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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Feb 24
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Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.
December 16, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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The US intervened in Kosovo after a massacre of 46 civilians.
jimlaporta.bsky.social Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social · 7h
Total dead now stands at 95 starting from the first strike on Sept. 2, 2025.
December 16, 2025 at 6:13 AM
chrisgeidner.bsky.social
IMO then go there, and stop bothering us.
mattyglesias.bsky.social Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 20h
IMO it's hard to combat the dangerousness of the right by participating in a platform where they aren't present.
explaintrade.com Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 22h
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.

The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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I also wrote about that USA Today ~exclusive~ ICE propaganda series. www.lawdork.com/i/181640363/...

I decided putting it in the newsletter was the only way to control my writing.
USA Today’s unacceptable coverage Over the weekend, USA Today embarrassed itself by running ICE propaganda. USA TODAY: Exclusive: A father and his three kids work for ICE. Why they do it The publication, in the first of a two-story “series,” worked with ICE to, essentially, embed itself with a family of ICE agents and agree not to name them — despite being federal employees paid with tax dollars — as they spout pro-ICE propaganda.
December 16, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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a few days ago ICE took someone outside my house. tonight someone else came by with a sign and asked if they could put it on our property because ICE has been destroying signs
Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’
The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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NEW: Florida's year of executions mask broader discontent with the death penalty.

Beneath an alarming number of executions in 2025, there are signs of continued growing opposition.

Tonight, at Law Dork:
Florida's year of executions mask broader discontent with the death penalty
Beneath an alarming number of executions in 2025, there are signs of continued growing opposition. Also: USA Today's ICE propaganda. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
www.lawdork.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:35 AM
chrisgeidner.bsky.social
All subtlety is out the window this season, I see.
bnonews.com BNO News @bnonews.com · 14h
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Mr. Guan, whose asylum claim is one of the most obviously meritorious I've ever seen, may fall victim to the Trump administration's latest effort to "pretermit" hundreds of thousands of asylum claims without ever giving them a hearing.

Learn more here.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: A major shift in underway in recent months kicked into gear this week, with ICE trial attorneys around the country asking immigration "judges" to toss out *nearly all* asylum applications on the grounds of "safe third country" agreements with Uganda, Honduras, Ecuador, and Guatemala.
December 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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The Trump admin, in its quest to eliminate the entire concept of asylum from the law and get rid of all asylum applicants without hearing their cases, wants to deport a Chinese dissident to Uganda, despite the fact that he has a slam-dunk asylum claim.
In 2020, a Chinese citizen had heard reports about China’s mass detention and surveillance of Uyghurs. But he wanted to see if they were true for himself. So the citizen, Heng Guan, 38, said that he made a hugely risky decision, driving across the country from eastern China to Xinjiang, where he tracked down and secretly shot video of hulking re-education and detention centers mostly holding Uyghurs, a Muslim ethnic group. The footage later became rare visual evidence of the scale and forcible nature of China’s clampdown, despite Beijing’s claims that they were voluntary re-education camps. In 2021, Mr. Guan fled to the United States, where he applied for asylum. Then, this August, as he was living in New York, he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. His supporters and family members feared he might be sent back to China, where human rights activists say he would almost certainly face retribution from the government. On Monday, after a public outcry, the Trump administration moved to continue deportation proceedings against Mr. Guan, but argued that he should be sent to Uganda, which has close economic ties to China.
December 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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So, this is what he’s doing today?
THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON EXECUTIVE ORDER DESIGNATING FENTANYL AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Illicit fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic. Two milligrams, an almost undetectable trace amount equivalent to 10 to 15 grains of table salt, constitutes a lethal dose. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses.
December 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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BREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit grants Florida’s request to limit the injunction against the anti-drag law to cover only Hamburger Mary’s of Orlando.

