5h

"Mamdani is bad for being a Muslim and hating trans people, who I also hate..." is reaching Aaron Sorkin levels of Republican

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 5h

Doesn’t count.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 5h

If the Brewers win, we get an all-dome World Series for the 2nd time ever but also the 2nd time in the last 3 years.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 7h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 8h

The anti-Zohran crowd went from: "Zohran isn't visiting any synagogues," to "he isn't visiting the right kind of synagogues" (or to quote JG: "he isn't visiting any mainstream synagogues" [sic]).

To now just protesting that he is actually engaging with mainstream synagogues 🤦‍♀️

Screenshot of a Twitter post from @Olivia_Reingold.

It reads:
"Outside of Congregation Beth Elohim, where congregants are protesting Zohran Mamdani's upcoming speech this afternoon.

"Does anyone think CBE would invite a white Proud Boys member to speak?" - Ramon Maislen

Reporting for @TheFP"

Followed by a cropped photo of a small group of protesters outside the synagogue, holding US and Israeli flags.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 7h

There's benefit in repeating "The Free Press is not news journalism" over and over again. Tedious, Sisyphean but beneficial.

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