The preliminary injunction blocking all enforcement had been in place for nearly two-and-a-half years at this point. www.lawdork.com/p/florida-an...
In the Hnited States Court of Appeals Far the Eleventh Circuit No. 23-12160 HM FLORIDA-ORL, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA, et al., Defendants, SECRETARY OF THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida D.C. Docket No. 6:23-cv-00950-GAP-LHP Order of the Court 23-12160 ORDER: Appellant's renewed motion for partial stay of the district court's preliminary injunction pending rehearing en banc is GRANTED. The preliminary injunction issued by the district court is stayed, except as to Plaintiff HM Florida-ORL, LLC., pending disposition of this appeal by this Court sitting en banc. DAVID J. SMITH Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ENTERED FOR THE COURT - BY DIRECTION
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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FYI: I got my Covid vaccine yesterday and they normally hit me 24 hours later and sure enough I am now laying down because my body does not want to move, so … don’t expect much from me today!
December 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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In Springfield, Ohio — a city transformed by Haitian immigrants — Casey Rollins says she feels like the “town crier” warning of a looming family separations crisis. 19thnews.org/2025/12/spri...
The Ohio grandma racing to help Haitian parents protect children as more deportations near
In Springfield, a city transformed by Haitian immigrants, Casey Rollins says she feels like the “town crier” warning of a looming family separation crisis.
19thnews.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Jared Taylor, a prominent white nationalist whose annual American Renaissance conference serves as a "who's who" for the international white supremacist movement, was among those who attended the New York Young Republican Club gathering this weekend. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
New York Young Republican Club gala draws white nationalist, far-right Germans as elected officials skip out
The annual soiree took place as young Republican groups across the country are reeling from POLITICO’s reporting on a racist and antisemitic chat group among prominent leaders.
www.politico.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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NEW: The D.C. Circuit panel considering DOJ's mandamus request regarding Boasberg's contempt proceedings calls for briefing — that will go into the new year — over DOJ's request, including requesting briefing on "indirect contempt" issues. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
BEFORE: Rao, Walker, and Childs, Circuit Judges ORDER Upon consideration of the petition for a writ of mandamus; the emergency motion for a stay pending resolution of the petition for a writ of mandamus, and the opposition thereto; and the notice of district court orders, it is ORDERED, on the court's own motion, that respondents file a response to the petition for a writ of mandamus, not to exceed 8,800 words, by December 29, 2025. See Fed. R. App. P. 21(a)(1), (b)(1); D.C. Cir. Rule 21(a), (b). Petitioners shall file a reply, not to exceed 4,900 words, by January 5, 2026. While not otherwise limited, the parties are directed to address the following issue: Federal law recognizes that criminal contempt may be direct or indirect. See Young v. U.S. ex rel. Vuitton et Fils S.A., 481 U.S. 787, 797-99 (1987). A court may initiate criminal proceedings for indirect contempt through notice and a referral for prosecution. See Fed. R. Crim. P. 42(a)(1)-(2). In seeking information about decisions made outside the presence of the court and referencing the possibility of a referral for prosecution, the district court appears to contemplate indirect contempt proceedings. See ECF No. 196 at 1. On what legal basis may a district court (1) investigate possible grounds for indirect contempt and (2) delay a referral for prosecution until it finds probable cause that indirect contempt occurred? Per Curiam
December 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Regarding Bacon's comment, provided to @jaketapper.bsky.social (which I screen grabbed b/c you don't need to see Trump's post for the 403rd time), I do think it's important to note this is a 62-year-old man who has been in Congress the entire time Trump has been president.
Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan O @jaketapper.bsky.social Rep. Don Bacon, R-NE, tells me, regarding the president's truth social post about the Reiners being murdered, "I'd expect to hear something like this from a drunk guy at a bar, not the President of the United States. Can the President be presidential?"
December 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Following the “administrative stay” issued on Friday evening by the D.C. Circuit — www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-d... — and the lack of any further action this morning, Chief Judge Boasberg of the D.C. District Court cancels this week’s scheduled contempt hearings.
Dec 15, MINUTE ORDER: Given the 2025 administrative stay issued by the Court of Appeals, the Court ORDERS that the hearings set for this week are VACATED. So ORDERED by Chief Judge James E. Boasberg on December 15, 2025. (Icjeb 1) Order
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The Supreme Court grants one new case this morning, a case about racial discrimination in jury selection.

Here is the full orders list: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
24-7351 CERTIORARI GRANTED PITCHFORD, TERRY V. CAIN, COMM'R, MS DOC, ET AL. The motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is granted. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to the following question: Whether, under the standards set forth in AEDPA, 28 U. S. C. §2254(d), the Mississippi Supreme Court unreasonably determined that petitioner waived his right to rebut the prosecutor's asserted race-neutral reasons for exercising peremptory strikes against four black jurors.
December 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.

Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Rob Reiner made some great movies but he was also unafraid to speak the truth, and was one of the public voices who knew you don’t squander your platform, and only got louder about opposing evil fucks as he got older. Legend.
December 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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what a fucked weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Took today off. Needed it. Be well, folks. ... Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves — this week.
December 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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This is now displayed as the first "People also ask" for all Google searches:
December 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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As of now, Chief Judge James Boasberg's planned contempt proceedings won't happen on Monday, due to a Friday night order from the D.C. Circuit.

At Law Dork, I explain: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-d...
Judges Neomi Rao and Justin Walker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday night blocked D.C. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg from beginning his scheduled Alien Enemies Act case contempt proceedings next week. Judge J. Michelle Childs, a Biden appointee, would not have granted the stay. The “administrative stay” issued by two Trump appointees on the appeals court after the close of business on Friday blocking Boasberg’s contempt proceedings echoed a similar “administrative stay” issued by two Trump appointees on the appeals court after the close of business on a Friday blocking Boasberg’s contempt proceedings back in April — a move that ultimately delayed the district court’s effort for seven months.
December 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM